is this their answer to Jack.??.i heard i got you babe by sonny & cher into i want to sex you up by color me bad...guess they consider sonny & cher one of those icon songs but does it belong on Jack??
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SIRIUS SHUFFLE FORMAT
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timbo
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> is this their answer to Jack.??.i heard i got you babe by
> sonny & cher into i want to sex you up by color me
> bad...guess they consider sonny & cher one of those icon
> songs but does it belong on Jack??
>
My vibe on this, and I may have this wrong, (I'm not a consultant) is that the shuffle is a true variety. in other words it really is a random shuffle of whats out there on sirius and not just preselected songs for a certain demographic. The Jack FMs are going after a target demo(males I believe). The sirius shuffle is just showing whats on varius channels. I Don't get the feeling that the music channels at sirius are aimed at certain demos (except for the kids stations) I have to wonder about the pulse though. The 90's and now?? And I'ts not even all of the "now music" Just the Cabrerras and the clarksons, etc. of the world. It Didn't help either that stern and Quivers were Crooning over the Pulse on Wednesday. Sorry to Rant but please, sirius, give us strictly 90's. I don't feel the music channels should be like this. I like the fact that they are fragmented. If I want to hear "now" I'll tune to Channel one.
> sonny & cher into i want to sex you up by color me
> bad...guess they consider sonny & cher one of those icon
> songs but does it belong on Jack??
>
My vibe on this, and I may have this wrong, (I'm not a consultant) is that the shuffle is a true variety. in other words it really is a random shuffle of whats out there on sirius and not just preselected songs for a certain demographic. The Jack FMs are going after a target demo(males I believe). The sirius shuffle is just showing whats on varius channels. I Don't get the feeling that the music channels at sirius are aimed at certain demos (except for the kids stations) I have to wonder about the pulse though. The 90's and now?? And I'ts not even all of the "now music" Just the Cabrerras and the clarksons, etc. of the world. It Didn't help either that stern and Quivers were Crooning over the Pulse on Wednesday. Sorry to Rant but please, sirius, give us strictly 90's. I don't feel the music channels should be like this. I like the fact that they are fragmented. If I want to hear "now" I'll tune to Channel one.
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Apollo79
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> > is this their answer to Jack.??.i heard i got you babe by
> > sonny & cher into i want to sex you up by color me
> > bad...guess they consider sonny & cher one of those icon
> > songs but does it belong on Jack??
> >
> My vibe on this, and I may have this wrong, (I'm not a
> consultant) is that the shuffle is a true variety. in other
> words it really is a random shuffle of whats out there on
> sirius and not just preselected songs for a certain
> demographic. The Jack FMs are going after a target
> demo(males I believe). The sirius shuffle is just showing
> whats on varius channels. I Don't get the feeling that the
> music channels at sirius are aimed at certain demos (except
> for the kids stations) I have to wonder about the pulse
> though. The 90's and now?? And I'ts not even all of the "now
> music" Just the Cabrerras and the clarksons, etc. of the
> world. It Didn't help either that stern and Quivers were
> Crooning over the Pulse on Wednesday. Sorry to Rant but
> please, sirius, give us strictly 90's. I don't feel the
> music channels should be like this. I like the fact that
> they are fragmented. If I want to hear "now" I'll tune to
> Channel one.
>
The Pulse is, for all intents and purposes, a hot/modern AC station. At night, they seem to add in some carefully selected 90s dance and hip-hop (adult-friendly groups such as C + C Music Factory, etc.), but nothing close to the amount of dance and hip-hop CHRs were playing back in the 90s.
I agree with Sirius needing to add a 90s hits station. It makes sense because many of the people who embrace satellite radio grew up in the 80s and 90s. Quite honestly, the 90s, XM Comedy, and Opie & Anthony are the only features that have me holding on to XM. Otherwise, I prefer Sirius' music programming.
> > sonny & cher into i want to sex you up by color me
> > bad...guess they consider sonny & cher one of those icon
> > songs but does it belong on Jack??
> >
> My vibe on this, and I may have this wrong, (I'm not a
> consultant) is that the shuffle is a true variety. in other
> words it really is a random shuffle of whats out there on
> sirius and not just preselected songs for a certain
> demographic. The Jack FMs are going after a target
> demo(males I believe). The sirius shuffle is just showing
> whats on varius channels. I Don't get the feeling that the
> music channels at sirius are aimed at certain demos (except
> for the kids stations) I have to wonder about the pulse
> though. The 90's and now?? And I'ts not even all of the "now
> music" Just the Cabrerras and the clarksons, etc. of the
> world. It Didn't help either that stern and Quivers were
> Crooning over the Pulse on Wednesday. Sorry to Rant but
> please, sirius, give us strictly 90's. I don't feel the
> music channels should be like this. I like the fact that
> they are fragmented. If I want to hear "now" I'll tune to
> Channel one.
>
The Pulse is, for all intents and purposes, a hot/modern AC station. At night, they seem to add in some carefully selected 90s dance and hip-hop (adult-friendly groups such as C + C Music Factory, etc.), but nothing close to the amount of dance and hip-hop CHRs were playing back in the 90s.
I agree with Sirius needing to add a 90s hits station. It makes sense because many of the people who embrace satellite radio grew up in the 80s and 90s. Quite honestly, the 90s, XM Comedy, and Opie & Anthony are the only features that have me holding on to XM. Otherwise, I prefer Sirius' music programming.
T
timbo
Guest
>
> I agree with Sirius needing to add a 90s hits station. It
> makes sense because many of the people who embrace satellite
> radio grew up in the 80s and 90s. Quite honestly, the 90s,
> XM Comedy, and Opie & Anthony are the only features that
> have me holding on to XM. Otherwise, I prefer Sirius' music
> programming.
>
I have DirecTV and they have added XM recently. XM's 90's station just blew me away. That's the way sirius's shoud be.
> I agree with Sirius needing to add a 90s hits station. It
> makes sense because many of the people who embrace satellite
> radio grew up in the 80s and 90s. Quite honestly, the 90s,
> XM Comedy, and Opie & Anthony are the only features that
> have me holding on to XM. Otherwise, I prefer Sirius' music
> programming.
>
I have DirecTV and they have added XM recently. XM's 90's station just blew me away. That's the way sirius's shoud be.
Super Shuffle: "Anything you can do, I can do better" (and a side comment about demos and the late "Swing Street" and, for that matter, "Folk Town")
My first impression was that Super Shuffle would be a "me-too" format, Sirius's answer to Jack.
Now that I've heard it (and tune in to it every now and then), I also think it's a case of "anything you can do, I can do better." More variety, from what I've heard. Haven't heard classical or opera yet on "Super Shuffle," but there does seem to be more variety than just 1980s music and 1970s "classic hits."
By the way, I have an off-topic comment regarding demos, "Standard Time" and the late "Swing Street." (I've been thinking about posting about this for a few months, actually.) It could just be me, but when Sirius eliminated "Swing Street" in late September 2005 and rolled it into "Standard Time," I wondered (perhaps a bit too cynically -- ???) if Sirius wasn't pandering to an old demographic. I mean, if I'm "in the mood" (pun intended) for this classic old music, do I really want to sit through Tony Bennett (not to knock that great singer) or, for that matter, Rod Stewart singing his renditions of "The Great American Songbook"? In my opinion, both swing and standards have a place and deserve their own dedicated streams.
I've since noticed that Sirius does have special-interest swing programs on the schedule. But I did wonder if maybe Sirius thought it could free up a channel (an understandable goal) by eliminating Swing Street, rolling the programming into "Standard Time" and therefore program for an elderly demographic as opposed to package music as it seemingly does so well on so many other streams.
I mean, pass the Geritol. ;-)
Or am I off-base there?
More generally, I felt Sirius goofed by cutting Swing Street and Folk Town. Not that those were in my central core of favorite streams (they weren't), but I did like tuning in to each of them every now and then.
Of course, I also felt that Sirius goofed a couple of years ago when it eliminated its "new age" music stream, but last September Sirius fixed that with Spa 73. So maybe there's hope for folk and swing down the road as well.
> > is this their answer to Jack.??.i heard i got you babe by
> > sonny & cher into i want to sex you up by color me
> > bad...guess they consider sonny & cher one of those icon
> > songs but does it belong on Jack??
> >
> My vibe on this, and I may have this wrong, (I'm not a
> consultant) is that the shuffle is a true variety. in other
> words it really is a random shuffle of whats out there on
> sirius and not just preselected songs for a certain
> demographic. The Jack FMs are going after a target
> demo(males I believe). The sirius shuffle is just showing
> whats on varius channels. I Don't get the feeling that the
> music channels at sirius are aimed at certain demos (except
> for the kids stations) I have to wonder about the pulse
> though. The 90's and now?? And I'ts not even all of the "now
> music" Just the Cabrerras and the clarksons, etc. of the
> world. It Didn't help either that stern and Quivers were
> Crooning over the Pulse on Wednesday. Sorry to Rant but
> please, sirius, give us strictly 90's. I don't feel the
> music channels should be like this. I like the fact that
> they are fragmented. If I want to hear "now" I'll tune to
> Channel one.
>
My first impression was that Super Shuffle would be a "me-too" format, Sirius's answer to Jack.
Now that I've heard it (and tune in to it every now and then), I also think it's a case of "anything you can do, I can do better." More variety, from what I've heard. Haven't heard classical or opera yet on "Super Shuffle," but there does seem to be more variety than just 1980s music and 1970s "classic hits."
By the way, I have an off-topic comment regarding demos, "Standard Time" and the late "Swing Street." (I've been thinking about posting about this for a few months, actually.) It could just be me, but when Sirius eliminated "Swing Street" in late September 2005 and rolled it into "Standard Time," I wondered (perhaps a bit too cynically -- ???) if Sirius wasn't pandering to an old demographic. I mean, if I'm "in the mood" (pun intended) for this classic old music, do I really want to sit through Tony Bennett (not to knock that great singer) or, for that matter, Rod Stewart singing his renditions of "The Great American Songbook"? In my opinion, both swing and standards have a place and deserve their own dedicated streams.
I've since noticed that Sirius does have special-interest swing programs on the schedule. But I did wonder if maybe Sirius thought it could free up a channel (an understandable goal) by eliminating Swing Street, rolling the programming into "Standard Time" and therefore program for an elderly demographic as opposed to package music as it seemingly does so well on so many other streams.
I mean, pass the Geritol. ;-)
Or am I off-base there?
More generally, I felt Sirius goofed by cutting Swing Street and Folk Town. Not that those were in my central core of favorite streams (they weren't), but I did like tuning in to each of them every now and then.
Of course, I also felt that Sirius goofed a couple of years ago when it eliminated its "new age" music stream, but last September Sirius fixed that with Spa 73. So maybe there's hope for folk and swing down the road as well.
> > is this their answer to Jack.??.i heard i got you babe by
> > sonny & cher into i want to sex you up by color me
> > bad...guess they consider sonny & cher one of those icon
> > songs but does it belong on Jack??
> >
> My vibe on this, and I may have this wrong, (I'm not a
> consultant) is that the shuffle is a true variety. in other
> words it really is a random shuffle of whats out there on
> sirius and not just preselected songs for a certain
> demographic. The Jack FMs are going after a target
> demo(males I believe). The sirius shuffle is just showing
> whats on varius channels. I Don't get the feeling that the
> music channels at sirius are aimed at certain demos (except
> for the kids stations) I have to wonder about the pulse
> though. The 90's and now?? And I'ts not even all of the "now
> music" Just the Cabrerras and the clarksons, etc. of the
> world. It Didn't help either that stern and Quivers were
> Crooning over the Pulse on Wednesday. Sorry to Rant but
> please, sirius, give us strictly 90's. I don't feel the
> music channels should be like this. I like the fact that
> they are fragmented. If I want to hear "now" I'll tune to
> Channel one.
>
> >
> > I agree with Sirius needing to add a 90s hits station. It
>
> > makes sense because many of the people who embrace
> satellite
> > radio grew up in the 80s and 90s. Quite honestly, the
> 90s,
> > XM Comedy, and Opie & Anthony are the only features that
> > have me holding on to XM. Otherwise, I prefer Sirius'
> music
> > programming.
> >
> I have DirecTV and they have added XM recently. XM's 90's
> station just blew me away. That's the way sirius's shoud be.
>
I already put in a request for a separate 90's channel, and make the Pulse a Hot/Modern AC with 80's music in the playlist as well, to make it a true Hot/Modern AC channel. I don't remember which dance channels they eliminated, but I used to remember 6, but 2 were eliminated, and was replaced with 1 channel, Chill on 35. It sounds like a good channel, but it's rather repetitious. Also I don't know if the Pet Shop Boys West End Girls even belongs on Chill. The Doors have even made an occasional play on Chill too. As for Super Shuffle, they play everything that's in their library. But someone isn't getting the RDS correct on songs played on other channels. I once caught Whitney Houston's How Will I Know, listed as also playing on Totally 70's, when it should have been the Big 80's, and George Michael's I Want Your Sex laso listed as also heard on Totally 70's, and that too should have been The Big 80's. I mainly listen to Sirius Hits 1, Starlite (how an AC station should sound like, not how CC is programming many of their AC stations to sound Hot, like WLIT in Chicago is these days), Sirius Love (I believe that's what it's called), Big 80's, The Pulse, occaionally Super Shuffle, and Chill. I'm too caught up in music that interests me that I haven't had a chance to check out the other channels.
> > I agree with Sirius needing to add a 90s hits station. It
>
> > makes sense because many of the people who embrace
> satellite
> > radio grew up in the 80s and 90s. Quite honestly, the
> 90s,
> > XM Comedy, and Opie & Anthony are the only features that
> > have me holding on to XM. Otherwise, I prefer Sirius'
> music
> > programming.
> >
> I have DirecTV and they have added XM recently. XM's 90's
> station just blew me away. That's the way sirius's shoud be.
>
I already put in a request for a separate 90's channel, and make the Pulse a Hot/Modern AC with 80's music in the playlist as well, to make it a true Hot/Modern AC channel. I don't remember which dance channels they eliminated, but I used to remember 6, but 2 were eliminated, and was replaced with 1 channel, Chill on 35. It sounds like a good channel, but it's rather repetitious. Also I don't know if the Pet Shop Boys West End Girls even belongs on Chill. The Doors have even made an occasional play on Chill too. As for Super Shuffle, they play everything that's in their library. But someone isn't getting the RDS correct on songs played on other channels. I once caught Whitney Houston's How Will I Know, listed as also playing on Totally 70's, when it should have been the Big 80's, and George Michael's I Want Your Sex laso listed as also heard on Totally 70's, and that too should have been The Big 80's. I mainly listen to Sirius Hits 1, Starlite (how an AC station should sound like, not how CC is programming many of their AC stations to sound Hot, like WLIT in Chicago is these days), Sirius Love (I believe that's what it's called), Big 80's, The Pulse, occaionally Super Shuffle, and Chill. I'm too caught up in music that interests me that I haven't had a chance to check out the other channels.
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