Something’s going down in this city when it comes to radio stations.
My mum had to give me a lift so i could pick my car up from being serviced. we travelled about 30 minutes and the radio was on in the background. I was humming along to some fairly decent songs when i heard a dj say it was 2ca.
I freaked out and my mum said she’d been listening to that station for a couple of months because she likes the music and was sick of the hard rock on 106. She started listening when her friend turned 2ca on at my mum’s office.
i’m feel like organising counceling for my mum, but she seems happy.
i listen to 104 so 1 don’t know much about 106, but i thought 2ca was an oldies station. has it changed?
[ED: missjill has rather courageously modeled her 2CA t-shirt in an effort to make the station cool]
> hard rock on 106
Huh? If you’re Mum thinks 106 plays ANY hard rock…well, she IS an oldie! My Dad once called Ben Harper “heavy metal”. Dad, you’re old.
I love 2CA, they play a good mix of stuff. I’m not old.
You freaked out because someone listens to 1053?
“Go take a step outside see whats shakin in the real world”
I’m not old and I listen to 2CA. Its the only way I can avoid hearing Nickelback & Coldplay.
So is it the case now that any idiot can post a story?
What next, advice for teens a la ‘Dolly’ magazine?
i used to jerk off over Dolly back in the day
Help! People have different music taste than I do!
Remember the post from a Myer employee the other week? Similar story here. Note the one deliberate spelling error and correct comma placement. This is a viral ad.
Shoot your mum. There is no hope.
try driving an old car with an am radio, there are no options…
Hey, I’ve been listening to 2CA since 1977 – as a matter of fact, I still have one of their t-shirts (circa 1978). No joke! I do have that t-shirt – yellow and blue logo childrens size 10.
Would you like to buy it? If 2CA’s rating continue to boom, I’ll be selling it on eBay.
Why yes…I would also like to give you my credit card number. Which button do I click?
Another good example of why RiotACT should go back to people submitting stories through Admin
missjill said :
I listened to 2CA IN 1977, but no more. I do think I still have a battered copy of ‘1053 2CA: The Album’ somewhere in the bottom of the vinyl collection. Can’t remember the track selection, but I think pina coladas got a run, and at least one track with the word ‘boogie’ in the title, so it’s that sort of calibre.
Pass on the shirt. I’m not 12DD!
Good heavens.
This kind of article absolutely -screams- plant or shill.
The shiniest of shiny penny to any moderators who want to actually reinforce rather than dilute the RiotACT brand identity by culling an article and putting in a proper quality control or is-it-on-message? check on articles.
I switched from 2CA a long time ago and now a regular listener to 106. I have noticed that 106 have changed their music a bit over the lats few months, and I have to say I really like what I’m hearing. My wife and I are in our 40’s, and the music is just what we want. Sorry, i sound like an ad for 106, but it’s been a long time living in Canberra where it was either young music, or really old music so there was no choice for the rest of us.
My Mum likes Cottonelle toilet paper: what should I do?
I think the government should regulate against this thing.
To much free thinking can be dangerous.
Let’s all switch to 2CA now. Crap I don’t even know what frequency it’s on or whether it’s even FM or AM! Oh well…
2CA must really be struggling if it’s resorting to these antics!
Mr Evil – you should buy more Cottonelle toilet paper – your mum is always right.
Haven’t listened to 1053 2CA much since I got a car with FM radio. That said, I think that it is better then 106.3. What I find amazing is that a person who listens to 104.7 would have the gall to pick on anyone’s* music taste.
[* - except country music, that is $hit]
But which kind of cottonelle Evil ?
Embossed ? What print ?
Is this for æsthetic/decor reasons or just cause she has a complex heiney ?
Insult of the day:
“YA MUM LISTENS TO 2CA!!! heheheheh *snort*”
Mælinar said :
The horrible stuff that your fingers go through at really bad moments!
Embossed? – Yes. What print? A puppy, I think!
It was cheap at Pak ‘N Save!
Honestly, do people still listen to commercial radio? I thought that since cars had cd players and ipod jacks there would be no need for it any more. Although I do confess to the occasional listen to Radio National or news radio (and no, I’m not a geriatric, not even 30 yet)
Who listens to the radio? The girl in her bedroom now has an ipod, the guy who used to have the tranny wrapped round his ear has the latest MP4…
SimpleShane – you admit to humming along in blissful ignorance, whilst listening to 2CA – for that, you should be shot for musical taste crimes.
who the hell walks around with a tranny wrapped around his ear? wait – you mean a radio, don’t you?
well, shane, you were happily humming along, so what gives? what exactly is your point?
oh, a point? what’s that..?
(and for the people bagging out, unless you, too, listen to this ‘two cee eh’ you wouldn’t know what they play to bag out. would you?)
astrojax said :
try me. every morning I hear the secret sound, and the joke of the day. better than 104 or 106 toilet humor.
Well, I like 1206 AM talk back radio, but it has one major draw-back COMMERCIALS! Ok, I know they pay for the running of the station, I accept this, but why TF can’t they charge the advertisers more, and have less breaks! Also its the same ones, over & over. One has Tarzan screeming at you, another an annoying old bag rabbitting on about her freaking funeral service, and don’t even get me started about Riv-O-land bloody tiles! I could make further comment about Tarzan and the funeral sevice woman, but it may not get pass the moderators!
I contribute this new listening community to not enough police in Canberra and global warming.
Hank said :
666 on Sunday afternoon.
This girl in her bedroom doing her homework
She’s foolin’ with the logarithms, she’s going berserk
One hand has a cigarette resting on the window
The other one’s twiddling with the radio
What did they talk about, the horses drive her nuts
Night time, sounds fine – no if’s or but’s
It’s just some magic, there’s still some fun
If you don’t pay too much attention
Who listens to the radio?
Who listens to the radio?
That’s what I’d like to know
Who listens to the radio?
Guy’s got his transistor wrapped around his ear
He listens to the traffic, it’s not really clear
It crackles, it clicks, it pops, it starts
It’s blastin’ out the top forty charts
AM or FM, I listen to both of them
Listening to the radio since I don’t know when
It was so busy, everyone’s got somewhere to go
In the background there’s always the radio
The Sports
My theory for 2CA is as follows:
The 25 – 35 yr old demographic has discovered that 2CA is so uncool that it has become anticool – which is cooler than anything else can possibly be.
But don’t worry – this demographic that are currently embracing that station will turn it off and find something else when they discover that ‘everyone’ is doing it.
Then it’s off to find the next best thing. Maybe Artsound on ABC (in about five years)?
We’re all individuals…
I can honestly say, this is the only Riotact thread I’ve read from top to bottom. There should be more of them. PS No, I’m not a ditzy blonde, and yes I can read.
Overheard, I will buy the 2CA album from you. How much? Do you remember their catchy song? Solid Gold 2CA!
On Cottonelle. Nope; not good. It leaves too many fluffy white dusty bits all over the floor and your b**. Rip off a sheet and give it a shake, you’ll see dust particles. No wonder you got it cheap. I buy the 1000 sheet enviro-friendly ones; tough as cardboard that stuff.
Loose Brown said :
I believe this to be true. The dag-factor makes it cool.
Isn’t that the case!!!! Thanks missjill – I picked up on this social trend about a year ago when friends wanted to have a mixed grill at the local club so they could have a crack at the meat raffle. Shortly after that someone suggested lawn bowls.
Mr Evil said :
Maybe you should consider letting her go on her own?
I’m sorry…….
Loose Brown, “mixed grill”??????? What were you thinking?????
There’s nothing like a seafood basket (in an actual basket), to show off your coolness factor. Nah. Lawn bowls is only cool if you’re selected for the Olympics.
SimpleShane77, I gather from your name you’re 31 or so. Do me a favour. Play 2CA in your car next time you pick your mates up for the footy, and report back with their reactions. Trust me, they’ll love it. Daggy is the new cool.
Start to worry when you ask for a ‘mixed gorilla’ or a ‘chicken in pyjamas’ or ask to see what’s on the ‘me ‘n you’.
chaton said :
They play a good mix of shit. I’m sorry to be critical of what people listen to but…..JESUS CHRIST!!!! If I start listening to those radio stations and I you hear me say “I like blah blah and what they play”. Please blow my brains out! (message to my friends)
I believe this would be a mercy killing as it is clear form from the statement that I must be so disconnect from good taste and dare I say just downright common decency (I have to listen to that trash at work all day) that I’m am no better that than a rabid chipmunk who must be put down.
Loose Brown said :
Ah yes, but as long as your white Rivers rubber-soled comfort-fit shoes are spotless, I reckon they wouldn’t notice.
Does anyone know how to post an image please? I think this thread deserves the 2CA logo t-shirt modelled by yours truly, if I can squeeze into it.
Thumper said :
Great band.
I vote for an image of Missjill in the said shirt…..
“Ten fifty three 2CA!”
My mother also listens to 2CA!
Oh my, lets start a support group!
(Mainly, because my mother is old. And will probly murder me if she reads this, ha.)
ok, at the risk of turning this thread into somewhat of a joke (ahihi), here’s my 2CA t-shirt circa 1977 or 78. I think I picked it up at the 2CA stand at the Canberra show, can’t remember. It’s kids size 10, and I ain’t no 10, that’s why it looks awfully tight.
My first attempt at posting an image, what’s the bet I get it wrong. Instructions are only for new posts. Here goes!
[IMG]http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk2/missjill8/P1010008-1.jpg[/IMG]
GO 2CA, coooooool!
yep, and there we go – what have I done wrong? Anyone? Please?
2CA has Boobs!!!!
oh, a cut and paste of the link works
VIEW AT OWN RISK
Nothing like a bit of 70’s nostalgia hey?
Got the heating on in your house.
106 playlist now sucks – far too ‘104-ish’. I like newsy talkback, but I recently (ie, last 12 months or so) have found myself flicking stations to 2CA during the (usually awful) musical interludes on 666, and often staying there.
2CA has such a wide selection it’s never boring, plays everything from Michael Buble and Norah Jones to Frankie Valli and everything in between. Pity about 106, but thank goodness there is a GREAT alternative.
Even the ads are less intrusive and more locally informative.