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NickSheffield
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 Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject: Playlist |
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Had Radio 2's 'A Playlist' ever been comprised of more schlock than this:
LEON JACKSON - Don't Call This Love
ANTHONEY WRIGHT - Reset To Zero
DANIEL POWTER - Next Plane Home
SUGABABES - Girls
WILL YOUNG - Changes
McFLY - Lies
JAMES MORRISON - You Make It Real
SNOW PATROL - Take Back The City
BOYZONE - Love You Anyway
SHARLEEN SPITERI - Stop, I Don't Love You Anymore
Can anyone remember it being worse than this?
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Rachel
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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Leon Jackson...... is he the guy who won X-Factor last year? If not he has the same durge for a voice...... never in tune , it's like he gives up half way through each note ... he's like a really bad Cruise Ship Crooner.
I do like that Reset to Zero and Next Plane home, the others are all ok-ish.....it's a good job there's a B list though...  |
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iwarburton
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Please explain to a simple soul like me why we need a playlist.
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Rachel
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| If there were no lists, and rules to go with them, it would take forever to decide what to play on each show... so the lists make it a bit like Countdown ... I'll have three from the top , two from the middle and four from the bottom......... |
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Ian Robinson
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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I think Powter, McFly, Snow Patrol and Spiteri are fairly good (not that I want to listen that often) but Jackson, Wright and Sugababes are poor.
Morrison would be OK if it didn't sound like every other record he's done (ditto Will Youngzzzz) while I find Boyzone's desperate "everything-but-the-kitchen-sink" effort endearingly rubbish.
So I like about half, which I suppose it what you'd expect from a playlist. I'm sure there are better songs around though. I'm surprised Keane and Kaiser Chiefs aren't on the A-list, while I'm shocked that Neyo and the godawful Nickelback are on the list at all. |
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nod
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Sadly X-factor etc are gradually killing music , and what is available now is very limited reflected by this playlist  |
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SantaFefan
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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or, is it that there's just nothing new to be done?? maybe "pop" music has exhausted itself...
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Angus McCoatup
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| SantaFefan wrote: | | or, is it that there's just nothing new to be done?? maybe "pop" music has exhausted itself... |
I dunno.............every now and again you get an artist come out that completely breaks another mould - Amy McDonald for instance.
X Factor is killing the industry as we know it. All the applicants are Mariah Carey or Michael "Bubble" wanabees or at least that's they think will impress the judges. The judges have this excuse for a "talent contest" all sewn up at boot camp stage. They know who will win and how to engineer it. It's just a case of how much money can be made in the meantime.
Doesn't matter who wins or loses as Simon Cowell will get them signed to his record label anyway.
Has anyone noticed a pattern emerging here?
2 years ago the winner was Leona
Last year it was Leon.
Does this mean we're looking for a Leo this year?  |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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Has anyone heard the track 'Joe' on Tom Petty's album The Last DJ? I think there's comparisons there. In fact the whole album is a protest at what's gone wrong with the music biz. And that album was out at the beginning of this century.
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nod
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| SantaFefan wrote: | | or, is it that there's just nothing new to be done?? maybe "pop" music has exhausted itself... |
No I don't think so, there is some good music around but the only stuff getting promoted and played is the bland manufactured stuff. |
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NickSheffield
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:11 am Post subject: |
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| nod wrote: | | SantaFefan wrote: | | or, is it that there's just nothing new to be done?? maybe "pop" music has exhausted itself... |
No I don't think so, there is some good music around but the only stuff getting promoted and played is the bland manufactured stuff. |
Unless you're listening to Radcliffe & Maconie, Bob Harris, and the like... they know good music when they hear it.
Nick. |
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Tom Dors
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:33 am Post subject: |
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| Actually the good stuff is probably to be heard on 6 Radio - if I/we could only be bothered to tune into it ! |
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Tom Dors
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| 6 Music, I mean. See ? - I can't even get its name right, let alone listen to it ! More fool me. |
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nod
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| Tom Dors wrote: | | Actually the good stuff is probably to be heard on 6 Radio - if I/we could only be bothered to tune into it ! |
I tried 6music a few times a while ago and they had good music but some awful shows. |
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nod
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| NickSheffield wrote: |
Unless you're listening to Radcliffe & Maconie, Bob Harris, and the like... they know good music when they hear it.
Nick. |
I agree, now if we could get that kind of stuff into the mainstream R2 not just in the specialist area. |
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Heloise
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:48 am Post subject: |
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A playlist wouldn't be such a bad idea, if it wasn't nearly always made up of tracks that would have got loads of airplay anyway.
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RockitRon
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:29 am Post subject: |
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Playlists have been with us since radio began and on a mass-market station they are always going to be filled with the most "commercial", catchy, sugary, twee, whatever, songs. If you want to hear the latest Trivium, or Jah Wobble, or Ray Wylie Hubbard during the day you must expect to go somewhere other than Radio 2.
I must confess, however, that I have never seen the point of the C list, on which those three have the best chance of appearing. In theory tracks listed are played five times in a week, but it has been known for some to be totally ignored.
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| RockitRon wrote: | | If you want to hear the latest Trivium, or Jah Wobble, or Ray Wylie Hubbard during the day you must expect to go somewhere other than Radio 2. |
But where? Before anyone suggests 6 music, that isn't so far removed from radio 2 these days, and between 10:00am-1:00pm, I would avoid it like the plague!!
There's a similar thread to this on the 6 music boards: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb6music/F1950413?thread=5938042
Even more interesting might be this link which I found in the thread: http://community.channel4.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8730017002/m/7420099759
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