Simply random stuff

[Bruce00]

Just don't drive like Bruce use to ensure the "many more." Congratulations on a very nice birthday @privateuniverse

Fixed it for you

 

[gvl_guy]

I'd like to put a plug in for my new favorite "radio" station.

A bit of a background on me, first. I was in radio for 40 years. I started in the music and programming side of things and, around 1994, switched to the news and journalism side of things - with my heart still in music.

I consider myself a "pop tart," a phrase coined by a former music director of mine (who now is a morning news anchor on WINS in NYC.) I love pop music. The more bubble gum the better. Boy bands, the Monkees, disco, etc. My dream was to work on a CHR/Top 40 radio station but my delivery didn't work for that. So I worked Adult Contemporary, Oldies and Country (briefly). The rock I like was WPLJ in NY when they were in their rock phase in the 70s. Very pop.

So I'm shocked that this station is my go to all the time now. It's channel 14, Life with John Mayer on SiriusXM. It's got to be the best programmed station I've ever heard. Period. It features music from the 60s to today. It is heavily dayparted. Very upbeat on a Saturday night. And this morning, Sunday, I'm super relaxed with tunes I've never heard before, mixed in with some CSN and Joe Cocker's You Are So Beautiful. Mayer does all the voice tracks. And he actually is engaging! Not just some generic DJ reading liner cards and telling folks to download the company app. A perfect example is his explanation of Bonnie Raitt's Nick of Time. I had no idea about the background on that song. Sometimes he talks about the form of the song. It's all pretty fascinating.

Terrestrial radio needs to take a page from this book. I don't know about radio near you, but over the air radio near me BLOWS big time. Music is programmed from some corporate office somewhere. The DJs, if there are any, are usually living in some other town. I can usually find a stream somewhere, without commercials, that's does a better job with music I want to hear.

Life with John Mayer educates me a bit, engages me a bit, plays some music I know and like, introduces me to new stuff and sets a great mood for the time of day.

John and SXM make a fantastic pair!

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Just a quick sample of the recent House Oversight Committee's hearing on UAPs, here with Elizondo.
*If you followed the entire hearing, it is earth shattering!
I caught the movie "Interstellar" last night again; maybe it's us

 

[DuncanS]

Just a quick sample of the recent House Oversight Committee's hearing on UAPs, here with Elizondo.
*If you followed the entire hearing, it is earth shattering!
I caught the movie "Interstellar" last night again; maybe it's us

............ we control the horizontal, we control the vertical

 

[jimfisheye]

The defensiveness is what really speaks up to me that someone is meaning to hide something.

Those air force drone videos that leaked out 20 years ago. They denied them. Then they put out a bunch of aperture effect videos for strawmen to point to to debunk that. Now we see those very same original videos officially released 20 years later.

Now we have these hearings and the most disgraced and discredited congress critters are put in charge? Can you say poisoning the well?

It's hard to find provenance with some of the shaky videos sharing around but someone is sure acting like they have something to hide.

 

[mandrix]

The defensiveness is what really speaks up to me that someone is meaning to hide something.

Those air force drone videos that leaked out 20 years ago. They denied them. Then they put out a bunch of aperture effect videos for strawmen to point to to debunk that. Now we see those very same original videos officially released 20 years later.

Now we have these hearings and the most disgraced and discredited congress critters are put in charge? Can you say poisoning the well?

It's hard to find providence with some of the shaky videos sharing around but someone is sure acting like they have something to hide.

Provenance, either!!
Just messing wit ya, young man.

 

[mandrix]

I'd like to put a plug in for my new favorite "radio" station.

A bit of a background on me, first. I was in radio for 40 years. I started in the music and programming side of things and, around 1994, switched to the news and journalism side of things - with my heart still in music.

I consider myself a "pop tart," a phrase coined by a former music director of mine (who now is a morning news anchor on WINS in NYC.) I love pop music. The more bubble gum the better. Boy bands, the Monkees, disco, etc. My dream was to work on a CHR/Top 40 radio station but my delivery didn't work for that. So I worked Adult Contemporary, Oldies and Country (briefly). The rock I like was WPLJ in NY when they were in their rock phase in the 70s. Very pop.

So I'm shocked that this station is my go to all the time now. It's channel 14, Life with John Mayer on SiriusXM. It's got to be the best programmed station I've ever heard. Period. It features music from the 60s to today. It is heavily dayparted. Very upbeat on a Saturday night. And this morning, Sunday, I'm super relaxed with tunes I've never heard before, mixed in with some CSN and Joe Cocker's You Are So Beautiful. Mayer does all the voice tracks. And he actually is engaging! Not just some generic DJ reading liner cards and telling folks to download the company app. A perfect example is his explanation of Bonnie Raitt's Nick of Time. I had no idea about the background on that song. Sometimes he talks about the form of the song. It's all pretty fascinating.

Terrestrial radio needs to take a page from this book. I don't know about radio near you, but over the air radio near me BLOWS big time. Music is programmed from some corporate office somewhere. The DJs, if there are any, are usually living in some other town. I can usually find a stream somewhere, without commercials, that's does a better job with music I want to hear.

Life with John Mayer educates me a bit, engages me a bit, plays some music I know and like, introduces me to new stuff and sets a great mood for the time of day.

John and SXM make a fantastic pair!

I do not subscribe to satellite radio, or any really, though I have a Spotify free account since the early days.
Besides the usual litany of religious, country, "classic (sic) rock", and a 70's/80's station, not much else to hear these days in my parts.
I only turn on the radio in my shop in the odd event I hear an old Cars song or such. (well, some country)

Down in Central Florida, where I grew up, we had some absolutely ass kicking FM stations as the 70's progressed. Deep album cuts, sometimes play an LP, flip it over.
The first FM station broadcasting any sort of rock I recall, was from WUSF at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and at first, only two hours on Friday night; otherwise strictly classical music.
I was listening to this station when Duane Allman died/was reported on that station in '71. Only place I heard it at the time.

I assume (broadcast) radio used to be an integral part of all our lives.
Now I just don't care so much.

 

[jimfisheye]

Provenance, either!!
Just messing wit ya, young man.

I need smarter spell check for whole wrong words!

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

Why is the vocal so PRESENT in the mix...

Not the worst mixing crime I have heard.

 

[mandrix]

Why is the vocal so PRESENT in the mix...

Not the worst mixing crime I have heard.

Not out of any bias, but more language and rhythm. Hard for me to get into Indian music.
But yes, t he vocals come clear out at you.

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

Not out of any bias, but more language and rhythm. Hard for me to get into Indian music.
But yes, t he vocals come clear out at you.

Too clear, in my opinion. At least on my setup those vocals are uncomfortably loud, and detract from the experience.

When it comes to foreign music, I generally am open to it. Of course what I think is good probably feeds more into western tastes than anything that is popular in the respective country.

I find out about Indian music if I happen to watch an Indian film, because a staggering amount of them are musicals.

Actually in hindsight, the stereo mix on YouTube isn't that bad...however in the film you just get blasted with the vocals.

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

Anybody know if Korea has released any DVD-Audio or Blu-ray Audio discs? I know they've released a couple SACDs...but information on any multichannel Korean music is very scarce.

 

[gvl_guy]

I do not subscribe to satellite radio, or any really, though I have a Spotify free account since the early days.
Besides the usual litany of religious, country, "classic (sic) rock", and a 70's/80's station, not much else to hear these days in my parts.
I only turn on the radio in my shop in the odd event I hear an old Cars song or such. (well, some country)

Down in Central Florida, where I grew up, we had some absolutely ass kicking FM stations as the 70's progressed. Deep album cuts, sometimes play an LP, flip it over.
The first FM station broadcasting any sort of rock I recall, was from WUSF at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and at first, only two hours on Friday night; otherwise strictly classical music.
I was listening to this station when Duane Allman died/was reported on that station in '71. Only place I heard it at the time.

I assume (broadcast) radio used to be an integral part of all our lives.
Now I just don't care so much.

Honestly? Most people don't care so much about radio anymore. I dare say that most 20 something's probably never use the radio portion of their car at all, opting for streaming something. I will bet anyone here that they have no idea (if they were to try and use it) that there's an FM and an AM button. I mean. What's on AM anymore. And it sounds like crap anyway.

 

[mandrix]

Yeah it's sort of funny, people were up in arms about AM possibly being deleted from car radio's. I think some congress critters got involved.

 

[gvl_guy]

Yeah it's sort of funny, people were up in arms about AM possibly being deleted from car radio's. I think some congress critters got involved.

So many AM stations are either signing off and selling their tower sites because the property is more valuable than the station or, in the case of some of the heritage AM stations, selling the tower site and downgrading the signal to multiplex (sharing a tower) with another station. It happened in Baltimore (I think WBAL) and several other places.

 

[ar surround]

So many AM stations are either signing off and selling their tower sites because the property is more valuable than the station or, in the case of some of the heritage AM stations, selling the tower site and downgrading the signal to multiplex (sharing a tower) with another station. It happened in Baltimore (I think WBAL) and several other places.

Things change.

 

[mandrix]

So many AM stations are either signing off and selling their tower sites because the property is more valuable than the station or, in the case of some of the heritage AM stations, selling the tower site and downgrading the signal to multiplex (sharing a tower) with another station. It happened in Baltimore (I think WBAL) and several other places.

When I was young and living in central Florida, at night I sometimes listened to an AM station I think in Arkansas, pop station. The skip was fantastic. One thing about AM is it bounces around everywhere.
One night I heard WLS in Chicago on FM for a bit. Funny thing was I happened to be at a house a bunch of bikers from Chicago area lived in. That same bunch were in a B grade biker movie once.

 

[mandrix]

Things change.

Where did you hear that?

 

[barfle]

I'd like to put a plug in for my new favorite "radio" station.

A bit of a background on me, first. I was in radio for 40 years. I started in the music and programming side of things and, around 1994, switched to the news and journalism side of things - with my heart still in music.

I consider myself a "pop tart," a phrase coined by a former music director of mine (who now is a morning news anchor on WINS in NYC.) I love pop music. The more bubble gum the better. Boy bands, the Monkees, disco, etc. My dream was to work on a CHR/Top 40 radio station but my delivery didn't work for that. So I worked Adult Contemporary, Oldies and Country (briefly). The rock I like was WPLJ in NY when they were in their rock phase in the 70s. Very pop.

So I'm shocked that this station is my go to all the time now. It's channel 14, Life with John Mayer on SiriusXM. It's got to be the best programmed station I've ever heard. Period. It features music from the 60s to today. It is heavily dayparted. Very upbeat on a Saturday night. And this morning, Sunday, I'm super relaxed with tunes I've never heard before, mixed in with some CSN and Joe Cocker's You Are So Beautiful. Mayer does all the voice tracks. And he actually is engaging! Not just some generic DJ reading liner cards and telling folks to download the company app. A perfect example is his explanation of Bonnie Raitt's Nick of Time. I had no idea about the background on that song. Sometimes he talks about the form of the song. It's all pretty fascinating.

Terrestrial radio needs to take a page from this book. I don't know about radio near you, but over the air radio near me BLOWS big time. Music is programmed from some corporate office somewhere. The DJs, if there are any, are usually living in some other town. I can usually find a stream somewhere, without commercials, that's does a better job with music I want to hear.

Life with John Mayer educates me a bit, engages me a bit, plays some music I know and like, introduces me to new stuff and sets a great mood for the time of day.

John and SXM make a fantastic pair!

Just got a new car with SiriusXM, and I’m exploring whether or not to keep it. I usually listen to podcasts when I’m in the car (the damned thing connects to just anout everything except terrestrial TV), so it might not be worth the subscription fee. Of course, the button will always be there reminding me of what I’m missing.

In the meantime, I’ll give 14 a listen.

 

[barfle]

Yeah it's sort of funny, people were up in arms about AM possibly being deleted from car radio's. I think some congress critters got involved.

IIRC,Tesla wanted to get rid of the AM tuners in their cars because the drive electronics created so much interference that the filtering was very expensive, and they wanted to cut costs. I saw that there was a consumer reaction to that idea.

Of course, in these parts, AM radio is where Musk’s political support group is thriving. Be careful what you wish for.

I’m old enough to remember when ANY radio in a car cost extra, and I’m also old enough to remember when AM was the only option. When I got my first FM car radio, I felt pretty special.