What's wrong with kids today?

I've been listening to Triple J for the last couple of weeks as a bit of a change from Radio National. Actually, until recently I couldn't pick JJJ up in my office. Someone must have cut down a tree or demolished a tall building somewhere.

According to their website, triple j (must be spelled with lower case letters these days - easier to type in SMS messages) is "Australia's youth radio station", so it would be fair to say that the music they play is representative of the tastes of the 'yoof' in this country.

I was a JJJ listener years ago, back when capital letters were still cool. I remember lots of great and not so great music from all genres. These days, they tend to play the same set of songs all the time. Not a day goes by where I don't hear Radio/Video, Doorbell, Candy and so on.

Now some of these have quite catchy tunes but one thing I have noticed is that, without an exception, they are all incredibly repetitive. One song for example consists pretty much of the words:

Hey man, look at me rockin out, I'm on the radio
Hey man, look at me rockin out, I'm on the video
repeat...

They take me away from the strangest places
Sweet Danny and Lisa they take me away
repeat...

By all accounts this is a very popular song. You have to conclude from this that the 'yoof' don't demand much in the way of meaning from their music and the more repetitive the lyrics and the beat, the happier they are. Some of these songs don't even have a chorus, fer chrissake.

No wonder attention spans are a thing of the past.

Sounds like the youf aren't any different to what we were like (eh Neil, we need a 'grumpy old bugga' smilie)

Richard

SilentC hurry the "antique roadshow" is starting on radio national !!!!!

My radio dial never (never ever) left JJJ until recently. Now they really aren't that much better than the comercial FM stations. The only thing that keeps me going back to JJJ is that the ads on the other stations drive me nuts!

When I was a yoof, there was this song called "Mashed Potato"

It went something like:

Mashed Potato
yeah,

Yeah

yeah

YEAH

YEAH

Mashed Potato

Yeah

...... ... ..Repeat (about 12 times).

Now there was true poetry for ya, I've been finkin about the meaning for years, I wonder if my kids can help?

P


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The commercial stations down here (Power FM and 2EC) I wouldn't give the time of day. Way too many ads and too, too much of what they call 'R&B', which ain't R&B. I switched on to ABC to listen to the cricket last year and just stayed with it, although I went across to Radio National because I was getting a lot of static interference.

BTW I opened my radio up and there are wires in it, so why do people call it a 'wireless'?

Please don't flame me but have you tried ABC FM, it's classical I know but at 10.00am you get a one hour interview conducted by Margaret Throsby with an interesting cross section of people from our own and other communities.
5.00pm you get a jazz session for an hour or so.
Thats my choice and I have no complaints.
As for repetition, remember that bloody awful Helen Reddy single from too many years ago, seemed like about about 15 minutes of 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, 'leave me alone, leave me leave'
Then started again, wow, that was talent :(

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Now there was true poetry for ya, I've been finkin about the meaning for years, I wonder if my kids can help?

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It's about mashed potato of course. Tequila is about tequila, Wipeout is about wiping out, and no-one alive today knows what One Eyed, One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater is about.

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Originally Posted by silentC

no-one alive today knows what One Eyed, One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater is about.

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I thought it was the old Ericson telephones that stood on their end combined with a hallucinogenic.............

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have you tried ABC FM

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I do tune in to that often. People started ribbing me about it when I answered the phone and they could hear Peer Gynt wafting away in the background. "What are you listening to, you old fart, bloody Mozart or somefing" they'd say... It was too much, so I flicked across to jjj to try and get jiggy wiv it (whatever that means) but i don't think it's working...

's choice too :D :D :D
Surprises a few people.
If you really want something different I'll send you some of my geetar work :p

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Originally Posted by silentC

no-one alive today knows what One Eyed, One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater is about.

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I s'pose it doesn't matter as long as we're still having fun, sitting in the back seat, hugging and a kissing with Fred

Dee doody doom doom, dee doody doom doom
Dee doody doom doom, doom


Cheers,

P
:D :D

Time to face facts mate.

You're nearly forty, therefore the wrong demographic for tripple bloody jay. :D

Why don't you stream a radio station from the US.

One that plays real R&B for instance. Not the hiphop crap that they call R&B today.

Craig (grumpy old bugger)

Yes, I think you're right. Although my wife reckons I was born a grumpy old man. How would she know, she wasn't there!

So I suppose I'll need to change my Avitar to one similar to yours soon too?

Re. streaming, I'm on ISDN here, would be more of a trickle.

And while we're on the subject, does anyone know if a coffee machine can suffer from a urinary tract infection? Mine is having a lot of trouble passing steam at the moment...

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Originally Posted by silentC

And while we're on the subject, does anyone know if a coffee machine can suffer from a urinary tract infection? Mine is having a lot of trouble passing steam at the moment...

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When was the last time you descaled it?

Darren

Actually the present dearth of anything approaching intelligent popular music is a good omen.

In the UK many years ago, just before the rise of rock n' roll, the Hit Parade (that's what it was called!) was filled with the efforts of people whose names I have - after much effort - managed to obliterate from my memory, singing genuinely inane cr@p. I recall a song that went on about clog-dancing mice (possibly from the other side of the RITFOTU! :eek: ) and that bloody awful 'Tulips From Amsterdam' thing (there's a bit of a Dutch theme to all this, isn't there?)

So, my contention is that, just as in the late 50s and early 60s, all the present cr@p is probably a pre-cursor to a surge of good stuff. We can only hope!

Col

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When was the last time you descaled it?

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I assumed it had been scaled when I bought it from the fish shop.

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So, my contention is that, just as in the late 50s and early 60s, all the present cr@p is probably a pre-cursor to a surge of good stuff. We can only hope!

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I've been waiting for that since the 70's!! ;)

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Originally Posted by silentC

And while we're on the subject, does anyone know if a coffee machine can suffer from a urinary tract infection? Mine is having a lot of trouble passing steam at the moment...

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Yeah they can, calcium and magnesium carbonates can build up in them, quicker in hard water areas. Mix up 1cup white vinegar with 2 cups water and run that through, followed by about 3 or 4 changes of clean water. You can also buy commercial coffe maker cleaner which is just citric acid.

After having lived in the US I have hated australian radio stations. Where we lived there were something like 10 or so FM stations based in the city and it only had 500,000 people, easy to get variety, anytime you got sick of there was a real alternative ie one that had a completely different play list.

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Originally Posted by Driver

Darren

Actually the present dearth of anything approaching intelligent popular music is a good omen.

In the UK many years ago, just before the rise of rock n' roll, the Hit Parade (that's what it was called!) was filled with the efforts of people whose names I have - after much effort - managed to obliterate from my memory, singing genuinely inane cr@p. I recall a song that went on about clog-dancing mice (possibly from the other side of the RITFOTU! :eek: ) and that bloody awful 'Tulips From Amsterdam' thing (there's a bit of a Dutch theme to all this, isn't there?)

So, my contention is that, just as in the late 50s and early 60s, all the present cr@p is probably a pre-cursor to a surge of good stuff. We can only hope!

Col

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Lets follow the Brits they can give us the next big wave in music, like mobile phone ring tones!
God help ushttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...cons/icon4.gif

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Originally Posted by silentC

I assumed it had been scaled when I bought it from the fish shop.

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Ho ho.

Seriusly though, you need to clean off the build up of scale regularly. Particularly if your local water supply has a high mineral content.

I use the stuff called CLR that you get from the super.

Works well but make sure you run plenty of water through the machine afterwards.

Don't want to poison yourself. :)

If you haven't cleaned your machine, treat yourself. You'll be pleased with the results.

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Ho ho.

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Sigh. I'm becoming my father. I can just see me carving the family roast and saying to my wife "do you want stuffing"?

OK, I will do as you say. I'll give the vinegar a go and get the missus to pick up some CLR next time she's at the supermarket.

Is this another sign of getting old, having conversations about coffee machines?

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Originally Posted by silentC

I've been waiting for that since the 70's!! ;)

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Yair - good point!

I must say that I don't listen to music on the radio these days. I tend to tune in to Radio National when I'm driving.

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Originally Posted by silentC

Sigh. I'm becoming my father.

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That happens, too. I caught myself making incoherent grumpy noises the other day while reading something that irritated me. I looked up to see my kids smiling indulgently at me in exactly the same way I used to smile at the old man when he did it!

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Originally Posted by silentC

Is this another sign of getting old, having conversations about coffee machines?

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Yep. :D :D :D :D :D

You Bastards, after 30 odd years I had forgotten about the tap dancing dutch mice...........Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :mad:

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Originally Posted by Iain

You Bastards, after 30 odd years I had forgotten about the tap dancing dutch mice...........Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :mad:

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You're gonna hate me for this .... I've just remembered the other abomination. The one that went on about (wait for it!) ...


Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer .... (complete the line Iain, I dare you! You'll then be doomed to have the bloody thing repeating in your head all day. :eek: But why should I suffer alone? : :p )

Luckily I missed that one but I ggogled, no music thank goodness,
There's a tiny house (there's a tiny house)
By a tiny stream (by a tiny stream),
Where a lovely lass (where a lovely lass)
Had a lovely dream (had a lovely dream),
And her dream came true (and her dream came true)
Quite unexpectedly
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea.

She was out one day (she was out one day)
Where the tulips grow (where the tulips grow),
When a handsome lad (when a handsome lad)
Stopped to say hello (stopped to say hello),
And before she knew (and before she knew)
He kissed her tenderly,
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea.

The happy pair were married one Sunday afternoon,
They left the church and ran away to spend their honeymoon:

In a tiny house (in a tiny house)
By a tiny stream (by a tiny stream),
Where the lovely lass (where the lovely lass)
Had a lovely dream (had a lovely dream).
And the last I heard (and the last I heard),
They still lived happily
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea,
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea.

Max: So now you've heard the story of how it all begun,
Boy: I think I'd like to go there,
Max: That's a good idea,
All: Son!

Sing it very soft (sing it very soft),
Pianissimo (pianissimo),
LIke a little bird (like a little bird),
Walking in the snow (walking in the snow):
That was very nice (that was very nice),
Now sing it merrily,
It's Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea,
(Sshh) In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea,
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea!

For more see http://www.scbd.connectfree.co.uk/fl...lly-gilly.html

Aaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh!!!!!!!
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Try the link, you'll either laugh at the crap or slash your wrists (option 2 is good I think, I actually recall some of them).

Fortunately I don't have time because I have to go out right now. Later maybe.

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Originally Posted by silentC

.. It was too much, so I flicked across to jjj to try and get jiggy wiv it (whatever that means) but i don't think it's working...

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I'm Jiggin' disgusted in you Darren, fer crikeys' sake you're the same Jiggin' age as me, and I haven't stopped listening to jjj, even had Jack Thompson on the other morning with "Radios' Jay & the Doctor", up until recently Adam & Will were the morning presenters and I can't tell you how many time Jiggin' Adam Spencer almost made me run off the road in hysterical laughter.
And the Music.... let's just say I have a few of the recent "hottest 100" here at my joint, please don't tell me that our late 70's & 80s stuff was better, cause I still want to throw up at most of it.
And you have my sympathy if you've "lost" your "jigginess"....I've been told ;) viagra helps you find it again.

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Originally Posted by silentC

I do tune in to that often. People started ribbing me about it when I answered the phone and they could hear Peer Gynt wafting away in the background. "What are you listening to, you old fart, bloody Mozart or somefing" they'd say......

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SilentC,

Time to get some more up-market mates - there is nothing wrong with Mozart.

Rocker (Old fart)

hey Silent, this made me remember one of the big hits from our youth, the really deep & meaningfull "DA DA DA" by Trio, then there was all the Micky Jackson cwap, the venerable "Rocky burnett jnr" diseased rubbish, et all.
Cripes i can now remember why i listened mostly to "Ska" and fringe punk stuff.
Now Silent take your bloody foot out of that grave and slowly back away whilst maintain eye contact with the headstone, and repeatedly chant, "you are only as young as you feel" grab the keys for your car, throw the board on the racks and tune the radio to double J....sorry triple j break off the tuning knob and head for the best breaks you can find.

:mad: You bastard Iain. I didn't recognise that song until you posted the whole song - now I can't get it out of my head.

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Originally Posted by silentC

And while we're on the subject, does anyone know if a coffee machine can suffer from a urinary tract infection? Mine is having a lot of trouble passing steam at the moment...

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This will take you to the cause of the problem...it's well known in your area. :D
http://bega.yourguide.com.au/detail...News&class_id=7

Back in the seventies, a local DJ produced a number of gag singles. One of them was
Thump, thump, bash, bash,
Junior's flamin' jungle music,
Thump, thump, bash, bash,
Junior's flamin' jungle music,

repeated until he had his three minutes up.

Another one was
Back yard barbie,
boogie woogie woogie boo,

but that had real lyrics and a story.

Cheers
Richard

Personally, I don't have a problem with ads, or repeated songs. I just turn on "Radio iPod", and can listen up to 24 hours a day for a month (well 28.42 days to be exact) without hearing a single repeat :D

I remember the day Double J first started broadcasting. Led Zepplin, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple. It was as if they were working their way through my record collection.
Sigh..............those were the days.

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Originally Posted by adrian

I remember the day Double J first started broadcasting.

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And for a bonus point, the first song they played was?

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Originally Posted by craigb

And for a bonus point, the first song they played was?

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I had to do a google to get that so I don't win. I wasn't a fan of Skyhooks so it wouldn't have registered.