I'd hardly call myself a hardcore music junkie (except Girls Aloud ).

All I'm saying is whatever year it is,if you play that year's biggest hit early on out the six records it usually gives away what year it is. At least it does to me. Which takes the fun out of trying to guess what year it is,at least in my opinion. Whereas if you play a couple of songs that don't get played so often for that year, it's more tricky to get it.

Usually on the Time Tunnel by the time they've played three songs I can narrow it down to two or three years. But it annoys me when that year's biggest hit gets trotted out first or second song: "Oh,Wet Wet Wet,it's 1994 then."

Same with Cher and Believe. As soon as I hear that I know it's 1998.

I'm not saying don't play them,just not first!

Having said that some of the guesses that get read out are so far out it's laughable,I mean it's 1991 or something and somebody will text in 1998.

That's like God Save The Queen by the Sex Pistols being a hit in 1970.

Yeah I agree the majority of songs in the sing before they win competition are very familiar but the amount that aren't guessed right are high. Many people will know a song but not it's title.

With the predictably of Heart no doubt they play the same songs for the same year each time its never going to be rocket science is it. Why don't you try a more upmarket station assuming there is one left that Global haven't got there hands on in your area.

I'm afraid the FM reception in the building where I work means that radio reception is patchy at best. Digital isn't much better.

Heart's about the only station we can get a decent signal for.

Sometimes we can get Forth One.

A couple of weeks ago James Bay's Hold Back the River came on Heart for the second time that night. I couldn't face listening to it yet again,so turned over to Forth One. Where the same record turned up about ten minutes later. So sometimes even changing the station doesn't do any good,you're still stuck with the same records.

Apart from when they cut Madonna - Open your heart ending off

A year or two ago, I would have said that comment would be the nearest you would get from a "Yes man" to an admission that the output is aimed at morons......



However, in this "dumbed down" world today, its par for the course, as, sadly music to todays society is not that important, and no big deal......



Even with youngsters........take Radio1's Ibiza weekend..........Most of those there had no passion for the tunes, they just thought it was "cool" to be there posing away, most more bothered checking their phones............and they wouldn't know David Guetta from David Attenborough!

Ahhh the voice of Bewildered FM. People like you have been talking about the youth of this world for millennia. Here's one from Socrates .....
'The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.' Are you a great philosopher on the quiet? 😉

So in other words anything but a Global one then

I know the titles of most tunes but wouldn't always know the year so it's not true that the average listener knows the year as soon as a couple of songs are played.

Talking of Heart, wonder what happened to Heart Extra? It was said in 2014 to be launching "in the New Year", along with "more services to come"; are they perhaps waiting for Bauer to shift its stations onto the cheaper Digital 2 before they do so?

Not sure what's up with Heart Crawley - a few times in the last week at various times of the day, the feed has dropped to what I assume is a highly compressed backup - or the processing is going wrong. Sounds like it's dropping down to a very low rate - reminds me of dial-up days! Same on 102.7 FM and DAB. Heathfield 102.4 sounds fine.
Perhaps the link from Brighton to Crawley is going wrong? Not quite sure where the playout is for DAB and FM is derived from but clearly an issue before the feeds are split.

Well Socrates was probably right when he said it. And he'd certainly be right if he were alive today and said it now.

As would Cicero be were he now to say,"O tempora! O mores!"

But that's the whole point. Crusty old buffers said exactly the same sort of thing about the pre war generation of youth - and they saved the world.

A thing isn't bad because you don't get it. And the people who do get it aren't dumbed down, brainwashed or terminally young.

You must set your bar REALLY low if that is your honest opinion.........or is it what "the men upstairs" have ordered you to post!

Ha! I KNEW you were a conspiracy theorist 😀

I've noticed that too as well as 106.2 here as well

Joanne Webb doing the traffic on London drive this afternoon.. She was on London breakfast this morning too as well as Friday

How did JK & Lucy perform this quarter?

Where can you find individual shows ?

sharp fall in heart listeners from 10pm week days and again on Sunday's! Will this be reversed now Zoe has replaced Jenni. Think that's pretty obvious!

http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/qua..._listening.php

Subscription is required for individual shows and looks like it's really expensive.

Good to hear Oasis this morning

Rich Clarke and Lucy Horobin are on heart breakfast tomorrow then next week its JK and Lucy next week on heart London breakfast with Margherita Taylor continuing on drivetime

Why are some presenters covering 2 shows a day

Russ Morris was doing Heart WM breakfast last week and Northwest drive time

Leigh jones is doing Heart Breakfast South Wales and Gloucester drive time? Is there a shortage?

It was the same here in Herts/4 counties recently. I guess it's very difficult as each local heart region only has two presenters the breakfast one and Drivetime so I guess there's no alternative?