Rant number 288
I'm sure I've mentioned it before - but I have started to listen to the radio whilst driving.
It gives me a bit of variety of music rather than listening to my iPod and sometimes the talking can be genuinely quite amusing.
I have recently discovered however that - despite my best efforts - I really don't fit into the age bracket of radio 1 any more(particularly since Nick - I have no talent and stupid hair - Grimshaw took over from Chris Moyles.) As such - I tend to listen to that only for Newsbeat - which is still a great news roundup of the day.
That being the case, I've now begun to listen to a combination of:
Real Radio - which has a really fun breakfast show (Dixie & Gail) including a daily quiz called 'Theme Tune' which is great fun. They play a combination of 80s music & modern music.
Radio 2 - which plays some good older music and has a certain appeal in this way. Rather liable to country and western & cheesy blues though.
Radio 4 - which is good for if the other two stations are annoying me. Has a great news broadcast with all the bias stripped out.
Although the advertising on Real is annoying - they probably get the majority of my ear time. They are however the most guilty of todays subject of irritation.
When people write songs they've got a message to put across. Mostly it's along the lines of 'I love you' or 'you don't love me' or 'I want to dance with you' etc etc - but there is some variety.
The messages that people are putting across however, are not always strictly radio friendly.
During the day particularly - they can't just put any old thing on the radio - any more than they can put any old thing on the TV. Some censoring does have to go on I suppose.
My irritation however, is that - when you only hear songs on the radio - you never get to find out what the missing lyrics are.
The current trend is to fade out the lyrics in that position - which really does just make you wonder. Sometimes in fact if the lyrics are far worse than they really are.
Pinks latest song for instance has been on the radio many times over the last couple of weeks. It features the lyrics 'I've had a shit day.' I'm sure they could have replaced these lyrics with something completely benign. By fading it out - you begin to wonder what she's really saying.
Why can't they rather than just editing it for radio - make another version with replacement lyrics. Surely that wouldn't be so hard. That way - I've had a **** day becomes, I've had a knaff day. Eould that be so tough? I'm pretty sure it would be worth spending the extra 10 minutes in the studio for!
That way I wouldn't be left wondering all the time! It's the wondering that bugs me!
Rant over.
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