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the Radio 2 Breakfast show playlist
Fayecorgasm
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Is it me or since Chris took over has the music played taken a massive step backwards , used to be you heard a lot of new stuff with some oldies now its beginning to sound like a cross between sounds of the 60s and the 70s .Im finding it really boring.why bring in a younger DJ and then put the music back to how it was on radio 2 in the 80's?
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Yesterday in the first hour there was the theme from Van Der Valk and a Glen Miller tune. Just a bit too old for me i'm afraid.
I think BBC Radio Two should keep the older listeners happy and differentiate its playlist from the mainstream commercial sector during daytime
It's supposed to serve all ages 35 plus.
I'm 45 and it's really putting me off,I listened to that stuff growing up i want to expand my musical tastes and find new things not be stuck in the past but by the same token Radio one and commercial radio is too poppy for me.
I'd agree and have Radio 2 playing a wider range of new music in all sorts of genres, including that by artists that their audience grew up with.
On the other hand it's a breakfast show so much of the audience isn't listening that intently so to me there's still need for a range of reasonably familiar tunes but different to the very predicatable fare, based on music testing, the commercial sector offer.
They do use the breakfast programme to trail their off peak more specialist schedule, today they plugged the Joe Bonassa concert.
1.
The Hollies The Hollies — Bus Stop
The Hits Of 1966 (Various Artists)
2.
Duffy Duffy — Mercy
(CD Single)
3.
Joe Jackson Joe Jackson — It's Different For Girls
Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
4.
Kylie Minogue Kylie Minogue — Can't Get You Out Of My Head
(CD Single)
5.
Scouting for Girls Scouting for Girls — This Ain't A Love Song
(CD Single)
6.
MOIRA'S GOLDEN OLDIE
1.
Frank Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim — The Girl From Ipanema
My Way - The Best Of Frank Sinatra
7.
Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bachman-Turner Overdrive — You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1
8.
All Saints All Saints — Pure Shores
(CD Single)
9.
Joshua Radin — I'd Rather Be With You
(CD Single)
10.
Simon & Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel — I Am A Rock
The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel
11.
David Bowie David Bowie — Let's Dance
David Bowie - Best Of Bowie
12.
R.E.M. R.E.M. — Man On The Moon
Simply The Best Movie Album (Various)
13.
Rosemary Clooney and Bob Thompson Orchestra — Too Marvellous For Words
Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie!/ Fancy Meeting You Here
14.
Jamie Cullum Jamie Cullum — I'm All Over It
(CD Single)
15.
The Lucinda Belle Orchestra — My Voice & My 45 Strings
(CD Single)
16.
The Monkees The Monkees — Last Train To Clarksville
Delilah - Jukebox 60's Hits
17.
Wild Cherry — Play That Funky Music
Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade
18.
GOBSMACKER #1
1.
Groove Armada Groove Armada — At The River
(CD Single)
19.
GOBSMACKER #2
1.
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses — Waterfall
(CD Single)
20.
Cliff Richard Cliff Richard — Wired For Sound
Cliff Richard - Private Collection
21.
The Eagles — Life In The Fast Lane
The Best Of Eagles
22.
Womack & Womack Womack & Womack — Teardrops
And They Danced All Night
23.
Robbie Williams Robbie Williams — Millennium
(CD Single)
24.
Codeine Velvet Club — Vanity Kills
(CD Single)
Good mix of past and present from what I can make out.
that made me laugh properly, I am suspecting that 45 strings thing might be the new Buble
I really don't like it but Im one of those people who sticks the radio on when i wake up and listens through I am not a great one for flitting until jeremy whine comes on when I change to radio7 or bargain hunt:o But if the music doesn;t pick up soon I am going to be forced to change and then i will forget to change back for ken bruce :(i thought Id start a new thread on the music cos the other ones a bit hard to plough through with the slanging match
Looks like a good playlist to me.
some nice ones in there,,,Joe Jackson and the Womaks
yeah but they are oldies I dont mind a few oldies but I think 75% of songs being played are over 10 years old and thats too many imho.
Even Groove Armada and All Saints are now over 10years old..doesn't time fly.
In fact out of those 24, I can only see 6 from within the last 10 years.
I was going to say that but I thought I must be wrong even cant get you out of my head is from 2001.Im not asking that they play nothing old just that there's a fair mix like there used to be .I used to hear a song I liked on there look it up and maybe even get it from itunes now I know all the words to all the songs that they play .
Even the odd (current) album track would make things a bit more interesting.
For example I'm sure if Chris gave a few plays to the absurdly catchy "This pretty face" from Amy MacDonald's current album it might encourage the record company to release it as a single.
I can understand the desire not to alienate the TOGS with a drastic change in music policy, but the TOGS were used to Wogan championing his favourites now and again with great success in the case of Eva Cassidy, for example.
Time for the music policy to take a few risks, maybe.
Please has anyone got an e-mail for Mr Tabor at Global? Reads like More Music Variety to me!
I have just listened to her for the first time and I thought I had clicked on early Beautiful South by mistake.
They are three of the 6 tracks that are under 10 years old and Duffy,Mercy is knocking on for 3 years old .There has been a definite shift of policy