Do you not enjoy being taken on a sonic journey through a musical soundscape?
No I do not. And every time I hear the phrase 'curated by" my eye starts to tremor.
binners - lamp can have my creative suggestion for reducing the workforce for free 😉
Jazz - delicious hot, disgusting cold.
Steve Wright no longer on weekday radio 2...
Steve Wright no longer on weekday radio 2…
Oh yeah! I forgot he was going. I always switch over to 6 just after the news. Who's his replacement?
Worldwide FM
Just put HEART FM on. They'll soon turn it off.
Radio station, what is this 1993?
Most of them will have adverts. Why not get all staff to contribute to a massive Spotify playlist and shuffle it all day…they will never be too far away from one of their songs
job jobbed!
NTS endless playlists have transformed our listening of late.
Also various selections on mixcloud; Mono Loco mixtape from Soho radio and Jaguar skills for the sample snitch mixes, sweary monologues and GTA radio station adverts.
Can the ones who don't like radio wear headphones? That's what I'd do, I can't stand DJs or adverts and probably could just about cope with the music on 6Music or 1Extra for an hour or 2, but not all bloody day.
I would suggest fip – radio France. Good choice of music, very little chat, which isn’t distracting as it’s in French
There's always one.
Oh yeah! I forgot he was going. I always switch over to 6 just after the news. Who’s his replacement?
The incredibly boring Scott Mills. I didn't think I'd ever say these words but come back Steve Wright, all is forgiven 🤣
Christmas FM and see who crack's first?
The radio to me feels like an endlessly constant tugging at my attention all day long. The earworms, the inane babble, and the adverts... I don't even want to spend whole the day listening to music I do like!
Luckily I don't have to. A radio person moved into my room at the office recently so made it clear I didn't want to listen to it all day. Tried to lie about being happy to have it on, just not all day. Unfortunately he likes cheesy old tunes I spent my youth looking down on (while he was yet to be born), and talksportfm. So when he does put it on I put my headphones on.
Why do some people need constant background noise?
FFS anyone complaining about this needs to try spending 3 months working in a kitchen on a New Hampshire Summer Camp with colleagues whose idea of good music consisted of a cassette tape of Grease and the Blues Brothers (I hate both) and 'classic' white American radio stations. We ended up agreeing to have no music ever.
Love Radio 3. I wake up to it on my radio alarm. I love that presenter, Petrov I think his name is.
Petroc Trelawny.
The programme after that one, Essential Classics, is excellent and the presenter Georgia Mann is probably my favourite at the mo. All the R3 presenters are superb though. Of course that's no use if the music isn't to your taste, but it is to mine.
Christmas FM and see who crack’s first?
😱 never cross this person. Pure evil
Why do some people need constant background noise?
Because you might hear the best song ever.
Because you might hear the best song ever.
Liar liar pants on fire.
Can the ones who
don’tlike radio wear headphones?
Problem solved.
The great thing about jazz is that you can even study while it’s on in the background.
Classical stations are great too, but without any compression on the signal, they’re either on or off. The sound goes from zero to Motörhead.
One of the chill stations on my dab sounds quite nice.
I’d prefer an all electronic version of R3, playing coil, the black dog, aphex twin, the orb.
I would suggest fip – radio France. Good choice of music, very little chat, which isn’t distracting as it’s in French
France Bleu is their equivalent of Radio 2 - listen to it most days whilst working.
Smooth Radio have started playing Christmas songs! I’ve been whammed already FFS! 🤦♂️
Why do some people need constant background noise?
I don't understand it either.
I spent two weeks' salary on a big daft telly. My OH puts it on of a morning, then goes to do her daily chores. I'll come downstairs, she'll be washing up with the telly blarting away, I switch it off and she'll complain "why've you turned it off, I was listening to that!" Next time I come down she'll still be "listening to it" whilst doing the hoovering upstairs.
I work from home. I have a paid-for Spotify subscription. I'll sometimes listen to Popmaster on a slow morning but that's about it.
Did anyone suggest Kurupt FM?
6 Music played Fugazi on Monday.
Bad Brains on Tuesday.
Roots reggae on Wednesday.
[CraigDavid] We were making love by Thursday, Friday, Saturday, chilled on Sunday... [/CraigDavid]
Nuff said 🙂
In between the lengthy 'sonic soundscapes' and the many cringeworthy things Mary Anne Hobbs says, there is no other station like it if you're interested in a broad range of music and have genuinely eclectic tastes.
Radio 2 plays great music if you're not really interested in music.
6 Music can be good but describing songs as an "audible buffet" has me reaching for the shotgun.
I've seen Radio X mentioned a couple of times. I should like it, (at least the style of music anyway, presenters are very much subject to personal tastes) but has anyone else noticed the almost total absence of female artists or bands fronted by women? If I'm remembering correctly, I've tuned in twice in the last few months during some lengthy driving trips and each time they played one track by Florence and the Machine. Apart from that, for 2.5 to 3 hrs, all blokes. Amazing.
Street Sounds Radio
Yes, from the same team that brought you Street Sounds record label.
Good mix of Funk, Soul, Motown, Hip Hop etc.
It saved my life while WFH over lockdown.
Radio Paradise. I've got the Rock mix on in my office at the moment
Broadcasts in FLAC too if that's a thing you're bothered about - albeit not really going to be anything that matters in your usual office
6 Music played Fugazi on Monday.
Yeah but I bet it was Waiting Room.
It's not like they don't have 6 albums to choose from.
but has anyone else noticed the almost total absence of female artists or bands fronted by women
Radio X is like the musical equivalent of Loaded magazine. It’s absolutely awful! Dreadful ladrock/pubrock. They’ve had it on today where I’m working. I’ve had my headphones on but they started the day marking the football by playing Vindaloo by Fat Les (seriously? FFS!) and they’re now playing Stereophonics for what I assume will be the 15th time today. No doubt Kasabian will be up next, then Oasis
Radio X is like the musical equivalent of Loaded magazine
With a dose of Moyles thrown in, just to grind your gears even further.
When I listened (once) and he was churning out exactly the same tripe as his Radio 1 show, that was it for me
Every morning the girls in the office walk in and inevitably someone says 'Alexa play upbeat pop'. It kind of just works, pretty inoffensive and nobody ever challenges it.
On the 1st of December someone will walk in and say Alexa play Christmas Tunes and that will be it for the month - they have already tried it but I have done my best Grinch impression.
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Urghhh - was going to edit ^^
But deal with it, sorry...
Every morning the girls in the office walk in and inevitably someone says ‘Alexa play upbeat pop’. It kind of just works, pretty inoffensive and nobody ever challenges it
If anyone tried starting my day with ‘upbeat pop’ I’d probably be doing a life sentence by now
this reminds me of working at a data entry place in wythenshawe in 1999, the default radio was Radio 1 but it was Mark and Lard on the breakfast show so it pleased some of us, including me, that liked their bantz but nonplussed everyone else. But we were still stuck with the radio 1 playlist which offended/pleased the same groups but in opposite. So no-one was happy. If I hear 'all the small things' by Blink 182 then Im transported back to that job in an instant
EDIT: still remember Mark and Lard had a bit of freedom with their tunes and hearing the full length of 'whole lotta love' at breakfast on Radio 1. Different times
they’re now playing Stereophonics for what I assume will be the 15th time today. No doubt Kasabian will be up next, then Oasis
Hahaha, this is exactly what I imagined it would be like.
Maybe with some Kings of Leon and Kaiser Chiefs chucked in too?
If anyone tried starting my day with ‘upbeat pop’ I’d probably be doing a life sentence by now
TBF Alexa doesn't know how to cope with play "Miserablist Northern Pencil Jockey playlist".
We miserabalists have our own version of Alexa
Paradise Rock
Marc Riley was asked about the playlist when on R1. He said that it was Mark Radcliffe who put the music on and then turned the studio speaker off and have a chat. So hadn't a clue what was being played.😃
Not much to use a razorblade for here. Love the desktop info you get too
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