Today FM Megathread Mod warning post #1 / #1401

Very good shout on Feel Good Inc and Clint Eastwood missing out yet Dare and Melancholy Hill making it (not that they aren't great). I wouldnt have been surprised (dissapointed but not surprised) if Gorillaz missed out entirely but if I had to pick their best Feel Good, Clint and 19-2000 would have been the trio I'd have expected.

Sorry but on what planet is Pink Pony Club the number 1?

Not having that. Nobody is voting for that as the best of the last 25 days never mind 25 years.

Ray not holding back on the backlash he has gotten since revealing the #1.

The ‘new’ Music Master just a very watered down version of the old one. Sounds to me like they don’t want to put in the effort of writing the volume of questions required anymore! Disappointing, as it was definitely the best thing about Dave’s show.

Well we're going to be very surprised. And very disappointed.

As far as I can see, the third oldest song in the list in terms of earliest appearance on a release of some sort is Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The album of the same name was released in June 1999. The song was released as a single in June 2020.

In second place is Babylon by David Gray. It was on his November 1998 album White Ladder and was released in July 1999 as a single. White Ladder got re-released in April 2000, and Babylon got re-released in June, so I presume that's why it's eligible.

But while those two songs got releases or re-releases within the cutoff, there's no excuses for the inclusion of You Make Me Wanna... by Usher. It was released in August 1997 as the lead single from his album My Way which came out the following month. But there's no indication anywhere that it got a re-release this century. Wikipedia says it the vinyl got released in the USA in 2001 but that came out in the UK in 1998. So it has no credentials at all for being in the poll, and even the DJ at the time on Saturday afternoon mentioned that it got a 1997 release and muttered something along the lines of "Maybe it got re-released, let's just forget about it..." or something, as if to say "We'll let that one slide, moving quickly on..."

So the poll includes the same song twice and another song that is too old to be eligible, and no-one saw fit to do anything about it. What a crock of ****.

Yep theyve ruined the only reason to listen to the show now. Cut the time it takes and they use that for more ads or bad music.

Someone messaged in Dara Quilty (covering for Ray Foley) with a theory that makes sense. When you submit your votes for the song of the quarter millennium you get entered into a draw for Electric Picnic tickets. Chapel Moan is headlining EP so the voters only care about entering the ticket draw.

So you only got an entry to the draw if you voted for CR or Hozier?

No but if you were a fan of theirs and didn't have EP tickets you'd naturally enter this as often as you can to get tickets.

And obviously if you want to win tickets to see Hozier and CR you would naturally put them at the top repeatedly.

Still enjoying* the new Music Master despite it being watered down. Now they've taken to not letting the contestants know after they answer each question whether they've got it right or not. Instead, when they've had their five questions each, he then goes through the answers one by one and gives the score updates. I can appreciate them trying to give it a bit of edge. I'd like though for someone to be able to get the certificate and €250 voucher based on some sort of excellence such as getting 5 out of 5 or maybe a playoff against other top scorers.

*But for how long?

Exactly this. 3 of us here at work would play it daily but we all agree it's rubbish now. Completely dumbed down, easier questions and too much sh1te talk and Ian Dempseying at the start too.

Do the top 500 this weekend Daichee "Anxiety" could well make top 3.