{"id":153,"date":"2007-11-30T12:40:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T11:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/pop-music\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T12:41:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T11:41:37","slug":"pop-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/pop-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anita and I listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayfm.com\/default.asp\">Today FM<\/a> in the morning. It&#8217;s a national station, broadcasting somewhere between 100 and 102 MHz all over the country. Most of the radio stations here have a programming format that I would describe as old-fashioned: a potpourri of DJ banter, call-in games and prizes, comedy routines, and pop music across at thirty-year span.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sampling of music that we hear quite frequently on the radio. You&#8217;ll probably recognize most of it from American radio! <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hard-Fi  &#8211; Can&#8217;t Get Along (Without You)<\/li>\n<li>Timbaland presents OneRepublic &#8211; Apologise <\/li>\n<li>James Blunt  &#8211; 1973 <\/li>\n<li>Mark Ronson &#8211; Valerie feat. Amy Winehouse<\/li>\n<li>Feist  &#8211; 1,2,3,4 <\/li>\n<li>Rihanna  &#8211; Don&#8217;t Stop The Music (&#8220;Umbrella&#8221; was the song of the summer, quite appropriately.)<\/li>\n<li>Alicia Keys  &#8211; No One <\/li>\n<li>Craig David &#8211; Hot Stuff<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Springsteen  &#8211; Radio Nowhere <\/li>\n<li>Kanye West  &#8211; Good Times feat. T-Pain<\/li>\n<li>Paddy Casey  &#8211; Addicted To Company (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paddycasey.com\/\">Paddy Casey<\/a> is Dublin-based, and I don&#8217;t know whether he&#8217;s known in the US, but his style would be familiar nonetheless.)<\/li>\n<li>Kate Nash &#8211; Foundations<\/li>\n<li>Plain White T&#8217;s &#8211; Hey There Delilah<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Lopez &#8211; Do It Well<\/li>\n<li>Foo Fighters &#8211; Long Road To Ruin<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Adams &#8211; Everybody knows<\/li>\n<li>Nelly Furtado &#8211; Do it<\/li>\n<li>Foo Fighters &#8211; Band on the Run<\/li>\n<li>Cherry Ghost &#8211; 4am<\/li>\n<li>Queens of the Stoneage &#8211; Make it with chu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of nostalgia-rock mixed in, particularly from requests. Although Today FM plays a fair number of Irish artists, they don&#8217;t dominate the airwaves at all.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoons, many stations move to a talk-radio format. One program in particular, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/radio1\/liveline\/\">Liveline<\/a> with Joe Duffy, seemed to have an effect on the elections in May. Some politicians and analysts treat it as the genuine voice of the people. I find this quite unlike the American presumption that US talk radio is partisan (but maybe more like the attitude towards political television shows). I must add that many Irish commentators bemoan the role of call-in radio in Irish politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita and I listen to Today FM in the morning. It&#8217;s a national station, broadcasting somewhere between 100 and 102 MHz all over the country. Most of the radio stations here have a programming format that I would describe as old-fashioned: a potpourri of DJ banter, call-in games and prizes, comedy routines, and pop music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}