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[graculus]

Why oh why oh why (etc.) is breakfast radio just so gosh-darned awful?

I've been trying to find a radio station I can bear for the drive to work and got stuck in motorway traffic for the best part of an hour this morning, by which point I was ready to get out of the car and bludgeon somebody just because of the combination of relentless inanity and over-played music. The alternatives seem to be:

Radio 1 - fatuous self-obsessed arse, with sycophantic 'posse' and mostly-dodgy music

Radio 2 - Terry Wogan. Need I say more?

Radio 3 - Wagner! On the way to work! Oh lord.

Radio 4 - too dull and worthy to bear, all spoken word.

Various local BBC stations - bleurgh

Various non-BBC stations playing all the same middle of the road pap, with inane people

Kerrang - variously entertaining and annoying, the signal is crappy, and they apparently only have a playlist consisting of 12 songs!

I was forced to go to HMV and buy stuff, just so I had something to play on the way home. And apparently the non-subliminal Kerrang thing worked, since one of the cds features a track in their 'hey, we have the entire history of rock music to fall back on, so let's keep on playing the same Foo Fighters track, something annoying by Nickelback and various other things till they are ingrained in our listeners' brains FOREVER!!11!!!!' insidious plan.

I really must get a new mp3 player, since my current one isn't reliable enough to play through the car radio and thus save humanity. ;)

Comments

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Have you tried Classic FM?

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

I listen to radio 4 in the morning, to the Today show and whatever else is on. This morning could have put me into a coma, though, with all the breaking news on a plane crash that happened 50 years ago. Good grief. In the car I tend to change channel a lot to skip any ads, and then usually end up plugging in my palm (now my ipod) to the radio with one of those little transmitter thingys to get away from the terrible choice of music and inane blather on pretty much all radio stations.

I'm afraid I can't help on this one, other than backing up the MP3 idea. As ipods now play MP3s without faffing with them I'm happy with my new acquisition (nano, 3rd gen).