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chrisr
Guest
Anyone that thinks Sirius and/or XM have better options then terrestial radio are both right and wrong. Yes many more stations to choose from on Sirius and the music channels are commercial free, but some of the programming on these stations can be bizzarre at best. In listening to the 70's channel (my favorite format), I've heard the following in the last hour:
Partridge Family, Barry White (twice...yes twice in one hour and 3 titles from BW in the last hour and a half) 7 disco songs, around 6 classic rock songs, 5 or 6 urban songs...YUCK!!! An awful mix with no balance and pop music is noticably missing. I'm a 70's fan, and some titles they play I've never heard (usually of a disco nature). I have a friend who is a self proclaimed music genius and he even says there are titles he can't remember and can't find them in his cheat book of hits. Then as you guessed it, later in the afternoon, some of the same songs play again that played that morning. My big question is who at Sirius is the Barry White fan. They play Barry White songs sometimes twice per hour. He is good, but come on!
The DJ's are pathetic. They get in the way of the music because they talk WAY too much about nothing, attempt to be funny and are just plain stupid. Barry Williams from the Brady Bunch needs to go. Too stiff and sounds like he reads his jokes out of a $1.00 joke book. Give up the comedy Barry! You are not a funny guy. The night jock JJ Walker sounds very sophmoric for a channel going after adults. If these are the best dj's they can find, just go jockless.
The programmers of Sirius really need to retool the 70's channel. Don't they realize disco is what killed CHR in the 70's? This type music is some of the most hated music on the planet. It also made up such a small portion of the 70's, yet gets a large percentage of play (seems like every other song is disco). Where are the pop and ballads from the 70's???? This is a memory based format!!! Play it all!!! Not just classic rock and disco!!! If Sirius wants to play nothing but disco, start a disco channel.
The better channels are the Bridge (some of the 70's from this channel needs to be added to the 70's channel.) Alt nation is cool. I've become a Howard Stern fan from listening to some of his shows. At the end of the day, he IS a funny, entertaining guy.
The Jazz stations have the same problem as FM. Same songs over and over. Come on, this is a format the audience turns on and leaves on all day. They shouldn't play the same song in a week or more.
I don't care too much for 80's, but friends of mine say the 80's channel good.
Really like some of the talk channels although they are hard to understand because technically they are very muffled and sound almost like they are broadcasting over the telephone.
Partridge Family, Barry White (twice...yes twice in one hour and 3 titles from BW in the last hour and a half) 7 disco songs, around 6 classic rock songs, 5 or 6 urban songs...YUCK!!! An awful mix with no balance and pop music is noticably missing. I'm a 70's fan, and some titles they play I've never heard (usually of a disco nature). I have a friend who is a self proclaimed music genius and he even says there are titles he can't remember and can't find them in his cheat book of hits. Then as you guessed it, later in the afternoon, some of the same songs play again that played that morning. My big question is who at Sirius is the Barry White fan. They play Barry White songs sometimes twice per hour. He is good, but come on!
The DJ's are pathetic. They get in the way of the music because they talk WAY too much about nothing, attempt to be funny and are just plain stupid. Barry Williams from the Brady Bunch needs to go. Too stiff and sounds like he reads his jokes out of a $1.00 joke book. Give up the comedy Barry! You are not a funny guy. The night jock JJ Walker sounds very sophmoric for a channel going after adults. If these are the best dj's they can find, just go jockless.
The programmers of Sirius really need to retool the 70's channel. Don't they realize disco is what killed CHR in the 70's? This type music is some of the most hated music on the planet. It also made up such a small portion of the 70's, yet gets a large percentage of play (seems like every other song is disco). Where are the pop and ballads from the 70's???? This is a memory based format!!! Play it all!!! Not just classic rock and disco!!! If Sirius wants to play nothing but disco, start a disco channel.
The better channels are the Bridge (some of the 70's from this channel needs to be added to the 70's channel.) Alt nation is cool. I've become a Howard Stern fan from listening to some of his shows. At the end of the day, he IS a funny, entertaining guy.
The Jazz stations have the same problem as FM. Same songs over and over. Come on, this is a format the audience turns on and leaves on all day. They shouldn't play the same song in a week or more.
I don't care too much for 80's, but friends of mine say the 80's channel good.
Really like some of the talk channels although they are hard to understand because technically they are very muffled and sound almost like they are broadcasting over the telephone.
and just because you and your young friends dont know a song doesnt mean it wasnt a hit. i remember puppy love by donny osmond being on the radio 15 times a day in 1973..and i was 5!!!!!!!!!