The Radio 1 Playlist, Issue Date: 13th August 2008

Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

I might have to avoid these polls coz that list makes me wanna hang myself.

For some reason we actually have a ready-made noose at my work as well.

It actually is Vampire Weekend. Jesus Christ.

i think freemasons rmx will win

noticing a lot of stuff on here that i wanted to be good but really just isnt, namely "jump in the pool", "mercury", the ida maria single, the other alphabeat song

kings of leon track is a mess and i liked the singles from their last albums

as far as r&b/hip hop goes you could do worse than "lovin u long time" and that flo-rida single (best thing will.i.am has done in forever), though its a shame to see that even a well-meaning country like england has been hoodwinked by flobots. at least its not shwayze

btw what in gods name is this

Keane - Spiralling

tell me its about the dude turning into a cokehead

There's a fair proportion of this list I've yet to hear, but the one I'm dreading most, by a distance:

Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire

I mean... urrgh.

I listened to some of the list last night - the Slipknot ain't too bad (remarkably heavy for a daytime Radio 1 record) and "Paddy's Revenge" is a decent amount of fun. "Boyfriend" is comfortably the best of Alphabeat's UK singles thus far, possibly cos I've not listened to it enough to discern that they sound like they've had nails driven through their feet.

That Ida Maria single may be my most hated record this year. It literally makes me feel ill.

Is the Keane one an Antony and the Johnsons cover? Please tell me no.

its a shame to see that even a well-meaning country like england has been hoodwinked by flobots.

Lots of countries have a Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip.

what the hell is the "rock mafia" remix of miley c

From the Youtube, it appears to be Radio 1 hitting the hard house bandwagon slightly too late.

anyway that's just...a horrible list in every way, am probably going to go for 'i'll be lovin' u long time' which isn't even one of the seven best songs on its parent album

Just wait until they discover minimal, then there'll be no stopping them.

Considering how little "rock" Radio 1 plays, they've never been afraid to go hard on the playlist. Weren't Trivium B-listed a year or so ago?

damn, i really thought if anyone was gonna throw a vote biffy clyro's way that it was going to be you lex

songs i would willingly hear again:

Miley Cyrus - See You Again [Rock Mafia remix]
Little Jackie - The World Should Revolve Around Me
Rihanna - Disturbia
Spoon, Harris & Obernik - Baditude
Mariah Carey - I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time
Nas featuring Keri Hilson - Hero
Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
Flo Rida featuring will.I.am - In The Ayer

og 'see you again' apart, not one of these is anything like an artistic peak for any of these people

og 'i decided' is great but cannot condone clunky freemasons crap

I don't think Trivium got above C-List - that said, "Duality" went top 20 and I could see that having got on the B-List.

Oasis - The Shock Of The Lightning

Let's see how long I can go without hearing this.

disturbia is really good, should have the chris brown house single on here instead, though

Does that guy who shouts a lot still host The Lock Up on Radio 1? He's probably the station's best DJ, which says a lot.

they probably had the c brown on a while ago, it was a decent-sized hit. 'disturbia' has really good lyrics but the autotune gimmick sounds a bit lame on riri, her voice is flat anyway and doesn't need to be made flatter

xp

Mike Davies? Tuesdays, 2-4am.

Might do his playlist as the next poll, actually.

actually 'in the ayer' is really awesome, thinking about it, and i hope more people jump on the freestyle revival bandwagon.

i loved 'when i grow up' when i first heard it but the arrival of the tila tequila single rendered it redundant

Went for "In The Ayer." Would have gone for "I Decided" had it been the original album mix (Solange album out next Monday, definitely looking forward to that).

No "Out Here Grindin'," no "Walk In Da Park," no "Mr Carter," no Jazmine or J-Hud or Cassie or Lalah Holloway - no fit for purpose.

Is it just that the sound quality of the Youtube version of the "I Decided" remix is that poor, or is it actually meant to sound like that? I'm probably one of the bigger Freemasons enthusiasts in these parts, but it's so bloody tinny and her vocals are lost. Bloody 'orrible.

No Out Here Grindin'

Do you reckon Khaled and Westwood have met?

no funky house, no 'stryderman', no young jeezy...'f ur x' never got R1 airplay did it? bah to them racists

re: freemasons, it amazes me how they can bang out stuff as amazing and epic as the 'ring the alarm' or 'work' remixes, but their own stuff is so rote and boring, and then remixes like this just go clunk and fall totally flat

Do you reckon Khaled and Westwood have met?

We Global is the third album by Miami based producer DJ Khaled.[3][4][5

Would pay for a radio show of just Westwood and Khaled shouting non-sequitirs for two hours.

"IT'S A BIG LOOK FOR 08, DOG"
"WEEEEEEEEEEEE GLOOOOBBBBBALLLLLLLLLLL DDEEEEEEEEEJJJJJAAAYYYYYKKKKHHHHALLLLLEEDDDDDDDD WESSSSSSWWOOOOODDDDDD WEEEEE DOOOOOO THHHIIIISSSSS FORRRRRR THE STREEEEEEEEEETTZZZZZ"

LOOOOORRRRRDDDDDDDD CUSSSSSSSSTOOOOOSSSSSS

So, anyone heard:

Sam Beeton - What You Look For
Black Tide - Shout

then?

I assume any popstar called Sam is a dull as ditchwater reality TV winner who everyone's nan likes.

Waht about Sam Fox?

The Keane song is their 80s number.

But yeah, Vampire Weekend. Fuck.

Have you guys heard The Script yet? You're gonna LOVE them.

Erm, yes.

Sam Beeton - generic corporate pseudo-indie
Black Tide - mock rock

"PUT ON" BLASTING OUT OF EVERY CAR, BUS, SHOP, STREET MARKET, BEDSIT WINDOW AND MANSION HOUSE IS A MUST

Rolling UK Chart thread was on The Script and their uniquely Irish insights into pain and suffering yonks ago.

Note on the Prydz - no vocals, so that would make it moderately interesting if it were a big-ish hit, except that it's rubbish. Also, "Heater".

This said - I just had a look for the Radio Aire playlist to see about doing a poll made out of that, and it featured eight songs. Two of them were by Scouting For Girls.

That Little Jackie record should have been shot at birth.

I quite liked it the one time I heard it, but found I couldn't actually listen to it in one whole sitting. That might just be my attention span, though. It was definitely better than the Sonny J record, though I'm intrigued to see how the "Mirwais Remix" will make that sound like anything other than a piss-weak The Go! Team rip-off.

Tentative schedule for the next few polls:

Next week: Mike Davies
Week after: 1Xtra Playlist (currently features Jazmine Sullivan and Jennifer Hudson and "A Milli", but seems to move quite slowly so a couple weeks delay should mean these are all still on there)
Week after that: Bob Harris/Bob Harris Country

(obv. I say this before I discover that this poll has attracted a total of three votes, all of which are for Biffy Clyro)

all of whom are in Biffy Clyro morelike

if anyone on ILM has heard even half of these i'd be surprised. on that basis alone these polls probably aren't worth doing.

Youtubes will follow, but probably not til I'm home from work. In future I imagine I'll do the polls in the evening, get links sorted before then.

sorry i was being a bit harsh - i've heard more than i thought i had altho most not in their entirety

ok so enuff moaning about how awful that playlist is - does anyone have any thoughts as to why it's in the state it's in? and whether this situation will change any time soon?

i don't think the playlist is that bad - at least no worse than it's ever been. the main problem with it is the lack of support for UK urban pop because they see 1Xtra catering for that almost on its own - and there's US urban stuff here because they expect it to sell more generally so they can get with it.

think i like the Keane song the most out of the ones i've heard :/ not heard the Flo Rida yet ('Elevator' put me off - piss off Timba)

Chemical Brothers one still seems just horrendous and embarrassing to me at this point

Roberto Baggio?

Fearne & Reggie "celebrities"?

Jimmy Saville used to do that, didn't he?

Indeed. It was down to Dignified Don to spin the actual platters.

do not make the Matt Le Tissier comparison. Do not even DARE

Andy Reid.

Fearne & Reggie "celebrities"?

Are you suggesting that being on Celebrity Fame Academy is insufficient qualification? (what I meant is people primarily known for TV work - F&R were bought in for youth appeal, basically, with people having grown up with them on Sunday morning telly. There's the makings of a good presenter in Reggie Yates, honestly)

Provided he learns the basics of the English language ("there was eight new entries this week").

That said, "All Summer Long" is very much conspicuous by its absence from the playlist despite it having been number 1 this time last week - I can't remember the last time a number one single wasn't on the Radio 1 playlist.

Kid Rock has actually just been removed from the playlist this week. It's been on it for a while. That said, the big scandal was 2 years ago when they adamantly refused to playlist "Hips Don't Lie," even after it topped the charts and was the biggest thing that summer. Radio 1 have never been kind to Shakira. The Beyonce collab was only the second time she's been playlisted. I'm glad though that people still remember the Blu Cantrell incident.

It's the Radio 2 crowd who are mostly playing and buying the Kid Rock abomination even though he himself said he didn't want it to be a hit.

Ratings shouldn't be a concern of BBC Radio - is their mandate really "to entertain" or to provide a service that private sector radio doesn't? The point is it's there regardless of how many or how few people listen to it. But I'd say R1 would actually start getting more listeners if they didn't insist on treating their listeners as having the intelligence level of a three-year-old Down's kid with jingles and trailers every two seconds.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i've heard hardly any of these songs

how much does your taste have to suck to vote for vampire weekend over mariah carey??

Hmmm, let me think about that one.

Surprised at The Verve's 3 votes.

SurprisedDisgusted at The Verve's 3 votes.

i'd have voted verve! that whole throw some klaxons on that bitch URRUH URRUH URRUH thing is so hilariously bad that i genuinely do enjoy it more than the rest of this list of vaguely-likes and regular-bads.

If Mariah wants to do better she'll obviously have to incorporate some "moanmoansnarlmoangrowlsnalrmoanyeahbabec'mongiveittomesnarlmoansnalmoanyeahc'monisaidyeahc'monmoansnarlgrowl" into her act.

I think lex should be more disgusted at the vote for Keane

More changes at Radio 1

Head of programmes Ben Cooper said he wanted to wish Dick and Dom "all the very best and say thanks for their work at Radio 1".

He did that quotey thing with his fingers when he said that.

but it's Proper Pop, Herman

"No peak time non-whites on my watch" quips head of the B*P programmes Ben Cooper

I don't think The Lex will see Keane as Proper Pop somehow, blueski

so does J Majik make Pendulum-style DnB now? that's disappointing

The second of these polls will follow shortly (well, sometime this evening anyhow). Not quite sure if there'll be as much discussion of it, but we shall see...

Don't feel like you have to rush to do it.

One more note - heard that Cilmi single in the Co-Op on the way to work. By 'eck it's wretched, innit? "Don't say you're up to nothing/You're sure up to something" - eeeeewww...

As I say, Xenomania have lost it and Climi is their Seal, so to speak.

Enough 16-year-old kids to make p43do record company executives wet, more actual talent.

new Cilmi is just Anastasia 2: The Cutening

Higgins quoted as believeing 'Sweet About Me' is the best thing he's ever done

anastacia was a bit mental though, and her voice was full of character (though sometimes an offputting one) where gaby kill me's is deader than duffy.

can't believe only marcello and myself recognise the precipitous decline of xenomania.

The Radio 1 Punk Show Poll is here, by the way.

what is the actual difference between Cilmi's voice on her new song and Anastacia on 'I'm Outta Love' if any?

i guess people bought it with anastacia cos she looked older and less cute.

anastacia sung as though she had a vague idea what her lyrics meant? i mean has there been a less convincing line in music this year than "there's nothing sweet about me".

there's some terrific faux-xenomania stuff happening on danity kane's '2 of you', but real xeno have long lost any life they had.

Anastacia at least sounds like she's singing in her own voice, as opposed to Grade VI Billie Holiday tutorial class notes.

I saw Cilmi supporting Nouvelle Vague at the start of the year. A strange performance, as she seemed to be addressing herself to an imaginary TV camera rather than the 200-odd people that were actually standing in front of her. There was no connection at all, just a kind of preening self-regard. And she murdered "Can't Get You Out Of My Head".

she looks and sounds a lot older than 16 which is impressive and disturbing in equal measure really. if only the music was that interesting.

Agreed. We were staggered - staggered, I tell you! - to discover after the gig that she was only 16.

can't believe only marcello and myself recognise the precipitous decline of xenomania.

There's a whole discussion about it on the Annie thread somewhere. It pretty much boils down to "you guys have got lazy, get one new idea, or ideally several like in the old days".

Slipknot is still around? What? The GWAR joke is over.

Had we had this poll this week, btw, then Vampire Weekend wouldn't have been on it, and neither would Ida Maria, Solange or Bloc Party.

It would, however, have included:

Chris Brown ft. Nelly (?) - Kiss Kiss (T-Pain officially not bothering with the UK, then)
Estelle ft. Cee-Lo - Pretty Please (Love Me)
The Feeling - Join With Us (We're In The Glovebox)
McFly - Lies
Pink - So What
The Zutons - What's Your Problem
Axwell & Bob Sinclar ft. Ron Carroll - What A Wonderful World (is this as bad as it looks on paper?)
Common ft. Pharrell Williams - Universal Mind Control
Ladyhawke - Dust Till Dawn
Sway ft. Lemar - Saturday Night Hustle

Oh, and no Cilmi either.

Sway ft. Lemar - Saturday Night Hustle

So this is the new Dizzee and Calvin Harris then?

Was listening to that Lovedough Sway mixtape from 05 earlier on... man that shit was awesome. "Smash you up like conkers/Put you on the corner like Londis"

oh so i guess 'f ur x' passed the charts by then :(

'kiss kiss' is the only newly playlisted track which could give the seventh best song on e=mc2 a run for its money but i haven't heard the nelly version. the t-pain version was already released last year anyway, why are they releasing it again??

Cos the T-Pain version didn't crack top 30, unlike, say, every Chris Brown single since.

38 Chris Brown featuring T-Pain Kiss Kiss Nov 2007
8 Chris Brown With You Mar 2008
4 Chris Brown Forever Jun 2008

http://f.cl.ly/items/1n170o0Z31052M3w3O43/r1_timeline.JPG

brutal