Popular Post Xela Posted March 31, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2023 I listen to a lot of Radio. If I'm working from home, It'll be on for about 12 hours a day. I find it comforting. First of all, let me answer the two standard responses I would receive to this thread: 1) Yes, people still listen to the radio. In the millions. 2) No, I don't want to listen to Spotify / Youtube / Audible / Podcasts all day. I do like the background noise of it. I'm on the phone a lot with my job so I dip in and out of the radio but I find it relaxing and takes away the sharp edge of silence. The adverts don't even bother me that much. Current station of choice is Greatest Hits Radio. The afternoon combo of Simon Mayo followed by Jackie Brambles is very listenable. Mark Goodier on earlier in the day, although he will be moving to weekends and replaced by Ken Bruce from Monday. Just need Steve Wright to join now! Growing up, our household was definitely a Radio One house. Brookes, Mayo, Bates, Davies, Wright, Kershaw, Brambles, Goodier, Campbell, etc. I remember Steve Wright and his posse in the afternoon when my Mom used to pick me up from school in her old rattly Ford Fiesta. On Saturdays when I was 'helping' my Dad wash his Ford Granada (a typical Dad car from the 80s), I remember DLT always being on, and that quiz he used to do. As I got older, into my teens, have fond memories of Chris Evans on the Radio One breakfast show. He seemed like a tour de force at the time before disappearing up his own anus. I never liked Chris Moyles. As I started to drive, i used to listen to BRMB a lot. That was a fun listen with very good local DJs and it was miles ahead of what it has become now (Free Radio Birmingham). A lot of the local stations/DJs now have been phased out and replaced with national content, which is a shame, but I guess thats what the bean counters want. So this is just a general radio thread to discuss it and perhaps post some memories/thoughts etc. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mark Albrighton Posted March 31, 2023 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2023 E Double D Double O L, A, N That’s. Ed. Doolan. Along with the sense of dread that accompanied this - 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 31, 2023 Moderator Share Posted March 31, 2023 BBC 6 Music is my station of choice. Chris Hawkins on the early shift is goodI've kinda become accostomed to Laverne in the morning but she really did used to irritate me. Mary Anne Hobbs can be overly pretentious but again I'm getting usedto her. Craig Charles can f*** off (1pm to 4pm is unlistenable) then the run of Lamaq / Riley / Coe in my peak listening hours are great Other shows I like are some of the weekend ones - Iggy Pop, great, Whatsisface from Elbow does a good show, SDtuart Maconie's Freak Zone is often brilliant. Don Letts is OK. Tom Robinson can be OK / Can be shit. And Radcliffe and Maconie are great I don't listen to any other station. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitvilla Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Xela said: i used to listen to BRMB a lot I was going to say did not listen to the radio in UK much, but then I remembered use to listen to Les Ross. When I emigrated to Canada I went one month ahead of the Mrs. One morning (1 am or thereabouts) there's a phone call. It's Les Ross. Mrs Fruit had written and got Les to phone. God's sake, I had only been away three weeks. Edit it's the CBC in the car and on the odd occasion the alarm is set. edit ... one of my local radio stations ... Radio Garden – Castlegar Edited March 31, 2023 by fruitvilla 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picicata Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 I tend to listen to BBC 6 music most but do pop Amazing Radio on if the music/DJ starts to grate. My drive to work in the morning though is with Tim Lihoreau on Classic FM. Nice chilled start to the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 31, 2023 Author Share Posted March 31, 2023 Ahhh the old goal horn @Mark Albrighton. The few seconds of trepidation that used to follow! I seem to recall George Gavin and Tom Ross doing a post game radio phone in. Used to attract all the nutters and Gavin used to wind them up a treat. Was that Xtra AM? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bickster Posted March 31, 2023 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2023 Obviously for those of us of a certain age the journey home from the match was always Tony Butler on BRMB. Unintentionally hilarious and the radio show the three second delay was invented for "Hiya Tone, you're a word removed" 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 I last listened to the radio back in 2002, I only know that was the year because I would listen to radio one whilst going to work and every single day without fail they would play All the things she said by TATU and Cry me a River by Justin Timberlake, shortly after that I got an MP3 player and I haven't put the radio on since unless I'm listening to WM after a Villa match which isn't very often at all. I think back in 2002 that would have been when Chris Moyles was doing Radio one, I could be wrong though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted March 31, 2023 Moderator Share Posted March 31, 2023 38 minutes ago, bickster said: BBC 6 Music is my station of choice. Chris Hawkins on the early shift is goodI've kinda become accostomed to Laverne in the morning but she really did used to irritate me. Mary Anne Hobbs can be overly pretentious but again I'm getting usedto her. Craig Charles can f*** off (1pm to 4pm is unlistenable) then the run of Lamaq / Riley / Coe in my peak listening hours are great Other shows I like are some of the weekend ones - Iggy Pop, great, Whatsisface from Elbow does a good show, SDtuart Maconie's Freak Zone is often brilliant. Don Letts is OK. Tom Robinson can be OK / Can be shit. And Radcliffe and Maconie are great I don't listen to any other station. Absolutely the same - the early morning weekend shows are brilliant and I love that if I put it on in the car late at night, I could get absolutely anything. I once drove the full half hour at midnight from Edgbaston to home accompanied by a single weird 30 minute long German synth thing - you don't get that on Capital. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted March 31, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2023 (edited) Ay Tom, can I have one of those Bronx hats Tom, it’s for the babbie Tom Edited April 1, 2023 by Follyfoot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan-scott Posted March 31, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2023 I regularly listen to the radio - similar to you @Xela working from home or if I’m out and about have it on in the car. Can tell I’m getting old as my choice of radio station has recently started to change. Often listen to Talksport in the mornings as quite like Laura Woods and Ally McCoist (can’t stand Alan Brazil), and don’t mind Jim White and Simon Jordan. I can’t stand Radio 1 these days after years of it being my go to choice. I’m getting old. Started listening to Absolute, Kisstory or Smooth. Sometimes Free Radio (formerly BRMB for those not familiar). I tend to skip around a fair bit these days. I never bother with Spotify or Podcasts really. Always radio. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Used to listen to 5 live but it always made me shout swear words at the radio when they got some knob end phoning in So now I listen to Absolute rock and Dave Berry … I’ll be honest I thought nothing would replace Christian O’Connell and Richie , but Dave Berry is very sharp and quick witted but also seems to be genuinely nice bloke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 31, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2023 Absolute Radio main station. If something I don't like or adverts is on I will pick in order to: Absolute 80s Absolute Classic Rock Absolute 90s Absolute 90s is last because despite being a great decade for music they seem to pick the worst music of the stations. Much more dance stuff, a bit weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 If it's my call then 6 music all the way. Weirdly the opposite to bicks though Craig Charles and Mary Anne Hobbs are mainly what I tune in for. Nowhere else plays techno and Metal back to back like MAH and while I wouldn't go see him live in a billionty years, I find CC really good on the radio funk punk etc Invariably when working with any older guys it;s radio 2 whereJeremy Vine will have me trying to claw my ears off every day. I mentioned elsewhere i now live somewhere where dab only gets BBC stations. All I miss is Smooth when I'm cooking in the kitchen. That Micky Flanagan bit about chilling out to cheeesy 80s tunes works for me while I'm in the kitchen. growing up though before radio5 there was sports report on radio2 on saturdays of course. at least for us 70s kids growing up in the 80s. Realistic transistor radio from Tandys was my connection to the world outside my house for years and years. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 31, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2023 Back in the 60s/70s, it would have been John Peel - before he jumped on the punk bandwagon. And the Robin Valk rock show on BRMB. Nowadays, I never voluntarily listen to any radio at all. Can't stand any of it. My wife has to have Radio 4 (occasionally Radio 2) on, all day long. She's not even listening to it, it's just background noise. As soon as she leaves the room, I turn it off. If I want music, in the house or in the car, I've got CDs and Spotify. 100% my choice, no irritating talking in between songs. I'd be happy if radio ceased to exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 31, 2023 Moderator Share Posted March 31, 2023 3 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said: Weirdly the opposite to bicks though Craig Charles and Mary Anne Hobbs are mainly what I tune in for. Nowhere else plays techno and Metal back to back like MAH and while I wouldn't go see him live in a billionty years, I find CC really good on the radio funk punk etc Its not the music with MAH, thats ok and I am getting used to her breathless pretentiousness. Craig Charles on the other hand with anything other than his funk and soul stuff is a phoney prick. The punk thing with him is hilarious, he was in a dreadful metal band in the punk years. He then took up his poetry thing which was good (and he did a very good show on that on National Poetry Day) by bugging Bill Drummond to support the Teardrop Explodes (they all took the piss out of him), his claims to have been around the Eric's scene in Liverpool are based on that. All the people that are still around from Erics think he's a total phoney, they don't remember him. He's an invented caricature, he hasn't got a clue about bands not in his narrow musical knowledge, you can tell when he's interviewing them, there's no depth to his questions, the nuance is all wrong and sometimes he can't even pronounce the bands names correctly. He's just highly irritating. Having said that, they always seem to put a complete prick in the 1-4 slot. The trunk of funk turned into the trunk of punk and now it's about to turn into the Jar of Ska - just F*** Off! Oh and there is one other really irritaing prat on 6 Music, Huey sodding Morgan but I don't usually naturally listen in his slot anyway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Mine is a mix of 3, 4, and 6. Radio 4 has a few programmes I quite like for learning about schizz I didn’t know I’d be interested in. The recent series Breaking Mississippi was excellent. Radio 6 for the music obvs. Radio 3 because I have a Skoda with gesture control that is too close to the steering wheel. Turn left, get R3. But to be fair to R3, I’ve also got it on my old analogue Karmann radio in the house and it sounds gorgeous and fruity. Have to agree on Huey and Craig, I do tend to avoid those shows. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 I listen to internet radio five or six hours a day, used to be into US rock stations but last couple Of months Radio Caroline has been a permanent fixture. They play some cracking tracks from albums and not the well known stuff usually. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Only2McInallys Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Tony Butler BRBM sport was etched in my psyche for many years.Get your dog on its knees etc….praying for a particular result. I do think that we have some incredible radio output in this country.I don’t think it’s fully appreciated by the general public. My main supplies are Radio 4,6 and 2.My local BBC output was Radio London which was brilliant but has been decimated by recent cuts.My favourite DJ was mark radcliffe his taste seemed to mirror mine but he seems to have been sidelined. But as I get older the output on radio 4 is so superb, any answers , soul music, more or less etc etc Desert Island Discs is probably my all time favourite programme. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted April 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 1, 2023 (edited) Loved listening to BRMB on a Saturday afternoon in the car as a kid. Me and my dad would be parked somewhere while my mom was looking around a furniture shop or something. It's etched on my brain with the sound of the windshield wipers going at the same time.... I love NPR over here in the car. News and lots of magazine type shows. If you're a fan of R4 then it's very much worth checking out . The 3 best shows (available as podcasts) are "The Moth," "This American Life" & of course, "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" which is a sort of cross between the News Quiz and I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue. https://themoth.org/radio-hour/flight-attendant-refugee-and-a-preacher https://www.thisamericanlife.org/ https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/ Edited April 1, 2023 by TheAuthority Links added 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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