RIP Annie Nightingale

Sad news that Radio 1 Legend Annie Nightingale has died aged 83

https://news.sky.com/story/broadcast-ico...d-13046592

Very sad
loved her shows

RIP and condolences to all

Another that reminds us of the good old days both for Radio Dj's (no self important shock jocks), and certainly for the music scene!! For me also, cuts deep, like with so many recent 'farewells' as It reminds me of 'time' and the 'clock'

From the same era as John Peel, you always felt that they just played what they liked at that time. It was always about the music & not their own egos.

RIP

Annie

(12-01-2024 19:24 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  From the same era as John Peel, you always felt that they just played what they liked at that time. It was always about the music & not their own egos.

RIP

Annie

They probably had 'obligations' to showcase certain music/acts too, but I think you are right, now it seems that they adhere to a record company wish list almost exclusively! It should be said that, from my point of view, the Annie Nightingales, Noel Edmonds, Tony Blackburns etc of this world, had a much greater and deeper 'quality' pool to choose from compared to today (Maybe some notable exceptions - although none spring to mind)

You can get the weeks top UK 100 on youtube (at least I think it is the accurate up-to-date one) and I watched and listened recently just shaking my head in disbelief! Rick Beato is right, apparently nobody can write melodies, chord progressions, that allow a song to take a journey any more! They all sound the same! Too think that the 'Quo' were labelled (unfairly) - as 3 chord wonders

Taking a look at the list of the top 40 this week about half are prob i have heard via tik tok not the radio

Good to see the Killers Mr Brightside back in the top 40 as well as Sophie Ellis Bextor Murder on the dance floor

(12-01-2024 21:28 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Taking a look at the list of the top 40 this week about half are prob i have heard via tik tok not the radio

Good to see the Killers Mr Brightside back in the top 40 as well as Sophie Ellis Bextor Murder on the dance floor

You are joking?? How old is that now??

(12-01-2024 19:32 )hornball Wrote:  They probably had 'obligations' to showcase certain music/acts too, but I think you are right, now it seems that they adhere to a record company wish list almost exclusively!

I think that rather than the record companies, the driving force in mainstream radio is the aspirations of the producers. They have eschewed music (there's no shortage, thousands of new songs are released daily) in favour of features, chat and articles; their aim to progress their careers towards programmes of higher standing and of course higher pay.

(13-01-2024 11:36 )Chrisst Wrote:  

(12-01-2024 19:32 )hornball Wrote:  They probably had 'obligations' to showcase certain music/acts too, but I think you are right, now it seems that they adhere to a record company wish list almost exclusively!

I think that rather than the record companies, the driving force in mainstream radio is the aspirations of the producers. They have eschewed music (there's no shortage, thousands of new songs are released daily) in favour of features, chat and articles; their aim to progress their careers towards programmes of higher standing and of course higher pay.

If it keeps them occupied to the extent they stay away from auto tune and pitch correction (NOT the same thing) maybe not such a bad thing!

your assertion that there is no shortage of new 'music' with so much being released into what is now a saturated market place, may go some way to explaining the paucity of quality??

I have an interesting benchmark for determining the present from the 'good old days', I haven't done the work myself, although I suspect it is doable in some form, and it is this - I wonder if we took - say the 2 decades from 2000 to 2020, and 1980 to 2000 - and compared sales per chart position, what we might find?? By definition, the more artists and music available, then the percentage one to the other must have dropped, but my question is, does it point to the 'cream having to rise to the top' way back when, to get into the higher chart positions, with greater sales numbers required to reach the same chart position than is the case now??

(12-01-2024 22:51 )hornball Wrote:  

(12-01-2024 21:28 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Taking a look at the list of the top 40 this week about half are prob i have heard via tik tok not the radio

Good to see the Killers Mr Brightside back in the top 40 as well as Sophie Ellis Bextor Murder on the dance floor

You are joking?? How old is that now??

released Dec 2001

Been in that Saltburn film in a weird scene