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Tight Scot
Joined: 20 Nov 2010 Posts: 9
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:13 pm Post subject: Sounds of the sixties |
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Isnt it about time that SOTs permanent Sat slot was shared between Sounds of the seventies, sounds of the eighties and sounds of the nineties.
How about one week to each on a rolling basis
After all there is more to music than just the sixties and BMs obsession with the beatles.
Now ducking behind parapet..... |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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Nah - the Sixties was a unique period in which a mass of ground-breaking music was created and it more than deserves its own dedicated slot in my opinion. |
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undiscovered
Joined: 15 Sep 2010 Posts: 650 Location: Peterborough
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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A brave first post Scot.
I think there should be room about to do all of the ones you mention, personally I agree with you and Bm fixation with the Beatles but they were fairly big , but not infallable.
There used to be a proper 70's show but Johnny Walker took it over and just plays early 70's missing anything post 77 which isn't right.
80's I think it's about time it's been 21 years since they finished. _________________ You will hear gospel and rhythm and blues and jazz, all those are just labels, we know that music is music. |
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Tight Scot
Joined: 20 Nov 2010 Posts: 9
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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ColinB wrote: | Nah - the Sixties was a unique period in which a mass of ground-breaking music was created and it more than deserves its own dedicated slot in my opinion. |
I am not saying it doesnt deserve its own slot but NOT every week for two hours. When JW did sounds of the seventies it wasn't for two hours in a prime slot. Why shouldn't other decades have a proper look in |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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undiscovered wrote: | I think there should be room about to do all of the ones you mention, personally I agree with you and Bm fixation with the Beatles but they were fairly big , but not infallable. |
They weren't infallible, agreed, but they were HUGE by the standards of any generation. As somebody who is old enough to have devoured every second of it I can only say that the Beatles' back-catalogue is one mighty fine body of work that has (in my opinion) not been equalled by anybody. Nope. Nobody. If their music does enjoy a pedestal on SOTS then it's because the Beatles were, quite simply, the biggest thing about the decade. Their ubiquity was well earned.....
Whilst we're on the subject, the reason for BM's apparent fixation (obsession?) with the fab four is simple: he rubbed shoulders with them all the time - at least in the first half of the 60s - and whenever I think of Brian Mathew I think of The Beatles, Juke Box Jury, Ready, Steady Go! and other stuff. They're all intertwined.
So..... I like SOTS. It's an oasis in a desert of blandness, banality and mediocrity on Radio 2 (think "The Chris Evans' Breakfast Show" or "The Big Show with Steve Wright") so I'm happy to listen to it for as long as BM is capable and willing to front it each Saturday morning.
Tight Scot wrote: | I am not saying it doesnt deserve its own slot but NOT every week for two hours. When JW did sounds of the seventies it wasn't for two hours in a prime slot. Why shouldn't other decades have a proper look in |
Chris Evans gets 3.5 hours each and every weekday morning. That's 17.5 excruciating hours per week!
SOTS' two hours is fine by me. |
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Tight Scot
Joined: 20 Nov 2010 Posts: 9
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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FFS dont tell us the ginger whinger has had his show extended !!!!!!!! |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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Tight Scot wrote: | FFS dont tell us the ginger whinger has had his show extended !!!!!!!! |
Sorry - 15 hours. It just seems like more because he's difficult to avoid in the mornings! |
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undiscovered
Joined: 15 Sep 2010 Posts: 650 Location: Peterborough
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Colin it sounds so much worse when you tote his hours up
If R2 were brave with it's daytime schedule then we could see the type of shows mentioned Scot, but the only time a show changes is when someone retires, Wogan for Evans (yes I know) and before that Young for Vine, didn't really change that much, although that show is sort of ok, a bit tabloid but it's the bbc it can't stick it's neck out without either side getting irrate. _________________ You will hear gospel and rhythm and blues and jazz, all those are just labels, we know that music is music. |
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ruddlescat
Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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I'd love to see a decent 70s show rather than what we have now and I think there should be a show devoted to 80s music but not anything more recent as later tracks can be accommodated in other specialist shows and the normal daily schedule
I would strongly oppose any move to axe alter or water down SOTS because as Colin says it is the decade which changed musical trends and paved the way for much that followed
Also having SOTS at Saturday breakfast time sets Radio 2 apart from all of its competitors which should give it a clear advantage I think _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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becky sharp
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Tight Scot wrote: | Isnt it about time that SOTs permanent Sat slot was shared between Sounds of the seventies, sounds of the eighties and sounds of the nineties.
How about one week to each on a rolling basis
After all there is more to music than just the sixties and BMs obsession with the beatles.
Now ducking behind parapet..... | In a word...no..(welcome to the board by the way ) it's one of the most popular programmes on Radio 2, I believe, so why would it be changed....apologies if that sounds selfish...
This thread has reminded me of an article I read this week in The Guardian by Elisabeth Mahoney
Radio review: Sounds of the 60s
Brian Matthew's voice is as comforting as a toasty cardigan, but he still surprises, even at the age of 82
Brian Matthew's encyclopedic knowledge even extends to garage punk.
Sounds of the 60s (Radio 2, Saturday) is in its 20th year, and for most programmes that would be a pretty stonking statistic. But the show's longevity is firmly put in the shade by that of its presenter, Brian Matthew. The 82-year-old has been presenting music radio for long enough that the tracks he once played as a startling new sound have now settled quite comfortably into middle age.
The show is a nostalgic offering, and one that is utterly reliable: you can listen after a mammoth break, and the key elements are guaranteed to be the same. Records are still "discs"; Matthew's voice is still as comforting as a roomy, toasty cardigan, and the focus is squarely on the story of each disc played. When Matthew refers to something beyond the perky, bright world of the concise 60s tracks he plays, it's quite a jolt. When he suggested that one band had "rather the style of garage punkers", I nearly dropped my slice of toast.
There is joy to be had in the exhaustive, rare detail here ("the recording was made in four takes"). Matthew patiently explained the career trajectory of songwriter Geoff Goddard, who also worked as a singer under the names Anton Hollywood and Percy Evanston. You sense he was targeting rather different markets with those aliases..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/nov/22/radio-review-sounds-of-the-60s |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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"Sounds of The Sixties" is actually actually older than the article above suggests. I remember it in the early 80s when it was presented by Simon Dee and produced at BBC Bristol's Whiteladies Road studios. It was short-lived in that form though, and resurrected some time later with Brian Mathew at the helm. |
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ruddlescat
Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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Colin I seem to recall the show being presented by Keith Fordyce around the late 80s or am I imagining that _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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ruddlescat wrote: | Colin I seem to recall the show being presented by Keith Fordyce around the late 80s or am I imagining that |
That's very possible because Simon Dee was renowned for being a grumpy, bitter old sod and that's why he didn't do SOTS for more than two series (of about 13 editions, I recall). He was hated at BBC Bristol (I know people who worked there at the time). So he left and slumped back into obscurity in north Wales.
I didn't ever hear SOTS after that because I never really listened to R2 (it was R1 and Capital for me), but Brian Mathews' SOTS was what first introduced me to R2. It must be an age thing!!! |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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Colin, Ruddles
I think Keith Fordyce started it I'm guessing 82/83 because I'm sure I heard it at my Mum's house before we moved down here. I've bits from a Simon Dee show made I think in 88, but I've edited most of him out. I wish I'd left some now but it was before the days of minidiscs which made life easy.
It goes without saying I much prefer the Sounds of the Sixties and it deserves the longer spot. Reasons have been given which I won't add to but it wasn't just because of the Beatles.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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JQW
Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Posts: 9
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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Why must music be packaged up into decade sized blocks, anyway?
It's not as if everything suddenly changed as soon as the clocks struck midnight on the 31st of December 1969, is it? (Someone is bound to argue that that was precisely when Jimi Hendrix unveiled his Band Of Gypsies for the first time!) |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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Helen May wrote: | I think Keith Fordyce started it I'm guessing 82/83 because I'm sure I heard it at my Mum's house before we moved down here. I've bits from a Simon Dee show made I think in 88, but I've edited most of him out. I wish I'd left some now but it was before the days of minidiscs which made life easy |
I'm not so sure about your dates, Helen. We've lived at our current address since 1982 but I'm positive Simon Dee was doing his SOTS from Bristol when we were at our old place (I have a mental image of listening then, if that makes sense!).
But I could be wrong......
I'm going to do some research.
STOP PRESS:
Helen, you're right. Dammit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_of_the_60s |
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ruddlescat
Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Colin I have some friends who used to run a hotel in Ilfracombe North Devon and I remember going there shortly after they opened in 1986 and they would have Radio 2 on at breakfast and I'm sure I remember hearing Keith Fordyce on the show
In those days I was still listening to Radio 1 so I didn't pay too much attention but thinking about it now that's where I first heard SOTS and perhaps the dye was cast _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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JQW wrote: | Why must music be packaged up into decade sized blocks, anyway?
It's not as if everything suddenly changed as soon as the clocks struck midnight on the 31st of December 1969, is it? (Someone is bound to argue that that was precisely when Jimi Hendrix unveiled his Band Of Gypsies for the first time!) |
No, but as far as the 60s is concerned it can almost be summarised thus. I recall that, come 1969, the "spirit" of the 60s was dying, the Beatles had fallen apart and chart music was becoming more bland (although the bands that played the circuit were becoming more numerous and getting better) and watching Top of The Pops was definitely not the done thing if you were hip & cool like wot I wuz*.
Flip back to the beginning of the 60s and the Beatles were just starting to break through and things were hotting up.
Perhaps the 60s was an exceptional decade after all!
*I'm not any more, I don't think. |
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iwarburton
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Can only endorse what Ruddlescat and the Guardian article have said.
Hands off SOTS!!
Ian. |
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Tight Scot
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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iwarburton wrote: |
Hands off SOTS!!
Ian. |
Why, Wogan got replaced with CE |
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undiscovered
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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In their defense, scot Wogan was always leaving it was just who were they going to replace him with.
Bad choice but it was always going to be a difficult one he'd been on there so long _________________ You will hear gospel and rhythm and blues and jazz, all those are just labels, we know that music is music. |
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SantaFefan
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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"Sounds of the 90s"???
well, I suppose they could just about throw together a 10 minute show once a month for that maybe..
Now the 80s would make a good show and, a decent 70s show as I'm sad to say what I've heard of JW's show isn't very good...
Colin, I have to disagree about watching Top of the Pops.. I considered myself pretty cool back then but as it was in the privacy of your own home, TotP's was essential viewing for lots of reasons DeeDee for one...
Excerpts from the shows during the 70s or 80s were lively, bright and FUN.. something most younger people and the Radio2 playlist seem to have forgot about today but slowly the established presenters were replaced by bland, shouty rejects and I lost interest. ( now that sounds familiar )
I was thinking about this the other day and what a shame it is the show was cancelled. In latter years, I didn't like most of the c..rap music aired but there were still gems and enjoyable, fun acts to watch. Duffy for instance.. I'd love to see her videos on TV more often.
Bring back Pan's People! and DeeDee.. _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
I have heard how radio should be. |
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ruddlescat
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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I think Pans People might be a little past their sell by date by now
I'd rather remember them as how they were in the late 60s and the effect they had on us teenage lads at that time
Absolutely agree about Duffy though I'd like to see a lot more of her _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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mark occomore
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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I'm surprised Radio 2 havn't copied what Absoulte are doing - Absoulte 80's & 90's shows? |
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Mark Mayhew
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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Bring back Pan's People-are you serious!.
They must all be retired by now. |
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nod
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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mark occomore wrote: | I'm surprised Radio 2 havn't copied what Absoulte are doing - Absoulte 80's & 90's shows? |
They are employing a lot of the 80/90s R1 DJs isn't that enough ? |
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