Everyone Lost In The Ether

TrulyMadly

MKS wrote: »

TM, where have I gone wrong? My offspring invite themselves to stay (along with their in laws) and the local ones invite themselves to come for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and will let me know of any other day, 'if that' ok', in January for the following Christmas. Come October, I'm asked if I remember that we are all coming for Christmas. lol. I am already being asked if the mince pies and sausage rolls have been made :eek::eek::eek

Well hello you......have you had a lovely jolly?

I'm so pleased you are here before E goes off on holiday as I need someone to nag me to get in the shower on a Saturday morning:rotfl:


Oh they will be here but I will never be able to pin them down on times

Savvybuyer

Alert - non-money saving post (but I will get back to that soon, in whatever my next post turns out to be, I hope...:):cool:)

As it happens, I was, very briefly, looking at this only yesterday and it was very coincidental as I haven't done so for several years.

In fact I can find the place where I saw it: http://www.mds975.co.uk/Content/xtra-am02.html

It's about what they'd play on the radio. I am "very underground" now. But that link suggested that people would like some music despite the fact it was never a big hit, and then showed that 41% of people would switch channels if "Paper Sun" by Traffic came on despite that having been a Top 5 hit.

I actually like "Paper Sun" by Traffic:rotfl:. I tend to think these days that like stuff that most people don't. Although, I'm still in the majority here as 59% of people wouldn't switch over.

Don't click on the link - you won't be interested in it: no-one will find it interesting at all except me.

I always think my "era" was the early 90s - I liked the 80s, nothing too bad and not much I don't like, in fact I like a lot of it but just didn't do as much for me as what followed, in fact I like a lot of things, from the 50s, 60s, 70s, from prior to the 50s - the 40s, 30s, 20s, all the way back, a slight dip (for me) in the 80s and then I like that period in between - the early 90s, that gets forgotten and lost between two surrounding periods that draw more attention. I'm too young for one but too old for another - blame a declining birth rate:rotfl:. But it is, it's about numbers when it comes to commercial radio and advertisers. The BBC also has to get numbers because the Daily Mail complains if it doesn't.

I think I'm the early 90s, but then again I don't know whether I really was. I listened to radio in the evenings (instead of going out:o:o like normal folks - it turned out, 20 years later, that I have Asperger's and that's part of the reason why:) - but instead of socialising I was listening to the radio - and in the evenings mostly, when 'no-one else listens' (obviously people do, not literally no-one, but it is lower audiences, you get the meaning)) so I actually know a whole load of songs that in fact weren't popular at all (but only got played when fewer people were listening - and, thus, weren't able to buy them as they didn't hear them - then again I didn't buy:eek: anything either:T:T - I just listened to the radio:rotfl: - :TI got a money-saving point in there:D:D). The charts tell us more about marketing and promotion again, and how successful they've managed to get their songs played - it's more about exposure and location and promotion again than about much else, although people in RL just don't get this point.

And then the one period I would switch off would be breakfast-time (never liked the "inane" chatter) when most people listen - but I was always rushing around trying to get ready for school/college and never had time to listen to the radio back then. And listen it would be - I couldn't ever have anything on in the 'background' - I would have to listen to it. That is an autistic thing as well, my eventual clinician that diagnosed me told me.

Anyway, I don't know - I occasionally look at "comparemyradio" website, just in order to prove to myself my own point and own contention/belief that 'my songs' don't get played. I always find either zero or double figures:( - whilst all I dislike gets tens of thousands of plays:(:( (so guess what - I don't listen to the radio now!). But, then again, any individual song that's quite a lot older would get fewer plays than something more current. The chance of a particular, specific song, unless it's a current chart song, would be more remote. It was probably the same in the early 90s, when we didn't have all these stats. available to us, as it is now.

I think my favourite period was the early 90s (...and the radio was always good back then) yet, when I think more about it, actually I liked a lot from that period that didn't chart well, so, maybe I was always "underground"?:think:

If I say 'early 90s', what songs do people actually associate with that? If people want to answer, please do. What would you say was an early 90s song? (Are people actually picking what I listened to as "pop" or was I listening to something else?:think:)

EDIT: I've just looked back at this post immediately after posting it: :eek::eek:crikey - I have written a long post! Again:rotfl::rotfl:.

MKS

3Dogs wrote: »

I like to pop in more these days now it's a nice place to be again :j :j

I've been meaning to say Bubbs, I was by your place a couple of months ago. Dropping off a dog from transport but it was late at night. I just saw the entrance to your site as I past about 20 mins from my drop off

Hi 3Dogs, hope that you are well. Was thinking of Alan earlier, bet he would have been pleased by the result today. :beer:

bubbs

Hello MKS :wave:
Hope you are all refreshed after your holibobs

TrulyMadly

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Alert - non-money saving post (but I will get back to that soon, in whatever my next post turns out to be, I hope...:):cool:)

As it happens, I was, very briefly, looking at this only yesterday and it was very coincidental as I haven't done so for several years.

In fact I can find the place where I saw it: http://www.mds975.co.uk/Content/xtra-am02.html

It's about what they'd play on the radio. I am "very underground" now. But that link suggested that people would like some music despite the fact it was never a big hit, and then showed that 44% of people would switch channels if "Paper Sun" by Traffic came on despite that having been a Top 5 hit.

I actually like "Paper Sun" by Traffic:rotfl:. I tend to think these days that like stuff that most people don't. Although, I'm still in the majority here as 56% of people wouldn't switch over.

Don't click on the link - you won't be interested in it: no-one will find it interesting at all except me.

I always think my "era" was the early 90s - I liked the 80s, nothing too bad and not much I don't like, in fact I like a lot of it but just didn't do as much for me as what followed, in fact I like a lot of things, from the 50s, 60s, 70s, from prior to the 50s - the 40s, 30s, 20s, all the way back, a slight dip (for me) in the 80s and then I like that period in between - the early 90s, that gets forgotten and lost between two surrounding periods that draw more attention. I'm too young for one but too old for another - blame a declining birth rate:rotfl:. But it is, it's about numbers when it comes to commercial radio and advertisers. The BBC also has to get numbers because the Daily Mail complains if it doesn't.

I think I'm the early 90s, but then again I don't know whether I really was. I listened to radio in the evenings (instead of going out:o:o like normal folks - it turned out, 20 years later, that I have Asperger's and that's part of the reason why:) - but instead of socialising I was listening to the radio - and in the evenings mostly, when 'no-one else listens' (obviously people do, not literally no-one, but it is lower audiences, you get the meaning)) so I actually know a whole load of songs that in fact weren't popular at all (but only got played when fewer people were listening - and, thus, weren't able to buy them as they didn't hear them - then again I didn't buy:eek: anything either:T:T - I just listened to the radio:rotfl: - :TI got a money-saving point in there:D:D). The charts tell us more about marketing and promotion again, and how successful they've managed to get their songs played - it's more about exposure and location and promotion again than about much else, although people in RL just don't get this point.

And then the one period I would switch off would be breakfast-time (never liked the "inane" chatter) when most people listen - but I was always rushing around trying to get ready for school/college and never had time to listen to the radio back then. And listen it would be - I couldn't ever have anything on in the 'background' - I would have to listen to it. That is an autistic thing as well, my eventual clinician that diagnosed me told me.

Anyway, I don't know - I occasionally look at "comparemyradio" website, just in order to prove to myself my own point and own contention/belief that 'my songs' don't get played. I always find either zero or double figures:( - whilst all I dislike gets tens of thousands of plays:(:( (so guess what - I don't listen to the radio now!). But, then again, any individual song that's quite a lot older would get fewer plays than something more current. The chance of a particular, specific song, unless it's a current chart song, would be more remote. It was probably the same in the early 90s, when we didn't have all these stats. available to us, as it is now.

I think my favourite period was the early 90s (...and the radio was always good back then) yet, when I think more about it, actually I liked a lot from that period that didn't chart well, so, maybe I was always "underground"?:think:

If I say 'early 90s', what songs do people actually associate with that? If people want to answer, please do. What would you say was an early 90s song? (Are people actually picking what I listened to as "pop" or was I listening to something else?:think:)

EDIT: I've just looked back at this post immediately after posting it: :eek::eek:crikey - I have written a long post! Again:rotfl::rotfl:.

I'm trying to remember what I listened to in the early 90's and then realisation hits me....that's over 20 years ago:o

How can that possibly be?

Savvybuyer

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I'm trying to remember what I listened to in the early 90's and then realisation hits me....that's over 20 years ago:o

How can that possibly be?

I know:rotfl: - we're so old:(:(:o:rotfl:. Like an old mature wine though, that improves with age:D.

Give or take a few years, it was the last time I 'voluntarily' listened to the radio:rotfl:. It's been that long!:eek: (Of course, you get to hear it against your better wish:laugh: in workplaces and in public from time to time.)

Thing was, at the time, those five years or so seemed to last for ages, whilst 20 years have flown past in between then and now.

Well, eventually I had to buy:eek:(:rotfl:) records as there was 'nothing' on the radio that I liked anymore, so I'm still in that era, listening to what I was listening to then, and time hasn't moved on at all. I especially like the ones that people seem to call "dated" (that's just my feeling of what they might think though - I've never actually had someone come up to me and say "you listen to dated music") whilst the songs from the 90s that still (presumably) get a lot of airtime - I think those are very dated and haven't lasted at all:rotfl:! Then again, I've no real idea of what gets played and when nowadays, beyond the comparemyradio (which doesn't actually help as I'm searching for my own bias of what I'm searching for). There's Absolute 90s - but they don't really play what I liked - they may pick the one song from an artist, their one song that I didn't like - and perhaps seem to play the same songs rather than all of what I liked. "Music from the 90s, without the duds" I think is their catchphrase. Well, I like the duds! I'm supposed to be a sceptical listener (except I don't listen anymore) in terms of their marketing terminology (sceptical = an ageing person that doesn't really like much new, is sceptical of it). Well, too sceptical indeed, so much that I reject their own approach:rotfl::eek:. (Of what they are playing, from that era. Actually, on times when others have tuned in, sometimes Absolute 80s has played better in an hour than Absolute 90s has. So, maybe I prefer the 80s? Then again, it just depends on what precisely they pick. So, maybe, I wasn't "pop" in the 90s - even though I liked 'all' of what was in the charts - and you can pick the two or three songs I didn't like and suddenly I don't like that era - which leads me to thinking maybe I was always underground?!?)

hornetgirl

MKS

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Well hello you......have you had a lovely jolly?

I'm so pleased you are here before E goes off on holiday as I need someone to nag me to get in the shower on a Saturday morning:rotfl:


Oh they will be here but I will never be able to pin them down on times

:hello: I had an absolutely brilliant jolly. Apart from one day, wall to wall 30+ sunshine. When I left, the sky opened its' eyes and cried. Took off 15 minutes early as thunderstorm was imminent and would have caused an horrendous delay.


Who is E?

bubbs

E is enterprise

TrulyMadly

MKS wrote: »

:hello: I had an absolutely brilliant jolly. Apart from one day, wall to wall 30+ sunshine. When I left, the sky opened its' eyes and cried. Took off 15 minutes early as thunderstorm was imminent and would have caused an horrendous delay.


Who is E?

Sorry I mean C:rotfl: