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If you want normal radio
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:03 pm
by Redpig59
Simon Mayo is doing All Request Friday now on Greatest Hits radio.
Very little dead royals on that.
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:10 pm
by Gaspode
I remember his all request show on R2, it was almost Smooth FM like in it's awfulness. That's what you get if you let the general public pick the tunes..
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:42 pm
by Claude Balls
Its the tendency to select stuff that gets played all day everyday anyway.
That and the continual choice of old Bobbo’s Let Me Entertain You
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:57 pm
by Julian Mince
I went out earlier - essential shopping of course. The car radio came on. Imagine by John Lennon. I hate that song. Switched stations. Imagine by John Lennon. Switched again. Imagine by John Lennon. Switched for a fourth time. Imagine by John Fucking Lennon. Switched the fucking radio off.
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 8:23 pm
by Gaspode
Why Imagine? I mean it's hardly a rollocking Royalist anthem is it, more the opposite really. It's hardly likely to be blasted out at Phil's internment. Perhaps Wagner or Demis Roussos would be more appropriate.
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:08 am
by Julian Mince
Even Planet Rock had engaged sombre mood. I think the heaviest tune I heard all day was The River by Springsteen...
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:49 am
by Gaspode
Wot no Highway To Hell..
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:53 pm
by West LW
Do you reckon her Maj is surfing the radio waves ready to be outraged for a station not playing Eva Cassidy & Adele?
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:16 pm
by Phillip Phlopp
If you're in the depths of despair and grief you need Leonard 'Slash-a-wrist-a-singsong' Cohen.
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:55 pm
by Gaspode
West LW wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:53 pm
Do you reckon her Maj is surfing the radio waves ready to be outraged for a station not playing Eva Cassidy & Adele?
Doubt it but I'm sure loyal DM readers are. Personally I vent outrage at radio stations that play Eva Cassidy and Adele.
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:26 pm
by Julian Mince
Phillip Phlopp wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:16 pm
If you're in the depths of despair and grief you need Leonard 'Slash-a-wrist-a-singsong' Cohen.
This has a bitching bassline though.
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:22 pm
by RockitRon
BBC Radio 2 appears to be intent on playing soppy stuff until at least Zoe Ball on Monday morning.
The big commercial stations are back to normal but even R2 on valium is better than those.
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:31 am
by Phillip Phlopp
Interesting tweet regarding the North Korean-style shut down of TV programming following the death of Phil on Friday:
The overnight ratings are absolutely fascinating.
Total viewing was down by about 15% compared to last Friday.
ITV dropped below a million viewers in the 9pm primetime slot, which is almost unheard of.
At that point Ch4 had more viewers than BBC1, BBC2, ITV & Ch5 combined.
Re: If you want normal radio
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:45 am
by Gaspode
A old man died <gallic shrug>