I’ve always listened to Radio 1. I’m still on board with the music – or at least if I don’t like it, I just suck it up because I’m not the demographic.

But I don’t think I can hack the DJs any more. Rickie, Melvin and Charlie – wacky commercial radio DJs that should be on North Herts FM. Matt and Mollie – unbearably twee. Jack Saunders – creepy and smug tryhard.

Am I right? Or should I just sod off to Radio 3 where I belong?

Radio 3? Surely you’re this demographic?

I think the last time I listened to Radio 1 was the last Mark and Lard show. In fact, I know it was

Not sure I could bear listening to Arctic Monkeys or Britpop on 6 Music. I’d rather jack than Fleetwood Mac.

Do you feel like Listening to radio 1 at your age is like TJ wearing denim?

I’d rather jack than Fleetwood Mac

You’re in luck at the moment then. Nemone is on in the morning instead of breathy, tiresome, sonic, aural journeywoman, Mary Anne Hobnob, so the playlist is miles better and probably more up your Strasse

You could go the whole hog and goto greatest hits radio

Am I right? Or should I just sod off to Radio 3 where I belong?

Well they certainly have better DJs, even if they no longer wear DJs.

Not sure I could bear listening to Arctic Monkeys or Britpop on 6

6 play virtually everything eventually.
I certainly don’t listen every day as I stream and Podcast a fair bit, but there really isn’t another station like it.
If you are actually interested in music, rather than just wanting something fairly beige and unnoticeable in the background, and are not stuck in a narrow musical snapshot of times past, it’s great for discoveries.

Of course it’s not all perfect by any means but, it’s overwhelmingly in the positive, especially when compared to any other station I occasionally have the great misfortune to have to bear.

Like anything, it takes a bit of listening regularly to get to know the DJs and find out who you like but yeah.
Not sure how anyone can stand Radio 1 after about 23. 😂

Do you feel like Listening to radio 1 at your age is like TJ wearing denim?

Don’t know what you’re talking about, fam. I get mistaken for a uni student all the time when I go out cos of my fits

Do you feel like Listening to radio 1 at your age

Depends on the time of day – I have Radio 1 on if I’m dropping the kids off at school and Greg James is quite entertaining to listen to in the morning, sometimes laugh out loud funny. I don’t mind Matt and Moll – she has an infectious laugh. I don’t think they’re any more twee than Steve Wright was when I was a kid.

45 and I still listen to Radio 1 on a Friday evening for the dance music. Also listen to Radio 1 Dance and R1 Relax on BBC sounds

It’s the unbearably dumbed down news that gets my back up. It’s worse than newsround.

I hate the way they never talk about pot holes or catheters

I think the last time I listened to Radio 1 was the last Mark and Lard show. In fact, I know it was

“Just half a catchphrase then.”

Old man grumble is probably a fairly niche market.

Just don’t ever do what I did this morning and give Radio 2 another chance. Gary Davis – literally the worst DJ I have ever heard (except for Steve Wright obviously but that should go without mentioning) was yapping away. I honestly thought his kind had died out years ago. Bragging about being out on the lash and still making it in – I thought this was 2023 not 1993.
First time I’d listened to R2 for about 5 years and lasted about 30 mins!

I leave Radio 1 on in case Sian Eleri comes on. She both works me up and calms me down at the same time. I love her.

I listened to radio 2 for years, but steve wright is gone, ken bruce is gone, i find morning radio annoying, and literally nobody I’ve ever spoken to likes that **** vine at lunchtime, so I’ve stopped listening to radio altogether.

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Old man grumble is probably a fairly niche market.

I wouldnt say “niche”. Check my only fans.

I actually quite like Radio 3. Better than Classic fm. But Alexznder Armstrong is quite good on Cfm. Can’t do R1, music is ok but presenters sound like morons. Greatest Hits plays music that should have been retired from circulation yeats ago. There’s a local station near me called Kane FM which is pretty good. Also available online. Dance based. Check them out!

Not sure how anyone can stand Radio 1 after about 13.

I was forced to listen to R1 or some shitty commercial station like Kisstory, in the next workshop to mine. Christ, but they’re grim, a playlist of about twenty ‘songs’, five of which are actually recognisable. I think most modern ‘pop’ music is created by an AI bot, it all sounds the same.

I’ve stopped listening to radio altogether.

While I wasn’t supposed to listen to music on my phone at the last place I worked, there was a fairly relaxed attitude to having something like EarPods in, which let background sounds come through, so I listened to my own music on shuffle, because there was sod-all phone signal available to stream radio; two bars of 3G on a good day…

With around 56,000 tracks on my phone, there’s plenty of choice.

it all sounds the same.

Probably OT, but BBC did am interesting programme on this a few years back. There appears to be a valid statistical reason for the apparent convergence of pop music that sells/streams well and it’s all our own fault. People are drawn to music that sounds like the average of everything else they’ve heard.

EDIT. Doesn’t appear to be available online ATM. https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2017-02-secret-science-of-pop