Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[Roy H]

I think they ought to add a few more recurrent songs to their daytime playlist, I'm hearing these just a bit too often lately:

Pendulum - Propane Nightmares

Panic At The Disco - Nine In The Afternoon

Chemical Bros - Galvanise

Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr A (playing as I type!!)

A.R.Rahman/Pussycat Dolls - J'ai Ho

Jason Mraz - I'm Yours

and the most outplayed song of all time, (not just on R1) The Killers - Human

What do you think?

[the_grove]

Dilemma of a small playlist. What's worse is, there are not enough rock/indie-tracks being played. Too much Gaga and stuff.

[Viv]

Chemical Bros - Galvanise has been kicking about for YEARS!! I think R1 may have shares in the Chemical Brothers!!

Loving the latest Black Eyed peas' choon.

[DC]

radio 1 a few years ago was all indie to be honest. i think it's got a little more variety these days, but i did hear the killers around an hour ago.

[Computer]

They need to stop playing Utah Saints - Something good 08 too. It's ALWAYS on, it's not even that good a song nor was it a massive hit.

[Ratscallion]

To be honest, the songs mentioned in the first post aren't THAT bad...

[the_grove]

To be honest, the songs mentioned in the first post aren't THAT bad...

True.

The Killers are not indie, by the way.

Some time ago, there was Jo Whiley who could easily smuggle some indie tracks into her show. Now, there's Fearne. I doubt she has as much influence on the music played on her show as Jo had.

[aleksander]

Ian Carey Project - Get Shaky and All American Rejects - Gives You Hell are some of the slightly newer tracks that are played ridiculously often. Although I like the former, I can't stand the latter!

[yorkieboy]

Radio one's pretty much fine as it is. Playing the same songs over and over again - no matter how good they are - is amateur and one of the differences between BBC and commerical radio

[the_grove]

Playing the same songs over and over again - no matter how good they are - is amateur and one of the differences between BBC and commerical radio

Excuse me, but that is exactly what Radio 1 is doing. The songs on hot rotation are played every three or four ours. And the playlist is rather small. The difference between BBC and commercial Radio is the speech. There's quite a lot of speech on Radio 1. On commercial radio, there is rarely more than a 30 second speech part between every three tracks...

[Roy H]

To be honest, the songs mentioned in the first post aren't THAT bad...

Noooo, I wasnt saying they are bad songs, quite the opposite. Just that you get a bit tired of hearing the same recurrents over and over, hence my point!

[DC]

a few years ago radio 1 used to like to play n.o.r.e - nothin' now and again, when half of the 12 year olds didn't know it becuase it was made in 2002. good to hear greg james play all falls down by kanye west the other day too.

i think it's a great idea to dig up the classics, linkin park points of authority and limp bizkit take a look around would be good to put on the roter. just as long as they don't go through the same 10 songs all the time it should work.

[tvguy101]

I've definitely noticed a drop in recurrents over the last few months. It used to be a guarantee that the second song in each half hour of Scott's show was a recurrent, with a rarer one at least once or twice a week.

A couple of my favorites' last plays courtesy of XMFan.com:

The Feeling - Sewn

Request: XM 29 - BBC Radio 1

Last Played: July 28, 2009 3:04 PM ET

The Rasmus - In The Shadows

Request: XM 29 - BBC Radio 1

Last Played: August 02, 2009 10:40 AM ET

Could it be late July to early August was a shift in strategy at Radio 1? That's about the time they cut back on the 1tro's and changed the male announcer too.

[Roy H]

Pendulum on Moyles again this morning 7.41 !!!!

[Ratscallion]

Noooo, I wasnt saying they are bad songs, quite the opposite. Just that you get a bit tired of hearing the same recurrents over and over, hence my point!

Ooh.. Good.. I agree, therefore!

[Roy H]

Metrostation - 'Shake It' is another for the overplayed list!! :bored:

[Roy H]

Ha! Metrostation playing again as I type this!!!! :hahaha:

[Hammer]

Ooh, some Pendulum playing now

[Computer]

What annoys me though is, you don't hear a song for a few weeks, then they play it 10 times in 2 weeks and you don't hear it again for another month! It would be better to spread the plays out imo

[Jono]

Is it just me or does a Mills bed sound a lot like Galvanise off of Chemical Bros?

[James R]

Pendulum at 6.55 this morning :hahaha:

[Roy H]

Another perennial - Kevin Rudolf, Let It Rock. Playing now on Greg's show.

[DC]

they call me stacey... i forget what crap band made it.

[Roy H]

Ting Tings "Thats Not My Name" :

[Rob]

To be fair I could listen to Jai Ho! for the rest of my life on loop and be happy.