Satellite Radio

[Jstpssng]

It was great for the first couple of years. Then the programming became repetitive on my favorite stations. I was about to cancel when overnight they seemed to widen their playlists. After my road trip/vacation in April I dropped it. It slid back into the old ways. On the hard rock stations you would think they only had 50 albums to play songs off of. I dropped it.

That was certainly true about the "Underground Garage" channel back when I had it. To me an "underground" station gives airtime for artists who otherwise wouldn't get played.

The Beatles don't quite fit that criteria.

 

[Otto Syracuse]

I am so sick of Steely Dan.....and I love them!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I can't stomach cousin brucy... I hope that dipstick didn't multiply!!

SR

 

[dmccarty]

Same here, though I don't listen to streams either. I guess I'm one of those poor unfortunate souls who's perfectly content with FM. I do have a Sandisk mp3 player I use sometimes.

Me too. In the morning, I listen to a very funny morning drive time show. In the afternoon I am talking to the wife on hands free phone or listening to the radio. I can't justify sat radio. Heck I need a new radio in the truck since the volume dial is wonky but I can't justify the little bit of money to buy a new stereo. :laughing::laughing::laughing: If we are on a trip, we download a podcast and listen to that on the trip.

I had thought about getting a sat radio if the morning drive time show was carried but it is not. The signal starts to get iffy as I get close to work and I would pay to receive the broad cast. :shocked:

Later,
Dan

 

[JRobyn]

I used to really like the bluegrass channel on XM. It was about the only channel we listened to on our frequent trips from GA to TN. When Sirius bought them out, they added "DJs", a bunch of "shows", and started playing a lot of what I call "tinky-tink" music recorded in the 40s and 50s with old guys singing through their noses. Just totally ruined it.

 

[kcflhrc]

. with old guys singing through their noses.

Are you dissing George Jones? The biggest nose singer of all time.

 

[dmccarty]

... old guys singing through their noses. Just totally ruined it.

Are you dissing George Jones? The biggest nose singer of all time.

Never heard of nose singing...

Just tried to sing through my nose...

Now my keyboard is a real mess...

:confused3::shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Thanks guys.
Dan

 

[smstonypoint]

I used to really like the bluegrass channel on XM. It was about the only channel we listened to on our frequent trips from GA to TN. When Sirius bought them out, they added "DJs", a bunch of "shows", and started playing a lot of what I call "tinky-tink" music recorded in the 40s and 50s with old guys singing through their noses. Just totally ruined it.

Are you talking about the likes of Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Jimmy Martin, Reno and Smiley, the Stanley Brothers, the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Jim and Jesse, etc. ?

If so, I prefer "tinky-tink" to some of what passes for bluegrass today.

De gustibus non est disputandum.

Steve

 

[Oaktree]

I can't stomach cousin brucy... I hope that dipstick didn't multiply!!

Is he still around? Sheesh, he's gotta be pushing 80, I remember him on WABC in New York when I was a teenager. Thought he was annoying then too.

 

[DrRod]

Are you talking about the likes of Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Jimmy Martin, Reno and Smiley, the Stanley Brothers, the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Jim and Jesse, etc. ?

If so, I prefer "tinky-tink" to some of what passes for bluegrass today.

De gustibus non est disputandum.

Steve

I agree. The Sirius/XM bluegrass channel thinks anything with a banjo is bluegrass. I happen to like innovative uses of the banjo in contemporary music but that isn't bluegrass.