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Jimmy Connors
16-01-2015
What's happened to the Breakfast Show? I am not talking about Myleene flaming Klass either.

I was channel hopping the other morning and for the first time in ages I listened to the Breakfast Show for a while. Every song was a slow maudlin love song. Carpenters, Air Supply, Elton John, Bill Withers ............ so on and so on.


I thought Breakfast shows were supposed to wake you up, not send you back to sleep.

Even Magic was more up beat.
occy
16-01-2015
Noticed there is know one through the night Monday - Thursday 2-4am Dave Brown only does weekends?
FM Lover
16-01-2015
Originally Posted by occy:
“Noticed there is know one through the night Monday - Thursday 2-4am Dave Brown only does weekends?”

Yeah I noticed that earlier this week when Dave announced on Facebook that he was covering for Nicola at the early part of the week.

So they have no gone backwards with automation 10pm-4am or does the Love Songs show have a presenter and has David Andrews now left?
Amara
16-01-2015
Originally Posted by Jimmy Connors:
“What's happened to the Breakfast Show? I am not talking about Myleene flaming Klass either.

I was channel hopping the other morning and for the first time in ages I listened to the Breakfast Show for a while. Every song was a slow maudlin love song. Carpenters, Air Supply, Elton John, Bill Withers ............ so on and so on.


I thought Breakfast shows were supposed to wake you up, not send you back to sleep.

Even Magic was more up beat.”


Smooth seems incapable of programming uptempo music at breakfast I have said before its so dreary it sends you back to sleep. Magic is far more uptempo and that's fact.
suffolkblue
16-01-2015
Smooth is horrible now End of. Magic all the way for me. I used to hate magic but that was in the Richard park days. He is now at smooth and its just so boring. Amara why are you still here lol
Amara
16-01-2015
Originally Posted by suffolkblue:
“Smooth is horrible now End of. Magic all the way for me. I used to hate magic but that was in the Richard park days. He is now at smooth and its just so boring. Amara why are you still here lol”

Just browsing and couldn't resist a quick comment.
Jimmy Connors
17-01-2015
Originally Posted by Amara:
“Smooth seems incapable of programming uptempo music at breakfast I have said before its so dreary it sends you back to sleep. Magic is far more uptempo and that's fact.”

I just can not understand why any breakfast show would deliberately try to sound like a late night love songs show. Baffling.

You're right about Magic. I tried Magic this afternoon and was pleasantly surprised to hear Gary Numan, The Buggles followed by Boney M. I had no idea they had expanded their play list so much. It was nice to hear.
pjex
17-01-2015
Originally Posted by Jimmy Connors:
“I just can not understand why any breakfast show would deliberately try to sound like a late night love songs show. Baffling.

You're right about Magic. I tried Magic this afternoon and was pleasantly surprised to hear Gary Numan, The Buggles followed by Boney M. I had no idea they had expanded their play list so much. It was nice to hear. ”

But ruined by being in mono across the vast majority of the uk
occy
18-01-2015
Why throw everything into one basket at once. Take time gradually blend other things in. I
martino2539
18-01-2015
Originally Posted by pjex:
“But ruined by being in mono across the vast majority of the uk ”

Love these comments, the majority of the uk don't give a damn if a station is in mono, id rather a greater choice of stations. Most of the dab kitchen radios are single speaker mono type. I have a pure dab radio in the car and the sound quality on all stations is perfectly fine.

I can count on both hands the amount of people that complain about dab and global on here, always the same users!!!! You aint gonna change anything, if you don't like then put radio 2 on in glorious fm stereo, no one telling you to listen to dab, clearly not the platform for you.

Magic is a breathe of fresh air on dab and majority of posters agree....rant over
Amara
18-01-2015
Originally Posted by pjex:
“But ruined by being in mono across the vast majority of the uk ”

As I listen on a mono Pure Evoke Flow it sounds good anyway. No difference in quality to Radio 2. Some people on here are so obsessed with DAB having to be stereo but your normal radio listener isn't bothered in the least.
Jimmy Connors
19-01-2015
Agreed. Magic sounds good (quality) no matter what device I use. Always has done.
Dave Wiggy0707
19-01-2015
Well Smooth Radio Is Dum Down Radio Thank Too Global Now It Is True
They Think Listeners Like Non Stop Love Songs And I Will Tell You This Smooth Radio Got A Sister Station Name Smooth Extra Now Don't For Get Now And This Show Smooth Love Songs Is On Smooth Extra At The Same Time From 10 Pm Till 2Am Not Good I Do Think The Normal Smooth Radio Stations Should Have A Presenter On Them Doing A Late Show From 10Pm Till 1 Am Like Eamonn Kelly That Would Be Better Then Just Broadcasting Smooth Love Songs On Smooth Radio And Smooth Extra And Then From 1Am Till 4Am Have Dave Brown On Smooth Radio Doing Smooth Through The Night But Smooth Radio Is Dum Down Radio Now And That Is True
80sfan
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by Amara:
“Smooth seems incapable of programming uptempo music at breakfast I have said before its so dreary it sends you back to sleep. Magic is far more uptempo and that's fact.”

That and Andrew Castle. Perhaps the most banal, boring man ever to be handed a national breakfast show. The mind boggles.
up to the vocal
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by Dave Wiggy0707:
“Well Smooth Radio Is Dum Down Radio Thank Too Global Now It Is True
They Think Listeners Like Non Stop Love Songs And I Will Tell You This Smooth Radio Got A Sister Station Name Smooth Extra Now Don't For Get Now And This Show Smooth Love Songs Is On Smooth Extra At The Same Time From 10 Pm Till 2Am Not Good I Do Think The Normal Smooth Radio Stations Should Have A Presenter On Them Doing A Late Show From 10Pm Till 1 Am Like Eamonn Kelly That Would Be Better Then Just Broadcasting Smooth Love Songs On Smooth Radio And Smooth Extra And Then From 1Am Till 4Am Have Dave Brown On Smooth Radio Doing Smooth Through The Night But Smooth Radio Is Dum Down Radio Now And That Is True”

I can see you are a big fan of capital
chocolate_boy
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by Dave Wiggy0707:
“Well Smooth Radio Is Dum Down Radio Thank Too Global Now It Is True
They Think Listeners Like Non Stop Love Songs And I Will Tell You This Smooth Radio Got A Sister Station Name Smooth Extra Now Don't For Get Now And This Show Smooth Love Songs Is On Smooth Extra At The Same Time From 10 Pm Till 2Am Not Good I Do Think The Normal Smooth Radio Stations Should Have A Presenter On Them Doing A Late Show From 10Pm Till 1 Am Like Eamonn Kelly That Would Be Better Then Just Broadcasting Smooth Love Songs On Smooth Radio And Smooth Extra And Then From 1Am Till 4Am Have Dave Brown On Smooth Radio Doing Smooth Through The Night But Smooth Radio Is Dum Down Radio Now And That Is True”

Why Are You Capitalising Every Word?
Radiogram
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by Dave Wiggy0707:
“Well Smooth Radio Is Dum Down Radio Thank Too Global Now It Is True
They Think Listeners Like Non Stop Love Songs And I Will Tell You This Smooth Radio Got A Sister Station Name Smooth Extra Now Don't For Get Now And This Show Smooth Love Songs Is On Smooth Extra At The Same Time From 10 Pm Till 2Am Not Good I Do Think The Normal Smooth Radio Stations Should Have A Presenter On Them Doing A Late Show From 10Pm Till 1 Am Like Eamonn Kelly That Would Be Better Then Just Broadcasting Smooth Love Songs On Smooth Radio And Smooth Extra And Then From 1Am Till 4Am Have Dave Brown On Smooth Radio Doing Smooth Through The Night But Smooth Radio Is Dum Down Radio Now And That Is True”

Another banned poster makes a welcome return. Dum Down Radio indeed
Radiogram
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by Jimmy Connors:
“I just can not understand why any breakfast show would deliberately try to sound like a late night love songs show. Baffling.

You're right about Magic. I tried Magic this afternoon and was pleasantly surprised to hear Gary Numan, The Buggles followed by Boney M. I had no idea they had expanded their play list so much. It was nice to hear. ”

And Boney M is a good thing?
80sfan
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by Radiogram:
“And Boney M is a good thing? ”

Belfast is a great song of theirs
Radiogram
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by 80sfan:
“Belfast is a great song of theirs”

And Brown Girl in the Ring is the most hideous piece of garbage ever recorded.

I quite like Rasputin though I must admit.
80sfan
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by Radiogram:
“And Brown Girl in the Ring is the most hideous piece of garbage ever recorded.

I quite like Rasputin though I must admit.”

Mary's Boy Child is one of the Christmas classics.

And Rivers of Babylon is another classic.

I don't like their later hits though - by 1979 they had lost it in my opinion
Hertz
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by 80sfan:
“Belfast is a great song of theirs”

God, no
Hertz
19-01-2015
If you want a good song about Belfast try Belfast child by simple minds.

Or anything written about the city by Van Morrison e.g. Cyprus Avenue, or the one about my old school, Orangefield.

Any of those would work well on either Smooth or Magic.
Borsant
19-01-2015
Hate to sound like Wckartist but your knowledge of Boney M is shamefully superficial, I.e no one's mentioned Painter Man .... A Ker-Lassic 😉
Borsant
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by Dave Wiggy0707:
“Well Smooth Radio Is Dum Down Radio Thank Too Global Now It Is True
They Think Listeners Like Non Stop Love Songs And I Will Tell You This Smooth Radio Got A Sister Station Name Smooth Extra Now Don't For Get Now And This Show Smooth Love Songs Is On Smooth Extra At The Same Time From 10 Pm Till 2Am Not Good I Do Think The Normal Smooth Radio Stations Should Have A Presenter On Them Doing A Late Show From 10Pm Till 1 Am Like Eamonn Kelly That Would Be Better Then Just Broadcasting Smooth Love Songs On Smooth Radio And Smooth Extra And Then From 1Am Till 4Am Have Dave Brown On Smooth Radio Doing Smooth Through The Night But Smooth Radio Is Dum Down Radio Now And That Is True”

Wiggys back and making as much sense as ever!
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