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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22114

    Originally posted by antongould View Post
    You have to admit it shows his great love for the very best of lyrics.......




    Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
    Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
    You been running all over the town now.
    Oh! I guess I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground.

    All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
    All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
    All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.

    One of these early mornings, oh, you gonna be wiping your weeping eyes.
    I bought you a brand new mustang 'bout nineteen sixty five
    Now you come around signifying a woman, you don't wanna let me ride.
    Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
    You been running all over the town now.
    Oh! I guess I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground.

    All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
    All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
    anton are you dedicating this to Lady Sidcup?

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    • mercia
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      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      not 100% sure what shirtsleeves have to do with anything
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      to continue with the teenage ignorance, paean seems a fair word to me for Ma vlast but I'm happy to hear another suggestion

      more than with any other presenter I thought Mr Hoban was reading a script written for him, isn't it traditional to blame the programme producers rather than the presenters on these occasions ?
      Last edited by mercia; 12-05-13, 16:30.

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      • cloughie
        Full Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 22114

        Originally posted by french frank View Post
        Well, I was wondering, seriously, what you thought of these two diabolically awful programmes.
        I did not hear them but they sound bad enough for a listen on iplayer for all the wrong reasons!

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8778

          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          anton are you dedicating this to Lady Sidcup?

          I wouldn't dare nor would I dare call her LS anymore...........

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          • vinteuil
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            • Nov 2010
            • 12782

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Feeling a little Wan today, vimto?


            ... my dear Caliban - normally I am like Oliver Edwards, Samuel Johnson's friend as quoted in Boswell's Life :

            "You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in... "

            [17 April 1778].

            But did you listen this morning? I had forgotten how disgusted I could get...

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            • antongould
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8778

              Originally posted by french frank View Post
              Well, I was wondering, seriously, what you thought of these two diabolically awful programmes.
              I only heard a fair chunk of Saturday's and I thought it was awful......he sounded to be at about my standard of Classical appreciation and the "CV" you attach explains a fair bit.

              I have no desire to listen to today's on iplayer........or to hear Mr. Hoban ever again.

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              • Anna

                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                Well, I was wondering, seriously, what you thought of these two diabolically awful programmes.
                I confess I didn't get up in time to listen to Simon Hoban yesterday or today, just the last 10 minutes on Saturday, but I see next Saturday it's back to C B-H so his appearance was a one-off.

                As to weekday Breakfast, I still turn it on (because I'm fed up with the shouty interviews on Today and our local radio is far too relentlessly cheerful at that time of the morning) So R3 is the only alternative to silence and I appreciate the time checks. However, the other week it seemed to be 'Music your Toddler Loves' (The Sorcerer's Apprentice was played because 10 month old Monty loves waving his spoon in time to it) and Tweet if French music makes you order more expensive dishes in a restaurant ..... and then there was 'Music your Dog Loves'

                Honestly, not even mentioning the awful script (do the Producers write this, rather than the announcers?) there was the awful Petroc faux-pas of not knowing who on earth composed what he thought he might be playing next (I forget the details of that but there was a lot of rustling of papers)

                Basically, it's terribly sloppy broadcasting, BUT, if they've increased the listening figures .... but, they don't have to, do they? It's not commercial radio is it?

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26523

                  Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                  ... my dear Caliban - normally I am like Oliver Edwards, Samuel Johnson's friend as quoted in Boswell's Life :

                  "You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in... "

                  [17 April 1778].

                  But did you listen this morning? I had forgotten how disgusted I could get...


                  I didn't listen... I adopt Anna's confession - wasn't up till some considerable time after Mr Hoban's shirtsleeves had left the studio

                  It was a recording of yesterday's BAL which preceded the levée at Château Caliban this morning
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25193

                    Originally posted by Anna View Post
                    I confess I didn't get up in time to listen to Simon Hoban yesterday or today, just the last 10 minutes on Saturday, but I see next Saturday it's back to C B-H so his appearance was a one-off.

                    As to weekday Breakfast, I still turn it on (because I'm fed up with the shouty interviews on Today and our local radio is far too relentlessly cheerful at that time of the morning) So R3 is the only alternative to silence and I appreciate the time checks. However, the other week it seemed to be 'Music your Toddler Loves' (The Sorcerer's Apprentice was played because 10 month old Monty loves waving his spoon in time to it) and Tweet if French music makes you order more expensive dishes in a restaurant ..... and then there was 'Music your Dog Loves'

                    Honestly, not even mentioning the awful script (do the Producers write this, rather than the announcers?) there was the awful Petroc faux-pas of not knowing who on earth composed what he thought he might be playing next (I forget the details of that but there was a lot of rustling of papers)

                    Basically, it's terribly sloppy broadcasting, BUT, if they've increased the listening figures .... but, they don't have to, do they? It's not commercial radio is it?
                    Suddenly its not "Through a glass Darkly" . (what a lovely phrase that is.)

                    this is all to make us appreciate how lucky we usually are.

                    Thank goodness for Second hand Bartok CD's, the Naxos library, and the endless great suggestions for listening from other board members.
                    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22114

                      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                      Suddenly its not "Through a glass Darkly" . (what a lovely phrase that is.)

                      this is all to make us appreciate how lucky we usually are.

                      Thank goodness for Second hand Bartok CD's, the Naxos library, and the endless great suggestions for listening from other board members.
                      Not this one?

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                      • teamsaint
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 25193

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post

                        my introduction to the Stones, that one, pretty much.
                        A very good argument in favour of compilation albums.

                        Every one a winner.
                        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30235

                          Originally posted by Anna View Post
                          Basically, it's terribly sloppy broadcasting, BUT, if they've increased the listening figures ....
                          And if they haven't ...?

                          I've just spent the afternoon chatting with my nephew who dropped in unexpectedly. He's 29 and says he doesn't listen to radio, especially not breakfast radio. He would be a 6 Music listener and would like to listen more because radio would introduce him to a wider range of music and he feels limited by what he already has. He likes talk between the music as long as it's either about the music or has some intellectual content.

                          He fled from 6 Music's Sean Keaveny and now he's been lost as a radio listener.
                          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                          • Anna

                            Originally posted by french frank View Post
                            And if they haven't ...?
                            Well, I thought they had, increased listening figures, I don't know, you have the finger on the pulse, apart from all that I'm still sticking with Breakfast because the other offerings are worse, but basically, it's just background noise until the real day starts.

                            It's not something you savour at the breakfast table with a toast rack crammed with wholemeal bread, some superior butter and a jar of Frank Cooper's coarse cut, is it?
                            (Not that I've ever done that! But it must have been nice)

                            What I really like is a kind of TTN approach: Here is X playing Y's cantata, composed whilst he was dying of syphilis in Florence and his wife joined the St. Clares in her shame and endowed X Church, to which we owe this debt of gratitude. That sort of thing, interesting facts.

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                            • Old Grumpy
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 3596

                              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                              anton are you dedicating this to Lady Sidcup?
                              Last edited by Old Grumpy; 12-05-13, 20:25. Reason: No offence to either party, but I've just rejoined the board and it made me laugh!

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26523

                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                What I really like is a kind of TTN approach: Here is X playing Y's cantata, composed whilst he was dying of syphilis in Florence and his wife joined the St. Clares in her shame and endowed X Church, to which we owe this debt of gratitude. That sort of thing, interesting facts.


                                Totally agreed!
                                "...the isle is full of noises,
                                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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