Sara Cox Sounds Of The 80s Radio 2 (Thread )
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Sara Cox kicks off her first show this coming weekend with special guest Culture Club lead singer and DJ - Boy George.
. Plus on this weeks first show there's a look back at the top 5 this week in 1985, 3 tracks from a classic 80's album and a classic 80's 12" single. To contact the show email: eighties@bbc.co.uk.
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Well the easiest thing to do would be to listen to it via iplayer on Sunday between 5 & 7pm!!
I really liked Dave Pearces show each week, but will give the 80's one a go this weekend.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01hm8rw
It's not the same. When you listened to the Top 40 in the 80's, you knew you were listening along with millions of other listeners and felt part of something big. Not to mention time checks and references to Saturday night.
Definitely, she was only 5 when the decade started and 15 when it ended, so no real experience of the decade.
But no surprise in respect of the demographic that Radio 2 is now chasing.
No experience apart from being a fan of the music that she is likely to be playing.
There's a feeling a bit like that with Matt Rudd's Forgotten 80s on Absolute 80s, when you see the Twitter comments the show generates. Same generation I guess.
Don't think youngsters today see the 'shared experience' thing as important though.
I don't get the argument that Sara Cox is too young to present the programme, it's like saying that history programmes can only be presented by someone who was there at the time!
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I'm liking what's been metioned so far - a mini countdown plus a 12" mix, although it would be nice if there was more than one of these. Hopefully there'll be a guest ever week too. Although I love the popular 80s stuff, I hope we hear more obsucre stuff.
So she'll be playing the music she grew up with then?
How is that "no real experience of the decade"?
Real shame for Dave Pearce to be dumped for what I assume will be a typical R2 pre record playing the usual hits of Wham, Culture Club and the like
Fair enough, I shouldn't really be so negative before the show even starts but an interview with Boy George to kick things off kind of sets the tone of what's to come, to me.
Fair enough if they mix it up with a bit of 80s groove, 80s house or 80s alternative (although I think will fall under the 6 Music remit) then I'll take a listen but from what I've heard about it so far I'm not expecting much...:rolleyes:
The thing with Matt Rudd's show is that it's introducing me - I'm a couple of years younger than Sara Cox, btw - to music I've never heard before from the early 80s. I have clear memories from 84 onwards, but the 1980-83 period is such a rich period of British pop history, yet until recently, I didn't know much more than Rio, Gold and Karma Chameleon.
Forgotten 80s delves deep inside the decade to appeal to the afficionados who were there, and the younger people who want to discover new stuff. I have discovered New Musik, The Passions, ABC, Comsat Angels, 'Lawnchairs' by Our Daughter's Wedding (what fun!), Dollar and others I knew nothing about before, because I was listening to nursery rhymes and Play School.
I'll give it a chance, but I'm guessing Cox's show could well be just the usual Gold/Rio/Karma Chameleon safety shots, which won't interest me at all.
She could throw a complete curveball, though, and play Boy George's faux-house dance track 'No Clause 28' from 1988 as the first record of his guest slot, then I might take an interest!
Too many old charts being played at that time on various stations!
Live I believe.