# Is Sirius XM as bad as it sounded these past two days?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 27, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sirius-xm-as-bad-as-it-sounded-these-past-two-days/490958 "2009-03-27T03:35:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sirius-xm-as-bad-as-it-sounded-these-past-two-days/490958/21 "2009-03-27T19:06:53Z")

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Lithium plays way too much Nirvana. They only had 3 or so albums so there is not too much to choose from. The XM channel Lucy had the same problem.

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**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sirius-xm-as-bad-as-it-sounded-these-past-two-days/490958/22 "2009-03-27T21:01:54Z")

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> [@Cisco](#):
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> I agree about Dane Cook, but not liking George Lopez and Joe Rogan and liking Jim Gaffigan gets your credibility card pulled.

To each his own, I guess. Gaffigan can riff on _cake_ for 5 minutes and kill (IMO), while I find everything Lopez does is pretty much a repeat of the first time I ever saw him at the Punch Line in SF back in the early 90s. Amusing? Maybe, but you’ve seen him do 5 minutes, and you’ve seen his entire act.

But Rogan? Meh.

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**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sirius-xm-as-bad-as-it-sounded-these-past-two-days/490958/23 "2009-03-27T21:38:26Z")

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> [@cjepson](#):
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> I guess your level of satisfaction depends on how high your expectations are. I don’t always like what’s being played on those channels, but I don’t expect radio to be my own personal Pandora… my frame of reference is Philadephia-area FM radio, which I find bizarrely barren, at least for a commuter who lives well outside of the downtown area… there are some good tiny stations in town, but as far as powerful ones you can pick up anywhere in the area – you got one college station, one NPR, one jazz/classical… and not much else beyond the usual commercial stuff. Compared to that, satellite radio is like being over the rainbow.

Seriously - the selection of music played on any Sirius channel is so much deeper than what’s on commercial radio here in town that it makes me laugh to hear some of you think they have shallow playlists. It’s all a matter of degrees, I guess.

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