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seanc80

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Maybe it wasn’t as much of a thing in Ireland and the UK, but in North America there was a certain era of drive time radio personalities where they’d use all sorts of whacky names like Mike ‘The Dog’ Devine (who barked on air) and enthusiastically back announced tunes, ran ridiculous contests, told witty anecdotes and were generally and purposely over the top. Not quite Howard Stern shock jock level, but more people who were absolutely in love with music. Think John Peel combined with Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam. It made listening to radio enjoyable, whereas (at least in North America) it’s now all playlisted by massive corporations and unlistenable.

In a previous life I had a radio show and absolutely loved it. It was a right laugh.

At least in the UK there’s the BBC and specialist shows, DJ mix shows and the like. Most of that has disappeared here - sadly.

    loopdokter me neither. All that ’suaving the dorises, I’m off to this and that fancy restaurant on my tod’
    Cunt!

        Millsy
        Thanks for this Mills. Been battling with my inner demons trying to resist making the post you’ve just made 😂

            Fuck you seanc80 my fruity coffee enjoyment shits all over this shite music thread.

            I would rather listen to my dads old The Shadows cd’s than this garbage

                RichM
                He’ll never know the joy of a bespoke, artisan portafilter though Rich.

                Almost feel sorry for the Palestine

                  Loopy has absolutely smashed it with that post of his!

                  Mods, please update thread title to ‘Drive Time with the Loopmeister’. I resign in the presence of a legend.

                  loopdokter i do my best to hold it down, but it’s mostly just me complaining about shit weather and the occasional moose.

                    mono-stereo changed the title to Drive Time with the Loopmeister .

                    With the change of direction of this thread, I’m guessing this is what we are after

                      303abuser To be honest, Canadian drive time looks shit, that’s probably why you fly or use those massive double decker trains you have.

                          RichM i avoided posting her at all costs, she’s worse than nickelback. sarah mclachlan would be a better choice lol.

                              RichM

                              Fuck right off. My word.

                              Mods, for the love of Pete have a word with Rich please?

                                303abuser oh it generally is, there’s a reason i haven’t listened to the radio since i was 14 or so. do we have double decker trains?

                                He’s probably thinking of The Rocky Mountain Express, which does indeed have double decker cars.

                                Rail in Canada otherwise absolutely shit thanks a former prime minister of the Conservative variety who gutted it in the 1980s (Brian Mulroney). And by shit, I mean slumming it in some godforsaken 3rd World country shit. We don’t have a a single high speed line of rail ANYWHERE in the country.