Original 106 Aberdeen is a very rare beast in the UK now – an ex-group station (Canadian lot that gave up…) that is stand-alone, local-management/shareholders buy-out, in a big and still (just) prosperous city, playing a classic/contemporary rock/soft-rock format with local presenters some of whom were binned by the German-owned networking lot across town.
And having been in Aberdeen a lot, I can say the station is very much NOT a “19-inch rack PC somewhere else”.
So – too much (and long) Woah/Yeah rubbish yet again – WHO will dare to break out of this tired un-imaginative 15-year-and-more-old rut that is now as stale as the “big band sound” was in jingles by the late 1960s (x-ref P-T Now Sound demo 1969…)???
No-one is e.g. “doing” the “New York Studio Disco sound” of the late 70s in new jingles either, so why……
BUT…plus points !!!
Vocals – very UK but much more gentle on the ear and refined even, than the “strained”-sounding previous package they had which must have hurt the singers throats back then…
Tracks – interesting – some imagination definately going on “in there” – to get the “brief” of the station’s distinctive format; I like the softer use of the logo – why did anyone anywhere ever need the “buzz-saw” synth?
Lyrics – OK, not exactly brilliant – but the “Full Scottish Breakfast” (aka “heart attack on a plate”) one though will go down well (…sorry…) with the loons and quines (and probably sheep) of FurryBootsLand.
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