XM vs. Sirius

[redsock]

Originally posted by ggdoubleballs (tm):
  KEXP is public radio, WNCW, WFUV, WXPN, WFMU are all public radio. And very little of it is talk radio.
 
 Most of the bluegrass stuff they play on WAMU is on independent labels. Used to be a whole lot more music, and a whole lot less talk...but they have gone downhill...I agree, talk radio sucks.
 
 WPFW plays mostly jazz.
 
 So then, you are a big fan of Scott Weiland's new band as well?   :p  
 
   

Originally posted by redsock:
   

Originally posted by ggdoubleballs (tm):
  The other day you claimed to be a hipster. Now you claim to be a regular Joe. Can you really be both?
 
 Try WAMU and WPFW. Lots of good free music on the public airways.

I'm buying tickets to he Van Halen concert...any reference to being a hipster I can assure you was made in jest. WAMU is hardly an outpost of indie-rock. I honestly have never heard of WPFW, but public radio=talk radio, and talk radio is the devil. [/b]

[/b]

Well, stereotypical public radio=talk radio. I actually like the bluegrass WAMU plays, but I can't listen to it that much or I begin to dislike it. And I generally like my jazz played live, with the exception of rare sunday mornings I am awake. Correct me if i'm wrong though, none of those other public radio stations can be picked up in my car stereo right?
 
 All of this would be easier if we just had a decent college radio station that could be picked up on the radio.
 
 Oh, and Kosmo, wasn't it you who looked into starting an internet radio station?

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by redsock:
  And I generally like my jazz played live, with the exception of rare sunday mornings I am awake.

nothing personal, but I just found this funny because it made me think of this
 
 http://www.theonion.com/onion3922/five-disc_jazz_anthology.html

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

You are right. The other stations aren't available on your car radio. If you drive a lot (I don't), your local radio choices are pretty limited....bluegrass can be good, but it's better if mixed in with other genres rather than hours at a time.
 
    For the amount of driving we do, our own music suffices.

[redsock]

Originally posted by pollard:
   

Originally posted by redsock:
  And I generally like my jazz played live, with the exception of rare sunday mornings I am awake.

nothing personal, but I just found this funny because it made me think of this
 
  http://www.theonion.com/onion3922/five-disc_jazz_anthology.html [/b]

No, that's pretty much me in a nutshell... but i do like listneing to it live.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Jazz is good sex and romance music. The guy in the article probably never gets laid.
 
 

Originally posted by pollard:
   

Originally posted by redsock:
  And I generally like my jazz played live, with the exception of rare sunday mornings I am awake.

nothing personal, but I just found this funny because it made me think of this
 
  http://www.theonion.com/onion3922/five-disc_jazz_anthology.html [/b]

[grotty]

Why so testy 'sport'?        
 
 I don't recall anyone personally critiquing your listening habits in all of this.
 
 Someone asked a question about XM & people are sharing their opinions.
 
 This is a discussion board - not a directive.
 
 And how am I missing the point?
 
 I want to hear songs that are not in my CD collection, and I want to hear new bands.
 
 That's exactly what I want.
 
 White Lion, Orleans & Blink 182 are not what I have in mind though.
 
 I subscribe to XM by-the-way. I just don't think it's the radio panacea that it's advertised to be.
 
 
     

Originally posted by redsock:
  I think many of you are missing the point. I consider myself an average joe who really likes music. I spend a decent amount of time in my car, I want to hear songs that are not in my CD collection, and I want to hear new bands. I cannot listen to internet radio in my car, I do not want to stick an Ipod on random, I want new music mixed in with stuff I like.
 
 I agree with everything people have said about wanting Djs, having crazy playlists etc. I'm looking at my options, and having the ability to surf through 200 channels to find something to listen to, is better than the alternative (local radio). It just is. Yeah, and you know what, i'm happy to pay my $10 a month for this opportunity. Sure, there are times nothing is on, sadly. But they are a hell of a lot rarer than they were a year ago, when I had to toggle between DC101 and HFS. And if you don't like XM, fine...don't get it, listen to your ipods, never use your car, and shut the fuck up!
 
 I'm just tired of people trying to make me feel stupid for paying for radio. Everyone's situation is different, this option works best for me. I frankly don't care what works best for you. Knock yourself out sport.

[grotty]

Where do I sign up?
 See...it's not that hard.
 Even though I think you placed Norah Jones into LotoBalls to try & catch me!
 
 
   

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  930radio
 
 Channel 33 Gee - "Radical Roots and Rockers",  Marley, Tosh, Cliff, Toots, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Black Flag, etc
 
 Channel 69 LotoBalls - "Please Please give me a Peterbilt". Pernice Brothers, Smiths, Clash, Drive By Truckers, Marah, Norah Jones, etc
 
 Channel 77 Kosmicpop - "Hangings to good for him".  Myracle Brah, De Novo Dahl, Stone Roses, St. Etienne, Rockpile, Love, The Easybeast, JJ Barnes, etc
 
 Channel 4 MES "Got yer Britpop right here punk", The Fall, Lambchop, Delgados, Pretty Things, Ash, Ballboy, Postal Service, etc
 
 Channel 42 The Bomb "Stockings, Chocolate Lipstick, and prophylactics", Devo, Devo, Laika and the Cosmonauts, etc.
 
 i need more coffee before continuing...

[J'Mal]

most of WPFW is directives of the glorious People's Democratic Republic of Korea extolling the wisdom of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il.
 
 most of WAMU is talk
 
 If you think it's super that WAMU plays bluegrass for two hours on a sunday or whatever the hell they do, well, to people who may want to occasionaly hear bluegrass without reading the bluegrass journal or whatever and then downloading bluegrass to the ipod, those who have XM with a full-time 24/7 bluegrass channel, the WAMU option is really lame.
 
 That goes more than double for the jazz offerings on XM relative to the bursts of jazz on Radio Pyongyang.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Outside of work, where I listen to the internet, and listening to O's games on the radio, I might listen to radio maybe 10 minutes a week. I don't think I would be getting my moneys worth if I started paying for radio, so I'll stick with WAMU, thanks.

[thirsty moore]

That's hilarious.
 
 

Originally posted by J'Mal:
 That goes more than double for the jazz offerings on XM relative to the bursts of jazz on Radio Pyongyang.

[mankie]

Originally posted by redsock:
  I'm just tired of people trying to make me feel stupid for paying for radio. Everyone's situation is different, this option works best for me. I frankly don't care what works best for you. Knock yourself out sport.

You may not want to hear this redsock, but mankie agrees 100% with you. XM has made my commute to work, dare I say it....."pleasurable"...This morning I got Bob Dylan singing Hurricane, then the next song was James Taylor's Mexico.....Hurricane got me into Bob Dylan mode, and I would've really enjoyed another couple of Dylan tracks...but I got James Taylor instead. No biggie...not a big Taylor fan but I was singing along by the first chorus.
 
 If you don't like XM then don't subscribe, but for me $10 per month is a bargain considering I don't have to listen to one more stupid commercial or the same 10 songs looped all fucking day long!

[Got Haggis?]

XMU kinda sucks...it was great when i first got xm radio....but then they started playing all the same songs it seemed like....i tuned in a couple weeks ago, and they were still playing half the same songs (Crappy ones at that) that thtey were playing 2 years ago when  i got xm.
 
 my fav station by far is FRED...sure they play some crap on that station too...but they also play really great stuff.
 
 I had high hopes for Fungas...because Fungas was my fav show on FRED....too bad that the station Fungas sucks ass....only seem to play new punk and ska....they say industrial and other music that doesnt get playe don the radio...but i have yet to hear it.

[grotty]

Anyone else get the survey from XM?
 
 I just filled mine out - they are gonna love me - I pretty much copied my comments from this thread.
 
 Oh yeah - yesterday on Ethel (Ch 47) they played a Radiohead track & followed it with a slowjam by the king of alternative rock - John Mayer.
 "Ethel - All of alternative rock music's monster hits"   :roll:  
 
 Sorry - I'll never bring this up again.