Christmas 2020

[octave]

OME I agree. I am not expressing this opionion but this is a common opinion and may account for the perception that there is less Christmas music played  today than in the past. I think the suggestion was that the  abc was somehow being coercerced into not playing Christmas music.  

 

ABC radio covers a huge range from classic fm double J, triple J ABC Jazz, which includes all read of jazz from swing to contemporary. ABC Country.

 

An earlier post said that the ABC was falling over itself to be PC and therefore did not play Christmas music. My point is that the ABC did play plenty of Christmas music across its networks.

[nomadpete]

OME, my biggest objection (apart from commencing Xmas music and sales from November), is that most of our locally accepted popular Xmas music is centred around American wartime and post wartime 'old standards' that have little connection with more traditional religious music that puports to be Christ related. Bing Crosby, etc...

 

And they lay it on a bit thick.

[Marty_d]

As someone who had hymns forced on them from birth onwards, I find the religious carols particularly annoying.

It's like having hymns snuck into public life by trickery every year.

Plus the origin of christmas is not actually religious, at least not in a christian sense - it was a celebration of mid-winter and the days increasing in length.  (Like every other holiday the christians supplanted the original meaning with their own BS).

So if you have to play carols, bring on "Jingle Bell Rock" or "White Christmas", you can shove the herald angels where the sun don't shine. (No, not midwinter!)

[Jerry_Atrick]

As a youngan, I thought Chirstmas carols were a bit naff  - When Sklyhook, Sherbet, Deep Purple, Aunty Jack, etc were playing (when I was quite young), who, as a kid cared for the likes of Crosby, Sinatra, Presley, etc? As one aged, and espeially when kids came aliong, they became more listenable. WHen Maria Carey came out with her song, it sort of mixed it up a bit, but that has to be about 25 years ago now. Michael Buble is my kids (one 18, ine 14) favourite now but only the songs he has written/performed that were written for him... the other stuff still bores them a bit.

 

It's natural kids won't like older stuff.. No doubt there is some of whatever the genre is these days rippping the airwaves that we don't even identify as Christmas music that they listen to for festive cheer.

Edited December 27, 2020 by Jerry_Atrick

[willedoo]

One of the qualities of this forum that I appreciate is that there are many diverse opinions and members are generally tolerant of other's views. It's not an echo chamber.

[Yenn]

I was implying that somehow ABC has been coerced into not playing Carols, but it would appear that other stations on the ABC do play them.

I don't know who makes up our local stations playlist, but it does not include any of the above mentioned music types.

I can't remember when I last heard swing, or country.

Michael Buble and Bing Crosby would be unknown as would Slim Dusty and John Williamson and the bloke who wrote "I get a little further North each year." Being centred in Rockhampton which calls itself the Beef Capital of Australia. I find the best music on ABC comes from Ian McNamara on Australia Allover.

[octave]

The ABC has so many different stations, many of them digital. I would suspect that because ABC has a country music station that perhaps less country music would be played on local stations. It is good that there are stations that specialise but there is also a downside In the splintering of audiences.  There is heaps of jazz on ABC jazz fm which ranges from read through swing and to modern jazz. There are also programs such as Jazz Tracks.  I would agree that local  ABC radio does not have a wide range of music.

[Old Koreelah]

20 minutes ago, octave said:

The ABC has so many different stations, many of them digital...

ABC signals are weak in our area, so I can’t listen to ABC while working outside.

The best way to hear Auntie is via digital TV, where dozens of stations are available. We patch TV thru our stereo and enjoy ABC JJJ, Classics and Jazz, plus SBS Cool. Late at night we switch to channel 202 and get lullabies from ABC for Kids.

[old man emu]

Poor old ABC - trying to please all of the people, all of the time. At least its various musical items do not interrupt the flow of advertisements that happens on commercial radio.

 

I suppose that those of us who are old enough to appreciate a wide variety of music produced in the last century are now not the bottomless money pits that younger people are, so it's not worth attracting us to the commercial stations' advertising outpourings with that ol' time music.  

[octave]

It is a great time for music fans with so much free or cheap content available in all genres. 

[red750]

It must be a Qld/WA thing. I only (occasionally) listen to ABC for cricket or football broadcasts. I only listen to the radio in the car, and don't drive much anyway. I listen to GoldFM in Melbourne, they play mainly 70's and 80's music. It helps to counteract the tinnitus. I have it barely audible, but when the missus gets in the car she turns it off. Says it's too loud. I found an old radio/tape player a couple of months ago and was surprised it still worked, the radio anyway, not the cassette player. Probably only played it for a couple of hours.

[red750]

Channel 7 news, 26th Dec. Coles have hot cross buns on sale. Sell them through the year as fruit buns without the cross, but they don't taste the same.

[Old Koreelah]

2 hours ago, red750 said:

It must be a Qld/WA thing. I only (occasionally) listen to ABC for cricket or football broadcasts. I only listen to the radio in the car, and don't drive much anyway. I listen to GoldFM in Melbourne, they play mainly 70's and 80's music. It helps to counteract the tinnitus...

 

[Marty_d]

You'd think she would have already known her boob size, before the dyslexia diagnosis.

[pmccarthy]

He was having a little titter about her mistake.

[nomadpete]

Marty, If she isn't sure, he could generously  offer to do a manual check and estimate for her.

[red750]

This thread certainly got off track.

[nomadpete]

Sorry Peter.

[Marty_d]

Christmas... boobs... not sure how that's off track!