Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Fill Your Head With Rock
Five Live are asking listeners to vote for the key record of the Tony Blair era, illustrated by a picture of him playing the guitar left handed. The top ten you can choose from includes: The Verve, Robbie Williams, Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, James Blunt, David Gray, Oasis, Franz Ferdinand and the Libertines. I am genuinely amazed that none of the diversity advisers that the BBC has invested in over the last ten years has thought fit to point out to them that there's nothing there by anyone who isn't white and male. I'm not suggesting that there should be a quota system but this reeks of somebody's cloth-eared idea of what constitutes "proper music by people who can play their instruments, like". Dizzee Rascal? The Streets? Girls Aloud? Jamelia? Amy Winehouse? Lily Allen? The Chemical Brothers? Damn this indie-rock orthodoxy! It's more suffocating than the old Light Programme.
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Why isn't this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnsr-yL5Tg0 in the shortlist? Shame...
ReplyDeleteI never thought there'd come a day when I would share a similar sentiment but enough already. I know it's self selecting but the recent "randomiser" ipod poll on the word website showed how diverse and "random" peoples choice in music is. Also with these polls on the BBC why can't we nominate our own list rather than having a pre-chosen list all the time.
ReplyDeleteIt's mainly music for people who don't like music isn't it?
ReplyDeleteCar coat rock, I call it.
What, no Limp Bizkit, who are these people? Surely Fred Durst is the greatest poet of the Blair era?
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