Nearly every Saturday the same thing happens, we get up, go to the kitchen for breakfast and turn on the radio. But on Radio 2 on a Saturday at 7 am is Brian Matthew's "Sounds of the 6O's", a show where for every good song played you have endure nine crap ones. All the bands are called things like "Rinky, Dinky and Stinky", "The Colin Shine Experience" or "The Happy Campers" and the songs have titles like "Doo Woop Didi Didi Doo Woop Bop", "You're My Lollypop" or "Baby, Please Don't Leave Me".
To make matters worse then there are Brian's links, which showcase his seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of anyone who went within 20 feet of a guitar during the sixties -
"So that was "Plop Goes the Weasel" with their 1964 hit "Bing Bang Bong". That song was released 34 times in that year by various artists and was originally written and preformed by "Eric Gravy and the Cardigan Express" and reached number 84 in the charts. But we've decided to play "Plop Goes the Weasel's" version because Doris Jenkins of Bridgend vaguely remembers it after she received a sharp blow to the head that very same year."
Surely if a song has been released numerous times by various artists and despite all that effort is still only a very minor hit you are in serious polishing a turd territory, so why are you choosing to play it again now in 2010! 50 years later! The majority of these songs aren't fine wines and are certainly getting no better with age.
I guess all this begs the question, why not just change the station? Laziness, habit and the fact that in every show there is always a gem. A fantastic track you would have never heard without wading through the other 1 hour 58 mins of familiar hits and total arse or as in the case of today's show a band name so brilliant it brightens your whole day. Ladies and gentlemen I give you (thanks to Mr Brian Matthews and the Sounds of the 60s) - THE PEANUT BUTTER CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!!!
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