OT: Very clever on-line music radio

Rich,
that's wicked cool, I typed in Stevie Ray Vaughn, the station started with him then Jeff Healy, then Cream (Clapton), and on... really great!

Thanks,
Todd
 
Yeah, it's a great station for 'discovering' artists that you may like.
It's fun to create stations there.
 
Wow, Rich, thanks.

This should keep my busy for hours.

Though, it did balk when I typed in Glenn Gould (the famous Canadian classical pianist).

Ron
 
Kewl. It even recognized the Boomtown Rats. Could be way too much fun.

Thanks for reminding me of it. I'd read about but needed the reminder to go try it out.

William
 
back alley said:
it's been around for at least a few months.
you can create different 'mood' stations for yourself too.
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Yeah, it's pretty nifty. However, haven't been listening to it in a while. One problem I was running into is that I was beginning to hear the same songs over and over. You know, kind of like on the radio. ;) Then I'd start fiddling with it so much that it was too much of a distraction at work. :bang: However, it's been a while so I ought to give it another try....

Actually, I believe before Pandora there was Indy: http://indy.tv/ It too is pretty nifty, but sometimes the artists played are a bit, shall we say, eclectic.
 
Yep, been there. Put in Chevelle just now and got "The Red" plus Default's "The Fallout" as a second song. I'm eagerly anticipating the rest of the selections. :)
 
I like my music hard. ;)

Though I have been known to chill out to jazz, I almost always choose hard rock over anything else. And don't get me started on country music. I live in Iowa and I can't go into a bar without hearing "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)". :p
 
Stephanie Brim said:
I like my music hard. ;)
I live in Iowa and I can't go into a bar without hearing "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)". :p
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Stephanie,
That song is apparently one of the new crop of college co-ed's favorites. It is on the juke box where I work(and all the other college bars in town) and I hear it a lot. Not a horrible song. The frist 2 or 3 hundred times I heard it. And the "classic rock" radio station here has suddenly decided the the Kentucky Headhunters are classic rock:)confused: )...
I like a little older radio:http://www.980woq.net/.
Pandora is great fun, but my computer is old and slow, so I can't do much of anything else when I'm listening.
Rob
 
Thanks for the tip. I've always wanted my office to sound like a piano bar, and Pandora is doing a great job of it.
 
Not bad ... I put in Dropkick Murphys and it started with "The Wild Rover" a nice Irish classic

and then they went to Down by Law ... not where I was hoping but still Punkish ... ahhhh the next song Bad Religion (much better)

Moved on to a new genre; this thing is brilliant it didn't have "Pass the Peas" by the JBs but it did have Maceo Parker!!!!! Then moved on to Tower of Power .. thats some good funk

No classical :(

but moved on to some swing... had String of Pearls from Glen Miller moved onto Count Basie and then Artie Shaw ... not bad

On to search Harry Belafonte ... got Island in the Sun (not my favorite) then it went to Jim Croce (not exactly the direction I was going)

All in all I like it

but I will stick to my Winamp shoutcast ... I like Streaming Soundtracks, Cult Radio A-go-go (anyone who likes old radio shows would like this), Soma FM Indie Rocks, and Rantrock Radio
 
very cool.. I'll be using this a lot as I'm always on the lookout for new, similar bands

and just the record, the first band I plugged in was Oingo Boingo :D
 
I've tweaked my "station" a bit - started with Boomtown Rats & added Dire Straits, The Who & The Clash. It's streaming a really good mix right now, only 2 stinkers today.

Oingo Boingo, eh, Brett? Somehow that doesn't surprise me :D

William
 
Yeah, it works very well, since a week or such i'm also a big fan of it. I'm afraid though that with the increase of its popularity it will have trouble surviving as is now, based on donations.
 
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