What does annoy me that Virgin (like a lot of other stations) do play the well-known songs from particular bands and artists but they tend to ignore lots of other well-known songs from them as well which could easily be played and add to the variety of the music played.

Franz Ferdinand have more than the 1/2 tracks that Virgin play. Take Me Out and Do You Want To? are excellent tracks but what’s the problem with playing Matinee, Walk Away and Michael? Surely for a station that claims to have listeners that know about their music, it’s concievable that the station play tracks by artists which may not get the air-play they should fully deserve.
They surely won’t tune out and wonder who is being played. I could easily cite a number of other bands and artists which only have 1/2 songs according to Virgin when the number of well-known tracks by them are far greater.

I also wonder about their policy on new music. Core Virgin bands/artists seem to get overlooked when they have new music out for reasons which I have no idea about. A prime example currently is Primal Scream. We’ve all heard them play Country Girls, Rocks etc but where is the airplay of the new single: Can’t Go Back? Is there also something wrong with Lookout Sunshine by The Fratellis, Mansized Wreath by REM, Steve McQueen by The Automatic that they haven’t been playlisted either?

I also hear tracks that could fit really well on Virgin but are overlooked too. The Last Shadow Puppets are an example of this too. Standing Next to Me would fit well and surely would fit better than a band such as The Script or artist Gabriella Cilmi who have no history in the UK music industry. I had never heard of them before they got played on Virgin and I don’t think they fit well whatsoever.

I’m not gonna be too big-headed to demand that Chasing Cars is taken off. I don’t mind a few Snow Patrol songs but I have grown to hate Chasing Cars. I don’t think it’s a great song anyway as would much rather hear some more upbeat songs. I even thing Set the Fire to the Third Bar deserved more airplay.

Anyway, that’s my scribbling of thoughts on a Monday morning..

Looks like a few people like Snow Patrol/Chasing Cars – and like it still – have a look at the shoutbox:
http://www.last.fm/music/Snow+Patrol/_/Chasing+Cars

Why not stream the meeting (or a post-meeting edited version)?

Matt.