When making any journeys of a reasonable distance in my car, I tend to listen to a range of podcasts and comedy shows, to keep me entertained and stop me from falling asleep.
However, my daughter’s car only has a radio for entertainment.
And, a bit of a rubbish one at that! The DAB side of things doesn’t work and so we are restricted to whatever can be picked up on FM (maybe I should have paid extra and got the radio fixed as well as the headlight).
And I say ‘we’ but I mean ‘me’, as she spends much of the journey into work, fast asleep.
Anyway.
My usual goto station is Classic FM or sometimes I’ll listen to a bit of chat with Nick Ferrari on LBC, but both of those stations drive me mad with the amount of adverts. Every ten minutes or so, you are forced to listen to the same adverts. Again and again. Drives me mad.
So, if I don’t want to listen to adverts (and I don’t), that just leaves the BBC stations.
Our local – Three Counties Radio – does my head in as well. Stupid people phoning in to give their stupid opinions on stupid things. Mostly.
Radio 4? Well, that’s alright if there is a major news story or two to listen to, otherwise I find it a bit dull in the morning.
Radio 1 and its inane Smashey & Nicey jocks? I’ve not listened to that since my balls dropped and I’ve no intention of starting again now.
Radio 3 is bit too heavy for me, classical-wise, so I tend to give it a miss.
That just leaves Radio 2. The station for the oldies. And so, I’ve been giving it a try these past few weeks and I have to say I’m quite enjoying it. Obviously, I’m only listening to the Breakfast Show as I drive to and from Watford, but I have to say I really quite like the style of the presenter (I don’t think we call them DJs anymore) Zoe Ball and I’m enjoying much of the music played on there.
I’ve turned into my dad.
I thought R2 was the new Smashey and Nicey? Anyway, I’m currently hitting up Greatest Hits Radio (I’m sure Dawn French says ‘Greatest Tits Radio’ in her ID announcements. I’m not sure I really listen to it wen I’m writing, but it’s on. When I’m in the car, lately, I listen to one of my Spotify playlists on my earbuds because of the failure of the Infotainment (grrrr) system. I like my Spotify playlists in the car. But, strangely, I tend not to listen to them around the house. Odd that.
It’s rare that I put music on in the house, but when I do it’s generally something streamed from my NAS into the Sonos. Mrs M however, uses Spotify with the Sonos… it’s so easy. I myself have a Spotify account which I’ve had for a few years now. Never used it.
I guess you’re right: S&N are old enough now for Radio 2.
R2 is our normal goto radio station in the car. Mind you, do not drive around much these days so I do not punish the grey cells to much.
Yep, you gotta look after the few you have left.
A few good cells. Could be a good name for a film.
Good that you did not got the expensive change.. now you don’t need it 🙂
Indeed!