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Radio?
Jul 4, 2007 20:53:10 GMT
Post by bluearrangements on Jul 4, 2007 20:53:10 GMT
Anyone know of any good stations? Now that the internet rules etc...most radio stations stream on the web too, and there are probably thousands of internet only ones that I don't know about...but I still haven't found one I like....
Ukish radio is mainly horrible, I only like radio 4, and the odd smattering of specialist shows on other stations, but how about you American or Canadian or Australian or French or Belgian people? (well, everyone really, but shows in english or french would be best! spanish maybe, but I do like to be able to understand presenters, and my spanish is poooooooor) I like shows with some talking too, cos I can just listen to my records or last fm when I want to listen to music only. So...any suggestions?
Also, I just realised, when I get my radio show back in october you lot most definitely have to listen. You can ring in and be famous or request songs, and it will be amazing because the usual listeners will be fooled into thinking I am renowned the whole world over for my most amazing dj skillz. whoop!
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Jul 4, 2007 20:58:24 GMT
Post by Lauren on Jul 4, 2007 20:58:24 GMT
I sometimes listen to Yrock on XPN online. It's not bad. Especially compared to the usual radio stations around me.
Good luck with your search.
And I would love to hear your radio show!
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Jul 4, 2007 21:03:35 GMT
Post by bluearrangements on Jul 4, 2007 21:03:35 GMT
My radio show is amazingly shambolic, which does make it more popular than some of the presenters who try to be professional, and just sound like idiots. I mainly do it to educate all the kaiser chief loving students and make them realise that nme isn't the be all and end all. I have a co-presenter and we just chat about rubbish, interview local bands, break into song and try to remember not to say naughty things. It's fun fun fun! When we are back on air I'll put up the link And thanks for your suggestion, I shall check it out...
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Jul 4, 2007 21:10:53 GMT
Post by hark on Jul 4, 2007 21:10:53 GMT
I listen to Radio 6 at work. It's usually pretty good in the mornings; I'm not really a radio fan myself, though. I like listening to albums, not tracks, especially ones that I choose.
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Jul 4, 2007 21:33:02 GMT
Post by allison on Jul 4, 2007 21:33:02 GMT
i listen to the radio through itunes, but i dunno how much longer i'll be able to do that. here's waht i listen to though... its all strange strange stuff the 1920s radio network (big band, 20s-40s music and radio programs (these are the best, last night i was listening to this strange noirish program with this spainish femme fatal, so great) bluegrass radio - bluegrass, obv. icebergradio.com - blues radioioclassical- modern classical counterstream- american classical the yellow rose of texas - indie country kewl country - country cowboy cultural society radio - everything cowboys (poetry, music, etc) radio davidbyrne.com - his playlist, so it repeats like ever hour, super radom stuff pirate cat radio - sf community radio doomed: dark music for tortured souls - dark, industrial, excellent native radio.com - pow wow sounds, yay 1.fm 50s & 60s - pop music from 50s/60s
and then on old fashioned radio i listen to local stations, like npr and kzsu (college radio) and random mariachi stations.
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Jul 4, 2007 21:38:18 GMT
Post by blake on Jul 4, 2007 21:38:18 GMT
I love radio.
It's a shame only about 0.000001% of it seems to be any good. It holds a special place in my heart, because having no like minded indie kid friends and minimal pocket money as a young'un it helped educate me and gave me free music home taping fun. I use to listen to The Evening Session and John Peel religiously but by far my favourite radio show ever was Mark and Lards old Ten to Midnight show. I get nostalgia shivers just thinking about it. It was the place I heard some of my favourite bands like Belle and Sebastian, Kenickie, Super Furry Animals, Tindersticks and Arab Strap for the first time, and it was also genuinely hilarious. They where never as good on breakfast and afternoons but they where still better than most. Thats probably cos they had to go according to the day time playlist of course. Though how they blatantly took the piss out of the shit they had to play was pretty epic.
I'm a bit sad and I just think radio is so fun, because you never know what song is coming up next and you could be seconds away from hearing something great you've never heard. That said that makes it so sad Radio 6 is the only station I can really bare to listen to (*gulp* ok I confess Radio 2 is alright sometimes..). Current Radio 1 is foul, I can't bare it. I think any organisation that employs the two biggest c unts in the recorded history of c.untology aka Chris Moyles and Zane Lowe. Every time I tune in to that station I get the overwhelming mental image of someone disdainfully and gleefully urinating on John Peels grave.
Now I don't tend to allow myself to get worked up by the things that are popular in mainstream culture that aren't to my taste, I mean this stuff can easily be avoided. But the fact that a hateful, witless, mean spirited dullard like Moyles is so popular, does actually make me feel a little bit sad and worried about the mindset of the average inhabitants of this country.
Hannah the fact you have a show just makes you all the cooler in my eyes, I'd love to do one. I suspect mine would be a bit Lauren Laverne-esque as I do tend to ramble semi-coherently while putting verbal inverted commas around half my words in real life!
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Jul 4, 2007 23:45:55 GMT
Post by bluearrangements on Jul 4, 2007 23:45:55 GMT
I suspect mine would be a bit Lauren Laverne-esque as I do tend to ramble semi-coherently while putting verbal inverted commas around half my words in real life! That is exactly what we're like. We'll start talking about something, get distracted, and it will take the whole three hour show to actually finish the sentence. Apparently it makes for an interesting listen. I get so excited about the music we play. Emily, my co-presenter isn't all that bothered about that side of things, so for the most part I can choose the songs. But I always forget which ones have obscenities in them and then get bollocked by the boss. You should see if your local radio (or even student radio, sometimes they're short on presenters) has any opportunities. I think you'd be a good presenter. Not that I've heard your voice, but I think you'd get some good debates going! And I agree, radio can be a fantastic way of discovering new music. Which is why I detest radio 1 at the moment, because even the 'new' stuff they play is nothing new at all. John Peel's show was superb, and exactly the sort of person we need right now, now that the only ''indie'' artists on the UK scene that are getting any coverage all sound exactly the bloody same. It really has gone to shit. Chris Moyles makes me want to cut off my ears. Then I remember how much I love music, and decide it would be best to cut out his larynx instead. I love radio 4, which makes me sadder than you Josh I think. I love Melvin Bragg and want to marry him. He's so knowledgeable it's sexy. But as for music radio, it's all vomit inducing. Radio 2 I sometimes listen to at my pa's house, but more for the presenters, which for the most part aren't fakey scene wankers or obnoxious c.unts (i.e Moyles). I enjoy it in the same way that I enjoy watercolour challenge you know? Oh and alison, I haven't been through the list properly yet but it looks great! I did go on the 1920s network and it sounded like just the sort of thing I adore to listen to in the evenings on the sofa with bottle of wine and someone interesting. Just 30 seconds of it made my stomach go funny (in a good way.) In fact I'm going to listen to it right now (as I try and fit all my belongings into a suitcase which is not nearly big enough for the vast amounts of crap I have accumulated over the last ten months) and daydream about sofas. I haven't sat on a real one since september!
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Jul 4, 2007 23:52:06 GMT
Post by blake on Jul 4, 2007 23:52:06 GMT
My mum constantly has Radio 4 on, I'm afraid I just get terribly annoyed at the left wing bias of it all. I'm pretty much closer to the left than the right politically my self, but it's a matter of principal. I'd like a Government/License fee payed station to be totally impartial.
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Jul 5, 2007 0:02:16 GMT
Post by bluearrangements on Jul 5, 2007 0:02:16 GMT
Yeah I know what you mean but I'm not all that bothered, I pick and choose what I listen to on the website so I avoid anything too grating. The 'political' plays are bloody awful though I have to say. They should just leave well alone. But I love things like the classic serial, anything history related, the documentaries and debates. I'm the sort of person who is incapable of NOT multitasking. So I'll often listen to talk radio and music at the same time, while writing an assignment or drawing or playing guitar, or doing all three in turn. Being slightly distracted is the only thing that keeps me from being completely distracted. Therefore I prefer radio drama or documentary type stuff to tv, because I get just as much enjoyment, but I'm only using one sense, instead of two.
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Jul 5, 2007 15:37:17 GMT
Post by tombland on Jul 5, 2007 15:37:17 GMT
Radio 4 & 7. All the time...
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Jul 5, 2007 18:36:16 GMT
Post by Rhiflect on Jul 5, 2007 18:36:16 GMT
Radio 1
I am rather shamed though, from what Josh has said. And have found out from the '''new' Patrick wolf' thread that Colin Murray = Maaassssive twat.
I used to listen to my local radio station who held a show by these people Simon James + Hill.
They WERE the amaze. But they suddenly dissapeared off my local radio station which SUCKED because they were hilarious.
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Jul 5, 2007 19:32:04 GMT
Post by hark on Jul 5, 2007 19:32:04 GMT
Radio 1 sucks. For the first two weeks of work I was sat right beside the radio, forced to listen to their shite. The presenters are awful and they play about 6 songs on average 3 times a day. I counted they played Kaiser Chiefs 5 times ('Ruby' thrice) and the mother-fudging FRAY - How to Save a Life 3 times in TWO HOURS. It's shite and there is nothing worse to listen to. Today I sent in a poem for the "Poetry in Andrew Motion" competition on the 6music breakffast show and they read mine out They also sent me a nice email back, which was pretty lovely. (I realise I just mentioned this on that other thread, BUT IT'S WAY MORE RELEVANT HERE, K?)
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Jul 6, 2007 0:34:10 GMT
Post by allison on Jul 6, 2007 0:34:10 GMT
wow laura congratulations, care to post it for us to read?
also, could someone explain to be all this radio 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 buisness? who run those radio stations? do you have other radio besides them? can you get them all over the country?
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Jul 6, 2007 15:48:23 GMT
Post by tombland on Jul 6, 2007 15:48:23 GMT
It's the BBC Radio stations. The only ones that hold any worth from my listening...
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Jul 6, 2007 17:32:35 GMT
Post by obeseguy on Jul 6, 2007 17:32:35 GMT
Radio 4 is epic.
As for internet radio, Soma FM is good for ambient things, dublab is pretty much as its name suggests, erika.net is good, some very eclectic, odd stuff.
I don't listen to internet radio that much, but when I got broadband a few months ago I went overboard with it.
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Jul 6, 2007 18:33:26 GMT
Post by hark on Jul 6, 2007 18:33:26 GMT
wow laura congratulations, care to post it for us to read? also, could someone explain to be all this radio 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 buisness? who run those radio stations? do you have other radio besides them? can you get them all over the country? haha, thanks. It's a pure belter: The Flowerpot. Oh Flowerpot, Oh Flowerpot, How beautiful and delicate you are I'm going to push you off a desk and watch you fall to your slippery death. Obviously the best poem you've ever read. He said he liked how 'macabre' it was. Awesome. today I sent in an email from will_shakeshizzle@hotmail.com and pretended to be William Shakespeare. I don't think they found it funny because I never got a reply BBC had lots of radio stations. Some are your general chart pop fare - Radio 1 and 2. All the others are a bit more specialised eg. 4 does gaelic and welse language programmes (I think that's 4) and 5 live is sports. However, these are all AM and FM stations. They also run digital radio stations, which you can only access if you have the internet or a digital radio. They have stuff like 6music, which plays indie, soul, experimental and music documentaries. It's pretty good. They are all free of adverts because BBC is funded by the taxpayers (it's a public corporation). You get loads of other national and local stations as well, but they're for the most part pretty poor and filled with rubbish adverts. Some of them don't even have DJs, which I don't really get the point of. So yeah, your basic beginner's guide to UK radio, there. Sorry for that ramble.
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