I only have two: a generic, all-encompassing one that’s eclectic as hell, and one that’s built off of punk and pseudo-punky new stuff, with female vocalists being over-represented (it’s basically The Clash, Iggy Pop, and Sleater-Kinney).
My stations are:
Linda Ronstadt
Boogie On Reggae Woman by Phish
Reel Big Fish
The Doors
Arlo Guthrie
Jefferson Starship
Jefferson Airplane
Black Crowes
Derek Trucks Band
Allman Brothers
Tray Anastasio
Pink Floyd
Phish
Aphex Twin
King Crimson
Rilo Kiley
Regina Spektor
Tori Amos
Radio Head
Paranoid Android
Tom Petty
99% of the time I just set it to Quick Mix. But if I want to hear something specific I add it as a station and play that station knowing I’ll hear something by that band first and then hear them more often with that station on. Then it’s back to Quick Mix.
Note that none of these are any of the Pandora genre stations, I just renamed them to what they’re representative of - my Classic Rock station started as Led Zeppelin Radio, for example.
The Killers Radio
The Noisettes Radio
Loquat Radio
Butch Walker Radio
Cyndi Lauper Radio
The Young Lovers Radio
Squeeze Radio
Rehab Radio
Whiskeytown Radio
The Kooks Radio
Deva Premal Radio
Buckwheat Zydeco Radio
Shared Station Spa Radio
Shared Station British Folk
Regina Spektor Radio
Neko Case Radio
Sia Radio
Lost Immigrants Radio
Lyle Lovett Radio
Shared Station Nick Lowe Radio
Chuckanut Drive Radio
Slim Whitman Radio
Louis Prima Radio
Dave Alvin Radio
The Mars Volta Radio
Shared Station Alternative / Indie Rock
Frank Zappa Radio
Alice Cooper Radio
Shared Station jazz-head
Mates Of State Radio
Monte Montgomery Radio
Greg Brown Radio
Counting Crows Radio
Hepcat Radio
Pink Radio
Modest Mouse Radio
Wilco Radio
Butch Hancock Radio
The Housemartins Radio
Buck Owens Radio
Willie Nelson Radio
Bloc Party Radio
Beulah Radio
Tom Russell Radio
Are you guys only making single-artist stations, or is that just the first artist you added, and you added others later? I’ve only got 1 single-artist, and didn’t include it in the poll as it’s only to locate one song again.
60’s
80’s
Elektronik Supersonik - technoy stuff. No Zlad.
The Metal
Indied
Die Angstmusik - industrial/gothic. Started taking a German tinge for awhile
Postpunk - Joy Division, Wire, etc. and newer similar stuff
Rawk - Punk
Saoirse - Irish folk
All specific artists. But I only listen to about half of them. They change. Delete one and add another because a different artist does something I like on say, Love and Rockets Radio, or KT Tunstall. I’ll add a station for that artist, and fish for new music.
I use the artist to start the station then add other seeds to it as it provides new material. I’m just too lazy to change the names of the stations. FOr me it’s about keeping with a certain sound. For example I have a tom waits station that is fairly eclectic. The cemetery polka station though only plays those weird waltzy Waits tunes and material like it.
I replied with six stations, but I really only listen to one of them.
One thing that kind of irritates me about Pandora is that occasionally my Electronica station (which is what I listen to 95% of the time) will start playing a completely different genre- like easy listening. It’ll start playing those songs all in a row, and will only stop doing so when I bother to thumbs-down one of the songs, at which point it’ll go back to Electronica. It’s fairly annoying.
Only one. What Pandora sold itself as building a station around your tastes. Well, my tastes are eclectic, so I just add artists and songs of different genres, and eventually it comes up with new music. Sometimes it is thumbs up, sometimes thumbs down.
What I do now that Pandora limits my monthly time, I pick the new songs I heard, along with the old songs I like, and add them (if I don’t already have them) to my online radio station on another website. That way, I keep increasing my variety over there, and keep listening to the songs I know I like for the rest of the month.
Single-artist stations. That way, you can say, “I feel like a combination of Bon Jovi and Queen right now…” Instead of just putting on a 70s and 80s station (which is going to cover a LOT more variety), I can put on both Bon Jovi and Queen, and really narrow it down. It never plays *just *Bon Jovi and Queen, obviously.
I have three. A station for Classical music, a station for Xmas music, and a station for everything else. The kitchen sink station has over a 100 seeds, I believe. It might play four metal songs, followed by four show tunes, followed by four country songs, then four hip hop songs. It’s always four. I like it that way.