Punch on: Open thread 19/01/10

Bec says:

05:38am | 19/01/10

I miss Robbie Buck and Marieke Hardy :(

Jane says:

08:15am | 19/01/10

@Bec me too! just not the same without them…

Red says:

08:36am | 19/01/10

Robbie is still on air, on 702 ABC Sydney from 7pm. You can listen online if you’re not in Syd. And now he’s more about intelligent conversation than strained “humour” and “aussie hip hop.”

SLF says:

08:58am | 19/01/10

I agree that announcers need to change and move on….but JJJ really have not thought about the replacements. The breakfast show seems to have had a lobotomy.

@Red, greta tip, will tune in online. If anyone likes Robbie and music, this as a really good online listen http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/garvey/

Aussie hip-hop cracks me up the mid-atlantic caccents and telling it how it is from the mean streets of Adelaide.

Bill says:

09:59am | 19/01/10

When they burned the Australian Flag at their opening in Cairns, it signalled what JJJ were all about…never listened to them, never will.

H of SA says:

10:10am | 19/01/10

JJJ has been an interesting phenomenon. My main reason for stopping listening to them was simply due to the music becoming unbearably bad. But I also found I lost respect for quite of few of the DJ’s.

When I was 14 they were these cool guys and gals who were into “real music” rather than that “commericial stuff”.

Then when I got older I realised they were music snobs behaving like kids in high school. It wasn’t just that the music they played wasn’t commercial - good on them top 40 gets enough airplay already - it was the sneer in the voice of the dj’s for any other musical preferance but their own (not just pop) - just like a 14 year old.

That was a sad realisation. I had moved on from being a teenager who thought it was important to be cool and looked down on anyone who wasn’t as cool as me. I had realised that I could respect tastes I didn’t share. Essentially I had grown up, and when I turned on triple J - I realised they hadn’t. There is something sad about a music snob who’s teens are behind them - let alone a music snob who’s twenties are behind them.

Triple J is youth radio so I guess Its a bit weird to be over it because it didn’t grow up. But surely you can be youth orientated without hiring adults who care about being cool - a little bit of maturity may even be welcome to older youth who still listen to hear new artists.

Q.E.D. says:

10:11am | 19/01/10

I can’t listen to JJJ any more.

Breakfast show is awful - lost its sharp wit.  Music is crap: too mainstream; too repetitive. Politics are left-leaning - very anti-Lib.

May be I’m just getting old, but I think there’s more to it than that?

BULMKT says:

11:02am | 19/01/10

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Chase Stevens says:

01:21pm | 19/01/10

I love Triple J, some of the music is so horribly bad that it’s impossible not to like it, then there is the music that is really good that doesn’t receive any air play anywhere else and then of course there is Sunday Night Safran (Father Bob makes me want to be a believer), Hack is also an interesting listen for the most part.

Nos says:

03:47pm | 19/01/10

I’ve always listened to Triple J and I can’t imagine listening to anything else. On those occasions when I have a full day listening to any other stations I’m bored to death hearing the same Pink, Rihanna and Beyonce songs 15 times a day. Triple J is always about finding new music so its always fresh - even if Tom and Alex are rubbish. It seems like other (more “”“mainstream”“”) stations only play tracks that have a degree of separation from stuff they already play. There’s rarely something really different.

Les says:

12:34pm | 26/08/10

Am I too late or too old to render an opinion…who cares, here it is.
1981(ish) tune to JJ and the DJ who was obviously ripped played S1T1 of led Zep’s fourth album then promptly wanders away to top up the buzz or raid the fridge, side one plays all the way through. The DJ returns and declares “wasn’t that great” then flips over the record and plays side two. That was a great introduction to the station. Leap forward, through the years of listening to the breaky show and sporadic listening in the car, to the current breaky pairing to feel suddenly out of touch and old (I’m 50 this Hallo’een) as I’m supposed to? No, wait, I got it…they’re just crap, but better than the commercial stations at that time of the morning.
JJJ you have listeners that were born yesterday whether you like it or not.
@Bec - I agree.