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Dangerous Dave Pierce (or Pearce, I forget), previously a purveyor of those finest Dance Anthems and currently the voice of 2% of the Nation's journey home from work (this is one of the 89% of statistics made up on the spot), may be losing his mind. Last night as I drove to football he played the most extraordinary sequence of music. It went something like;

Sean Paul (possibly "Like Glue" but I can't remember [another Sean Paul song had been on my iPod during the train ride home, and I can't remember which is which or if they were even the same {Sizzla's "Black Woman & Child" was on too (I was randoming through the 'dancehall' genre, all TWENTY FIVE TRACKS, check how urban I am); how beautiful is that song?}])

followed by

Keane ("Everyone's Changing" [is this a 'we fear change' anti-modernism {modernism as in 'the state of what is current and now' rather than the 'literary' (etc.) movement typified as running in the first fifty years of the last century} anthem? are Keane afraid of the 'now' on a spiritual level? It's obviously not a fear manifested on the practical level; just listen to the filtersweeps! WHOOOOSH! "WE ARE NOW!"])

followed by

Slipknott (fuck only knows what it was called, but the chorus was about pushing your fingers into your own eyes?! omg wtf?!)

followed by

Eamonn (this man needs to be shot - more later)

followed by

Kanye West (this was the last tune I heard when I got out of the car; the first tune I heard when I got back into the car just over an hour later was by... Kanye West! Now I quite like Kanye, in a very vague way, but PLEASE GOD RADIO 1 PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU'RE PLAYING FROM ONE MINUTE TO THE NEXT)

This bizarre sequence, while commendable in it's schizophrenic eclecticism (that phrase will please at least some readers - the public gets what the public wants), has lead me to wonder about the state of Dangerous Dave's mental health. Now that Radio 1 is in the process of becoming Radio Zane (specialist shows less specialist a speciality!), is Dangerous Dave losing his mind? Is he ignoring the playlist?

Also, and this is the key question, wtf is Radio 1 actually for? Extend that to the whole of the BBC Radio services, if you like.

Answers in a comment box to this thread...

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, so the thread title is totally an accident with a barcode-scanner.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Can a Mod. please change it to "Dangerous Dave Goes Nuts - The State Radio 1 Is In"? Please? I'll buy you a pony.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, Dave Pearce is the big loser from the recent Radio 1 reshuffle. All shows cut except Sunday's. Maybe it's pushed him over the edge.

― Jason J, Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

But now we get all Zane Lowe all the time! Only the most cutting edge artists like Jet and Fifty Cent get airplay on his shows.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

You post on ILX with a SCANNER ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Now, someone has to print a sheet with barcodes for "OMG WTF" and other suchlike..

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Library work is dangerous.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

You may get students being over-familiar and calling you 'mate' at the issue desk just cos they've seen you in a pub once.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

HA!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

vice versa would be worse, though...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

when I was driving home when i had the car, I used to love the trance mixes pearce/pierce/wtfe used to play. few things are more thrilling that having an epic trance megamix pumped up full, cornering at the limit on a country road, feeling the front wheels starting to lose traction, whilst looking in the eyes of the officer driving the police transit van on teh other side of the road.

(nb I may be exaggerating this a little)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i like those times when radio 1 goes bonkers and plays a sequence like that, it doesn't really happen on any other radio station, so that's my answer to 'what is radio 1 (and bbc radio) for?', anyway.

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it me or does Dave look like he might have a bit of temper. It's been downhill since 'It Takes a Nation of Millions…'

― wtin, Thursday, 27 May 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i have it on good authority that he's quite the perv.

― stevie (stevie), Thursday, 27 May 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that where the danger comes from?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

He can only orgasm when "Toca's Miracle" is playing in the background.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe the only bit of Dave Pearce they haven't axed is that wank on Sunday that I only hear once every couple of months when we're driving home from my in-laws and some spunkbubble's phoned up to say "hi Dave, we're going to Mr Twatty's tonight to see a Pete Tong tribute, can you play 'Born Slippy' please mate?"

I swear, one week, when Dave wants to know "what are you crazy guys doing this weekend?" I'm going to phone up and tell him I've smothered my aging mother with a bolster because she'd lost the will to live.

Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 27 May 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

(that was no accident i meant that shit)

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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