They’re great!

It’s called punk in terms of the way they sing. It was pretty influential back in the day in the development of the sounds post 1970s.

I’m not sure they are being pushed by the industry - I heard them on R1s evening shows this time last year and their album came out in July. Maybe they are being pushed following this with the Sound Of etc but this is also their 2/3rd album.

Can we cancel the industry push for Royel Otis and give more of that to Geese instead pls x

2 hours ago, Steve201 said:

They’re great!

It’s called punk in terms of the way they sing. It was pretty influential back in the day in the development of the sounds post 1970s.

I’m not sure they are being pushed by the industry - I heard them on R1s evening shows this time last year and their album came out in July. Maybe they are being pushed following this with the Sound Of etc but this is also their 2/3rd album.

I like them, but in fairness Geese do seem to be getting a huge industry push in America right now - and some of that has translated over here.

It wouldn’t work if people didn’t like the music though!

3 minutes ago, WhoOdyssey said:

I like them, but in fairness Geese do seem to be getting a huge industry push in America right now - and some of that has translated over here.

It wouldn’t work if people didn’t like the music though!

True, I didn’t feel they were pushed too much before the Sound of nomination but maybe I was oblivious to it lol, as you say the music has to be good. Jack played a song from their last album ‘Crusades’ when interviewing Joe Kerry a couple of weeks ago and it sounded fantastic!

On 30/01/2026 at 12:30, 777666jason said:

To whomever argued with me how its done wasn't a single 🤭 does seem a bit odd only now though when its about to fall out

My only regret is that it's not What It Sounds Like.

Otherwise they can keep 'em coming!

How It's Done is sounding huge on earphones I must say.

Great production, sounds like it cost £256 million!

I have seen the film many, many times - not necessarily out of choice but there are much worse things that get on the household telly!

Edited Saturday at 16:292 days by HiyaLuv!

Retro 2001:

A-List

Eminem feat. Dido - "Stan"

Jennifer Lopez - "Love Don't Cost A Thing"

All Saints - "All Hooked Up"

Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra - "Touch Me"

Feeder - "Buck Rogers"

Mis-Teeq - "Why?"

David Morales pres. The Face - "Needin' U"

Ash - "Shining Light"

Dr Dre feat. Eminem - "Forget About Dre"

Fragma feat. Maria Rubia - "Everytime You Need Me"

Hatiras - "Spaced Invader"

Limp Bizkit - "Rollin'"

Planet Funk - "Chase The Sun"

Usher - "Pop Ya Collar"
JJ72 - "Snow"

Mos Def feat. Pharaohe Monch & Nate Dogg - "Oh No"

Mya - "Case Of The Ex"

Outkast - "Ms Jackson"

Dido - "Here With Me"

B-List

Texas - "Inner Smile"

Spooks - "Things I've Seen"

P!nk - "You Make Me Sick"

Safri Duo - "Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)"

Amira - "My Desire"
Mark B & Blade - "The Unknown"

Dario G - "Dream To Me"

Genius Cru - "Boom Selection"

Jakatta - "American Dream"

Linkin Park - "One Step Closer"

Emiliana Torrini - "To Be Free"

U2 - "Stuck In A Momemnt You Can't Get Out Of"

Nelly - "EI"

Papa Roach - "Last Resort"

Santos - "Camels"

Angelic - "Can't Keep Me Silent"

My Vitriol - "Always"

Joe feat. Mystikal - "Stutter"

C-List

Granddaddy - "The Crystal Lake"

Lowgold - "Mercury"

Mansun - "Fool"

Dane Bowers - "Shut Up And Forget About It"

Cleptomaniacs feat. Brian Chambers - "All I Do"

Soulwax - "Conversation Intercom"

Ja Rule feat. Christina Milian - "Between Me And You"

Starsailor - "Fever"

*Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood (Ed Case remix)"

*King Adora - "Suffocate"

*Samantha Mumba - "Always Come Back To Your Love"

*Mario Piu pres. DJ Arabesque - "The Vision"

*Shaggy - "It Wasn't Me"

I remember that Fragma and Maria Rubia song on the radio at the time. Nostalgic and a bit twee. I also remember the much cooler 'Ms Jackson' on the radio too!

Dario G's cover of 'Dream To Me' was like an early 'Opera Song (Brave New World)'. The phase in popularity of operatic trance didn't last very long in chart terms sadly!

Rui da Silva, Planet Funk and Jakatta have very good dance tracks too!

As a child I was obsessed by the holiday sunny video and sound of 'Love Don't Cost A Thing'.

And some on here dislike the U2 song but I think its good and nostalgic.

Edited Saturday at 20:422 days by TheSnake

4 hours ago, Sempachorra said:

Retro 2001:

A-List

Eminem feat. Dido - "Stan"

Jennifer Lopez - "Love Don't Cost A Thing"

All Saints - "All Hooked Up"

Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra - "Touch Me"

Feeder - "Buck Rogers"

Mis-Teeq - "Why?"

David Morales pres. The Face - "Needin' U"

Ash - "Shining Light"

Dr Dre feat. Eminem - "Forget About Dre"

Fragma feat. Maria Rubia - "Everytime You Need Me"

Hatiras - "Spaced Invader"

Limp Bizkit - "Rollin'"

Planet Funk - "Chase The Sun"

Usher - "Pop Ya Collar"
JJ72 - "Snow"

Mos Def feat. Pharaohe Monch & Nate Dogg - "Oh No"

Mya - "Case Of The Ex"

Outkast - "Ms Jackson"

Dido - "Here With Me"

B-List

Texas - "Inner Smile"

Spooks - "Things I've Seen"

P!nk - "You Make Me Sick"

Safri Duo - "Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)"

Amira - "My Desire"
Mark B & Blade - "The Unknown"

Dario G - "Dream To Me"

Genius Cru - "Boom Selection"

Jakatta - "American Dream"

Linkin Park - "One Step Closer"

Emiliana Torrini - "To Be Free"

U2 - "Stuck In A Momemnt You Can't Get Out Of"

Nelly - "EI"

Papa Roach - "Last Resort"

Santos - "Camels"

Angelic - "Can't Keep Me Silent"

My Vitriol - "Always"

Joe feat. Mystikal - "Stutter"

C-List

Granddaddy - "The Crystal Lake"

Lowgold - "Mercury"

Mansun - "Fool"

Dane Bowers - "Shut Up And Forget About It"

Cleptomaniacs feat. Brian Chambers - "All I Do"

Soulwax - "Conversation Intercom"

Ja Rule feat. Christina Milian - "Between Me And You"

Starsailor - "Fever"

*Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood (Ed Case remix)"

*King Adora - "Suffocate"

*Samantha Mumba - "Always Come Back To Your Love"

*Mario Piu pres. DJ Arabesque - "The Vision"

*Shaggy - "It Wasn't Me"

i love how i know a good portion of these and was nearly a whole decade from being born!

‘Case Of The Ex’ is a TUNE

Huge playlists in those days!

Eminem feat. Dido - "Stan"

All Saints - "All Hooked Up"

Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra - "Touch Me"

Feeder - "Buck Rogers"

Mis-Teeq - "Why?"

David Morales pres. The Face - "Needin' U"

Ash - "Shining Light"

Dr Dre feat. Eminem - "Forget About Dre"

Fragma feat. Maria Rubia - "Everytime You Need Me"

Limp Bizkit - "Rollin'"

Planet Funk - "Chase The Sun"

Usher - "Pop Ya Collar"
Mos Def feat. Pharaohe Monch & Nate Dogg - "Oh No"

Mya - "Case Of The Ex"

Outkast - "Ms Jackson"

Spooks - "Things I've Seen"

P!nk - "You Make Me Sick"

Safri Duo - "Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)"

Jakatta - "American Dream"

Linkin Park - "One Step Closer"

Nelly - "EI"

Papa Roach - "Last Resort"

My Vitriol - "Always"

Granddaddy - "The Crystal Lake"

Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood (Ed Case remix)"

King Adora - "Suffocate"

Samantha Mumba - "Always Come Back To Your Love"

Shaggy - "It Wasn't Me"

All on my NotNow 48 playlist I listen to today.

I remember them playing Oh No loads, shame it only got to #24, it's great.

They LOVED the Ed Case remix of Clint Eastwood!

Edited Sunday at 16:321 day by HiyaLuv!

I bought way too many of those on single (eight)! I presume Radio 1 snubbed It’s The Way You Make Me Feel by Steps or had chucked it off already? They used to be very snobby with Steps.

2 hours ago, gooddelta said:

I bought way too many of those on single (eight)! I presume Radio 1 snubbed It’s The Way You Make Me Feel by Steps or had chucked it off already? They used to be very snobby with Steps.

I checked the playlist every week from mid-2000 (shortly after 'Deeper Shade Of Blue') to 2002, and don't remember anything by Steps being playlisted in that time.

They normally C Listed pop artists like that - always remember Westlife being C Listed with a fair few singles!

On 30/01/2026 at 09:49, WhoOdyssey said:

Geezer is a duo made up of Dominic Fike & Kevin Abstract - a great song but quite a random add as it released in July.

Kevin Abstract is on tonight's Chill Zone so probably added in light of that.

9 minutes ago, Steve201 said:

They normally C Listed pop artists like that - always remember Westlife being C Listed with a fair few singles!

They couldn't really ignore Westlife as those songs were nearly all #1s! ITWYMMF may have been C-list but fairly sure nothing of theirs after that was. They didn't playlist anything by the Backstreet Boys in that time either, I think 'Show Me The Meaning...' was the last.

It’s an interesting choice to make considering the playlist was so huge and differing in terms of genres back then. I blame Britpop 😅

Yeah I remember a lot of those big pop acts relied on basically everything but Radio 1 (Top of the Pops, CD:UK, Smash Hits magazine, The Box etc etc), but R1 were not keen.

I don't see any reason why It's The Way You Make Me Feel shouldn't have at least been on the C-List, it's just snobbery to leave it off, it was a great pop single.

Certainly it was better than that awful Dane Bowers single they C-listed, so clearly they were judging on artist and not song when it came to pop 🤣

I remember reading before on here that most of the Clubland style dance releases and Eurodance were left off the Radio 1 playlist too from 2002-4 as well.

Edited Sunday at 22:421 day by TheSnake

Tune of the Week

Dean McCullough: December 10 - Run My Way

Greg James: Noah Kahan - The Great Divide

Rickie, Melvin and Charlie: TBC

Matt and Mollie: Matilda Mann - Inventing

Katie / Lauren and Emil: Arlo Parks - 2SIDED

Mega Massive Monday throwing a spanner in the works on a lot of shows but it was RMC who missed playing theirs today completely.

21 hours ago, TheSnake said:

I remember reading before on here that most of the Clubland style dance releases and Eurodance were left off the Radio 1 playlist too from 2002-4 as well.

I remember they were ubtil they all of a sudden hit behind them from 2003/4 onwards.

Pumpin Jumpin was one of the more interesting modern dance tracks with the Rockwell/Beatfreakz style spooky synths so its a bit sad to see it go.