Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Martin (Admin) on June 12, 2019, 09:31:54 pm
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What Music, Radio, Audio do you listen too when building models?
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I have Freesat 200 on continually for latest and revolving BBC News.
Unless there is a specific program to watch of interest (listen to)
Good old Boris {-)
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Radio 2 or my iTunes selection mostly Adele, Sting, Fleetwood Mac, Disturbed, Mary Chapin-Carpenter and Simply Red :-))
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Radio 2 or my iTunes selection mostly Adele, Sting, Fleetwood Mac, Disturbed, Mary Chapin-Carpenter and Simply Red :-))
I love radio 2 mostly and its just occured to me I can listen to pop master instead via TV :-)) thanks
EDIT channel 702 Freesat
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Hi all, I mainly play audio books from local library, failing that Classic FM.
regards Roy
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A mixture really
Magic radio most of the time but occasionally switch to Absolute 80s and when I want something completely different Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audiobooks!
At the moment Im enjoying nature... rain drops and bird song!
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Classic FM in the main, sometimes Radio 2/4 and iTunes.
LB
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Radio 4. Though when a repeat turns up (and there are many!) I slide the DAB to Planet Rock.
Oh yeah. :-))
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usually Gold, music from the 60's 70's and 80's, much better than the stuff they push out today.
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Absolutely none!
If there is noise from elsewhere then I have one of those "deep space" (even though deep space is in reality silent) relaxation tracks as noise (particularly other peoples) just distracts me.
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Usually Heart radio or iTunes! Just something quite in the background. :-))
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Radio 2, or Heart when the local R2 transmitter has an 'off hour', which is does frequently. <:(
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BBC 4 extra comedy some BBC 6 music and a selection of podcasts, sometimes a selection from Spotify but I like to listen to something informative or funny than music, since my breakdown I've gone off music.
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heart 80's. jim reeves, genesis, marillion, led zeppelin, Fleetwood mac, yes, camel, deep purple, Jethro tull, bachman Turner overdrive, mike oldfield, errrrrr perhaps this is why I dont get a lot of modelling completed!!!
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The sound of silence, I can think better.
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For me, it is either Andrea Bocelli or Dire Straits.......Time just flies by...
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BBC Radio 6...a very eclectic mix especially on the weekends.
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Radio 2 or Smooth Radio
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Planet Rock mostly although I also have an internet radio unit wired into my workshop audio system and there's an amazing array of stations and genres available from all around the globe on that, my favourites on that are classic the British comedy radio stations that play shows like The Goon Show, The Navy Lark, I'm sorry I Haven't A Clue..... etc.etc
My audio unit also plays mp3's and I'm just listening to 45 episodes of 'Round The Horne' that I downloaded recently...insanely funny !!
Robbob.
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I love my radio when modelling , for me it's Classic FM and Radio 3 .
Bowwave :-))
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Radio 5 live unless they start discussing subject matter that I don't want to listen to. Which, as i'm getting older seems to be getting more and more. Then I alternate around Radio 4, Radio 2, Local radio, Classic Fm, Ipod selection. A few pod casts. Sometimes silence. As the mood takes. All very random and eclectic.
The only music I cannot listen to is Barber Shop Quartets.
Ninety percent of "Radio" that I listen to is actually through my Samsung phone.
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Radio 6 for me. I used to listen to Radio 1 until they got rid of Mark and Lard (1997-2014) then I wandered aimlessly between radio2, BBC Sussex and radio 4 before going DAB in 2012.
I like much of their output but am not a complete fan of Jazz or 'Gangsta Rap' (For those not in the know, the latter is where blokes shout about their cars, money, drugs, expensive wines and spirits, guns and misogynistic stuff about women.)
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It all depends on what stage I am with the build.
I usually start off with Mission Impossible
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Then with luck I eventually progress to the 1812 Overture - With really loud cannon fire %%
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Radio 2, although this is going to be the summer of all summers cricket-wise, the World Cup followed by the Ashes, so will be switching to the cricket at 11:00am-ish, always supposing the weather starts behaving itself!
Mike.
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Radio 1 has been completely unlistenable for over twenty years, while I've only recently stopped listening to Radio 2. I realised that I was reaching for the Mute button more often than leaving the thing on. Their changes to the playlist towards "equality" and "diversity" have resulted in an almost endless stream of adenoidal adolescent Whitney-wannabees and listless youths with silly abbreviations for names, reciting juvenile doggerel in a bored monotone to the backing of some equally talentless herbert pawing away repetitively at his laptop or synth. Or Ed Sheeran - Suffolk's answer to Paul Simon. Even the Golden Oldies half-hour in the afternoon show has descended to what Huxley (or was it Orwell?) called a pease-pudding norm - musical wall/toilet paper, if you will.
I have a big box full of my "old f*rt" CD's in the workshop and I'm seriouslty thinking of buying a stand-alone record deck to plug into my little Denon mini system and get out the old vinyls again. Proper music! I also relish Radio 5SX whenever TMS is broadcast but my default radio channel is now Radio 4.......however the Mute button stays primed and read for the dreaded sound of "Barwick Green"!
DaveM
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Yes, I have also recently dumped Radio 2, not because of the music but mostly because of the inane presenters, most notably the noxious Jeremy Vine. I find Classic FM much more relaxing. And I know all the words!! {-) {-)
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Hi it's John V the only music i i listen to is my wife moning that I have got your on table or burnt it with the soldering iron cheers John V
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Well said Dave M ,I am with you , sound of the 60s has gone to some unearthly hour or might even have gone . I might start looking for music on the computer .
David
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Mozart and Haydn on CD's
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Well said Dave M ,I am with you , sound of the 60s has gone to some unearthly hour or might even have gone . I might start looking for music on the computer .
David
I think it's on at six in the morning and the avuncular and much-missed Brian Matthew has been replaced with the massive ego that was Tony "Fabulous, fantastic!" Blackburn - the DJ for whom the Mute Button was invented.
DM
And it looks like equality and diversity is about to ravage comedy shows on ITV (not that there's many of those) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48668652 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48668652) Under this rule we'd not have had Steptoe and Son, Hancock's Half Hour, Porridge, The Likely Lads, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet or even The Good Life. I've no idea what 'Celebability' is all about but I've no desire to find out; the first two syllables tell me all I need to know!
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As a lifelong heavy metal fan I am normally listening to that but not when I build models, I find it a bit distracting, works much better in the car.
I prefer country music when trying to concentrate. anything from Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and that era to more modern country. It seems to be quite helpful in aiding productivity.
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The truth why modern music is rubbish...........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVME_l4IwII
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That is a very good video and oh, so true.
I have imported most of my favourite tracks into iTunes and organise them into playlists which are burned on to CDs or USB sticks to play in the car.
Colin
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I mentioned the Golden Oldies on Steve Wright's show. Just for fun I compiled a list of songs which I haven't heard for yonks on the radio and submitted it. Needless to say it never got a look-in, but here it is, in no particular order - for what it's worth:
Veronica Elvis Costello
- Strangers in Blue Suede Shoes Kevin Ayers
- Veronica - Elvis Costello
- Long cool woman in a black dress Hollies/Alan Clarke
- Slow down John Miles
- Jailbreak (Live version) Thin Lizzie
- A Salty Dog Procol Harum
- Mussels from a shell Squeeze
- A picture of you Joe Brown
- Fire and Water Free
- The Weavers Answer Family
- The Village Green Preservation Society Kinks
- Friday on my mind Easybeats
- Canyons of your mind Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
- Fire Brigade Move
- Do you believe in magic? Lovin Spoonful (no G)
- Polk Salad Annie Tony Joe White
- Tuesday afternoon Moody Blues
- Under your thumb Godley & Crθme
- Happy Hour Again Housemartins
- Five-fifteen Who
- Foxy Lady Jimi Hendrix Experience
Well, I like 'em!
DaveM
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" Their coming to take me away HA HA HEE HEE " works for me ;D
Bill %%
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https://play.acast.com/s/wehaveways
Found this podcast there is a bit of advertising here and there but worth a listen.
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Seeing this thread prompted me to dig out my old trannie - currently listening to classic fm with some lovely music from Carmen by Bizet - nice and relaxing O0
Regards
Ray.
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Dont worry DaveM
I like them too- and Im only 34! Love the proper stuff, my parents bought me up on Buddy Holly, Showaddywaddy, Doctor Hook, ELO, Rolling Stones, Boney M, just to name a few!
I love the Moody Blues, ELO, and Wizard. :-))
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Wish that I could say "Sound of silence" and not the version from S&G, but at the age of 51 I still have about 15-20db better hearing than a normal 20-25 year old person and that is a pain in the ...
I have to use hearing protection even when I use some of my Proxon tools in the workshop, and a 12 hour flight from Hong Kong to Copenhagen yesterday is still messing with my hearing today <:(
Looking FWD to get old and loos some of my hearing, bad statement but that's my situation at the moment, and before any one comments on this one, I work for one of the top 5 companies within hearing aids, so yes I know about the challenges for people that is loosing their ability to hear.
Any ways other than that I'm healthy, that's worth celebrating :-)
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Moody Blues for me too Nick, I have been following them since 1967! Also seen Justin Hayward three times in recent years and he is still great. A really nice guy too.
Recently bought the DVD of the 2006 Musical version of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds which features Justin. Very impressive. And on the back of that I downloaded a Kindle book on the Last Days of Thunder Child which chronicles in more detail the heroic end of the obsolete warship which sacrificed itself to save escaping refugees in H G Wells' novel.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CEIOBGU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Colin
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ACDC. Loud.
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cheesy FM! :D :D
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I listen to same music when I'm building models as I do the rest of the time - nothing but live recordings of the Grateful Dead. As they never play anything the same way twice, I never get bored with it.
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nothing.
i don't like background noise when i am building models. i don't want the distraction, and i enjoy the silence.
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don't like background noise when i am building models. i don't want the distraction, and i enjoy the silence.
Yes, it helps to locate those tiny parts which jump out of your grasp and hit the floor at a totally unexpected angle...
Colin
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Evenings with John Peel are still sadly missed for me! I have everything on from R.I. lectures, TED lectures, classic, 80's and 90's music and "progressive trance "podcasts. I like living by myself -but never met a girl who would put up with me long-enough to correct yet, but I HATE a quiet house. At the moment, radio, or music is on the minute I get-in and switched-off the minute I walk-out every day.
Rich
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I mentioned the Golden Oldies on Steve Wright's show. Just for fun I compiled a list of songs which I haven't heard for yonks on the radio and submitted it. Needless to say it never got a look-in, but here it is, in no particular order - for what it's worth:
Veronica Elvis Costello
- Strangers in Blue Suede Shoes Kevin Ayers
- Veronica - Elvis Costello
- Long cool woman in a black dress Hollies/Alan Clarke
- Slow down John Miles
- Jailbreak (Live version) Thin Lizzie
- A Salty Dog Procol Harum
- Mussels from a shell Squeeze
- A picture of you Joe Brown
- Fire and Water Free
- The Weavers Answer Family
- The Village Green Preservation Society Kinks
- Friday on my mind Easybeats
- Canyons of your mind Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
- Fire Brigade Move
- Do you believe in magic? Lovin Spoonful (no G)
- Polk Salad Annie Tony Joe White
- Tuesday afternoon Moody Blues
- Under your thumb Godley & Crθme
- Happy Hour Again Housemartins
- Five-fifteen Who
- Foxy Lady Jimi Hendrix Experience
Well, I like 'em!
DaveM
Radio Six have played most of these in the last year or so? If not these exact songs, others from the same artists and others like them appear regularly. Now, while R6 does lay some Hip Hop and Rap, they do not play much/if any of the plastic pap that Thoughty2 refers to. Ed Sheeran does not get a look in and neither does Beiber, Swift, Perry, Cyrus or their kindred. They do have a playlist of new music and Jazz is popular at the moment. Good shows to listen to are in the evenings between 4PM (Steve Lamaq), Mark Riley at 7PM and Gideon Coe from 9 until 12. Weekends are a bit more specialised with Gilles Peterson (Marmite!), Craig Charles Funk and Soul show (Not bad) Tom Robinson (2-4-6-8 Motorway fame) and on Sunday evenings, Tom Robinson, Stuart Machonie's Freak zone and finishing with Don Letts' Culture Clash.
No Jeremy Whine, no Plastic pap and no adverts other than telling you what is on 6Music.
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Theres a radio 6? I thought it stopped at 5? Just how many channels do they have now, no wonder the BBC is strapped for cash these days!!
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A very long time ago I used to put a classical CD on. Then I found it had come to the end and I had not listened to it after the first few minutes being too engrossed in model making. Now I don't bother. {:-{
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Continuing on from my original post on this thread, I listen to a lot of audiobooks both modelling and whilst Im driving. I thought Id share something interesting with you all regarding recent licensing rights coming up for renewal soon or have already expired. Big Finish Productions has got permission to some of these licenses and have started to record new stories or reboots of certain TV series including Space 1999, and Adam Adamant Lives! In the last few years Ive heard new versions of Dan Dare, The Scarifers, The Avengers, Survivors, and many others.
All very well recommended, the recordings and production are very well done.
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Rockabilly all the way just the kool vibe tassie48
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Signal radio, classic FM, Heart radio.
John
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Yes, I have taken to Classic FM recently, although I am surprised at the rather limited playlist they have. I seem to hear the same few popular classics every day. Surely with the enormous "back catalogue" of classical music they could cut back on the repetition? Perhaps I should be a Radio 3 listener, but there it seems there is only the high brow and obscure! %%
Greg