[Stooky Bill]

For me I find the music on Radio 2 a little twee, if I'm wanting music radio by myself it'll be 6Music - a similar demographic but much more varied and interesting.

However Radio 2 is great when I'm in the car with the family, it's safe enough for the kids and they like the new stuff and my wife doesn't find some of the music annoying as she does on 6. Its a good family listen


Regarding 60s and 70s music, there's plenty of 70s on Radio 2 and some on 6. 60s is an interesting era, go back 30 years and every ILR had a 60s station and they were very popular
But now it's a genre (if you can call it that) that's in decline somewhat. A lot of that is just because people are aging so there's fewer people who are nostalgic about it. But also in the 80s/90s music made in the 60s was about a third of the history of popular music, now it's just a brief but quite influential era. My father never listened to anything else but Capital Gold, now he's all about Smooth or Magic, I think those who listened to 'gold' radio just got bored of a limited playlist.

On other stations it does often sound very out of place now, music has moved on a lot since then and the contrast is sometimes jarring. It's very telling that GHR's playlist is 70s-90s, they don't think 60s sells