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And "Listen Again" is the best thing that ever happened to radio.
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R4.
I would also listen to Planet Rock if I had digital.
I find other stations full of mindless inane rambling drivel from ignorant boring self obsessed presenters. Other they're okay.
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If I'm in the car all day it's the ipod all the time, apart from a brief spell at lunchtime for the lovely Jeremy Vine and some of his unbelievable callers, then back to the ipod and then Chris Evans from 5pm (apart from when dreary Maconie fills in for him). Back to the ipod if I'm still in the car at 7, unless I randomly find something interesting to listen to by flicking through the channels. Luckily for me, it would be a bad day if I was home much after 7, so it doesn't happen very often.
I think I'm just about into Radio Two's target demographic, but I can't bring myself to listen to Sarah Kennedy (is she permanently drunk?) or Terry Wogan in the morning, and Chris Moyles is too upbeat for that time in the morning. With the ipod I can have a good singalong before I get to work!
I've got loads of podcasts on the ipod (Chris Moyles, Chris Evans and Jonathan Ross), but as I originally started listening to them in bed to cure insomnia and can now fall asleep within about 10 minutes of one coming on, I don't really want that to happen in the car!
Edited by PoloGirl on 12/01/2008 at 00:36
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So you like the ipod connector on your car. It will be on my wife's too, when it comes!
Listened to Brian Matthew this morning, he is great and plays lots of obscure stuff. He once played "West of the wall" by Toni Fisher, you don't hear that very often.
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I just put radio 2 on and turn up the volume when a tune I like comes on or if traffic reports come through.
Hate that ginger idiot Evans and with a passion and will normally put Classic FM on for the last part of the journey home.
Being an old git.... I like the sound of large church style organs being played very well.
So Radio 2 on a Tuesday at 10pm is my favourite listening time
www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/organist/
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Listened to Brian Matthew this morning he is great and plays lots of obscure stuff.
He actually played a chunk of Frank Zappa's Hot Rats this morning, one of my desert island discs.
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Listened to Brian Matthew this morning he is great and plays lots of obscure stuff.>>
Unfortunately, a lot of Brian Matthew's stuff is obscure because it's rubbish! Don't mistake nostalgia for quality! ;-) [OK, I take the point about the Frank Zappa track]
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PG, just reading your listening (iPod apart) and you're the ying to my yang
I couldn't think of anything much worse than Jeremy Vine ("what do listeners think about bus stops? Are the government doing enough to keep us safe from the terror of PSVs?")
I listen to the 5-7 slot when Maconie is on, Chris Evans ("Hello campers, today's show is dedicated to cheese and all people who have ever seen a cheese sandwich" you never see him and smashy and nicey in the same room, do you?!) - although Maconie does play some real nerd records (12" version of an obscure Cramps b sides), I do like his humour.
Best times for me are when Steve Wright is off and Radcliffe covers, ideally with Sue Perkins or Lisa Tarbuck.
But here's a simple question. Do you like Mark Radcliffe?
I'd wager that you don't, it fascinates me that everyone I know who like Moyles hates Radcliffe and vice versa.
Reminds me of a line from Red Dwarf, "Then you reach that age: 24, 25. ... a little white flag, and suddenly without warning you're a fat bar steward." *lyric slightly changed I think you could probably add to, "and you start to listen to Wogan, can't tolerate Moyles and like "Sailing by".
Please realise I'm not having a "go", vive la difference and all that, it just fascinates me that there's a such a polar Moyles/Radcliffe split!!
Biggedy biggedy bong. Stop ...
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I hated Radcliffe when he was part of Mark and Lard on Radio One (precisely that biggedy biggedy bong rubbish!), but on the occasions I catch him on Radio Two now, I don't mind him. Maybe I've mellowed as I've been 25 for over two years now.
Moyles is an interesting one. He is funny, but I can't stand two hours of it. Half an hour on the podcast is enough. And Evans is a legend!
I couldn't think of anything much worse than Jeremy Vine ("what do listeners think about bus stops? Are the government doing enough to keep us safe from the terror of PSVs?")
Oh but that's why I listen to Vine! Because his listeners and the people that phone in are so "Mrs Angry from Hemel Hempstead" and clearly don't venture out past their own perfectly manicured lawns. Tis very amusing. And Jeremy Vine was referred to as 'intellectual totty' the other day in our office.
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Vine - Intellectual totty! A decent looking chap for his vintage and I can see it would be useful to be with someone who will give the council grief if they forget to collect your bins.
I was about to embark on a whole purile relationship related Vine set of questions, but you'd be left with little option but to delete the post.
Maybe I can get away with a motoring link and a reference to an earlier thread.
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Car parks in house driveway, cut to Vine in passenger seat, significant other driving
Vine : So do you think it's acceptable to not indicate at a roundabout and to drive with your wing mirrors not set perfectly to see both your car and anything behind on that side? With so many vulnerable people in the world, children, old age pensioners, children with special needs, more old people possibly with special needs, people living on the poverty line, Children with special needs on the poverty line and single parent pensioners on the poverty line with learning difficulties and special needs unable to heat their houses in the winter - do you think it's reasonable, by your actions, to place these people in danger. We've all read reports on the horrors of cars/indicators and mobile phones, can you come in this car and tell our listeners, sorry dog in the boot, that you're happy with this when clearly at least half of the people in this car find your behaviour unacceptable? What do you have to say for yourself?
Significant Other(SO) : expletive deleted
SO leaves car, taking dog
Which reminds me, I've never seen Jeremy Vine and Nicky Campbell in the same room either....
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As a result of the above Mr Vine's BR account was disabled.
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 12/01/2008 at 14:59
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I used to think that no one could be more irritating than Jimmy Young but Jeremy Vine has managed it seemingly effortlessly. Only Sarah Kennedy and her confounded moggies comes close to this level of drivel. In my balanced and humble opinion of course ! ;-)
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>>As a result of the above Mr Vine's BR account was disabled.
Hooray! And not before time too.....
Saturday afternoon would usually be 5Live for the football coverage. But seeing as I'm a Newcastle supporter and they're playing Man Utd at Old Trafford today, might have to change that routine...
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Jimmy Young was hand over fist much better at the job than Whiney Viney - if he only spoke in a level voice all time instead of that inflicted sad/concerned/stupid Oh I am sorry this happened whine Arrrrrh - he gets right up my nose
Moiles out
Maconie out
Evans out
Poofta on sat out
Miss Kennedy out
bring back radio Caroline - hell I am getting old
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Well said dxp !
I suppose I don't mind Evans in small doses but I do miss J Walker Esq.
Terry Wogan has caused me problems as well though. I have had to stop the car in a lay-by to recover more than once due to a lack of vision caused by tears of laughter at some of his "Janet and John" stories !
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Radio 4 when it isn't the Archers. Jazz FM when it had jazz on it. Tapes. My own boring and profane commentary on the automotive world around me, voiced or unvoiced. When it is voiced and obscene and someone else is in the car, or voiced at all when there's no one else in the car, I then have to listen to my own self-scolding, voiced or unvoiced, for being mad or gaga or just a bore.
Hardly ever a non-dull moment. But I imagine even the song of a Ferrari V12 could pall if one was feeling a bit liverish.
Oh yes, there's another thing, especially when one is tired or in an unusual state: the noises the jalopy is making. Is that a tappet? Has that little rattle in the front end become a clonk?
Chris EVANS? Jonathan ROSS?
Who they?
Edited by Lud on 12/01/2008 at 15:57
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The OP asked about the Messiah. Yes I have a version of that on my iPOD !
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>>>bring back radio Caroline - hell I am getting old
Radio Caroline on 199mw.
I used to listen to R Caroline in my Mini with a very poor radio, I had to get on high ground to hear either Caroline North or South. In Derbyshire we were between the two. I was such a fan of Tony Blackburn that I named my son after his son, Simon. My Simon is quite cross about this, I don't know why.
Yesterday the lead singer of the Fortunes died, they sang the R Caroline theme tune which was called "Caroline" brill song. (note to PG it's on my wife's ipod)
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I had a Ford Zodiac Mk11 at time in late 60's early 70's with a valve radio - it had a amplifier thingy that hummed but by heck it really pulled in the Caroline south signal and I was in Midlands by Frankley Services on M5. - I could only listen to radio with engine running or the battery would be flat in no time.
Wish I was 24 again.- or do I
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Depends- normally Radio 1 but sometimes the local radio round these parts- Signal 1 which plays a mixture of 80s/90s/00s stuff. But on the way home from work its normally a CD, currently Back To Black by Winehouse.
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5 Live
Occasionally R4
Very occasionally R2
Very very occasionally Classic FM
Currently on CD, The Eagles, Long Road out of Eden.
Mostly just how you would expect The Eagles / Don Henley to sound now, great stuff!
Though anyone notice how some tracks, particularly the title track, have a Dire Straits kinda ring to them?
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What an interesting selection.
BBC still rules it seems, at least among BRs.
Very few vote for silence/engine howl [FT evidently finds the noise his motor makes to be beautiful!].
The DJ seems as important as the music?
Magic has next to no talk. Ocean FM playlist is the best I've heard for my taste, but can't get it north of Petersfield.
IMHO, Radio 2 needs new blood, but not necessarily "in yer face-type" new blood like Evans, who attracts as many as he repels it seems. For me, Ross is switched off two seconds after the weather's finished!
Radio 4 remains excellent quality with genuine variety. Oh, and I do enjoy Parky on Sunday with the paper/film reviews, despite the jazz, so often try and leave home at 11 if going out anyway!
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>>Very few vote for silence/engine howl >>
I have the ZRX1100 with full titanium Akrapovic for that !
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High School Musical. Please help me. I cannot take much more : )
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"We're soooaring, we're flyyyying... there's not a star in heaven that we can't reach...!"
Tell me you haven't been tempted to sing along, just a little.. ;-)
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You just have to hope your all not hearing well if you ever need Older Peoples Residential Care. Perry Como rules ;)
Edited by oilrag on 14/01/2008 at 16:02
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Well I listen to local radio in the morning, Clyde 1 for its sports news and then Real Radio all other times.
Over the course of the day if out and about its Real radio. Occasionally I might swap over to radio 2.
I last listened to Radio 2 during the summer when travelling through England and I sometimes struggled to decide whether it was Wogan or Ken Bruce who was! Yes they come from countries with very distinct accents but I feel that Bruce has just morphed into a Wogan clone.
Can't stand Radio 1 with a vengeance.
Edited by BobbyG on 14/01/2008 at 19:45
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Radio Ulster or Radio 4 until 7.30 and then Terry on R2.
Does anyone know why the newsreaders - such as Fran Godfrey and Deadly Alancoat - no longer do the traffic at 7.50, 8.20, etc. and why it's now Lynne? I don't think the show has been quite the same since Pauly left us.
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