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Mark Mayhew
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 Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:41 am Post subject: Mo Dutta-Shut Up and Play More Music |
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| Tuned into Mo Dutta earlier today-boy can this guy really talk-wish he would play some music during his show. |
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totally agree  |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:23 am Post subject: |
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Mo has a great show and he plays loads of music... around 20 tracks over two hours, along with newspaper stuff and general comment on the world at large, as well as a brilliant competition on Saturday!
Yay... ... get the pom-poms out ........
Mo Mo .. he's our man
win a teapot if you can
he'll put a smile on your face
not your usual frown
Get on the phone
and win a dressing gown....
Go Mo! .... Yay!!!
Last Saturday's music.....
Rod Stewart - The Motown Song
Travis - Closer
Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping
Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better
Stefy - Chelsea
Duke - Special Freewheel
The Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream
Gwen Stefani/ Akon - The Sweet Escape
The Christians - Harvest For The World
Cherry Ghost - Mathematics
Atomic Kitten - Ladies Night
Pilot - January
Mark Ronson/ Daniel Merriweather - Stop Me
The Beach Boys - Fun Fun Fun
Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky
The Doors - People Are Strange
The Carpenters - Please Mr Postman
Razorlight I Can't Stop - This Feeling I've Got
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
The Proclaimers/ Brian Potter/ Andy Pipkin I- 'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) |
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nod
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Rachel
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: |
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He does 3 hours on a Sunday morning .....
worth getting up early for......... |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:12 am Post subject: |
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That's approx 12 songs per hour, when I've listened between 7-8am on a saturday you only seem to get half a dozen tracks and endless talking / quiz  |
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Rachel
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:50 am Post subject: |
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| I'll give you that the quiz is quite long but it does have a track in the middle of it......to break it up. .... and come on, it's "the" quiz on Radio, the benchmark all others aim for .... A tea pot! A Dressing Gown and not just any old Dressing Gown... it's a Mo Dutta Dressing Gown, for your continued listening pleasure............. |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Rachel wrote: | | I'll give you that the quiz is quite long but it does have a track in the middle of it......to break it up. .... and come on, it's "the" quiz on Radio, the benchmark all others aim for .... A tea pot! A Dressing Gown and not just any old Dressing Gown... it's a Mo Dutta Dressing Gown, for your continued listening pleasure............. |
The Saturday morning quiz is the single worst bit of radio on any network that I have heard in many years. I just dont understand why it hasnt been taken off long ago.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Mo Dutta, is one of those 'jocks' who just lurvvvves the sound of his own voice.
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| gfloyd wrote: |
The Saturday morning quiz is the single worst bit of radio on any network that I have heard in many years. I just dont understand why it hasnt been taken off long ago. |
Even the contestants sound embarrassed! |
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Listened to the 0700-0800 segment yesterday morning whilst getting ready for overtime - in the spirit of giving him a chance, you understand.... I'm sure some people like him, but I'll be damned if I can work out the reason why.  
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| Cherskiy wrote: | | Listened to the 0700-0800 segment yesterday morning whilst getting ready for overtime - in the spirit of giving him a chance, you understand.... I'm sure some people like him, but I'll be damned if I can work out the reason why. |
Trouble with Dutta is he thinks he's up there with the other great radio talkers like Ross and Danny Baker, and, while you might not care for either of them too, they certainly have more charisma and comedic substance in what they say than old verbal diarrhea Dutta. It's just garbage! Why Lesley keeps him on I can only assume is because she, and thankfully most of the nation, is still tucked up in bed when he purveys his two-records-an-hour format of tired inconsequentialities.
You're your own greatest fan Mo. Why not do the show to yourself in your bedroom, tape it and play it back to an eager self and spare us all the dangerous possibility of accidentally tuning in early on a Saturday or Sunday morning.
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Mark Mayhew
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Te various postson this thread got me thinking-"Do you think Mo Dutta plays the least number of records per hour on Radio 2 out of the all the presenters employed?"
Indeed on the reverse side of the coin-"Who plays the most songs per hour?".
I would be interested to know the answers to both qustions asked. |
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Cherskiy
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I think Bob Harris must play a fair few on the hours either side of his 'live middle hour' during his Saturday show. The playlist for this weekend just gone shows 13 tracks on each hour - if you lose about five minutes for the news and a trailer, then you're looking at 4.25 minutes per track plus explanation time.
Then again, I'm no doubt biased, since I think the show is the best thing on R2 all week.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Mark Mayhew wrote: |
I would be interested to know the answers to both qustions asked. |
Probably Suzi Q plays the most records in an hour, because all the records she plays are only about 2 minutes long.
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| We used to moan about this on the old radio 2 message boards. He does talk a lot and you can slowly lose interest. |
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Cherskiy
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Slowly? I think I lost the will to live after about five minutes.... I think I must have just blocked him out since the radio stayed on for another forty odd minutes or so.
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| Cherskiy wrote: | | Slowly? I think I lost the will to live after about five minutes.... |
Time does appear to go more slowly when Mo is on the radio. Its the longest 2 hour show in the world
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mark occomore
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| It's like he can't stop only for 3 minutes and dosn't even let the newsreader finish without playing the jingle under there voice |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Lady Boil De Spudswell wrote: | | Trouble with Dutta is he thinks he's up there with the other great radio talkers like Ross and Danny Baker.... |
I'm not so sure - on the occasions when I've heard him, he seems to be desperately floundering for something to say, dragging out his newspaper review for as long as possible.....and I think he knows it.
I have a theory that R2 are limited in the amount of records they can play at that time of the morning (shades of the old needletime rules!), and poor old Mo is forced to fill in as much as possible - certainly, last time I listened he only played something like six records in the hour, and it certainly wasn't because he had so many interesting things to say there wasn't time for more!
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| mcl wrote: | | Lady Boil De Spudswell wrote: | | Trouble with Dutta is he thinks he's up there with the other great radio talkers like Ross and Danny Baker.... |
I'm not so sure - on the occasions when I've heard him, he seems to be desperately floundering for something to say, dragging out his newspaper review for as long as possible.....and I think he knows it.
I have a theory that R2 are limited in the amount of records they can play at that time of the morning (shades of the old needletime rules!), and poor old Mo is forced to fill in as much as possible - certainly, last time I listened he only played something like six records in the hour, and it certainly wasn't because he had so many interesting things to say there wasn't time for more! |
Why would they be limited to a number of tunes they can play? That wouldn't go down well with the listener who pays a lot of attention to how the BBC is run? I mean they only pay a fraction in royalties to who is aired? |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:55 am Post subject: |
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| mcl wrote: | I'm not so sure - on the occasions when I've heard him, he seems to be desperately floundering for something to say, dragging out his newspaper review for as long as possible.....and I think he knows it.
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Spot on - you often hear long pauses in between sentences or topics. He's either desperately padding, filling or as you say, dragging it out.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:08 pm Post subject: Mo Dutta - shut up and play more music |
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It killed me when Dutta credited Goldfrapp's 'Ride A Wild Horse' song as 'My Lovely Horse'!
Does he enjoy 'Father Ted'?
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject: Re: Mo Dutta - shut up and play more music |
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| pickle wrote: | | It killed me when Dutta credited Goldfrapp's 'Ride A Wild Horse' song as 'My Lovely Horse' |
Yet you can still post, that's fantastic! |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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Mo has a very intellectual, ironic style of presentation, his perfectly ill-timed delivery, made with undiluted contempt for the listener, is what makes him so brilliantly funny and entertaining. He is the David Brent of Broadcasters but deliberately so..........
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Mark Mayhew
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| Mo Dutta is about as funny as toothache. |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | Why would they be limited to a number of tunes they can play? That wouldn't go down well with the listener who pays a lot of attention to how the BBC is run? I mean they only pay a fraction in royalties to who is aired? |
You haven't heard of "the Needletime Agreement", I assume? The BBC pays a vast amount in royalties, as it happens.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Rachel wrote: | Mo has a very intellectual, ironic style of presentation, his perfectly ill-timed delivery, made with undiluted contempt for the listener, is what makes him so brilliantly funny and entertaining. He is the David Brent of Broadcasters but deliberately so..........
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Your "contempt for the listener" comment is spot on, Rachel.... although I'm not entirely sure whether it's actually Mo's contempt or LD's, inflicting this on us every weekend.... imagine him sitting in for Ken Bruce or Chris Evans!
I couldn't get away with "The Office" despite it being hyped as the funniest thing since.... well, the last funniest thing.
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| Ella Sailyour wrote: | | You haven't heard of "the Needletime Agreement", I assume? The BBC pays a vast amount in royalties, as it happens. |
That's essentially the basis of my 'Mo keeps talking 'cos he can't play more than six records an hour' theory - things have relaxed a bit since the days when stations were only allowed to play instrumental cover versions of pop hits overnight (I have a couple of LPs produced by Radio Clyde for this purpose that bear the stipulation 'Only to be played between the hours of midnight and 6am'!), but I wonder if there are still restrictions on the amount of proper tunes one can play in off-peak hours on R2?
It could be cobblers, of course, but it's the only reasonable explanation I can think of!
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I guess the better thread title would be: "Mo Dutta - Shut Up", with no conditional argument, of course! 
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