As a one time lover of Capital 95.8, I hadn’t realised how bad it had become until I accidentally subjected myself to about two hours of the output today.
Lordy, lordy.
Firstly, somebody needs to define the phrase “ten in a row”. I mean, ‘ten’ whatevers in a ‘row’ surely just means the back to back uninterrupted playing of ten songs of a particular ‘whatever’. That ‘whatever’ could be (say) Beatles (“Ten Beatles songs in a row”), or oldies, or the generic phrase ‘great’. “Ten great songs in a row”. Well, surely, “ten great songs in a row” means the presenter goes out for a fag, a game of pool, a haircut, a bath, a shag, or whatever, whilst the ten ‘great’ songs play one after the other without interruption?
But no. It means just playing the songs with all the usual jibberjabber inbetween them, including the constant reminder that you’re listening to “ten great songs” in a row. Why would they do that? How, oh how oh how is that in any way ten actual whatevers in a row? The phrase means nothing in the context of the output. They might just as well decide to say the equally pointless and meaningless “ten moonbeans are green” every link instead.
Speaking of the jibberjabber. Every bloody link. Every link. Every link. Sigh. Every link without exception was an endorsement or promotion of the weekday breakfast show. Why? I mean, right, traditionally breakfast shows are the most listened to part of a station’s output. Not the other shows. So, surely the breakfast show is the show that should be trying to ‘sell’ the other shows that less people are listening to, not the other way round?
And no wonder less and less people are listening to Capital for long periods. What normal human being would subject themselves to somebody saying the same thing every time they spoke? I mean, down the pub with a mate who constantly talks to you about a breakfast show throughout your two hour stay in the pub would surely make you want to throw your Guinness over his head and leave?
That’s what I had to do after just two hours of listening to Capital 95.8. I couldn’t stand it any more. Why don’t they want to produce programming for people who might want to leave them on for a few hours?
As it was, it was playing too many safe old songs anyway. I was looking for a station playing today’s music, like Capital used to.
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