My good local radio station changed format from rock/alternative to “a sunny mix of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s,” which makes for a jarring mix of The Supremes, Tom Jones, The Rolling Stones, and Wang Chung with perhaps one decent song every three hours, bookended by ear-rotting audiofungus.
We can’t afford to download any songs or subscribe to a radio service right now, and we’re not down with the other local radio fare of perkypop or country, so Angelic Daughter has been getting her music fix from YouTube, and I’ve been listening to my playlists until everyone (except Boyfriend, of course, which may have something to do with having 53 hours of music to choose from there…) is pretty much making me sick at this point.
Then I found Pandora, and Lo, the angels sang, and life was good again.
You don’t have to pay anything. You don’t even have to register if you don’t want to save your history. Simply type in the name of an artist you’re in the mood to listen to, and Pandora, that clever bitch, will hook you up with a seemingly endless supply of music in the same vein.
Being in a snarly, antisocial frame of mind (and feeling unimaginative), I plugged in Boyfriend and was served up Tool, Deftones, Filter, Rage Against the Machine, A Perfect Circle, Manson, System of a Down, Alice in Chains, Incubus, Stabbing Westward, and so on and so forth.
Four hours so far today, and I’ve yet to hear anything that sucks, which is not something I have EVER been able to say about actual radio.
My snarly, antisocial frame of mind is in danger of improving…
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November 19th, 2008 at 11:16 PM
:ulikeme: Oooh, I love Pandora! I’ve discovered some cool new-to-me bands by using her. MUCH better than radio (even though radio pays my bills…).
November 20th, 2008 at 3:23 AM
I loved Pandora.
Until I moved to Japan and they didn’t let me access it. DAMN YOU RECORD COMPANIES! GIVE THEM OVERSEAS RIGHTS!
No seriously, I miss it.
November 20th, 2008 at 5:01 AM
Yes, record companies suck. Boyfriend, over the years, had imparted quite an education on the extent of the suckage, so I’m never surprised when they come up with 10 million ways to prevent the consumer from accessing their product.
November 20th, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Oooh, Seether, Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace…it’s like you have my iPod.
I’m lucky. I have a friend who has every album I could ever want on his itunes and updates my ipod with stuff all the time. I have stuff on here I haven’t even had a chance to listen to. I have something like 15,000 songs. Who has time to listen to that??