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Old 01-07-08 | 02:43 PM
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I love it when something like this makes EVERYONE happy! Do you realize how few things in life are capable of pleasing EVERYONE????
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Old 01-07-08 | 03:01 PM
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Incredible. I have Nils Lofgren, Neil Young, Steely Dan, Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris mix going right now. I am so very glad I read this thread.
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Old 01-07-08 | 04:00 PM
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Working now. I had to disable Flashblocker

Cool. I put in John Hiatt, Muddy Waters and Uncle Tupelo and now it's playing early Allman Brothers. I Musta Done Somebody Wrong.
Its a flash app.

I've been using it for about a year I think. Its got some kinda feature for sharing stations - I've never used it but it sounds like you might like my deadhead station.

Got stations for 70s pop, 80s new wave, current "alt" and bluegrass too

Seems like the more you listen the more varied the stuff gets.
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Old 01-07-08 | 04:42 PM
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I love it when something like this makes EVERYONE happy! Do you realize how few things in life are capable of pleasing EVERYONE????
But when it starts stealing all our passwords and banking info, we're blaming you and DG.
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Old 01-07-08 | 04:48 PM
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But when it starts stealing all our passwords and banking info, we're blaming you and DG.
No problem there. Start juicing. It blocks all that stuff. Something to do with fiber or something.
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No problem there. Start juicing. It blocks all that stuff. Something to do with fiber or something.
OK, now I am really confused. I thought fiber UNblocked all that stuff????
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But when it starts stealing all our passwords and banking info, we're blaming you and DG.
The truth comes out. BD is in reality paranoid about his banking info, Richie Rich, in hiding.
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Old 01-07-08 | 09:15 PM
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New find for tonight: Earl King.

Dr. John-like.

They do not, however, appear to have Tuva throat singing.
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Can't listen tonight. Must watch the Mythical National Championship game. Geaux Tigers!
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I'm not an audiophile, or whatever it is they call sound nuts, but this turned up recently, and I thought it might be of interest...

https://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto...fidelity/print
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Old 01-08-08 | 06:33 AM
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I'm not an audiophile, or whatever it is they call sound nuts, but this turned up recently, and I thought it might be of interest...

https://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto...fidelity/print
I felt it was a terrible thing when the industry moved away from vinyl to CDs, but my measly consumer dollars weren't going to be enough to change things. There's a reasonably good chance that many of us in the 50+ bracket have lost enough hearing the the highest quality audio reproduction would be of little value. And, with the growing level of ambient noise in our daily lives.... well, just saying.
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Old 01-08-08 | 07:45 PM
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People! Come out and play! Watcha listening to? Who have you discovered whom you didn't know existed?

I know how to save the Pandora stuff to an mp3 to download to you ipod and use while working out, but it's illegal so I won't post it here. But I know how to do it if I wanted to....


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I've been disappointed so far, but am not giving up.

I attempted to create a progressive rock station by entering Yes and Pink Floyd. But it apparently has them classified as 70's Rock, as the first song played was by Grand Funk Railroad. Ick! Next was another 70's rock band. I nixed both of those.

May continue to see if I can "tune" it by entering King Crimson.
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Old 01-08-08 | 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Bombadil
I've been disappointed so far, but am not giving up.

I attempted to create a progressive rock station by entering Yes and Pink Floyd. But it apparently has them classified as 70's Rock, as the first song played was by Grand Funk Railroad. Ick! Next was another 70's rock band. I nixed both of those.

May continue to see if I can "tune" it by entering King Crimson.
If I were you, I'd highlight the song being played. One of the options you can select besides "I like it" or "I don't like it" is "why are you playing this song."

You'll see it has to do with the actual music, not really the era. It might be something about the electric guitar or synthesizers. You might need to start from somewhere else. Or just choose one of the artists.
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Old 01-08-08 | 08:00 PM
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By the way, what exactly does "progressive rock" mean? I've heard that phrase a lot, but never understood it.
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Old 01-08-08 | 08:06 PM
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This does it better than what I could write:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock
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Originally Posted by solveg
By the way, what exactly does "progressive rock" mean? I've heard that phrase a lot, but never understood it.
Liberal rock.
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It's the part of the music cycle where rock became so complex and academic that a cultural revolution occurred and punk and roots rock began to emerge as a counterpoint.
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It is sometimes also called Art Rock. The early albums from Genesis were of this type, before Phil Collins eventually ruined them and made them into a megahit pop band.

I have a goodly prog rock collection, mixed in with a goodly blues collection, and folk, and jazz, and rock, and classical, along with a very large Bob Dylan collection. I think I have somewhere around 700 CDs. But no opera and a little bit of country. Almost no "pop" either.
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AH! Stoner music!
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I attended a Yes concert in 1974, with everyone else in the party getting stoned except for me - I was the designated driver.

In 2004, I drove to Chicago to attend one of the Yes 35th Anniversary Tour concerts. What a blast. Sure brought back memories.
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This is what I got off on in 1966, and still do to a large extent!

Sort of Psychedelic Garage Punk...with plenty of electric organ.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cmHTyLBIZ1g&feature=related

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ODR6rGcluRs&feature=related

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5apEctKwiD8&feature=related

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jJR_KGZO4U0&feature=related

https://youtube.com/watch?v=I-Od_L8t90M&feature=related

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I agree - this is very cool.
I had read about it but never seriously tried it until I read this thread. - Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

One thing I find I have to guard against is that I end up listening to my old favorites over and over! I like new music, but faced with a choice I seem to wind up creating similar playlists that have the same old songs! The farther away I am from the computer the better because then I end up listening to the whole song instead of skipping til I find something I know I like!

On a somewhat related note (music and exercse):
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/fa...441&ei=5087%0A
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Old 01-11-08 | 03:34 PM
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Have you ever tried GPAL?

It is somewhat similar to Pandora.
Works with itunes - type in an artist and it creates new playlists from your library.
But it also finds and allows you to add music from new artists. (For some reason these show up under my podcasts.)

I haven't used it much recently so I can't recommend anything specific, but if you are an itunes/ipod user you might want to take a look.
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