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You wont get an answer mate - whenever he gets challenged over something he has posted he 'disappears'. He's done it about 21,290 times before.
Unless you want to prove us wrong Occy? What do you know?
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You wont get an answer mate - whenever he gets challenged over something he has posted he 'disappears'. He's done it about 21,290 times before.
Unless you want to prove us wrong Occy? What do you know? Although saying that he did answer me a few weeks ago when I asked him about his enthusiasm (or lack of) for Smooth (just after the changes were announced)As, I say, I live in hope. ![]()
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I'm baffled. I always thought it was Careless Whisper that was generally loved the most, and not A Different Corner, even though both were mid 80's No1 hits. That is why I can't work out the latter track getting such excessive play.
I took Tony Blackburn to task at the weekend on the Pick Of The Pops thread when he was playing 1974 and played Candle In The Wind by Elton John, 40 years old now. I felt like I was listening to Smooth as soon as I heard it begin, and thought he might have avoided it considering his comments about stations such as Smooth. This is the trouble with such crazy over playing and rotation of old hits. You begin to dislike them, and associate them in a negative way such as this. Carlos becomes Carl Emms eh. I only realised he was one and the same very recently. What kind of an ego does a man have to simply style himself "Carlos" like that! I recall listening to Carl Emms on Chiltern Radio late at night, overnight way back in early 1988. So that is 26 years since The Hot FM now. Smooth as it now exists is positively retarded in comparison to Chiltern Radio/The Hot FM of the late 80's. |
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I thought you meant New music by George Michael
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Carlos becomes Carl Emms eh. I only realised he was one and the same very recently. What kind of an ego does a man have to simply style himself "Carlos" like that! I recall listening to Carl Emms on Chiltern Radio late at night, overnight way back in early 1988. So that is 26 years since The Hot FM now. . Theres loads about Roberto, The Bassman ect most of these have nicknames due to being on hit music stations and there name suiting the format. |
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What the heck are you banging on about ? It would have been likely a PD's choice who for some reason either thought that Carls name didn't fit the format (Eg not cool enough for hit music) or someone had a similar name so he was given a nickname.
Theres loads about Roberto, The Bassman ect most of these have nicknames due to being on hit music stations and there name suiting the format. |
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Not sure about that. Are you telling me that a record company are paying Smooth to play a 28 year old George Michael song?
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I took Tony Blackburn to task at the weekend on the Pick Of The Pops thread when he was playing 1974 and played Candle In The Wind by Elton John, 40 years old now. I felt like I was listening to Smooth as soon as I heard it begin, and thought he might have avoided it considering his comments about stations such as Smooth. If anything we should be taking them to task over songs that don't get played. As we know Tony & Phil continually to dismiss punk songs when they feature charts form 77-79 To me this is more of an issue than playing Candle in the Wind. It's not like he plays in week in, week out is it? |
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What the heck are you banging on about ? It would have been likely a PD's choice who for some reason either thought that Carls name didn't fit the format (Eg not cool enough for hit music) or someone had a similar name so he was given a nickname.
Theres loads about Roberto, The Bassman ect most of these have nicknames due to being on hit music stations and there name suiting the format. |
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There is no escaping that damned song is there. It even popped up on an Australian station I was listening to early this morning as well.
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I'm baffled. I always thought it was Careless Whisper that was generally loved the most, and not A Different Corner, even though both were mid 80's No1 hits.
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A Different Corner tests like a dream hence why stations going for a specific audience play it.
And that's why money is spent on very extensive music research. One might *think* a song is popular but research tells the real story. I would be fascinated to find out - nobody's ever asked me, but why should they. |
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Carlos becomes Carl Emms eh. I only realised he was one and the same very recently. What kind of an ego does a man have to simply style himself "Carlos" like that! . |
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Smooth is beginning to sound like a hospital radio station now. Anthony Davis is dreadful with his hopelessly contrived links and complete lack of personality. What next? Full-time voice tracking.
I'm not a Global knocker, I think Heart generally sounds very good - but they have lost the plot this time with Smooth. I mean Kate GoAway for goodness sake, when there are so many good presenters out there. I know Sleb magazines are big sellers - and there are a lot of empty-headed women obsessed with them these days - but really, what on earth are they thinking. This is just not going to translate to radio. |
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...................Digressing from the current subject and on to technical issues. While driving in my car on Monday evening , around 5pm, I heard the Smooth London traffic news. That was followed by a traffic bulletin from Heart Essex, jingle and all. The Smooth Radio tag disappeared from the RDS and read just 102.2.
I suppose when you cram all those radio stations, in one building, with local feeds thrown in, you should expect the odd technical glitch. |
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Out of sheer interest - I have no "angle" here - just how is testing carried out.
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/research_AMT.htm |
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A Different Corner tests like a dream hence why stations going for a specific audience play it.
And that's why money is spent on very extensive music research. One might *think* a song is popular but research tells the real story. I particularly dislike 'A Different Corner' ... it's just bland rubbish IMO.
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Smooth is beginning to sound like a hospital radio station now.
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Some hospital radio is very professional sounding!
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Some hospital radio is very professional sounding!
http://www.forestgold.org.uk/ |
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This link goes into detail about how its done. It's American but similar practices are carried out here. This should give you an insight into what goes on.
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/research_AMT.htm |
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A Different Corner tests like a dream hence why stations going for a specific audience play it.
And that's why money is spent on very extensive music research. One might *think* a song is popular but research tells the real story. Getting a load of empty headed Sharon and Tracy's to listen to a very limited "chorus" or "hook lines"......bimbos who are not interested in music, and probably, as they have a limited attention span, will just put anything as their response to get the whole thing over with.... Who'd have thought in 2014 the major influences on what gets played on UK commercial radio are people with no real spark for music.........sad times...... |
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However, its NOT extensive, or even accurate....
Getting a load of empty headed Sharon and Tracy's to listen to a very limited "chorus" or "hook lines"......bimbos who are not interested in music, and probably, as they have a limited attention span, will just put anything as their response to get the whole thing over with.... Who'd have thought in 2014 the major influences on what gets played on UK commercial radio are people with no real spark for music.........sad times...... |
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However, its NOT extensive, or even accurate....
Getting a load of empty headed Sharon and Tracy's to listen to a very limited "chorus" or "hook lines"......bimbos who are not interested in music, and probably, as they have a limited attention span, will just put anything as their response to get the whole thing over with.... |
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However, its NOT extensive, or even accurate....
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bimbos who are not interested in music, and probably, as they have a limited attention span
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However, its NOT extensive, or even accurate....
Getting a load of empty headed Sharon and Tracy's to listen to a very limited "chorus" or "hook lines"......bimbos who are not interested in music, and probably, as they have a limited attention span, will just put anything as their response to get the whole thing over with.... Who'd have thought in 2014 the major influences on what gets played on UK commercial radio are people with no real spark for music.........sad times...... I'm not really into music and I've had a good career in radio. I've even been a head of music believe it or not. |
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I'm not really into music and I've had a good career in radio. I've even been a head of music believe it or not.
Its the reason so much "research" has to be done, as the bods in control haven't got a clue!! ![]()
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Although saying that he did answer me a few weeks ago when I asked him about his enthusiasm (or lack of) for Smooth (just after the changes were announced)
I particularly dislike 'A Different Corner' ... it's just bland rubbish IMO.
