Shite on Radio a lot

[ChinaTom]

As I hop my way through the channels on the radio, I am hearing many DJ's choosing as their "record of the week" a song about one of these:

 

[scaryoldcortina]

Ok, I'm confused... I recognise the corolla, but fail on the "listen to the radio" bit...

[pogweasel]

Is it the sort of radio where they talk too loud, over the (same 3 repeated) records, and leave the traffic 'signal' on far too long?

[Pillock]

Aaah. I was thinking of this

 

[pogweasel]

This would work.

Not that the dickies get much airtime, sadly.

[ChinaTom]

Not really my choice of listening (Give me Harvey Andrews and "the otter song" any day), but channels for popular music are offering:

 

Poppin bottles in the ice, like a blizzard

When we drink we do it right gettin slizzard

Sippin sizzurp in my ride, like Three 6

Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6

Like a G6, Like a G6

Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6

 

Verse 1

 

Gimme that Mo-Moet

Gimme that Cry-Crystal

Ladies love my style, at my table gettin wild

Get them bottles poppin, we get that drip and that drop

Now give me 2 more bottles cuz you know it don’t stop

 

(808) Hell Yeaa

Drink it up, drink-drink it up,

When sober girls around me, they be actin like they drunk

They be actin like they drunk, actin-actin like they drunk

When sober girls around me actin-actin like they drunk

 

Hook

Poppin bottles in the ice, like a blizzard

When we drink we do it right gettin slizzard

Sippin sizzurp in my ride, like Three 6

Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6

Like a G6, Like a G6

Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6

 

Verse 2

 

Sippin on, sippin on sizz, Ima ma-make it fizz

Girl i keep it gangsta, poppin bottles at the crib

This is how we live, every single night

Take that bottle to the head, and let me see you fly

 

(808) Hell Yeaa

Drink it up, drink-drink it up,

When sober girls around me, they be actin like they drunk

They be actin like they drunk, actin-actin like they drunk

When sober girls around me actin-actin like they drunk

 

Hook

Poppin bottles in the ice, like a blizzard

When we drink we do it right gettin slizzard

Sippin sizzurp in my ride, like Three 6

Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6

Like a G6, Like a G6

Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6

 

Bridge

 

Its that 808 bump, make you put yo hands up

Make you put yo hands up, put yo, put yo hands up

(You can’t Touch this)

Its that 808 bump, make you put yo hands up

Make you put yo hands up, put yo, put yo hands up

(You can’t Touch this)

Hell Yeaaa, Make you put yo hands up, put yo put yo hands up

Hell Yeaaa, Make you put yo hands up, put yo put yo hands up

 

Hook

Poppin bottles in the ice, like a blizzard

When we drink we do it right gettin slizzard

Sippin sizzurp in my ride, like Three 6

Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6

Like a G6, Like a G6

Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6

 

by the Far East Movement apparently. Obviously like singing about their home-grown motors. I assume they are driving Starlets at the moment, and are dreaming about the dizzy heights of Corollas, and are not afraid to pop a cap in yo' futhermucking ass to get one.

[Pillock]

 

?!!?!WTF?!!?

[Guest]

Is it the sort of radio where they talk too loud, over the (same 3 repeated) records, and leave the traffic 'signal' on far too long?

 

*DIALTONE NOT FADED DOWN*

 

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'For Shite Car Insurance, speak to Adrian Flux on 0800 69696969.

Adrian Flux forget, Adrian Flux INFURIATE!'

[Pillock]

I love local radio for foot-in-mouth moments. My favourite, from this week, where they ring a random number from someone who visited their "roadshow" at the weekend. Bloke answers, obviously still in bed at 8.30am so the DJ is taking the mickey, asking why he doesn't have a real job etc etc.... "I was laid off from the Currys warehouse yesterday" says the man. Silence.

That's bad enough... but then the next advert they play? "We're now recruiting at the Currys Warehouse, call 0800-SHIT-JOB to find out more!"

 

Couldn't make it up. I was laughing my arse off.... sat in the Currys Warehouse where we have the innane drivel piped through 24 hours a day.

[Richard]

I used to think our local station was dire, until my wife started listening to Chris Evans/ Alan Partridge in the mornings.

[Guest]

I used to think our local station was dire, until my wife started listening to Chris Evans/ Alan Partridge in the mornings.

 

I'll be back on Uni radio soon enough. I'll let you all know the correct times in due course so you can ignore me.

[ChinaTom]

make sure you play the G6 song a lot. Fly the flag

[CreepingJesus]

Robin Galloway on Real Radio, is the most insincere, obnoxious cretin. I remember him from Northsound, when I lived up north, he was a cretin then; but his early morning prank calls on Real are just awful.

I threw a very nasty burger up his kilt, at the Union Terrace Garden new years' party in Aberdeen once. Maaaan I was drrrrunk. I'm unsure if he was a 'True Scot' or not, but I'll tell you this - he screamed and ran like a girl. It's probly the mental scarring from then, which makes him act the way he does. And I'll say this too - the burger was only flung in his general direction. The roll separated from the cat burger like the outer shell of a Cruise missile, leaving the cat burger to fly in a perfect arc, guided presumably by the very hand of God, straight up 'im.

Otherwise, if I'm retuning the radio once I'm south of the border, and I find 'Century FM'; I pass very quickly by. They are the very epitome of all that's wrong with commercial radio.

[Guest]

make sure you play the G6 song a lot. Fly the flag

 

I'm dedicating Void's 'Screaming At A Wall' to Eccentric_Richard.

[cms206]

Robin Galloway on Real Radio, is the most insincere, obnoxious cretin. I remember him from Northsound, when I lived up north, he was a cretin then; but his early morning prank calls on Real are just awful.

I threw a very nasty burger up his kilt, at the Union Terrace Garden new years' party in Aberdeen once. Maaaan I was drrrrunk. I'm unsure if he was a 'True Scot' or not, but I'll tell you this - he screamed and ran like a girl. It's probly the mental scarring from then, which makes him act the way he does. And I'll say this too - the burger was only flung in his general direction. The roll separated from the cat burger like the outer shell of a Cruise missile, leaving the cat burger to fly in a perfect arc, guided presumably by the very hand of God, straight up 'im.

Otherwise, if I'm retuning the radio once I'm south of the border, and I find 'Century FM'; I pass very quickly by. They are the very epitome of all that's wrong with commercial radio.

 

 

I don't understand the fella at all. He was a twat at Scot FM as well - now THAT was a station!

 

My breakfast radio listening history is largely local; going way, way back Derek Cooper (Coops and Kirsty) on the 96.3QFM breakfast show, then it turned to shit; Christian O'Connell on Virgin, then Kieren Elliot on 96.3 Rock Radio (a complete twat, apparantly, but I thought his spoof adverts were hysterical), now John & Sharon on the Smooth Breakfast Show. Saturday mornings it's Tony Blackburn on Smooth, Sunday Kieren O'Toole on Rock...

[Guest]

BRING BACK JAMES STANNAGE (to the airwaves).

[CreepingJesus]

Robin Galloway on Real Radio, is the most insincere, obnoxious cretin. I remember him from Northsound, when I lived up north, he was a cretin then; but his early morning prank calls on Real are just awful.

I threw a very nasty burger up his kilt, at the Union Terrace Garden new years' party in Aberdeen once. Maaaan I was drrrrunk. I'm unsure if he was a 'True Scot' or not, but I'll tell you this - he screamed and ran like a girl. It's probly the mental scarring from then, which makes him act the way he does. And I'll say this too - the burger was only flung in his general direction. The roll separated from the cat burger like the outer shell of a Cruise missile, leaving the cat burger to fly in a perfect arc, guided presumably by the very hand of God, straight up 'im.

Otherwise, if I'm retuning the radio once I'm south of the border, and I find 'Century FM'; I pass very quickly by. They are the very epitome of all that's wrong with commercial radio.

 

 

I don't understand the fella at all. He was a twat at Scot FM as well - now THAT was a station!

 

My breakfast radio listening history is largely local; going way, way back Derek Cooper (Coops and Kirsty) on the 96.3QFM breakfast show, then it turned to shit; Christian O'Connell on Virgin, then Kieren Elliot on 96.3 Rock Radio (a complete twat, apparantly, but I thought his spoof adverts were hysterical), now John & Sharon on the Smooth Breakfast Show. Saturday mornings it's Tony Blackburn on Smooth, Sunday Kieren O'Toole on Rock...

 

Aha, Scot FM; the predecessor of Real Radio, wasn't it? I liked Beat 106, until it got replaced by that monstrosity that is Galaxy. Rock Radio's good too, but the signal only gets as far as West Lothian (on a good day), so I mostly miss out.

[cms206]

Aha, Scot FM; the predecessor of Real Radio, wasn't it? I liked Beat 106, until it got replaced by that monstrosity that is Galaxy. Rock Radio's good too, but the signal only gets as far as West Lothian (on a good day), so I mostly miss out.

 

 

Scot FM was indeed the predecessor of Real, a station which I've never really been that keen on. Scottie McClue, Wee Fat Bob...

 

Beat 106 was good back in the day, XFM wasn't the same either and Galaxy is just tripe. In fairness, I think the only local stations which has improved following a takeover were Q96 into Rock and Saga into Smooth. Even the now-ceased L107 was better when it was The Edge.

 

Other than that, the one single station I cannot abide is Clyde 1. I don't mind Clyde 2, but Clyde 1 makes me want to rip the wireless out the dashboard, drive to the Clyde studios, and beat Suzie and Gina about the head and body with it. A complete load of gashgunge.

[Mat.T]

I've spent the week off work tinkering in the garage with the radio on; what the hell is a G6? also the song the samples the Doors is worse than the G6 song. Radio 1 gets worse and radio 2 is no better, digital Planet rock is stuck on repeat.

[CreepingJesus]

Actually, Clyde 2 is the soundtrack to God's Waiting Room. It seems to occupy a particularly dismal part of any radio dial. It was always slightly unreal, due to nothing much else being near its' frequency. Dunno about now, the only AM stations I use are Radio Scotland + 5. Even then, only for football and traffic.

I had a van years ago, whose radio wouldn't tune to anything but Clyde 1. And the tape deck was broke. Tightwad bosses wouldn't buy me a new radio, 'cos de facto there was nothing wrong with it. 'Clyde 1 rage', did lead me and a couple of mates to heckle that cuntbubble 'Boogie' out of Clatty Pat's in Great Western Rd, when he was just a cub. It wasn't fair, in retrospect, but it was fucking satisfying.

[scaryoldcortina]

OK, look. I'm with you up to a point...

 

I get that you can frequency modulate an audio signal over a carrier wave in the 88-108MHz band and then demodulate said signal on a variety of receiving equipment, but what the FUCK is a "Chris Evans"?

 

 

Actually, I don't want to know. I'll just listen to a 440hz signal tone instead.

[CreepingJesus]

It would be entirely appropriate to replace the real Chris Evans with a 1kHz sine wave, if you get my drift.

[scaryoldcortina]

It would be entirely appropriate to replace the real Chris Evans with a 1kHz sine wave, if you get my drift.

 

So a continuous high B then? sounds annoying.

[cms206]

I'd go as far as to say that I'd even happily listen to the buzzer on Volvo coaches when there are major overheating/air/impending doom issues going on. Nice high pitched MINGMINGMINGMINGMINGMINGMINGMING always soothes after a spell of listening to Chris Evans...

[CreepingJesus]

It would be entirely appropriate to replace the real Chris Evans with a 1kHz sine wave, if you get my drift.

 

So a continuous high B then? sounds annoying.

 

International standard for The Swear Bleep.

 

I'd go as far as to say that I'd even happily listen to the buzzer on Volvo coaches when there are major overheating/air/impending doom issues going on. Nice high pitched MINGMINGMINGMINGMINGMINGMINGMING always soothes after a spell of listening to Chris Evans...

 

Or the horrible buzzing noise that happens, when all the air's run away from the tanks of a Volvo truck.

[Pete-M]

I listen to Chris Evans on the way to work. Cheers me up. I used to listen to Wogan. Evans is as good, which is a feat if you're a fan of Wogan on radio.

 

en Bruce's Popmaster is something I have to do every morning. It's gone insanely hard lately.

 

Jeremy Vine plays Devil's Advocate rather well for a couple of hours. If I'm in a bad mood I'll flick around the dial for a while.

 

Local radio pisses me off. I hate adverts at the best of times, I don't want to drive to work with "Maincrest Car And Van Hire, 733 3201" trying to brainwash me into hiring a Transit. City FM is one of the better ones, as it happens. Their football coverage (Liverpool and Everton only, but that's all that matters anyway) is probably the best there is.

 

Back to Jeremy Vine for a while. See what's goin' on on the allotment.

 

Maybe a cd for a while.

 

Steve Wright is only any good if it's "Ask Elvis" and that's pretty rare now.

 

Simon Mayo is surprisingly excellent on the way home. I never thought I'd say that, but he's morphed into someone who can't resist a one liner and tends to make me laugh a lot more often than he ever managed before.

 

Radcliffe and Maconie are rapidly going off into a strange, obscure little world of their own. A Peelallel universe. Can be fun. I love "The Chain"

 

Mark Lamarr pulls some excellent old tunes out of the hat late on. Pretty exclusively '50s stuff, but there are some brilliant tunes I've never heard before.

 

Janice Long winds me up.

 

Richard Allinson can be superb. Plays proper versions of classic stuff at random times.

 

I listen to all this in whatever shite I'm driving, and by doing this I've managed to avoid this G6 song about a Corolla. Superb.

[Guest]

http://www.asiansoundradio.co.uk/

[pogweasel]

OMG CHRIS EVANS ARE / ARE NOT RUBBARSH. (delete as applicable)

Groundhog day again I see.

[M'coli]

Q96

Was that the (roughly) Paisley based station at 96.3 FM in the mid-90s? That wasn't bad, shame the signal didn't travel up the lochside towards Luss.

 

I did like 2-10FM when I stayed in Andover, but one plant I worked in ruled that we must listen to OceanFM - constant, 24 hour stream of pishy, happy, love songs, the next one sounds the same and has the same message as the last one.

 

I've never found a music radio station that I can leave on for any length of time, there's always something that I'll turn it off for. I find Radio 4 is good for me these days - I used to listen to 5 but it's got waaayyy too much sports-talk drivel on it now.

 

Other than that, the best thing on the radio is the power switch - so I can turn it off and not listen to anything.

[Vin]

Been off work this week. I've been in the garage working on the van, with 6Music for company. It's been lubberly