online radio

i listened to mainly 3 radio stations before nme radio came online back in june – and the 3 of them all pissed me off one way or another at certain times. since i listen to radio all day and i’m selfish in my listening preferences, radio for me basically can’t be playlist driven – hearing the same bloody 5 songs every other hour drives me up the wall

as nme radio has been so good for the past 6 months i’ve decided next week after the xmas and new year period is over i’m going to listen all day to a different station each day for a week – to get some perspective

radio 1, xfm, virgin (or now as it is known absolute – as in the vodka – talk about sell out), planet rock, indie 103.1 (santa monica – steve jones does the lunchtime show), 102.1 the edge (out of toronto), radio 2 and if i can bring myself to it capital… dont know how long i’ll last with capital though

satellite party

i just wrote a huge long post and then forgot that the window had been used by google, so when i went back to the google window and clicked on a link it trashed my wordpress post

(pissed off about milan game, cheered by the weekend and am looking forward to weds night… and have been ridiculous busy with the google maps for the site – its getting silly – hopefully by the end of the week we’ll have mapped everything on the island)

anyway, just discovered satellite party – a big fan of farrell – the tracks he’s played on indie 102.1 the edge tonight have sounded really good

the edge 102.1 & why i hate most commercial radio

ive got a bit fed up with the edge now – its all very well listening to commercial radio for say an hour or so at a time but if you listen for more than that you come up against the biggest problem commercial radio has – automated playlisting

this is why, for example, you’d have heard the same 2 chilli pepper songs over the course of last week – snow hey ho & californication, even though they have a huge back catalogue – unless the dj is picking his music you end up with the same stuff over and over again

i looked at the last 12 hours of the edge the other day (they have it online) saved it and sorted it by artist, there were at least 6-7 artists that all had at least 3 plays and were always the same standard tracks

i love listening to radio stations that happen to broadcast online as its like being there in that town but i’m seriously sick of hearing the same songs over and over again

i have to decided to try 1 station for 2 days at a time – but if i hear the same “standard” song twice in the same day ie old tracks by the clash, nirvana, rhcp, metallica etc or if they play coldplay yellow or ill scarlet at all then they are history – if you cant have the imagination to pick different tracks from bands who have huge back catalogues then there is something wrong

today step up 99.3 the fox from vancouver, canada

josie dye 420 nooner request show today

sorry, much as i love the edge, todays nooner request show was the worst pile of commercial crap

Hostage Life – This Song Was Written By Committee
Weezer – Hash Pipe
Arcade Fire – Wake Up
Sublime – What I Got
311 – Amber
IllScarlett – One-A
Cypress Hill – Insane In The Brain/Loco En El Coco
Nine Inch Nails – The Perfect Drug
Salads – Get Loose
Ben Harper – Burn One Down
Placebo – Pure Morning

for those of you who dont know the nooner is josie’s daily request hour – todays was themed as music you’d smoke weed to

jees… do the above tracks make any sense whatsoever? – half of them have been on heavy rotation on the edge playlist over the past 3 months – 2 get played at least 4/5 times a day at the moment anyway

i dont believe that only 11 people emailed or rang in (i sent in dodgy – grassman)

disappointed – i do like the dean blundell show but the rest just seem to rely on a strict playlist, with no imagination – i dont think its much of a surprise that more and more recently i’ve tend to switch off the edge and play my own random playlists once deans show has ended

alan cross – sort it out – its getting stale

second life, beckham, the office, iphone

bloody electricity – i thought i’d be smart and open up a note pad for an hour and copy and paste stuff into it which i’d later put into this ere blog – great idea except when the circuit my pc is on trips and i havent saved it.. pillock
anyway, i’ll try and remember what i’d put

David Beckham insists his move to LA Galaxy is not financially driven. yeah right… his options are either seria a footy or spurs or the arse – neither of which are going to up his salary, plus he goes back to all the media rubbish. so whats his other option? oh yeah 30 million quid a year for 5 years in los angeles and an adoring press – i bet his wife loved the idea of moving to l.a. who’s he trying to kid ?

looking forward to a new office and 30 rock later

ive been looking out for smokin aces on torrents since it looks like just the sort of film i’d like (which reminds me i saw the trailer for oceans 13 yesterday – now that looks good – hope its more like the first than the second one), anway johnny ming posted on bloghud about a new event on nbc island – that got me so i wandered over to virtualnbc.com and found this: “win your share of L$1m by becoming second lifes ultimate assassin” – “Beginning January 12th, players can join Smokin’ Aces: Second Life® Assassin by visiting the Nomad Hotel in Second Life® to pick up game instructions, a hitlist, and weaponry. Think you can smoke Buddy “Aces” Israel? First, you gotta rub out the competition.“.

sounds cool – of course it will mean another half a million signups….

i have no opinion on the new apple iphone – i hate mobile phones – maybe when i’m rich i’ll get one of those swish smart & sleek 400quid phones that makes your tea for you and rave about it and wonder how i possibly managed before with just a silly little phone that can text, has an alarm (for timing when the poker blinds should go up) and a calculator – until then, no thanks…

i have a hangover for the first time in ages – and a cold – i think they are related..

oh jesus – i listen to 102.1 the edge religously cos the dean blundell show is er brilliant – its a toronto radio station that also broadcasts on the net – their sports report has just mentioned beckham going to la galaxy – normally the only thing they mention are the local hockey results…