Oh Well Part 2
Whoop whoop! Back on broadband. As Eldest is spending most of his days and nights at his Darlin's, we agreed that I would plug the ADSL modem direct into my PC. So I did. Next I downloaded the drivers via my dial-up connection. Four hours later and we're up and running.Next thing I've got SVCHOST.EXE taking up all my resources and my box is running like a dog. So - download the latest dat file for my Anti-Virus software and check the PC. Clean.
Baffled. Any of you PC boffins out there got any ideas?
'Cos now I can't play BBC Radio, my MP3 playback is full of interference and I am getting well pissed off.
I can't believe that George Michael is the most played artist on British radio over the past 20 years. Now don't get me wrong, I think George has produced some fantastic music over the years (well after he split up Wham anyway), 'Listen Without Prejudice' being a particular favourite. I just can't believe that he's the one at number one.
The fact that George's career has spanned the past two decades has, I would've thought, helped him a great deal in his climb to the top of this meaningless chart. So I guess I shouldn't be that surprised.
I shouldn't be surprised at the dull, MOR blandness of the list either - but I can't help it. It depresses the life out of me. That top ten demonstrates just how homogenised popular radio has become.
Williams, Minogue, Adams, Madonna, Collins, Richard and Hucknall. What a fucking impressive bunch of blandness. Yet we have the Director of the Radio Academy (whatever that is) commenting:
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"This chart is an interesting snapshot of which artists have most shaped popular culture as the number of radio stations both competing for our attention and playing their material has spiraled"
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