XM not what its cut out to be same as T-Radio

[RunWithScissors]

I purchased XM a few months ago, to get away from the constant Motown, Soul, R&B, DooWop, and Blues on my hometown oldies station. I am upset to find the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's channel formats are the same crap. The same tired, worn out, Motown and Soul that I can hear anywhere, in fact, on the 60's channel, they constantly advertise the soul channel and play even more soul music. Music Choice and AOL Radio are so much better with their oldies formats. My point is, what is so good about XM when you have the same screaming jocks and the same material you can hear over the airwaves. I was hoping they had a British Invasion Channel, also a Surf, Folk, Garage Sounds and teen idols channel, and other non-soul formats which AOL has. Is Sirius any better, any help would be appreciated I may subscribe to them if they have better oldies channels.

 

[livingfruitvirus]

Believe it or not, a lot of people do buy satellite radio to hear commercial free versions of their FM equivilants. The three most popular music channels are the 70s, the 80s, and 20 on 20.

 

[hootmon]

I kind of enjoy the screaming jocks. It gives you an idea of how radio used to be when someone could inject a little personality in a few seconds rather than just cuing up commercials. And XM oldies has a VASTLY superior music selection over my local oldies station.

 

[RadioStarOne]

He's just a schill for the Corporate Mega-broadcasters! XM Satellite radio is just fine for me. When! I'm not listening to KGO 810 Radio San Francisco!

 

[livingfruitvirus]

I kind of enjoy the screaming jocks. It gives you an idea of how radio used to be when someone could inject a little personality in a few seconds rather than just cuing up commercials. And XM oldies has a VASTLY superior music selection over my local oldies station.

At least you have a local oldies station.

 

[eatspaste]

I purchased XM a few months ago, to get away from the constant Motown, Soul, R&B, DooWop, and Blues on my hometown oldies station. I am upset to find the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's channel formats are the same crap. The same tired, worn out, Motown and Soul that I can hear anywhere, in fact, on the 60's channel, they constantly advertise the soul channel and play even more soul music. Music Choice and AOL Radio are so much better with their oldies formats. My point is, what is so good about XM when you have the same screaming jocks and the same material you can hear over the airwaves. I was hoping they had a British Invasion Channel, also a Surf, Folk, Garage Sounds and teen idols channel, and other non-soul formats which AOL has. Is Sirius any better, any help would be appreciated I may subscribe to them if they have better oldies channels.

Two ideas:

(1) Go to xmfan.com; there's an audio library search on the left side. Type in anyone you can think of and it'll tell you when it last played, all the way back to 2004. There isn't much that XM doesn't play, although, like FM, hits are in a much higher rotation. If you don't find what you're looking for on XM, I wouldn't jump to Sirius. SIRI doesn't exactly have deep playlists.

(2) Call in a request (i.e. 60s on 6 does requests a few hours everyday). E-mail the different people who run the decade channels at XM. They are VERY receptive to customer/listener feedback!

 

[sdh483]

I agree. Just like on 60s on 6 when they spot an american top 40 station from the 1960s and use their jingles and take requests. Also check out Bob Dylan's show. Lots of good stuff from as early as the 30s, maybe even more. There is also the Soul classics, that gets REAL deep in 50s and 60s R&B. And if you like current R&B, you'll love suite 62. I wouldn't worry about the decades channels...they may sound like t-radio at sometimes but the playlist does change up, especically durig request hours...and yes they do take requests.

 

[RunWithScissors]

I purchased XM a few months ago, to get away from the constant Motown, Soul, R&B, DooWop, and Blues on my hometown oldies station. I am upset to find the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's channel formats are the same crap. The same tired, worn out, Motown and Soul that I can hear anywhere, in fact, on the 60's channel, they constantly advertise the soul channel and play even more soul music. Music Choice and AOL Radio are so much better with their oldies formats. My point is, what is so good about XM when you have the same screaming jocks and the same material you can hear over the airwaves. I was hoping they had a British Invasion Channel, also a Surf, Folk, Garage Sounds and teen idols channel, and other non-soul formats which AOL has. Is Sirius any better, any help would be appreciated I may subscribe to them if they have better oldies channels.

Two ideas:

(1) Go to xmfan.com; there's an audio library search on the left side. Type in anyone you can think of and it'll tell you when it last played, all the way back to 2004. There isn't much that XM doesn't play, although, like FM, hits are in a much higher rotation. If you don't find what you're looking for on XM, I wouldn't jump to Sirius. SIRI doesn't exactly have deep playlists.

(2) Call in a request (i.e. 60s on 6 does requests a few hours everyday). E-mail the different people who run the decade channels at XM. They are VERY receptive to customer/listener feedback!

Thanks for the info, but it was just as I expected, I plugged in I Can't Stop by the Honeycombs, it was never played, so I plugged in the Honeycombs number 5 hit Have I the Right and it was played once on 12 September 2003 over 3 years ago at 1:30AM, that is kinda unaccectable for a pay service.. On another note they did play I Can't Stop by Al Green many times which is funny because I never heard of that cut...

 

[smashedcd]

I purchased XM a few months ago, to get away from the constant Motown, Soul, R&B, DooWop, and Blues on my hometown oldies station. I am upset to find the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's channel formats are the same crap. The same tired, worn out, Motown and Soul that I can hear anywhere, in fact, on the 60's channel, they constantly advertise the soul channel and play even more soul music. Music Choice and AOL Radio are so much better with their oldies formats. My point is, what is so good about XM when you have the same screaming jocks and the same material you can hear over the airwaves. I was hoping they had a British Invasion Channel, also a Surf, Folk, Garage Sounds and teen idols channel, and other non-soul formats which AOL has. Is Sirius any better, any help would be appreciated I may subscribe to them if they have better oldies channels.

Two ideas:

(1) Go to xmfan.com; there's an audio library search on the left side. Type in anyone you can think of and it'll tell you when it last played, all the way back to 2004. There isn't much that XM doesn't play, although, like FM, hits are in a much higher rotation. If you don't find what you're looking for on XM, I wouldn't jump to Sirius. SIRI doesn't exactly have deep playlists.

(2) Call in a request (i.e. 60s on 6 does requests a few hours everyday). E-mail the different people who run the decade channels at XM. They are VERY receptive to customer/listener feedback!

Thanks for the info, but it was just as I expected, I plugged in I Can't Stop by the Honeycombs, it was never played, so I plugged in the Honeycombs number 5 hit Have I the Right and it was played once on 12 September 2003 over 3 years ago at 1:30AM, that is kinda unaccectable for a pay service.. On another note they did play I Can't Stop by Al Green many times which is funny because I never heard of that cut...

yea but the honeycombs suck and al green doesnt ;D go back to terestial radio if you like it so much. i personally HATE oldies am/fm radio..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[CTListener]

I purchased XM a few months ago, to get away from the constant Motown, Soul, R&B, DooWop, and Blues on my hometown oldies station. I am upset to find the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's channel formats are the same crap. The same tired, worn out, Motown and Soul that I can hear anywhere, in fact, on the 60's channel, they constantly advertise the soul channel and play even more soul music. Music Choice and AOL Radio are so much better with their oldies formats. My point is, what is so good about XM when you have the same screaming jocks and the same material you can hear over the airwaves. I was hoping they had a British Invasion Channel, also a Surf, Folk, Garage Sounds and teen idols channel, and other non-soul formats which AOL has. Is Sirius any better, any help would be appreciated I may subscribe to them if they have better oldies channels.

Two ideas:

(1) Go to xmfan.com; there's an audio library search on the left side. Type in anyone you can think of and it'll tell you when it last played, all the way back to 2004. There isn't much that XM doesn't play, although, like FM, hits are in a much higher rotation. If you don't find what you're looking for on XM, I wouldn't jump to Sirius. SIRI doesn't exactly have deep playlists.

(2) Call in a request (i.e. 60s on 6 does requests a few hours everyday). E-mail the different people who run the decade channels at XM. They are VERY receptive to customer/listener feedback!

Thanks for the info, but it was just as I expected, I plugged in I Can't Stop by the Honeycombs, it was never played, so I plugged in the Honeycombs number 5 hit Have I the Right and it was played once on 12 September 2003 over 3 years ago at 1:30AM, that is kinda unaccectable for a pay service.. On another note they did play I Can't Stop by Al Green many times which is funny because I never heard of that cut...

Type in "The Honeycombs" instead of just "Honeycombs." The version by "The Honeycombs was just played a few minutes ago on '60s on 6!

Looks like XM has two copies of "Have I the Right."

XM hired an outside company to do the titling grunt work on its music library years ago, and got rather slipshod results. You'll find songs with artists misspelled ("Goerge Strait," "Van Morriosn," "The Wioldweeds"), titles wrong ("That's My Baby" for the Conway Twitty hit "That's My Job"), titles and artists identical (several songs come up with "Pat Benatar" and "Anne Hills" -- a folk artist -- on both lines), and even a couple of songs whose titles are displayed as "Copy of [name of song]".

The xmfan.com search tool can only search what XM has in its screen displays. That's why you can only see part of ELO's catalog at a time: some of their songs display as "ELO," others as "E.L.O.," and still others as "Electric Light Orch." Blame outsourcing!

 

[RunWithScissors]

Just checked it out, they did play it yesterday at around 3:00Am but I think the last time was when I looked it up and it was 2003. I did use the Honeycombs but it came up 2003, this may be the next time they played it. I am listening to Sirius on-line they have a free sign up and they sound great. Their oldies stations are more professional and the music is deeper and on the Rock side they have Hair bands, and Classic Vinyl which sound interesting they sound better overall than XM. I might have to switch....

 

[smashedcd]

Just checked it out, they did play it yesterday at around 3:00Am but I think the last time was when I looked it up and it was 2003. I did use the Honeycombs but it came up 2003, this may be the next time they played it. I am listening to Sirius on-line they have a free sign up and they sound great. Their oldies stations are more professional and the music is deeper and on the Rock side they have Hair bands, and Classic Vinyl which sound interesting they sound better overall than XM. I might have to switch....

sirius deeper than xm..thats funny : more professional..thats funnier ???

 

[Tony_Ramirez]

I have Sirius on Dish and they sound terrible. They don't even have a 90's station and their 80's channel seems just to play the same Top 20 songs over and over again while XM 80's channel plays a more broad range of 80's music. Sirius dance is horrible while XM has more mix shows and better selection. I can go on and on but I would not get Sirius even if someone gave it to me for free.

I do enjoy the AOL Radio channels which I pay AOL to be able to receive them and the XM channels.

 

[TheRover]

Two ideas:

(1) Go to http://www.xmfan.com; there's an audio library search on the left side. Type in anyone you can think of and it'll tell you when it last played, all the way back to 2004. There isn't much that XM doesn't play, although, like FM, hits are in a much higher rotation. If you don't find what you're looking for on XM, I wouldn't jump to Sirius. SIRI doesn't exactly have deep playlists.

(2) Call in a request (i.e. 60s on 6 does requests a few hours everyday). E-mail the different people who run the decade channels at XM. They are VERY receptive to customer/listener feedback!

Thanks for the tip about the Archive..... I've always wondered when and if certain songs have been played. BTY, how do you tell if the song played was the live version or the studio version?

 

[BoardopJ]

I purchased XM a few months ago, to get away from the constant Motown, Soul, R&B, DooWop, and Blues on my hometown oldies station. I am upset to find the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's channel formats are the same crap. The same tired, worn out, Motown and Soul that I can hear anywhere, in fact, on the 60's channel, they constantly advertise the soul channel and play even more soul music. Music Choice and AOL Radio are so much better with their oldies formats. My point is, what is so good about XM when you have the same screaming jocks and the same material you can hear over the airwaves. I was hoping they had a British Invasion Channel, also a Surf, Folk, Garage Sounds and teen idols channel, and other non-soul formats which AOL has. Is Sirius any better, any help would be appreciated I may subscribe to them if they have better oldies channels.

Sirius has Little Steven's garage. But um, jesus man what do you want the East Asian trance channel or the sounds of Bollywood? These guys gotta sell radios and it's called appealing to the market. Also if I heard Frankie Lymon and the teenagers on one channel all day, I'd pull an Elvis and put a bullet into my unit.

 

[clichemoth]

I purchased XM a few months ago, to get away from the constant Motown, Soul, R&B, DooWop, and Blues on my hometown oldies station. I am upset to find the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's channel formats are the same crap. The same tired, worn out, Motown and Soul that I can hear anywhere, in fact, on the 60's channel, they constantly advertise the soul channel and play even more soul music. Music Choice and AOL Radio are so much better with their oldies formats. My point is, what is so good about XM when you have the same screaming jocks and the same material you can hear over the airwaves. I was hoping they had a British Invasion Channel, also a Surf, Folk, Garage Sounds and teen idols channel, and other non-soul formats which AOL has. Is Sirius any better, any help would be appreciated I may subscribe to them if they have better oldies channels.

AOL Radio's oldies formats are quite well programmed and (IMO) better than anything either satellite service has. It's a shame you can't pick it up in the car.

Sirius does seem to lean more rock on their oldies channels from what I've heard of it, so my guess is that you would prefer them to XM.

Now I shall go take a bath.

 

[Keef59]

Radio Star One is just a schill for the Stern people. He probably wants to be in one of
Howard's ''Are you a lesbian? Are those tits real?'' segments, which are sooooo
imaginative and sooooo cutting edge, and sooooooo 1993.

 

[Skynet74]

I have Sirius on Dish and they sound terrible. They don't even have a 90's station and their 80's channel seems just to play the same Top 20 songs over and over again

Not true at all. Sirius Channel 9 is all 90's Music. Channel 8 is all 80's and they certainly play more than 20 songs. Just wanted to correct your misinformation.

 

[JimmyJames]

The Al Green track is a hit and a classic. Al Green has more staying power in popular music and in music history than the Honeycombs, but XM does play both. I don't know what sort of bland oldies station you're looking for as opposed to one that includes the history of all oldies, including blues, soul, motown, R&B, and funk, which XM covers very well. Especially with Bobby Bennett on Soul Street, XM 60.

 

[RadioStarOne]

Radio Star One is just a schill for the Stern people. He probably wants to be in one of
Howard's ''Are you a lesbian? Are those tits real?'' segments, which are sooooo
imaginative and sooooo cutting edge, and sooooooo 1993.

Sir, you are so out of line with that comment, but you did make me laugh as nothing could be further from the
truth! I just love my XM satellite radio and I also have plenty of favorite AM/FM radio stations too!