Manx Radio

[Jarndyce]

5 minutes ago, HiVibes said:

it's a cultural wasteland

It’s only teenage wasteland…

[Declan]

41 minutes ago, HiVibes said:

Manx Radio operate a racial sub-conscious bias or perhaps its not so sub-concious.

Artists of colour are not represented on the playlist certainly no genres such as Reggae, Soul, Funk, Blues, Hip-Hop, Jungle nothing, not even Ray Charles gets an outing, it's a cultural wasteland.

Random hour today - 

https://www.manxradio.com/music/played/?date=2022-12-30&hour=11

 

Includes Aretha and Griff amongst the 11 songs. 

(But a dour dirge off of Rumours and Don't Stop Believing illustrate it is a cultural wasteland - although both are bizarrely popular with millennials)

Edited December 30, 2022 by Declan

[IOM]

58 minutes ago, HiVibes said:

Manx Radio operate a racial sub-conscious bias or perhaps its not so sub-concious.

Artists of colour are not represented on the playlist certainly no genres such as Reggae, Soul, Funk, Blues, Hip-Hop, Jungle nothing, not even Ray Charles gets an outing, it's a cultural wasteland.

I agree you make a good point it’s a shame there is not a broader selection of music . They have a soul show scheduled on Monday 2nd January but it would be great if it was a more regular feature. Likewise the other music genres you suggest . I don’t claim that Manx Radio gets it right all of the time there is always room for improvement. 

[GD4ELI]

19 minutes ago, IOM said:

I agree you make a good point it’s a shame there is not a broader selection of music . They have a soul show scheduled on Monday 2nd January but it would be great if it was a more regular feature. Likewise the other music genres you suggest . I don’t claim that Manx Radio gets it right all of the time there is always room for improvement. 

If it's Jazz you're after try JazzFM UK and JazzFM from Ontario.

[Stu Peters]

4 hours ago, Holte End said:

I once txt in and asked for One Ok Rock song , A japanese rock group. The stupidity of the presenter @Stu Peterswas to say " We don't play songs in foreign languages. and prefer to play well known groups.  he then went on to play some obscure north american shindig song that only he could call music. Someone else txt in to tell him the song had over 50 million views on youtube, I thought, thats a little advance for a Manx Radio presenters to understand.

Yes, I vaguely remember that. Happy days. How are One OK Rock doing, I’ve still never heard of them?

[0bserver]

WTF was going on between about 12 and 1? 

I had the misfortune to hear NPM and instead of the Moanin Line it was Wintio reading out a list of people who have died during the year. I imagine he was sat there wearing his grim reaper outfit. 

[HiVibes]

46 minutes ago, IOM said:

I agree you make a good point it’s a shame there is not a broader selection of music . They have a soul show scheduled on Monday 2nd January but it would be great if it was a more regular feature. Likewise the other music genres you suggest . I don’t claim that Manx Radio gets it right all of the time there is always room for improvement. 

It's a very Manx Radio response, that you need a 'specialist' show. This music is popular music, hip-hop is the most successful cultural movement of the last 40 years it is more mainstream than ever, but its black so it has to go in a specialist show, like a special section of the bus.

[forestboy]

10 minutes ago, 0bserver said:

WTF was going on between about 12 and 1? 

I had the misfortune to hear NPM and instead of the Moanin Line it was Wintio reading out a list of people who have died during the year. I imagine he was sat there wearing his grim reaper outfit. 

He’s such an unlikeable and crap presenter. Why MR still employ him baffles me  

 

[IOM]

40 minutes ago, HiVibes said:

It's a very Manx Radio response, that you need a 'specialist' show. This music is popular music, hip-hop is the most successful cultural movement of the last 40 years it is more mainstream than ever, but its black so it has to go in a specialist show, like a special section of the bus.

Sorry let me clarify I mean have a show specifically featuring soul music in addition to ensuring it is included in the standard playlist as with other music genres .  

[Happier diner]

2 hours ago, 0bserver said:

WTF was going on between about 12 and 1? 

I had the misfortune to hear NPM and instead of the Moanin Line it was Wintio reading out a list of people who have died during the year. I imagine he was sat there wearing his grim reaper outfit. 

Entertainment at its finest. 

[Omobono]

Its such a great pity that the Manin line gets shelved over the holidays  especially when there are so many people at home  who due to work  don't have the luxury of listening in weekdays between 12 -00   and 1-pm   also there a lot of students home for Christmas , 

So whats the point in promoting Manx Radio  as a community station  when  it appears to go into shutdown mode not only at Christmas but Easter as well ,  they  really  need to do something to justify the £1million subvention from  the taxpayer  and not the tosh they replace programmes like the Manin  line with , it must be one of the most popular shows on the radio 

[Asthehills]

1 hour ago, IOM said:

Sorry let me clarify I mean have a show specifically featuring soul music in addition to ensuring it is included in the standard playlist as with other music genres .  

Why?  If you want to hear soul music in 2022 you just use Spotify, deezer, Apple Music, Amazon music or YouTube music.

Why would you limit yourself to having to tune in at a set time?

[TheTeapot]

8 hours ago, Declan said:

I kind of perfered the Second Coming. The first lp was OK but to me it was like a lot of Indie lps of the time (Primal Scream's Sonic Flower Groove for example) but with more of a messianic rock star thing going on, which I'm not all than keen on. Preferred the singles between the two LPs, but I hadn't been waiting with baited breath for 5 years for the Second Coming so I could listen to it without expectation.

 

  

 

It was a bit of a wrong turn. But they were on a routine of - great album (Sonic Flower Groove), Ok LP (Primal Scream), Great Album (Screamedelica), OK LP (GOBDGU), Great Album (Vanishing Point / Echo Dek) for the first part of their career.  Before they settled down to being consistently good without being groundbreaking. That said the OK lps (at least the ones I've listed as OK, you may think different) are important in the bands development both draw heavily on their influences are a bit backward looking but they added to the band's pallet going forwards. 

 

 

I was a little young for the Stone Roses the first time round, Second Coming came out when I was 15 so it had a big impact. Some of Squires guitar on that album is incredible, notably Tears, and I quite like Ian Browns messianic thing, a man lacking in talent needs something.

 

Primal Scream have an incredible catalogue of work really when you think about it, very varied but always identifiably them, but those 3 albums with Mani in the band are something else. XTRMNTR is one of the most aggressive and downright unfriendly albums I've ever heard.

[Cinderella]

3 hours ago, 0bserver said:

WTF was going on between about 12 and 1? 

I had the misfortune to hear NPM and instead of the Moanin Line it was Wintio reading out a list of people who have died during the year. I imagine he was sat there wearing his grim reaper outfit. 

They have been running pre recorded shows in that slot all week. Maybe Andy is on holiday

[Jarndyce]

2 minutes ago, TheTeapot said:

XTRMNTR is one of the most aggressive and downright unfriendly albums I've ever heard.

Hell, yeah - I’ll take Vanishing Point and XTRMNTR over Screamadelica any day of the week.