There was a time a couple of years ago when I used to turn on 6Music on a regular basis and I heard some bloody awful song by The Coral every time. It put me off listening to the station entirely. I find it hard to believe that presence on a playlist is not down to payola.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link
payola feels...unlikely?...on the BBC nowadays. whereas having some people with awful taste picking songs they think other people with awful taste will enthuse about seems more likely
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link
It's also the increasing desperation of people who want British guitar music to come back as that prospect appears more remote than ever.
For the sake of convenience I'm overlooking the sort of rock music that gets played on Radio 1 than these guys wouldn't touch with a bargepole.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 10:37 (six years ago) link
I'm honestly baffled what anybody sees in the sound of "British guitar music" post about 1990 but chacun a son gout. it feels like a small minority to get their own national radio station tho.
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 10:42 (six years ago) link
"sees in the sound" lol
I dunno it's just boredom use other noises please
I'm honestly baffled what anybody sees in the sound of "British guitar music" post about 1990
Post-1980 and I might agree with you.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 10:53 (six years ago) link
I was being dead generous
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 10:54 (six years ago) link
I know how you all hate it when I talk about broad churches like they're just one thing
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 10:56 (six years ago) link
i'm not making any claims other than i don't want to go to church
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 10:59 (six years ago) link
6Music is basically about easing the slide into dementia - nice friendly nursey voices, music that takes you back to the happy days of your youth, stick to the familiar, don't confuse your patients with all this new modern stuff, keep away especially from new black music unless you want that one resident to go off on some awful racist monologue, you can play the old unthreatening stuff though, a bit of funny party music before we brew up some horlicks
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 11:19 (six years ago) link
Does every tedious Elbow single still get A-listed for some reason
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 11:23 (six years ago) link
I think this song by 'This Is The Kit' might be the worst thing I've ever heard, and I've heard that Belle and Sebastian single with the oboe solo.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
lol half their Wikipedia page is about how much 6Music wuvs them
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
Re "Different/Unfamiliar versions"
They do seem to substitute a "Radio 1 Session" version for the "familiar/single" version whenever possible. I reckon its because they save on paying for "NeedleTime"...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:24 (six years ago) link
I remember Jarvis playing something that turned out to be a weird session version and apologising afterwards - "we'll find the proper version and play it next week"
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:26 (six years ago) link
I find myself in the unusual position of wanting to defend 6music. Well bits of it anyway. Don't have a problem with MA Hobgoblin's voice and she plays some v nice stuff weekend mornings. Most recent playlist is pretty solid for a breakfast show I think (if you ignore RHCPs, Artic Monkeys) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09mhyr8
Everything but the GirlEach and Every One
Sunflower BeanI Was A Fool
Abul MogardAbove All Dreams
Tom WaitsBack In The Crowd
The PioneersLong Shot Kick De Bucket
King KruleBiscuit Town
NasThe World Is Yours
Insecure MenTeenage Toy
The Stone RosesWaterfall
The Go! TeamMayday
Sam & DaveI Thank You
St. VincentNew York
Nightports with Matthew BourneExit
Red Hot Chili PeppersThe Zephyr Song
Nadine ShahEvil
Warren G & Nate DoggRegulate
Baxter DuryPrince Of Tears
Otis ReddingHard to Handle
Kendrick Lamar & SZAAll The Stars
Hot ChipNight & Day
Anna CalviSuzanne And I
Laura MarlingDon't Pass Me By
Billy BraggA New England
BeckDear Life
PangeaRouter
The CreaturesMiss The Girl
Arctic MonkeysFluorescent Adolescent
Boy AzoogaFace Behind Her Cigarette
Sly & The Family StoneEveryday People
Sylvan EssoHey Mami
Jamie xxFar Nearer
GengahrCarrion
Sylvan EssoPARAD(w/m)E
CommodoresI Feel Sanctified
Basement RevolverBread & Wine
Jimi HendrixPurple Haze
SunflowersSignal Hill
DeftonesBe Quiet And Drive (Far Away)
GhostpoetMany Moods At Midnight
AukiaColorado
Richard HawleyDarlin'
Invisible MindsYo Mae Leh
Big Audio DynamiteE=MC2
Etta JamesI'd Rather Go Blind
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― Stevie T, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
I'd rather go deaf myself
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
lol
can't say I much approve of that playlist
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:55 (six years ago) link
Richard Hawley is one of those people who must have a stash of incriminating material on the DG, there's no other explanation as to why he still gets airtime (see also: Guy Garvey)
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:58 (six years ago) link
I was going to agree with Stevie T, then realized I actually haven't heard most of the things on that list.
But in principle I still agree with Stevie T.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 09:21 (six years ago) link
DESERT ISLAND DISCO
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l8dh2
― the pinefox, Friday, 19 January 2018 10:58 (six years ago) link
Today's DESERT ISLAND DISCO is Mod / Northern Soul focused. I welcome this.
― the pinefox, Friday, 19 January 2018 10:59 (six years ago) link
It is odd how people still think 6music is all mediocre rock.
It definitely does play mediocre rock.
But right now, before noon on a Friday, it is playing a long instrumental in some kind of experimental techno genre. The last two tracks were also instrumentals in some kind of related fields.
― the pinefox, Friday, 19 January 2018 11:54 (six years ago) link
In fact LL hasn't played any 'rock' for at least half an hour or so.
Now it's a First Aid Kit session. Country?
― the pinefox, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:08 (six years ago) link
Lauren Laverne has better and more diverse/interesting taste than most of them do. It's when you get to Radcliffe and Lamacq in the afternoons that it gets really bad.
― Matt DC, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:12 (six years ago) link
I agree that they are different.
LL: 5 x 3 hours per week, + her 6music recommends slot = LL takes up a big chunk of the 6music schedule every week!
― the pinefox, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:26 (six years ago) link
All daft blather at breakfast time this morning more than made up for by appearance of Make Me Believe In You by Patti Jo. And Pigs etc.
― Doran, Friday, 19 January 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
LL starts with Pavement 'Cut Your Hair' followed by an average playlist-heavy-rotation rock track.
Then 20 minutes of mostly dance-music-oriented records.
Then an archive session track from ... Death Cab For Cutie. A band I have never known.
― the pinefox, Monday, 22 January 2018 10:28 (six years ago) link
It's quite good!
― the pinefox, Monday, 22 January 2018 10:29 (six years ago) link
She is now playing a series of 'UK Garage Monday Motivators'.
― the pinefox, Monday, 22 January 2018 10:39 (six years ago) link
> 3. Sultans of Ping FC – Where’s Me Jumper
this was the first track on friday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09mhw8q
― koogs, Monday, 22 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
BRYAN FERRY is talking to Lauren Laverne now about the origins of Roxy Music.
― the pinefox, Friday, 2 February 2018 12:10 (six years ago) link
And about the role of RICHARD WILLIAMS.
She has been playing electronic music, acid house and funk.
― the pinefox, Friday, 2 February 2018 12:56 (six years ago) link
Radcliffe & Maconie started with JESUS JONES 'international bright young thing' followed by Gaz Coombes.
― the pinefox, Friday, 2 February 2018 13:15 (six years ago) link
did you enjoy the new Parliament single you said she played?
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 2 February 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
No - but to be honest I wasn't paying much attention to it. It probably wasn't my kind of thing.
― the pinefox, Friday, 2 February 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
but it has Scarface on it! wasn't he in Belle & Sebastian?
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 2 February 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link
I haven't heard of that person.
― the pinefox, Friday, 2 February 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link
JESUS JONES 'international bright young thing' followed by Gaz Coombes
how very apt
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2018 14:08 (six years ago) link
Maconie now playing 2nd of 2 tracks to open his programme.
Noel Gallagher, 'it's a beautiful world'.
I think this is on the playlist and gets played several times a day.
― the pinefox, Monday, 19 February 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
Lauren Laverne played Stereolab's 'miss modular', a record that I imagine people on ILM like.
At last it's not "She Bangs Pour Moi by The Vaselines"
xpost, obv.
― Mark G, Monday, 19 February 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link
I have not heard that!
― the pinefox, Monday, 19 February 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link
aka "She fell, right under my spell" by NG
― Mark G, Monday, 19 February 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
I think that might be called 'Holy Mountain'.
― the pinefox, Monday, 19 February 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
mmm...
― Mark G, Monday, 19 February 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
LLOYD COLE is on at 2:30.
― the pinefox, Monday, 19 February 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
Radcliffe and Maconie are doing a lot of presenting separately.
It's as though they have fallen out.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
i'm seeing css, pixies, elastica, portishead in the top 10 of "all time", all of which are female fronted. and curtis mayfield at number 4.
1 Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above CSS
2 Spinning Rock Boogie Hank C. Burnette
3 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division
4 Move On Up Curtis Mayfield
5 Waking Up Elastica
6 Debaser Pixies
7 A-Punk Vampire Weekend
8 Time to Pretend MGMT
9 Kids MGMT
10 Glory Box Portishead
― koogs, Friday, 19 April 2024 15:31 (five days ago) link
Spinning Rock Boogie seems like a bit of an outlier. Is that used on a feature or something?
― groovypanda, Friday, 19 April 2024 15:45 (five days ago) link
Apparently Steve Lamacq's play-out tune
https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb6music/NF14107994?thread=7347589
― Alba, Friday, 19 April 2024 15:59 (five days ago) link
i'm seeing css, pixies, elastica, portishead in the top 10 of "all time", I was looking at artists, not artists of top tracks.I looked at the last four years in case they got more woke - yeah it's a bit better.
― ledge, Saturday, 20 April 2024 18:46 (four days ago) link