Radio 1 Masterpieces - why?
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http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2561
Zane Lowe will be playing four classic albums in their entirety on his Radio 1 show in the second week of November so that listeners can hear them as the artists intended.
The albums are:
Nirvana - Nevermind
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am etc
The Strokes - Is This It?
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Nice idea, but does anyone else think this is more suited to Radio 2 or 6 Music than poptastic Radio 1?
Zane Lowe will be playing four classic albums in their entirety on his Radio 1 show in the second week of November so that listeners can hear them as the artists intended.
The albums are:
Nirvana - Nevermind
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am etc
The Strokes - Is This It?
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Nice idea, but does anyone else think this is more suited to Radio 2 or 6 Music than poptastic Radio 1?
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Very lazy broadcasting. Another reason why Radio 1 should be got rid of.
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Seriously, Xfm recently did a brave thing - they played a whole album track by track - Radiohead's new one. There's also the every track on an album playbacks John Kennedy does on Xposure...and what do you know...Zane is now using this format.
Xfm have been running the Residency with stars of music for months...and now R1 has it's 'Legends' feature.
Things are happening with enough regularity to make coincidence being the cause unlikely in my book, unless i'm being a little cynical.
The funny thing is, they'll be leaving the gaps in, and on Nevermind, there's a 12 minute gap between the "final" track and the bonus track, will Radio 1 leave that in without tripping the emergency override?
No - that would be very stupid, wouldn't it? Zane has said himself that 12 min gap will be cut.
Can I just say also, that the posts on this thread are very negative (apart from the one from topcat2). The whole point of this feature is to introduce their new younger audience (and of course, any older audiences) to four fantastic albums.
I don't think it's lazy at all - they have promoted it more than enough and it would be more lazy to continue with the same format every week. Am I right?
Yeah sure, we could just stick on the album ourselves, but what about people that have not heard of Led Zeppelin? This could open a whole new path for them, and they would have Radio 1 to thank. Or, if anyone has forgot how great these albums are, it may relive old memories!
Nobody can dispute that these are influential and fantastic albums - so where's the harm done in listening to it again?
I think this is an innovative idea and I am publicly praising Radio 1 for this new feature. Maybe more to come in the future Zane, eh?
Well done Radio 1.
I second that, didn't anyone hear Zane with Chris Moyles this morning. That was quite funny.
yeh my first impression of him changed, he is a good laugh and doesnt take music too seriously.
That was in the stuff they sent to a community station so it must be different for Radio 1
Just what I was thinking.
Fair enough if they did a series on classic albums featuring lengthy excerpts of all tracks and background interviews throughout, but just playing the whole thing through??
Why don't they just offer the whole album as a free mp3 download and be done with it?!
album got in at all.
How the **** can they call that a masterpiece?!
Radio 1 is always trying to be innoative and this I think will be successful. Most here are thinking "Oh, they're only going to play the album all the way through". I'd say give it a listen. They've maixed fan reactions, interviews and all-sorts around it to be a nicely rounded feature.