I lent my car to my daughter recently. She's short, so when I got in the car I was looking at myself in the rearview mirror rather than the back window, and the side mirrors were focused on the door handle. Minor annoyance. But the unforgivable customization was she'd let the grandkids change my radio station!
 
So instead of my usual NPR, I found myself listening to "AT-40", which is what they call the venerable "American Top 40" countdown show nowadays. I thought: don't be a curmudgeon, give it a listen and be open-minded.
 
I got to hear three songs during my 30-minute trip to band practice. 9 minutes of music and 21 minutes of ads. Some things never change. The first two I had to admit were top-notch productions, respectable attempts to put lipstick on some weak, derivative songs. The third one, though, was inventive and atypical top-40 fare. I decided it deserved 3 out of 5 stars. Imagine my shock when the announcer credited it to Justin Bieber.
 
I quickly punched the classic rock station preset and after a few bars of Shine on You Crazy Diamond my reality had once again been restored.

No one EVAH touches my SiriusXM radio settings.

A deli I go in every day always has that Top 40 crap playing on the radio. I'm always struck by how much some of these songs sound like nursery rhymes. When you take away all the fancy production and strip down the melody, it's something you would hum to a baby to get it off to sleep.

bitflipper
 
I got to hear three songs during my 30-minute trip to band practice. 9 minutes of music and 21 minutes of ads.

The BBC is by no means perfect, but at least we don't have to put up with commercial ads. Mind you, they do run a seemingly ever-increasing number of trailers for other shows.

SteveStrummerUK

bitflipper
 
I got to hear three songs during my 30-minute trip to band practice. 9 minutes of music and 21 minutes of ads.

The BBC is by no means perfect, but at least we don't have to put up with commercial ads. Mind you, they do run a seemingly ever-increasing number of trailers for other shows.

Top 40 trailMix?

SteveStrummerUK

The BBC is by no means perfect, but at least we don't have to put up with commercial ads. Mind you, they do run a seemingly ever-increasing number of trailers for other shows.

Or in the case of Radio 1 endless tripe about the DJs Facebook

When I was in Dubai one would often find all the presets on the work vehicle changed to Indian channels, wall to wall Bollywood.

My Indian colleagues probably uttered similar curses when they found every thing back to western music 😁

Glyn Barnes

SteveStrummerUK

The BBC is by no means perfect, but at least we don't have to put up with commercial ads. Mind you, they do run a seemingly ever-increasing number of trailers for other shows.

Or in the case of Radio 1 endless tripe about the DJs Facebook

I'll have to take your word for that Glyn
 
I don't think I've knowingly listened to Radio 1 since the days of John Peel and Tommy Vance

The only thing more concerning than you liking a JB tune is that you publicly admitted to it.

I suspect that she returned it with an empty tank too.
(mine always did)