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German girls like Rock over Boy and Girl bands.
The guardian claim German girls like rock music more than pop music.
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Good for them
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From flicking through the German TV channels it seems to me that German music lovers get a far better deal all round and a far wider selection than we do in the UK...
The fact that they regularly get to hear everything from rock to opera makes a big difference IMO. |
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Germany is host to Europe's (possibly the world's) biggest Metal festival, Wacken. It's about the same size as Download but ALL Metal. I can't help wondering how many of these names your average Brit would recognise http://www.wacken.com/woa2014/main-h...ng-order-2013/
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They also buy millions of David Hasselhoff records........
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They also buy millions of David Hasselhoff records........
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They also buy millions of David Hasselhoff records........
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From flicking through the German TV channels it seems to me that German music lovers get a far better deal all round and a far wider selection than we do in the UK...
In that most of the music played on German TV or radio is of UK or US origin. |
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In that most of the music played on German TV or radio is of UK or US origin.
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The guardian claim German girls like rock music more than pop music.
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German girls have good taste
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I've noticed that there's a much wider choice shown in Germany on the numerous times I've been there with the charts regularly featuring rock and metal acts and music shows like Rock Palast unlike here (we used to get it when we had MTV Europe, but when it changed to MTV UK we lost all the good stuff), and not all are UK/US either as there's quite a few very good German bands, and there's some UK groups that are virtually unheard of here but big in Germany like folk/rock outfit Blackmore's Night.
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I've noticed that there's a much wider choice shown in Germany on the numerous times I've been there with the charts regularly featuring rock and metal acts and music shows like Rock Palast unlike here (we used to get it when we had MTV Europe, but when it changed to MTV UK we lost all the good stuff), and not all are UK/US either as there's quite a few very good German bands, and there's some UK groups that are virtually unheard of here but big in Germany like folk/rock outfit Blackmore's Night.
Mainstream TV and radio in the UK plays an incredibly narrow range of music, unlike elsewhere in Europe. Even BBC 4 with their music-themed Friday evening programmes are nearly all based on music from the '60s to the '80s because after that the range of music the BBC covers narrowed dramatically. |
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That is the big difference.
Mainstream TV and radio in the UK plays an incredibly narrow range of music, unlike elsewhere in Europe. Even BBC 4 with their music-themed Friday evening programmes are nearly all based on music from the '60s to the '80s because after that the range of music the BBC covers narrowed dramatically. |
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I've noticed that there's a much wider choice shown in Germany
In one evening I might see Opera, Elvis Presley in concert, Rock concerts, Classical concerts, Jazz, all sorts of music documentaries etc etc... all on free to view channels. |
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That is the big difference.
Mainstream TV and radio in the UK plays an incredibly narrow range of music, unlike elsewhere in Europe. Even BBC 4 with their music-themed Friday evening programmes are nearly all based on music from the '60s to the '80s because after that the range of music the BBC covers narrowed dramatically. Channel 4 is a bit of a let down. I expected a lot more from their 4Music channel. There seems to be a tendency to trivialise pop music and equate it with celebrity culture. Classical music including Opera and Concertos get great coverage on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM but little outside that. And BBC Radio 2, Radio 1X and Radio 6 are as good music stations as any anywhere. The Germans are better at a lot of things admittedly. |
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They also buy millions of David Hasselhoff records........
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To be fair to the BBC the range and programming across their TV, Radio and digital output is of a staggeringly good quality. BBC 4 is essentially an arts and humanities channel not a music channel, and it deals with the story of pop rather than as a starting point for new music. The story of pop in the 00s is far less culturally significant that in earlier decades.
Channel 4 is a bit of a let down. I expected a lot more from their 4Music channel. There seems to be a tendency to trivialise pop music and equate it with celebrity culture. Classical music including Opera and Concertos get great coverage on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM but little outside that. And BBC Radio 2, Radio 1X and Radio 6 are as good music stations as any anywhere. The Germans are better at a lot of things admittedly. I listen to 6 Music a lot and it has basically become an "Indie light" station, whereas when it started it covered a tremendous range of music. It is laughable that 6 Music doesn't even have a Rock Show, even though most other genres have a dedicated show. When Bruce Dickinson was given the boot to free up space for John Peel's son Tom Ravenscroft it was claimed the other shows would cover the shortfall at the harder end of the rock spectrum. Unsurprisingly that has never happened. |
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To be fair to the BBC the range and programming across their TV, Radio and digital output is of a staggeringly good quality. BBC 4 is essentially an arts and humanities channel not a music channel, and it deals with the story of pop rather than as a starting point for new music. The story of pop in the 00s is far less culturally significant that in earlier decades.
Channel 4 is a bit of a let down. I expected a lot more from their 4Music channel. There seems to be a tendency to trivialise pop music and equate it with celebrity culture. Classical music including Opera and Concertos get great coverage on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM but little outside that. And BBC Radio 2, Radio 1X and Radio 6 are as good music stations as any anywhere. The Germans are better at a lot of things admittedly. Even then Radio 4 seems to be 90% chat which bores me to tears. On both Radio 3 and above all Classic FM opera is virtually non existent.. If and when they do deem to play it it's either an overture/intermezzo or that bloody toreador song - probably my least favorite aria in Carmen which is full of far better. As for TV, for classical we have the BBC proms and little else. I can't remember the last concert of any sort we saw and I'm including rock in that... Coverage of music (using the term in its loosest sense) seems to consist almost exclusively of videos featuring various women writhing around half dressed pouting and miming badly to backing tracks. Whilst I have nothing against half naked women writhing around, for a while, it doesn't fall into my definition of "musical variety"... |
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You are talking mostly radio, not mainstream TV...
Even then Radio 4 seems to be 90% chat which bores me to tears. On both Radio 3 and above all Classic FM opera is virtually non existent.. If and when they do deem to play it it's either an overture/intermezzo or that bloody toreador song - probably my least favorite aria in Carmen which is full of far better. As for TV, for classical we have the BBC proms and little else. I can't remember the last concert of any sort we saw and I'm including rock in that... Coverage of music (using the term in its loosest sense) seems to consist almost exclusively of videos featuring various women writhing around half dressed pouting and miming badly to backing tracks. Whilst I have nothing against half naked women writhing around, for a while, it doesn't fall into my definition of "musical variety"... |
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As for TV, for classical we have the BBC proms and little else. I can't remember the last concert of any sort we saw and I'm including rock in that... Coverage of music (using the term in its loosest sense) seems to consist almost exclusively of videos featuring various women writhing around half dressed pouting and miming badly to backing tracks. Whilst I have nothing against half naked women writhing around, for a while, it doesn't fall into my definition of "musical variety"... http://www.bleb.org/tv/channel.html?ch=bbc4&all&day=2 |
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