The Radio 1 Playlist, Issue Date: 8th October 2008

One for Late of the Pier here.

christ it's worse than last time. i blame beyonce for coming back with a subpar single, she should be stamping everyone else here into the ground :(

1. love lockdown
2. paper planes
3. green light
4. miss independent
5. my life

then we start to get into bleh-but-ok-i-suppose territory

6. tattoo
7. another way to die
8. forgive me
9. girls

and then literally nothing else worthy of attention there at all! nothing. maybe insert "it might grow on me" caveat for beyonce based solely on track record. honestly, though. WHERE IS BONGO JAM???

Thing I notice about this - those new British guitar bands that are dominating British new music nowadays - where are they? It's all third/fourth album stuff up the business end, unless it's American bands instead. I suspect we've had our second Britpop age, and now the doors are being sealed and we're back into Virgin Radio c.1998 territory. Again. Shall we blame the credit crunch? Let's blame the credit crunch.

Seriously - how many fucking chances have Fightstar had now?

Will give a listen to things I don't currently know before voting, but at the moment I'm most likely going for 'Love Lockdown'.

That Snow Patrol song is surprisingly excellent.

"Bathroom Gurgle" is an odd choice of single, when they've still got "Broken" sitting there.

It's too boring to vote for "Paper Planes", so I'll go with "Green Light".

"If I Were A Boy" is great! It made me cry! But it was early morning and I was hungover!

"The Promise" is great too!

What manner of horror is "Infinity 2008", then?

Late of the Pier are on the new British gtr band tip (even though they have synths). They're a v poor comedy-Klaxons effort though.

The new Kaisers single looks like stiffing and the album is joyless stodge almost all the way through so we might be seeing more established bands cashing out of nu-britpop too.

Pretty much don't wanna vote for anything here really. I just don't care enough.

i put R1 on about 10 minutes; was accosted by sara cox's infantile nonsense. turned it off again.

put it back on again a couple of minutes ago and it was fucking bon jovi. christ's teeth.

i'm going to spend the next hour working in silence.

Incidentally, Channel 4 have just announced the complete skittling of their radio operations.

Is "A-Punk" actually getting a proper single release or something?

It's already had one, several months ago. Goodness knows why it's come round again - let's presume it's on some kind of advert.

Yeah, I got it then, it was a 7" single with the CD single inside, same tracks, the a-side and a demo version of another track. £4.99 it was.

One for the price of two.

That release was 7" and CD in the same package thus chart ineligable. It might be getting a chart-aimed release.

x-p

what a disgusting playlist

Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008

Woah back up back up what the hell is this doing on here?!

Late of the Pier are on the new British gtr band tip (even though they have synths). They're a v poor comedy-Klaxons effort though.[

RONG! They're ace, this track is ace, the album's ace and... they're ace. Again.

Anyway.

Yes, more Guru josh info pls!

Oh dear lord:

Late Of The Pier seem to be one of those bands devised solely for grown-up indie kids who now go to more stand-up comedy nights than gigs.

ouch

(although hardly true in my case!)

Jesus H Christ that video.

http://www.3beat.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/guru-josh-3-beat.jpg

Early 90s crusty ravers, one day this man will make hot girls roll around in their pants stroking themselves.

Another vote for "Green Light" from me.

Other contenders were:
"The Promise" (srsly, best GA single since "Love Machine")
"Paper Planes" (is anybody actually playing this? I've yet to hear it on the radio)
Ne-Yo
Waysis (reminds me of "Super-Electric")
Ting Tings (must get the LP)
Smiley Miley
P!nk = punk
N-Dubz
Raghav n' Redman

There. Ten good ones. I can recall worse.

Radio 1 playlist in not actually racist after all sensation.

has someone suggested it is?

LOTP LOTP LOTP YES YES YES OMG OMG ZOMG

Frances was LAUGHING at me for liking them last night coz they're SUCH teenage MySpace electro. But then even she had to admit that actually, they really were quite good.

I think I might just have to vote for "Sex on Fire" here.

One ( and probably the only one) for Brookes Brothers

WHERE IS BONGO JAM???

Played on Radio One today mid-morning, so There Is Hope...

I've been to a comedy club once in my life and walked out.

LOTP are total MICROPROG.

Of course, I love them so they're DOOMED.

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7 things 7 votes

Whoever voted sex on fire needs to have their sex put on fire.