youtube killed the iplayer star

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1425697]

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[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Haha I thought "cos it doesn't let me skip tracks" too and then removed it thinking how flighty does that make me sound. Skip-happy fingers on my mp3 player which is contantly on shuffle have changed my listening habits more than anything else I guess.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I agree! When I can listen to any given song any time I want, whether on Youtube or Spotify or in my own itunes, I don't see the point in tuning into something which is more than likely to play a number of songs I don't really want to listen to. It's such a passive means of consumption and kind of archaic now.

I download a few Rinse FM funky sets now and then, they work as "sets" rather than the usual radio programme, but even then I never listen to them b/c they're all 4hrs long.

I hate listening to people talk, and radio DJs mostly seem to be picked for how annoying they can be.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Annoying talking people on Radio 4 = good for forcing self out of bed and into shower. Not for nothing does my getting-up usually commence 10 seconds into Thought For The Day.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I LIKE that I can't skip things or pick the tracks tho! It actually makes me sit down and listen to things that I wouldn't bother with normally; my outrageous number of music channels has made me such a flighty b1tch wrt listening to anything I don't a) already know or b) like within three seconds, which is hardly The Point, I feel.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I like listening to stuff I don't already know but I can do that in my own time, and without listening to someone else's predetermined playlist!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Eh, I only listen to the obscurer things where they pretty much turn up and play their own records with the odd nod towards whatever it is they're meant to be doing on the show. I dunno, maybe I just don't have many/the right channels for getting told to listen to new music? I s'pose a lot of it's not having the internets at the minute.

Am currently listening to an MJ tribute show on 1Xtra on the iPlayer and realising how horrifically bad my knowledge of his music is/was; think I only knew about five songs. Am literally only just realising how staggeringly important he was. Err. Why does anyone let me write about music? :/

[koganbot]

I think it's quite useful to listen to stuff I didn't know in advance I was going to be interested in, and to have the whole lot force fed until I get a lot of it second nature, BUT, I know longer have time because, e.g., you lot are always introducing me to new stuff anyway.

[koganbot]

know longer?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i am old and grew up with the radio, so can't really stop now. having said that, my combined weekly listening is only about 5 hours a week (40 mins mon-fri 7.20-8.00 and adam & joe on a saturday).

i like DJs unless they are GEORGE LAMB, who must ROT IN HELL.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I quite like George Lamb, he is much better than Colin Murray.

ed: wait, I've confused him with Nick Grimshaw.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

NO, HE IS AN ARSE.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Trufax, trufax. Nick Grimshaw is ok in an affably idiotic way tho. I might accuse George Lamb of being the 4nt1chr1st but Alexa Chung is still out there somewhere.

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

"OK in an affably idiotic way" = yes, although he is also clearly twelve.

Lamb, by contrast, is a monstrosity; not only does he know nothing, both about music as well as the world around him, he seems to make a virtue of his ignorance, which really, really, really rubs me up the wrong way.

[wholepint.livejournal.com]

INDEED. My hatred for the man has no boundaries.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

have you HAD YOUR SAY in the bbc trust consultation?

https://consultations.external.bbc.co.uk/departments/bbc/bbc-radio-2-and-bbc-6-music/consultation/bbc-6-music/

only takes 5 minutes to fill in ;)

[wholepint.livejournal.com]

no, but I keep meaning to, thanks for the reminder!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Football commentary sometimes while I'm doing the washing up, and that's it.

I really liked having the radio on in the office, back when I wasn't working in an open-plan. A good deal of the music was shite but it worked as a 'social object'. Having the radio on in jobs where you're not expected to be social (eg the tomato picking one I had when I was 16) was purgatory though.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I got rid of my televisions 18 months ago, so the radio is now the most essential item in my flat, else I'd never know what's happening.

I'd put it on every day regardless, however. You can't beat a good presenter / DJ for helping build a relationship with music you're interested in. Or even music you're not so sure about or presenters who are partly about their own personality cult (cf. Wogan).

Examples of DJs who are entertaining and passionate about the music they play, ergo good in my book: Nick Grimshaw (I really think he might be the Peel replacement R1's been in desperate need of), Mark Lamarr (v. annoying his specialist shows have been canned by R2), S. Maconie (and to a lesser extent M. Radcliffe), Sean Rowley on BBC Radio London, Jonny Trunk on Resonance FM.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

...oh and the real Old Skool on R2: Brian Matthew, Nigel Ogden, Desmond Carrington

NB: Dave Pearce's A-Z of DISCO ANTHEMS starts on R2 at 11.30pm tonight!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lg9f6

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I do like the radio but haven't used it all year. When I had a ROberts DAB i listened to 1Xtra (and maybe 6Music) while cookin'. i should do that again. i do tend to get annoyed by the chatter tho (and BBC's news updates on anything other than Radio 4 are REALLY annoying for some reason).

my happiest radio memories are either listening to Peter Tongs on a mid 90s Friday night OR Chris Tarrant and Pat Sharpe in the mornings on 80s Capital Radio.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

oh and daytime Kiss FM in mid 90s also during the height of my House epiphany

[theastronomymod.livejournal.com]

I only recently remembered that I owned a radio. I had to dig it out to listen to a BTWS takeover on some radio station. But then I found I could listen online at work and didn't really bother again.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I never listen to the radio at home but pretty much always have it on while in my car.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

The other day I was over at a friend's and his roommated streamed a Portuguese pop/indie radio station for several hours, no commercials. It was always the commercials that killed it for me, radio ads are the worst things ever.

I'd not listened to radio for years before I got the iPod and with it the ability to subscribe to podcasts. There are times when I don't want to listen to music, times when I don't feel like curating my own music, and times when I need a higher level of distraction than BGM - standing in line, say. And this way I can catch up on the Harvard Business Review, Scientific American, or Style.com while on my feet instead of being glued to my computer reading/watching the online equivalent, which is a big plus.

For music I have the RA podcast (hassle-free techno sets 4evr), the Fabric podcast (one-off radio shows typically based around an old-skool DJ giving his soul/reggae/early hip-hop/classic rock influences an airing, which is great because intelligent introductions are precisely what I need in these genres), and the Guardian Music Online, which is actually kind of annoying XD, but is designed to give one a grounding in The New Stuff without having to make a concerted effort oneself to track releases down in order to pronounce them not very good. (And sometimes, they are good.) And it is annoying in more or less the same way every week, which is comforting. I haven't found another one out there whose outlines more closely correspond to my general sphere of existing knowledge, anyway.

Recommend podcasts to me

[meserach.livejournal.com]

I really only listen to radio 4, cause that is what I was brought up on. Cricket, comedy, some of the current affairs/news etc./ and the occasional random bit of whatever. I enjoy how it acts as a serendipity engine on occasion - I remember vividly listening enraptured to a documentary about roundabouts at 10.30pm or suchlike - not even fairground roundabouts, roundabouts like you get with roads.

Very, very occasionally I listen to 6Music, but more for the voices than the music itself. I rarely dip my toe into other stuff, but usually as a deliberate act of "what is going on in pop culture" rather than for just general listening.

I don;t have any music related podcasts in my feed reader! This I should change. If you're reading this, reply with good music podcasts, no matter how famous/surely-you-know-of-this-already they are (I don't).