The Decade channels are Back!!!!

[storrs19]

JMHO but I think the decade channels should be a true Top 40 (or for me a Top 100 since I love obscure music) and then have specialty channels for other genres. I love New Wave (and boy do I miss Fred, Ethel and Lucy on XM) and I really enjoyed Top Tracks on XM as it was rock from 1979-1991 with non of the soft AC stuff. I grew up on MTV and many videos that I remember just never made it on the Top 40 chart but I still remember the songs. This is especially true of the New Wave and Heavy Metal formats. I like hearing more variety on the decade channels.

 

[JohnnyElectron]

That's why I wish Sirius and XM were separate music services like they did 5 years ago; that way, Sirius can play the same freaking Top 10 over and over again, which I hate, while XM could play ALL HOT 100 songs with a 4000 song library, and sould like a REAL TOP 40 station.
I recall the 70's when you heard EVERYTHING on ONE STATION: MOR from Andy Williams; rock from Led Zeppelin; pop from Abba; country from Johnny Cash & Freddy Fender; Motown with Al Green/Diana Ross; Bubblegum music from The Partridge Family/Osmonds; Soul; Disco; INSTRUMENTALS; novelty songs; One-Hit-Wonders (Desiderata, The Americans, Popcorn) and even LOCAL hits (like the Windsor/Detroit market) and a 45 FlipSide here or there. The decades WERE fantastic channels on XM - Sirius has neutered them way too safe. If they even played new or different song every day at 12noon, that would be great - the 'artist birthday' song of the day, like Jon did when programming the 70's for XM. How I miss that great variety - could leave it on for 9 hours at work and not hear a rerun for DAYS!