A Slacker music hour

[LA_Guy]

This is an hour of the music played on my Slacker portable.

The station is 1970s rock:

Heart-Crazy on you
Fleetwoord Mac-On Well
George Thorogood-Who do you Love?
Led Zepplin-Babe, I'm Gonna leave you
Yes-I've seen all the good people
ELO-Livin' Thing
Steve Miller-Rock N' me
Traffic- Can't find my way home
Eric Clapton-Lay Down Sally
Alice Cooper-Only women bleed
REO Speedwagon-Roll with the changes

If you want, I'll do an AAA one later on.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

This is an hour of the music played on my Slacker portable.

The station is 1970s rock:

Heart-Crazy on you
Fleetwoord Mac-On Well
George Thorogood-Who do you Love?
Led Zepplin-Babe, I'm Gonna leave you
Yes-I've seen all the good people
ELO-Livin' Thing
Steve Miller-Rock N' me
Traffic- Can't find my way home
Eric Clapton-Lay Down Sally
Alice Cooper-Only women bleed
REO Speedwagon-Roll with the changes

If you want, I'll do an AAA one later on.

Damn, that list is almost identical to what's usually on 100.3!!

 

[LA_Guy]

A Slacker AAA music hour...

Here's my (I say my because the playlist was downloaded last night) AAA one between 12:30 and 1;30 today...

Fleet Foxes-White Winter Hymns
Echo & the Bunnymen-Bring on the dancing horses
jem-It's amazing
KT Tunstall-Suddenly I see
Ingrid Michaelson-The way I am
Cake-Never There
Jamie Lydell-Another Day
Lenny Kravitz-Dancing till dawn
XTC-Senses working overtime
The Flaming Lips-Bad days
Amos lee-The arms of a woman
Matt Nathanson-Car Crash
Ivy-the Best thing
The killers-Human


This hour was VERY musically satisfying-not a stiff in the bunch and lots of great stuff I hadn't heard before.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

LA_Guy, that's a good list, I can understand why you said VERY musically satisfying.
The 'station' I've been spending much of time listening to the last 6 weeks is the Legato Cafe - www.legatocafe.net

Here's what they've played in the last hour or so:
'Birds Of A Feather' by Phish (From: Story Of A Ghost)
'Gravity' by Muckrakers (From: The Concorde Fallacy)
'Mr. Pitiful' by Matt Costa (From: Unfamiliar Faces)
'Steady On' by Shawn Colvin (From: Steady On)
'Just Another Day' by John Mellencamp (From: Mr. Happy Go Lucky)
'What's Been Going On' by Amos Lee (From: Last Days At The Lodge)
'One Headlight' by The Wallflowers (From: Bringing Down the Horse)
'Scare Easy' by Mudcrutch (From: Mudcrutch)
'Strange Overtones' by David Byrne & Brian Eno (From: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today)
'Higher Ground' by Red Hot Chili Peppers (From: Mother's Milk)
'Boots Of Chinese Plastic' by The Pretenders (From: BREAK UP THE CONCRETE)
'If You're Gone' by Matchbox Twenty (From: Mad Season)
'Shattered (Turn The Car Around)' by O.A.R. (From: All Sides)
'How In The Hell Did You Get Back Here' by Backyard Tire Fire (From: The Places We Lived)
'I Am A Leaver' by The Damnwells (From: Air Stereo)
'Building A Mystery' by Sarah McLachlan (From: Surfacing)
'You Are The Best Thing' by Ray Lamontagne (From: Gossip In The Grain)
'The Needle And The Damage Done' by Neil Young (From: )
'Black Gold' by Soul Asylum (From: Grave Dancer's Union)
'Thirty Three' by Smashing Pumpkins (From: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
'Motivation' by Sheryl Crow (From: Detours)
'Come Home' by Back Door Slam (From: Roll Away)
'Helter Skelter' by The Beatles (From: The White Album)

 

[robnokshus06]

LA Guy, how you liking your Slacker portable? I see that they've come out with an app for Blackberrys.
I listen on the ol' desktop myself. Good service.

 

[ChannelFlipper]

Just checked Slacker out based on the posts above.

Immediate reaction - great sound quality coming out of my stock Dell laptop speakers - wow! No buffering time - starts almost immediately from the push of the button! Song selection is similar to what is noted above. Option to skip ahead of song you may not like. Easier to use than Pandora radio, which you need to program yourself and has a limited library to select from.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Separate topic parting thought: How many times will the Sound pat itself on the back for playing Traffic records in the midst of all of its other classic rock? Believe it or not, I've heard "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" before. It's no big deal. Surprise me one day by throwing a New Riders of the Purple Sage record. I'll appreciate it and you will be able to tell if anyone else is paying attention.

 

[LA_Guy]

LA Guy, how you liking your Slacker portable? I see that they've come out with an app for Blackberrys.
I listen on the ol' desktop myself. Good service.

I bought this unit on woot.com last week. It's the 'old' unit (came out last year). 8 gB-it will do up to 40 stations. It cost 70 dollars shipped. Best 70 bucks I ever spent! The sound quality is better then any player I have heard yet-probably because it's all AAC+. I'm using it with my Grado R-60 (cheapo) headphones, which it drives quite well.

The player integrates with the Slacker portal quite easily. All you do it log on to slacker.com, put in the player's ID number into the portal and you're done. There's also a program you can install on your computer to run the portable from a USB cable (which also charges it-though they do give you a USB AC adapter).
Half the 8 gB of memory is for personal storage, so I can put MP3s. podcasts, etc on it. It handles MP3, WMA and AAC+ files.

Like I said, this unit is just amazing. They have it figured out. Whenever you want, you can update it wirelessly (and somehow it works with AT&T wifi in Starbucks, etc,. even if you don't have an account), and it pushes new songs to all your stations on the unit. Then you can play the stations everywhere. The portable also has the like/dislike buttons on it for user feedback (data is uploaded when you refresh). Slacker has figured out how to get their music into cars successfully-and with this player in my pockert I have no need to listen to music radio any more at all...