I tend to only listen to R6 or R Leeds. Am I alone in never having knowingly heard an Ed Sheeran song?

I'm almost with you - I've heard snippets in the background at other people's behest, and it sounded to me like generic whiney pop dribble that gets the attention of those people who don't have any real appreciation for proper music.

I'm an avid 6 Music listener - when my daughter retunes to the car to Capital, I feel like self-harming.

My daughter is at Uni & has been asked to put her 3 favourite songs together to submit to some entertainments committee. She asked me for some suggestions, which is always a challenge. She agreed with me on 'Another Girl, Another Planet'. She also plumbed for Belle & Sebastian & Smiths as her own choices, which made me pretty proud.

I'll give him his due, he seems like a genuine lad, but that's where it ends for me, couple of decent songs to start with in his career ('A-Team' was decent, had an actual story to it), but since then it's been nothing but god-awful, made-for-radio cliched love songs, (i suppose commercial radio stations don't take kindly to songs referencing drugs). Completely ripped off 'Let's Get It On' for 'Thinking Out Loud' but because it was him nobody said anything.The two songs he released simultaneously recently, one was perfect for Capital, the other was Radio X fodder... so, he knows what he's doing. Or his team do. And his very latest song starts with the line 'Girl you're the one and you know that it's true'..... That alone is enough to smash the sh*t out of the wireless..



He's a label stooge basically

You're a lucky barsteward.

6 Music is good, i do like Radio X, but they have started playing Rag N Bone man and Ed Sheeran... so i've cooled off on that station. XS Manchester is my favourite by far at the minute

For anyone interested - this Friday is 1994 day on 6 Music; promises to be a heady mix of the sounds of my salad days - thank goodness for the iPlayer radio app!

How have you managed that?!

I largely ignore the mainstream but it's hard when every outlet is ramming crap down your throat or trying to sell you something.

Ed Sheeran; on his 3rd album..... Still needs co-writers.

Pop trash

I couldn't name an Ed Sheran record either, and i could only name about three Oasis records. I'm a big 6music fan, usually i start listening from about 4pm till 10/11pm. Oasis are a band i can't stand. If they pop up on the radio or TV off it goes, like it does for anything Phil Collins is involved in. Also on my list Dance music, jazz, Aerosmith type music, acid house, handbag house, one monotonous beat house music.

Ed Sheeran, to be fair to him has a decent voice, his cover of make it rain by Foy Vance is fantastic, but he's just been overly commercialised.

I'm glad Rag n bone man is finally getting some success. He's been around years on the independent hip hop and soul scenes in the UK, and his album first major label album is a great gospel blues album

Adele be like; 'Got to let go of all of our ghosts, we ain't kids no more' but has warbled on about her ex's for 9 years / 3 albums.

Have a look at internet radios or just radio on your internet. Hundreds of thousands of free channels if you cannot be bothered to fork out for a subscription. Most types of music are catered for. No need to listen to Ed Sheeran.

I was at a mildly boozy bbq yesterday/last night and after about 25 minutes of some dross I said something like "who's this lot and can we have something decent?" Well, the housewives present and their 14 year-old daughters looked at me as if I'd just screamed "I love Donald Trump". Yes, it was Sheeran.

There's no doubt he's a talented guy, but unfortunately his music is dull as dishwater. Still couldn't name a song of his.

It's amazing how many people just casually dismiss dance music and jazz as if it's a few niche artists in a tiny percentage of popular music. The sheer quantity of music which could come under the dance banner is enormous and the influence of jazz equally so.

THE SMITHS! Hate them with a passion. They make Leornard Cohen sound happy-clappy.

Ah, The Smiths. You either get them or you don't, and if you don't get them the first time you hear them you never will. Personally, I love their happy miserabilism, it's disco music for masochists.

I feel the same way; much like Radiohead, it's easy to label them as miserable - but if you actually listen to Morrisey's lyrics, his arch, kitchen sink writing style contains a fair amount of humour - albeit delivered with an arrogant sneer, which understandably es a lot of people off. For me, the greatest lyricist of his generation, if only for this line:

"If a double-decker bus crashes into us / To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die / And if a 10-ton truck kills the both of us / To die by your side, the pleasure, the privilege is mine.”

U2/Bono.I really don't understand how they are so successful. Average at best. Maybe Bonos hobby of collecting friends in high places has helped.

George Ezra

The Pet Shop Boys.
Morrissey- lite lyrics droned over a sub Giorgio Moroder electo track. Same old schtick over and over again since the mid 80s.

Anne-Marie

And nowt changes

I used to love The Smiths, despite taking flak from workmates etc for doing so - but find it very difficult to listen to them or any of Morrissey's solo stuff , not since he came out for Britain First.
I always thought he was on my side, and the side of the 'outsider' for want of a better word. Turns out he's a fascist sympathiser. Feels like a betrayal, and personal to boot.
He's dead to me now.

Catatonia (horrible wailing voice).
Bananarama (no harmonies)
Squeeze (crap, jokey music)

In general, the list is quite large. In reality, there are so many mediocre singers these days that I just don’t want to list them all. My small list ....Train, Glee, Biffy Clyro, Sex Pistols ... ​can be continued for a long time