Rhythm sense

slim jenkins

slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
Mr. Tea said:
Pffft, I grew up in a Radio 4-listening house, and even I know to dance to the bass. Trying to keep up with the d in d'n'b is only going to make you look like an epileptic.
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Some of them did - not that I minded as long as they were dancing.

I grew up in a Radio 2-listening house...Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart's Sat morning show still profoundly influences my musical brain...'I heard a mouse - where? - there on the stair etc'...;).

Later I found an outlet for my physical sense of rhythm dancing to reggae and Motown. We all danced. Perhaps the youths of Radio 4 households were studying for school.

My goal in life was to own a two-tone suit...:slanted:
 
slim jenkins

slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
Or listening to their older brother's copy of 'Yes' whilst he was out smoking dope with his grubby Marxist friends...:slanted::D
 
slim jenkins

slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
Of course! Don't you know your socio-cultural history, man? Proles like me grew up with Radio 2, then Radio 1...and never listened to 3 or 4. The posh kids grew up with 4, then 1...and they all listened to Prog whilst we danced to Motown Chartbusters and Tighten Up albums and...er...went to discos, got into fights, loved Rod Stewart, hated school...and they loved school, made Pink Floyd millionaires and became doctors or accountants whilst we became electricians or butchers and voted Labour whilst they may have done too until they became more radical whilst we all hated Thatcher except the prole traitors who she blackmailed by selling them their council homes and...er...so on...;)
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
slim jenkins said:
Of course! Don't you know your socio-cultural history, man? Proles like me grew up with Radio 2, then Radio 1...and never listened to 3 or 4. The posh kids grew up with 4, then 1...and they all listened to Prog whilst we danced to Motown Chartbusters and Tighten Up albums and...er...went to discos, got into fights, loved Rod Stewart, hated school...and they loved school, made Pink Floyd millionaires and became doctors or accountants whilst we became electricians or butchers and voted Labour whilst they may have done too until they became more radical whilst we all hated Thatcher except the prole traitors who she blackmailed by selling them their council homes and...er...so on...;)
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Ahh OK, that's more or less what I thought.
 
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they have the only decent jazz shows on radio, good music docs and uninterrupted, not overtly watered down coverage of classical music, and their late night programming used to be a goldmine of interesting fringe stuff from electronic music to bizarre strains of cult-y folk stuff..

I might be hopelessly out of date now that digital's come in but I never got to grips with digital radio really, mainly because the internet had already been doing the kind of thing all the "niche" stations aspire to do for years by the time our family got one
 
slim jenkins

slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
I was going to get a digital radio but recently read an article saying how rubbish they were. As for 3, like 4, it's a blessed relief from all the other nonsense clogging the air, including the pirates that shout at me as I turn the dial looking for 'live' football or whatever. And talk shows featuring bufoons hanging themselves in public between being bullied by arrogant hosts, from what I've heard.
 
Slothrop

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
Radio 3 is great.

I think part of the reason it's good might be that as a bastion of old fashioned cultural absolutist High Culture they've managed to avoid getting into ratings obsessed demographic chasing that seems to have screwed up most BBC Radio - they're still able to say "maybe more people would listen to a programme of five minute excerpts from cheapo Mozart CDs and Karl Jenkins pieces, but we're going to have the Vienna Phil playing Turangalila in its entirety because it's Better," whereas R1 (for instance) have to worry about whether having decent heavyweight specialist coverage would alienate casual listeners...
 
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