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Old 03-12-2013, 18:32
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The guardian claim German girls like rock music more than pop music.
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Old 03-12-2013, 18:54
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Old 03-12-2013, 19:20
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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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Old 03-12-2013, 19:30
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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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Old 03-12-2013, 19:44
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They also buy millions of David Hasselhoff records........
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Old 03-12-2013, 20:01
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They also buy millions of David Hasselhoff records........
But to balance that astounding bad taste they also have genuine classical albums, as opposed to crossover, top the POP charts... http://www.classicfm.com/artists/ann...bum-pop-chart/
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Old 03-12-2013, 20:04
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They also buy millions of David Hasselhoff records........
Nobody is perfect!
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Old 03-12-2013, 20:06
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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...
This has to be a wind up.

In that most of the music played on German TV or radio is of UK or US origin.
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Old 03-12-2013, 20:12
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In that most of the music played on German TV or radio is of UK or US origin.
What has that got to do with it being a wider selection?
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Old 03-12-2013, 20:14
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The guardian claim German girls like rock music more than pop music.
German girls have good taste
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Old 03-12-2013, 21:20
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German girls have good taste
Spanish girls are better looking
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Old 03-12-2013, 21:53
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Spanish girls are better looking
I'm not fussy
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Old 03-12-2013, 21:56
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Spanish girls are better looking
German girls have hairier armpits
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Old 03-12-2013, 22:04
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German girls have hairier armpits
Nothing wrong with that
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Old 03-12-2013, 22:10
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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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Old 04-12-2013, 09:12
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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.
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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Old 04-12-2013, 09:43
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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.
I noticed the radios narrowing their focus when American rap music started to get prevalent. A lot of people in the UK simply hated it which led to a lot of AC stations narrowing their focus and just stopped playing certain genres.
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Old 04-12-2013, 09:45
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I've noticed that there's a much wider choice shown in Germany
Exactly, not just rock but all sorts of music.

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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Old 04-12-2013, 12:10
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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.
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.
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Old 04-12-2013, 13:00
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They also buy millions of David Hasselhoff records........
And the CDs of those singers they have on the Saturday night variety shows. I saw those shows when I was in Germany and I thought they were terrible, like ITV in the 70s I guess. Mum watched the shows though and thought the singers were good!
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Old 04-12-2013, 13:31
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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.
However the range of music they play is very limited, especially when you compare it to what they used to have.

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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Old 04-12-2013, 13:34
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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.
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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Old 04-12-2013, 14:24
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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"...
Radio 1 used to have "In Concert" and BBC TV used to have "Rock Goes To college" but there is nothing similar now.
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Old 04-12-2013, 16:12
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Bring back TOTP and The Old Grey Whistle Test
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Old 04-12-2013, 16:14
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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"...
You obviously don't check the listings for BBC 4 (TV) very often.

http://www.bleb.org/tv/channel.html?ch=bbc4&all&day=2
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