The most enjoyable radio listening, by far, that I do these days is over the Net, playing BBC Radio 2. I first got interested because of Jonathan Ross, who did In Search of Steve Ditko. He does a Saturday show, and it’s so much fun, with such a fantastic range of music. Then I started listening to Steve Wright, because he’s supposed to have Petula Clark on as a guest soon. Again, I found the show to be fun, and I was really taken with the song mix. I have no interest in Rap, but Europop has a sound that I enjoy quite a lot. For example, this was one of the songs on Steve Wright’s program today.
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This is “Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)” by Spiller, with vocal by Sophie Ellis Bextor. I flip through Boston radio stations a lot, seeing if anything catches my ear, and almost nothing ever does, so it’s not as though I’m completely inattentive. So why is it I find so much on BBC Radio 2 I’ve never heard before that keeps me listening?
I think Madonna is totally unattractive. There’s not a single thing about Madonna in any of her phases that didn’t make me want to run away!
The diversity of BBC programming is indeed what’s so great. I enjoy Music Choice on my cable TV service, but each channel is one narrowly defined genre, like many of the stations on XM and Sirius (soon to be one service, right?).
Dennis and I often discuss how in the 60’s the very thing that made AM radio so enjoyable was the wide variety of songs, intended to appeal to a wide range of age groups. That’s what I enjoy about the BBC Radio 2 programs — they’re all over the place.
Yes, Obama won. I’ll be saying what I think if I can collect my thoughts. Hillary for running mate? NO!
Hi! The great things about the BBC are reputation, originality and diversity in programming. At night when I can’t sleep I use a small radio and listen to a simulcast of “BBC World Service” on our local PBS/NPR station. I also like the overnight world-wide radio program on CBC Radio One at 1550 AM. The only music I have on radio is Smooth Jazz or Ben FM that does play a variety, thank God!-and the nostalgia station in Canada-I think it’s still called CHUM. Also, 900 AM CHML Hamilton, Ontario plays old American WW2-era radio shows from 10 PM-2 AM 7 days a week. If it weren’t for these I’d rarely listen. Yet from age 5 to 30 I was a radio addict. Very few of my college radio station friends stayed in radio, and our Journ./Comm. BA’s have served us elsewhere-I plan to begin freelance writing. Just feel more suited for it now than I did a decade or 2 ago. Hopefully I’m older AND wiser 🙂 PS: Barack won the nomination!
She sounds a bit like the old Madonna. and hey! there’s a relatively cute guy to look at, so how can you lose? I agree with you 100 percent that American radio is one big yawn. In the car, my only choices are, in order of predominance, country/western, religious, OLD over=played rock songs (“Hey! No Stairway!”) and lots and lots of awful talk shows, with three straight hours of Rush in the afternoon! UGH! I try to keep a tape handy that I can stand, but most of mine are ancient and won’t play. Also, for some reason, my CD-converter tape thing won’t work.