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I don’t listen to the radio anymore unless it’s by accident. This may not be so strange except I did work as a radio producer in Australia.

In a nutshell Japanese radio sucks. Not just the music they play. The whole thing. Stupid irrelevant rambling hosts, who talk over songs that are then abruptly cut off. It’s a shambles. Not just the Japanese language stations either. InterFM is exactly the same except they speak English occasionally. TV seems to be the more happening medium here in regards to music exposure. I don’t think any stations here will be playing marshmallow spike in the future. And I’m not fussed by that.

I sometimes listen to Triple J an Australian station on a live feed on the ‘puter but even that annoys me a bit. Tonight on a programme when they were doing an interview the first 20 seconds was “hello are you there?”. 20 seconds can be a long time in radio.

BUt i shouldn’t diss JJJ when the commercial stations in Australia are so much worse. Some of them don’t even play music of this decade unless it’s pre-packaged manufactured pop crap.

Which makes this so amusing. It’s the transcript of an interview with Frenzal Rhomb vocalist Jason Whalley. Frenzal Rhomb - well you couldn’t describe them as your average pop band by any stretch of the imagination. But fair is fair in this case.

Frenzal Rhomb - 1
Austereo Network - 0

What’s your verdict?

• Jeeezzzz, and you tell me off for being vague, at least i can string a sentence together!

  j-ster
  04/07/19 05:20 PM

• I hope you were referring to the linked transcript and not my writing there missy….

  (~^)

  mj
  04/07/19 05:27 PM

• You know what i was, well, i just think, you know, like the article, i mean, the way they speak, like, too many pipes man, too many fucking pipes before the show, and it totally ruins the train of ....

  I love this bit tho:
  J: They’re back working in the same shoe shop that they were working in…
  O: No they’re not…
  J: ...The day before they joined Popstars!

  Loved it! And you know, about the vagueness thing, i know i should be less vague, but i cant, and so i am, and thats just all there is ... oh, whats that over there?  Hang on…

  j-ster
  04/07/20 06:31 AM

• Is anyone else having to scroll down half a mile to get to the comments box from the info boxes?

  j-ster
  04/07/20 06:32 AM

• triple j is an awesome station! I agree with you that the main stream radio stations here down under play alot of crap! I listen to triple J preferably cause the music is pretty good (actually there is some absolute crap as well, Aussie rap?)

  i did a radio interview on triple J once, it was fun being broadcast round Australia

  jieshi
  04/07/22 09:23 PM

• Do they still have USEN440 there? We used to have that music service in our apartment. It was great: hundreds of channels of commercial-free music of all genres. I suppose XM is the sort of the same thing, but there was no XM 10 years ago.

  Barron
  04/07/28 06:03 AM

• Try Triple R http://www.rrr.org.au/

  The Jays never got as strong a hold in Melbourne due to The R’S and PBS.
  What I can gossip to you about the Jays is this. Programs from Melbourne used to be better for a very sneaky reason. The Jays run on a program sheet. The Djs are expected to play X many songs from said sheet an hour. The library in Melbourne wasn’t as well stocked (this may have changed, 5 years out of the scene now) or organised as I expect the Sydney studios, so the Djs could improvise (play what they liked) a lot more. More variety, better programs.

  Ol Dirty Gaijin
  04/08/08 05:33 AM