I'm outnumbered 5 to 1, so I listen to podcasts all day.
Scott Mills sacked from BBC Radio 2 over 'personal conduct' - BBC News
I hear he played Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood 🤣
Just don't be a grump about it. Have a sweepstake over how many times Wonderwall can be played in a day week.
That’s easy - once.
Bill Drummond suggests taking the top 10 on your 13th Birthday as a start point
That would be 1967 - some fairly decent stuff around then; two years later I discovered King Crimson, everything changed after that.
Not the original version or lineup, but the lineup I finally got to see at the Royal Albert Hall in 2019, 50 years later.
It’s still an extraordinary piece of music to me.
- Metal Guru - T. Rex
- A Beggar's Opera - The New Seekers
- Amazing Grace - The Pipes and Drums and Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon
Guards - Rock and Roll (Parts 1 & 2) - Gary Glitter
- Without You - Nilsson
- I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) - The New Seekers
- Vincent - Don McLean
- Mother of Mine - Neil Reid
- Sugar Me - Lynsey de Paul
- Could It Be Forever - David Cassidy
Dear God - no wonder my childhood was traumatic.
top ten when I was 13
BILLY - DON'T BE A HERO
PAPER LACE
Number 2
JEALOUS MIND
Alvin Stardust
Number 3
THE AIR THAT I BREATHE
THE HOLLIES
Number 4
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL
CHARLIE RICH
Number 5
YOU'RE SIXTEEN
RINGO STARR
Number 6
DEVIL GATE DRIVE
SUZI QUATRO
Number 7
REMEMBER (SHA-LA-LA-LA)
BAY CITY ROLLERS
Number 8
JET
PAUL MCCARTNEY AND WINGS
Number 9
IT'S YOU
FREDDIE STARR
Number 10
WOMBLING SONG
WOMBLES
TJ is clearly 13 years older than me cos this...
BILLY - DON'T BE A HERO
PAPER LACE
...was Number 1 the day I was born.
Interesting, I just looked mine up, and 8 of the 10 I couldn't pick out of a police line up.
I know that was a figure of speech, but Gary Glitter was in my list ....
Wouldn’t wanna be in your gang
They’ve got some godawful 90’s station on in the office again today with the usual somewhat questionable playlist. I’d love to know who, when fondly remembering that era, thinks to themselves:
“do you know what track I love from then that I really want to hear right now?…. Ain’t No Doubt by Jimmy Nail!”
Looks like it’s headphones on for the day again.
My 13th birthday chart top 10
Ken Booth. Everything I own
Sweet Sensation. Sad sweet Dreamer
Slade. So Far Away
John Denver. Annie's Song
Peter Shelly. Gee Baby
Andy Kim Rock Me Gently
Bay City Rollers. All of me loves
Paul Anka. You're having my baby
Gary Shearston. I get a kick out of you
Leo Sayer. Long tall glasses
Can remember them all bar the group being tampered by Tam Paton and wore daft collars,cuffs and turnups
It also depends on what you're doing doesn't it? I find typing "important" documents or emails almost impossible with music on. It's too distracting. If its routine type tasks then the radio would be OK as long as its not on loud.
I can imagine though that if you had any levels of autistic type tendencies it would be a bloody nightmare. Headphones were invented for exactly this scenario. If you want to listen to music you should be the one plugging in.
This +1
I'm quite enjoy having music on in the background when I'm doing something on autopilot, working on bikes, re-wiring an ambulance, gardening, fine.
Calculate the pressure drop of a fluid through a pipe with fittings and equipment that involve the volume and temperature change due to both isentropic and isenthalpic pressure changes, absolute silence. And that includes the recent phenomena of having 75% of the office on the same bloody teams call because one person is working from home. If you need to have a meeting with several people in the office, come into the bloody office! No one want's to be trying to get work done with random calls of "you're on mute" "you're sharing the wrong screen", "you're frozen" all the time. It's like car drivers complaining about traffic, the office isn't the problem, you're the problem.
Putting together a quote with a value approaching 8 digits. Radio banging away. Made my feelings known and they still didn't turn it down.
Not happy.
I think this thread is exposing a clear divide and splitting into two distinct and polarised groups…
1. People who have ‘proper’ jobs which require finking’n’stuff.
2. Me, and people like me 😃
Re: Jimmy Nail....
Love that song 🙂
Re: Jimmy Nail....
Love that song 🙂
Under these difficult circumstances, I'm sure that STW towers will refund this years membership subs as long as you never, ever, return.
It's for the best
