Cliff and a million other worth while artist! Radio playlist are all made up by records label gimps, agents and radio pluggers representing artist who have the money behind them. It's about what THEY want you to hear, not what YOU want to hear.

I can't stand cliff richard, but i do agree with his point. I stopped listening to Radio 1 because it never ever played new songs by older artists. It really annoyed me. Looking back at Radio 1 playlists from 10 years ago they had no problem playing tracks from the likes of Pet Shop Boys/Texas/Other 'Grown Up' artists. Now they only ever play c**p which then gets overhyped which gives us a $h!tty top 40. :(

 

Radio 2 are getting as bad aswell. Either an song gets too overplayed, or doesn't get played at all :mellow: it's a shame. A band which springs to mind now is Garbage. I can only recall their latest single being played once on the radio back last year (it then peaked at #50 :cry: )

 

Mind you i suppose Madonna isn't doing too badly...

 

think mostly its down to the usual music-snobbery and pretentiousness.

 

and also commercial radio/the hits (and i include bbc's daytime hit 40 and ac formats in here) are narrowcasting and have got a certain reach to contain - so they will try and play the same 20 records over and over again (+ adding a few cool newbies that are hyped in the nme now and again) and so those older artists will miss out as the slots have been taken up with whatever - however good the record may or not be by the older artist - because obv they are not as sexy as a dance video from ministry of sound that has cleavage in it - which would hold its reach better - and not have people clicking over to beauty and the geek/page three teens!!!.

 

also for example Chris Difford & Boo Hewerdine Come On Down song on the word sampler is very catchy and one of those records that you can hear once and you end up singing - but i doubt would get anywhere if it wasnt released by the new alphabeat...

 

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or Preston from the Ordinary Boys...three years ago :lol:

 

as its obv that Tony Hancock of Difford is not a good look - but would a new Squeeze album work? or be too late after the reunion and too overshadowed by Crowded House???

 

its hard to say if these older artists are 'redundant' - as if they are usless how come a lot of these artists end up in production - witness the continued success of Eg White with his blue-eyed-soul hits for Joss Stone, Duffy, Sam Sparro, Will Young, Adele etc etc and compare it to his non-hits in Brother Beyond, Eg and Alice and solo :lol:

 

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and as far as indie-ville is concerned it seems apart from a few conservative choices (Oasis, Coldplay, Manics) in the indie-land so much is about discovering the next big thing and discarding the last big thing -

 

but on the other hand Madonna has been put on an iconic plateau so different rules apply here as a record by her is like an event.

 

 

And a Cliff Richard Greatest Hits must be a barrel of laughs - a blank disc, no?

 

actually my dad was playing my mum's cliff Greatest Hits album today - and actually some of the stuff is not as horridly MOR vomit like as you would expect - but obv this is very early cliff records before he became christianly horridly MOR vomit like...doing some stuff that could easily be covered by Vincent Vincent and the Villians and be quite cool. A song like In the Country could easily be classed as being a jangly indie-pop record (and actually looking at the hit singles book it was by the farmers boys!!! bet it doesnt sound much different to the cliff version - think The Higsons - Music To Watch Girls By would be the same kinda idea )

Cliff and a million other worth while artist! Radio playlist are all made up by records label gimps, agents and radio pluggers representing artist who have the money behind them. It's about what THEY want you to hear, not what YOU want to hear.

 

I agree with most of that, especially the bid I boldened (the buggers on Radio 1 have snubbed the likes of Siouxsie, Nick Cave, Depeche Mode, and recently Portishead, for which I frankly would love to "machine gun" the lot of them...) Where I totally disagree is where you attempt to imply that Cliff Richard is a "worthwhile" artist, you just lost me there mate..... :P :lol:

 

Cliff and a million other worth while artist! Radio playlist are all made up by records label gimps, agents and radio pluggers representing artist who have the money behind them. It's about what THEY want you to hear, not what YOU want to hear.

 

I agree with most of that, especially the bid I boldened (the buggers on Radio 1 have snubbed the likes of Siouxsie, Nick Cave, Depeche Mode, and recently Portishead, for which I frankly would love to "machine gun" the lot of them...)

 

and also i guess its a bit where radio playlists are conserned quite cylindrical as well - pluggers/agents really only bothered in plugging/promoing certain 'mainstreem' product (but obv product not too mainstreem to seem uncool) that will be keep the auds tuned in to keep the advertisers happy - and then in market research these records will be marked highly by auds who have heard them so many times that the tunes has become imbeded in and so pluggers/agents will try and put across the same kinda stuff - and this would go on and on without any change if it wasnt for the conflicting notions of cool and the new act hype coming from the scenester journos that will change the ideas of pop as time goes on.