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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3609 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject: Mika! |
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Is anyone else sick to the back teeth of this silly novelty record? It was fun for a while, but now it's beyond a joke and everyone seems to be taking him just a little too seriously.
It just seems to be on all the time and I'm fed up with it. |
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Julia
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 556 Location: a hillside desolate
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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I hate it and always did... ARGH!!! _________________ I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject: Re: Mika! |
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Ian Robinson wrote: | Is anyone else sick to the back teeth of this silly novelty record? It was fun for a while, but now it's beyond a joke and everyone seems to be taking him just a little too seriously.
It just seems to be on all the time and I'm fed up with it. |
It will end up being over played too much. |
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Julia
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 556 Location: a hillside desolate
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: Re: Mika! |
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mark occomore wrote: | Ian Robinson wrote: | Is anyone else sick to the back teeth of this silly novelty record? It was fun for a while, but now it's beyond a joke and everyone seems to be taking him just a little too seriously.
It just seems to be on all the time and I'm fed up with it. |
It will end up being over played too much. |
edit... It HAS been over played too much _________________ I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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Heard it again today (I think on TW) so that's the first time in about eight days.... thankfully - you can only flog something to death so much. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Radio 2 do have a habit of overplaying top tunes. Of course it will be on the playlist for a while yet until the special performance has been aired. I wonder if the next tune he releases will get to number one? Most of the time they fade out after a year, is this something to do with the network trying to promote them too much in 12 months?
Who was the music artist they gave airtime to last year, who the music industry said would be best thing in 2006? |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3609 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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mark occomore wrote: | Who was the music artist they gave airtime to last year, who the music industry said would be best thing in 2006? | Corrine Bailey Rae. Who was also overplayed. Coincidence? |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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mark occomore wrote: | Who was the music artist they gave airtime to last year, who the music industry said would be best thing in 2006? |
James *cough* Blunt....
From Wiki, which I laughed at:
"On May 29, 2006, the British press reported that a local radio station Essex FM had announced that it had banned all songs by Blunt from being played, after listeners of the station repeatedly called and said they were "fed up with them". The station stopped playing the hit single "You're Beautiful" after having it on constant rotation for 14 months. They played Blunt's single "Wisemen" 26 times the next week.
A survey conducted this year reported that Blunt was the fourth most annoying thing in the UK, beaten only by cold callers, queue-jumpers and caravans."
Apparently "James Blunt" entered the hallowed halls of Cockney Rhyming Slang, too. Can't think what it refers to, but I bet whoever thought it up believed he resembled it.... _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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I would also like to join the Mika is cr@p club I hate, it's rubbish, some folks are comparing him to Freddie Mercury he does not even come close. |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Toggy tea slurper wrote: | I would also like to join the Mika is poor (in my opinion) club I hate, it's rubbish, some folks are comparing him to Freddie Mercury he does not even come close. |
I did hear broadcasters quoting that when it was first aired. I'm sure he would be turning in his grave. |
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MIKERAPHONE
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 301 Location: Bury..home of the World famous Black Pudding!!
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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KERCHING
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KERCHING _________________ The Voice of reason in a MAD MAD world |
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Natasha Little Miss Lovely Smile
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 790
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Bless you _________________ Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. |
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Barkingbiker
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2313 Location: Lincolnshire
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Toggy tea slurper wrote: | I would also like to join the Mika is poor (in my opinion) club I hate, it's rubbish, some folks are comparing him to Freddie Mercury he does not even come close. |
We don't know that, all we, well I, have heard is the Grace Kelly single. Don't know if he wrote it, or, if he has written anything else. I find the song pleasant and a catchy tune and he at least, IMHO, he has a good voice with a very wide range. I for one am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and wait and see if he is just a one hit wonder or has more to offer. It is not his fault that he is over played on the radio, particularly on R2, of course he will not be complaining.
BB _________________ Old Bikers Never Die, our leathers just get tighter! |
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Peek
Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 55 Location: In the region of the summer stars
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry...but I absolutely love it! _________________ You can't keep a good Tog down |
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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:01 am Post subject: |
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Sarah played it at about 7:25 then Ken played it at about 9:30 If ever a song was over hyped and overplayed this is it. |
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Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 42
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:25 am Post subject: |
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Don't think I have ever heard the Mika single so I can't comment on it but that situation at Essex FM with the James Blunt single amazes me.
All the negativity seems to drift the way of the artist,but what did he do beyond make a record in an attempt to appeal to music fans and build a career in music?
The situation in my view is all the fault of the radio station concerned who should be programming their music more carefully and not leaving records on the playlists for 14 months.No wonder listeners got bored of it, presenters probably got bored of having to play it as well, small wonder there were complaints.
Ridiculous programming like that does nobody any favours.
And I wonder who they could have been playing during the 14 months in which they were constantly playing James Blunt?
Banning an artiste achieves nothing except to put peoples backs up (viz previous situations regarding the likes of Cliff Richard and Jim Reeves etc)and in a sensible radio world situations like this would be avoided.
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:50 am Post subject: A few I got sick of |
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Sadly, it seems that Mika will join the 'flogged to death' club. Joining 'Crazy' By Gnarls Barkley, 'Rehab' by Amy Winehouse, most of Lily Allen's releases, and, going back a bit further, 'They' by Jem, and 'So What The Fuss' by Stevie Wonder. At least a couple of these, I didn't mind at first but was totally sick of by the time the powers that be finally took them off the playlist. |
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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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patience by take was was another flog it till it bleeds example. If I had a quid for everytime I heard that I could retire rich. |
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Natasha Little Miss Lovely Smile
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 790
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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I said it would happen and I'm afraid it has - Mika is driving me mental. _________________ Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. |
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Julia
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 556 Location: a hillside desolate
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Humphrey we're leaving - what IS that all about - and in the video why does the little girl have such a low voice (I mean, I know it isn't her voice - but well basically I don't understand it from start to finish - I've figured this doesn't matter though because it's a stupid song which is in actual fact Rubbish and meaningless anyway) |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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Julia wrote: | Humphrey we're leaving - what IS that all about - and in the video why does the little girl have such a low voice (I mean, I know it isn't her voice - but well basically I don't understand it from start to finish - I've figured this doesn't matter though because it's a stupid song which is in actual fact Rubbish and meaningless anyway) |
I decided not to watch the video under any circumstances (short of someone holding me down and physically opening my eyelids, that is). I have learned to mentally blot out the single when it comes on the radio, thankfully, as I'm sick of it now, much as I ended up being heartily sick of Blunt's hit and Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do". There's also an album due out shortly ("Life in Cartoon Motion" or something like that), so it's not the last we'll hear of him. Possibly KB will have it as his Album of the Week soon so R2 can play "Grace Kelly" again for the 1546th time. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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