I agree with all that.

Radio 1 is totally shocking these days!

I like the presenters on radio 2 - but the music is too eclectic for my liking as I have massive dislikes of M Jackson / Dexys' / UB40 and the likes...

I love my metal, but most types of rock agree and there's plenty of pappy pop rock in the old collection, such as Glass Tiger, Cutting Crew, Mr Mister etc - just to slow the pace (and volume) down a little!

I can't listen to Radio 1 or 2 - Radio 1 is clearly not aimed at me any more and Radio 2 is a bit old farty. It's 6 Music every time for me, or 5 Live if I need something talky.

Thank the lord for the iPod though - mine streams directly to the car stereo, so it's possible to get rid of all DJ's and other distractions and just listen to my own music; I love that thing that happens when the iPod is on shuffle and it suddenly plays you a song that you forgot you had and remember that you loved - cue slighly mental singing in the car and strange looks from people at traffic lights.

That may have been the case but not now - sure you do get the odd what the hell was that track but it's generally OK. Also a lot of the presenters are pretty young, probably younger than you

Chris Evans (marmite I know), Simon Mayo, Jo Wiley, Dermott O'Leary are hardly in their zimmers. Yes david Jacobs and Tony Blackburn ore stiil about nut heck you can turn them off.

I can live with all them apart from Jeremy Vine - I'd rather listen to Galaxy and generally I'd chew my own arm off than to that

Vine is a legend, if it where not for him I may never have heard Hayseed Dixie so for that he gets the legend status.

I'm afraid that all of those people, with the possible exception of Jo Whiley, get on my wick - I think I like 6 Music because it has music snob credentials; presenters like Huey Morgan, Guy Garvey, Jarvis Cocker, Radcliffe & Maconie, Steve Lamacq etc all have musical credibility (in my opinion of course) and seem to genuinely love what they're playing.

I dunno - I guess I prefer radio to be about music; 1 & 2 seem to be rammed out with 'celebrities' who talk about themselves, TV, other celebrities and inane gossip and who only play records as an incidental thing, in between the talking.

I certainly get your point on that one - funny thing is if you listen to Tony Blackburns show he shows you how it should be done. I know he's a bit of a wally and his jokes are awfull but generally it goes 3 tracks in a row a quick punchy jingle and 30 seconds of harmless waffle then were off again - old school

I am a dad mate,`nuff said.



I have an ancient album called `Metal for muthas.`
Includes such delights as groups called,
Praying Mantis,
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Ethel The Frog,
Sledgehammer
Angelwitch.

I have one that boasts tracks from

Terraplane
Tygers of Pan Tang
Persian Risk
Girlschool
Spider...

Still do love it and still got this and The Stone Roses album in the car, Roses especially, still sounds unbelievably good and Made of Stone is still one of my favorite tracks of all time.

This is the one, just been learning it for guitar and it should be easy but it's not, hasn't been a better band than the roses for me since the days of the jam. The second coming was a let down but take away the 1st album and it stands up ok, Waterfall & Sugar spun sister have to be my top Roses toooons.

I do listen to Planet Rock but it often does my head in too.
When Alice Cooper says "Coming up after the break its Judas Priest" you just know it will be Breaking the Law, I also don't like the fact that the dj's play their own songs a lot.
There's not much else Rock wise tho'

I remember that Metal for Muthas album. Most of the bands on it never really made it.

Get yourself an internet radio squire - you'll be spoilt for choice.

sorry to act like an old f@rt,but are these radios[u that[/u good ? and how do they actually work and where don't they work ? excuse my ignorance mate.

Get some good iphone android apps with thousands and thousands of sttations from all over the world or just search on line in google.

The one I have at home is fantastic - connects to the wireless network and gets millions of stations; you can pick any music type you like and be spoilt for choice.

I also use WunderRadio on the iPhone which is great, but will sometimes drop signal.

I used to use wunder radio but now use tunein radio as you can record the feeds, good for recording games while at work

Thats a bit harsh mate,when you are a dad your kids will be calling your choice boring.
Having survived Slipknot,Prodigy etc,give me AC/DC anytime.

I am a Dad! I've got one rock kid and one pop princess - in fact, I'm enduring a night of Avril Lavigne at the MEN in September with the latter!



I was intentionally being a bit provocative - I suppose the point I'm making is that Planet Rock is not very adventurous; if you like Rock music, there's more out there than The Boys Are Back in Town, Since You've Been Gone and Stairway to Heaven, which seem to be on constant rotation.

By the way - I love AC/DC and the Prodigy; saw the Prodigy at Doncaster Dome in 1996 - it was bonkers.

the metal for muthas tour originally was headed up by iron maiden, and it played wakey unity hall, twice!! I know cos I was there!

A mate of mine was there too - he always claims to have got his jeans signed by Iron Maiden, then woke up the following morning to find that his Mum had collected them from the bedroom floor where he'd deposited them in a drunken haze, and chucked them in the washing machine; autographs gone!

True or not, it's a good story.

true story - a few years ago before our lad was old enough to drive he wanted to see Pleymo,a french nu-metal/rapcore band live in Toulouse - I drove him down and booked into a local hotel - we saw the concert which was ok and he managed to get some autographs etc.
Now,Toulouse is a pretty big city with hundreds of hotels - Bad news was that the band;girlfriends & roadies etc were in the same hotel in rooms either side of our own !!! I think they stopped partying at about 4 AM !!!

I was not amused,especially when they came down for breakfast at about 0830 looking fully refreshed and probably shagged out (literally - lucky gets!) and I was fighting to stay awake.......never again !

Sorry mate,no offence intended.


(Have you got to the "turn that row down" stage?)

None taken!

Yes - I like my own row, just not keen on theirs.