05-18-2010, 08:32 AM | #1 | ||
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20 Artists, 20 Songs
So I recently got a car with Sirius XM Radio. I'm really liking it -- there's a lot of stations, no commercials, and enough decent stations that I can usually find something on. But the feature that got me really geeked was the alerts. When a song comes up, you can hit a button to tell the stereo to alert you whenever that artist or song is about to be played, on any station, and gives you the option to go to that station with one button. That really helped me relax and just enjoy whatever I was listening to, since I didn't have to feel like "yeah, this song is pretty good, but there might be something better on one of these other stations" which can lead to a lot of flipping around. However, I was pretty bummed when I found out that the limit is 20 of each, and after that, if you want to add something, you have to replace an old one.
Anyway, since this forum is a place that likes its lists and likes its music, I figured it would make a good thread here. You've got slots for 20 artists and 20 songs, how do you use them? This should be something a little different from "tell us your 20 favorite artists then your 20 favorite songs" -- it's a little different in that you'd have to expect to hear these songs on the radio (in fact, since you can't search for stuff on my stereo, I can't add anything until it gets played). For those who listen to a lot of radio, this shouldn't be a problem -- but those who don't might have to come up with an idea of what their "radio experience" would be like before tackling this. The same with people who listen to just one station -- in your radio experience, you don't need any notifications, since you're not switching back and forth ever, so you'll have to imagine a radio experience where you are switching. That said, choosing artists is probably a function of not just how much you like them, but how often they get played on the radio. If an artist gets played a lot, you'll get alerted a lot. This is for the most part a good thing -- if you like the artist, it's nice to get notified a lot that they're playing. On the other hand, if they get played a lot anyway, you might feel like you don't even need to be alerted, since you'll hear them a lot just by flipping around. And if an artist doesn't get played very often, it might be a waste of an alert, because it will hardly ever pop up. On the other hand, if they're played so rarely, do you really want to miss the few times they do get played? Choosing songs is a little more detailed, IMO. Obviously, if you have that artist added, you don't need the song. Although, covers might be an exception -- as far as I can tell, the only thing that gets stored is the song title, so if you add "I Think We're Alone Now" I think you'd get the version by Tommy James and the Shondells as well as Tiffany -- however, you can't get "I Saw Her Standing There" by the Beatles and "I Saw Him Standing There" by Tiffany with one song, since the titles are different. I'm not sure about how this works, so I'll let you guys make your own assumptions here if you want. Anyway, I would think that the song slots should be taken by artists who have only one song that you're really interested in hearing. But some people may think that's a mistake, or that it's worth it to use up two songs slots for one artist, because it would save an artist slot. Okay, I've pontificated about this enough. I'll post my list next. |
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05-18-2010, 08:36 AM | #2 | ||
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05-18-2010, 09:19 AM | #3 |
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Interesting concept for an FOFC lister, I'll try to play along but honestly I probably have to do a partial list & then fill it out to the max later. But if I were sitting down to program these lists, that's very likely what I'd end up doing anyway. The problem I see here, for me anyway, is that pretty much everything on my artist list is going to appear on a max of 2 or 3 channels that I'd be listening to anyway, so the alerts become pretty redundant.
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05-18-2010, 09:25 AM | #4 |
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Cheap Trick Queen Ramones TLC Motorhead Warren Zevon Rhiana Cinderella Boston Nazareth Ciara Van Halen Ratt Guns N Roses Billy Joel Foghat The Cars Sweet Scorpions Faith No More Edit to add songs More than a Feeling The Flame Ace of Spades Freebird Shut up and Drive Unpretty No one like you Balls to the Wall Dreams in the Dark Surrender Blitzkreig Bop Love Hurts Piece of my Heart (Janis, Nazareth and Erma Franklin's versions all good) Amanda Welcome to the Jungle November Rain Don't stop the Sandman Heartbreak Station Ashes to Ashes The Show must go on Last edited by BYU 14 : 05-18-2010 at 04:37 PM. |
05-18-2010, 09:28 AM | #5 |
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Wow, Pass, Kirsty MacColl? I'm impressed.
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05-18-2010, 09:32 AM | #6 |
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hells yeah! That's one of those that could be considered a waste of a slot, though. I heard "A New England" once, and haven't heard anything by her since. In fact, I was surprised I heard anything by her even the one time. |
05-18-2010, 09:37 AM | #7 |
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Isn't that the woman from the "Fairytale of New York" song? Last edited by TLK : 05-18-2010 at 09:38 AM. |
05-18-2010, 09:47 AM | #8 | |
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I've never had satellite radio but from what I gather one of the main benefits is being able to find much more obscure stuff than the 25 or so songs they always play on regular radio. I know MacColl's career was cut short by her tragic death so I don't know much of her work either. I'm actually more familiar with her brother, Neil MacColl, both for his work with David Gray and his popular work with Kathryn Williams.
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05-18-2010, 09:48 AM | #9 |
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Yes, that's her.
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05-18-2010, 10:01 AM | #10 | |
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I wouldn't say much more obscure stuff. Maybe it's due to my listening habits, but it seems like a lot of the stations are very similar in format, so several stations are equally likely to play the same stuff, which doesn't leave much room for very obscure stuff. There's exceptions, and maybe I'm spoiled from listening to my ipod, but it's not like you're hearing some new crazy thing after another (although if anyone else has it and disagrees, I'd love to hear about it)! I have an album by Kathryn Williams and Neill MacColl, but it never occured to me there was be a connection. |
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05-18-2010, 12:21 PM | #11 |
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There are very few artists where I like the majority of their songs. So I'd get annoyed pretty quickly if everytime ANY song of theirs was played, I'd be alerted. So this is a very short list:
Artists The Beatles Paul Simon U2 REM For the songs, these would be ones that I would stop scanning if I came across them on the dial. This list would be pretty dynamic, so this is simply a snaphot in time: Songs Only Wanna Be With You - Hootie and the Blowfish The Breakup Song - Greg Kihn Band One - U2 I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zepplin Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead Crazy on You - Heart All the Single Ladies (Put a ring on it) - Beyonce Sweet Jane - The Cowboy Junkies Don't Stop Believing - Journey Wrong Way - Sublime With or Without You - U2 Heartbreaker - The Rolling Stones Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who Stan - Eminem Paranoid - Black Sabbath Whenever, Wherever - Shakira Hands Clean - Alanis Morissette Bizzare Love Triangle - New Order
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05-18-2010, 01:57 PM | #12 |
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Very very hard to cut a list down to 20 ... but probably ... REM The Beatles 10cc Keane Blur The Cranberries Big Country The Alarm Aerosmith Foo Fighters The Fray Fleetwood Mac Green Day Lloyd Cole and the Commotions Gorillaz The Killers Robbie Williams Simple Minds Savage Garden Supertramp Thats probably as varied a list as you'll ever see .... also nearly making the cut amongst others was Toby Keith who I like a lot .... what can I say 3 years over here and I'm turning into a country boy |
05-18-2010, 02:00 PM | #13 |
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Thats a great list - makes a note to download some Aztec Camera .... Last edited by Marc Vaughan : 05-18-2010 at 02:03 PM. |
05-18-2010, 02:04 PM | #14 |
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If you haven't already give the Pogues a listen (they're the band who did that song with her) - they're fantastic ... presuming of course you like traditional Irish music (I'm half Irish so its kinda compulsory for me ). |
05-18-2010, 02:27 PM | #15 |
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05-18-2010, 02:32 PM | #16 |
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05-18-2010, 02:54 PM | #17 | |
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Seriously. I should too, actually. I had never heard of them until a couple years ago or so, when I downloaded High Land, Hard Rain (though I forget where I eventually did hear of them). It's really good, and I should get some more. |
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05-18-2010, 02:56 PM | #18 | |
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05-18-2010, 03:10 PM | #19 | |
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I was going to say that the notification is not too crazy -- a short little "bloop" that doesn't mess with the music you're currently listening to that much. Although, if it's alerting you about an artist, it doesn't tell you the song (and on the B-side, if it's alerting you about a song, it doesn't tell you the artist). So you have to change the channel to find out. It can get pretty annoying, since there is significant lag in changing the channel, and the radio says the name of the station out loud before it starts playing music (which seems like the most braindead decision in the world IMO). But yeah, bands like U2 and REM, I don't think I could ever add, cuz they get played on so many stations so often, you'd get notified a LOT, and hear them pretty often anyway (at least with the stations I listen to). |
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05-18-2010, 04:22 PM | #20 |
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I didn't try to do the artists thing, I just did 20 songs:
Bob Dylan - Meet Me In The Morning Tom Waits - Lie To Me Grizzly Bear - On A Neck, On A Spit Kings of Leon - Revelry The New Pornographers - Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk Animal Collective - Did You See The Words Mount Carmel - Livin Like I Wanna Mirah - Lone Star The xx - Do You Mind? Yo La Tengo - Let's Save Tony Orlando's House Ximena Sarinana - Mediocre No Kids - The Beaches All Closed The Dears - Ballad of Human Kindness The Polyphonic Spree - Section 28: Guaranteed Nightlife Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek - Midnight Hour (feat. Estelle) Janelle Monae - Make The Bus (feat. Of Montreal) The Dead Weather - Blue Blood Blues Blair - Paris Joy Kills Sorrow - All The Buildings Richard Swift - The Songs of National Freedom You can listen to the entire playlist here, though I think 8tracks makes it random because of the way their license works. Anyway... 27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="100%" height="120" > Last edited by Young Drachma : 05-18-2010 at 05:25 PM. |
05-18-2010, 05:08 PM | #21 |
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I had never heard of this band until I got satellite radio (because I am old and uncool). They're great, and they'd also be perfect for alerts since most of their stuff is great for the car.
Do I belt out the "oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh" part in "I've Got Friends" when I'm alone in the car? Yes. Yes I certainly do. Edit: Snow Patrol is good too, but I couldn't add them because that song about chasing cars makes me cry like a little bitch.
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05-18-2010, 05:14 PM | #22 |
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Great choice. It's a shame this will never be a single because Axl Rose decided to sulk instead of doing any promotion for the album, but the second half of this song kicks ass.
"Hey Axl, why are you mashing up MLK speeches with Michael J. Fox clips?" "Bllleaargghhh!" "OK, I'm just going to back slowly out of the studio, just slide the finished CD under the door when you're done."
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Yeah. I'm leaving artists like Elvis (has his own STATION), Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Rolling Stones off my list - they're so ubiquitous that you don't really need to search for them. A song or two I left off of my list because I really doubt they'd get played, even on XM (Clap! Shake! Jump!). So really my list is a list of artists who have a handful of songs that I know I like that I am fairly sure they play, or songs that I like and am pretty sure they've played (often by multiple artists). I'm sure I'm leaving off something, but generally this will cover me pretty well.
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05-19-2010, 12:28 PM | #25 |
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I have 17 that likely would be permanent fixtures:
David Bowie Talking Heads The Cars Midnight Oil Depeche Mode The Smiths Rolling Stones Green Day Nirvana Soundgarden Men at Work Prince U2 The Cranberries Eurythmics Aretha Franklin Marvin Gaye I'd have 3 that would probably switch around a lot, but would currently be: Coldplay Paramore Al Green Coming up with 20 songs is too much work right now. |
05-19-2010, 02:16 PM | #26 |
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I'll give it a shot:
Arctic Monkeys Band of Horses Beck Beth Orton Camper Van Beethoven Fiona Apple The Hold Steady Jean-Michel Jarre LCD Soundsystem Lemon Jelly Marah Phoenix The Shins Spoon Thievery Corporation Titus Andronicus Uncle Tupelo Ween Whiskeytown White Stripes Songs: Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd Sheep - Pink Floyd Echoes - Pink Floyd Fearless - Pink Floyd Not Gonna Suck Itself - Cracker Rondo Acapricio - Tosca Ballad of Human Kindness - Dears Frontier Psychiatrist - Avalanches Kissing Families - Silversun Pickups Pelz Komet - Kingsbury Manx I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - Wilco
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Wow. Tough.
Phish Deerhoof Ween Blackalicious Gogol Bordello Descendents Rush Frank Zappa Toots & the Maytals Distillers Medeski, Martin & Wood Zappa Plays Zappa Beck Tom Waits Sebadoh Allman Brothers Band Sonic Youth Hypnotic Clambake Ben Folds John McLaughlin Just feel like songs would be impossible. |
05-19-2010, 05:47 PM | #28 |
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ooh, Deerhoof -- there's another band I need to download more of. I have Offend Maggie and love it, and want more.
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Some of the bands I really love seem to blend the beautiful with the ugly in their music, and Deerhoof is no exception. [Saw Neil Young last night in a solo performance. Talk about blending achingly beautiful, intimate and vulnerable with ragged, distorted grime. It was tremendous.] Sorry, back to your regularly scheduled thread . . . . |
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