Regular(-ish) Pandora users: How many stations do you have?

And what are they?

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).

You?

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.

I think I miscounted…

  1. Bil Withers Radio
  2. Boston Radio
  3. Carpenters Radio
  4. Chet Baker Radio
  5. Cinderella Radio
  6. The Crusaders Radio
  7. Fleetwood Mac Radio
  8. Frank Sinatra Radio
  9. The Girl from Ipenema Radio
  10. Harry Mancini Radio
  11. Herb Alpert Radio
  12. Jude Cole Radio
  13. Seals and Crofts Radio
  14. Sergio Mendes Radio
  15. Steely Dan Radio
  16. Toto Radio
  17. Van Morrison Radio

I love Pandora…

Wow, perhaps I should have run the poll all the way up to 20+…

I’ve got 5:

  1. Hard Rock
  2. Classic Rock
  3. Surf Rock
  4. Symphonic Metal
  5. 80’s Pop

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.

Most of the time I leave it on quick mix, too.

I currently have 3.

  1. A mix of progressive rock, ethereal and ambient music, punk, ska, etc. I put it on when I am grading papers.

  2. A mix based on Bing Crosby. I’ve added a bunch of crooners, including the Rat Pack.

  3. A Christmas mix that I only use from Thanksgiving until the end of December.

I do specific artists, rather than categories. That way you can pick and choose multiple artists/genres in Quick Mix when you want some variety.

  1. Posted without (much) embarrassment:

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

Beatles, doo wop, 50s, meat loaf, queen, Andrew Lloyd weber - oops, should have said six in the poll.

  1. The Prodigy- Electronica
    2.The Ghastly Ones- surf rock
  2. Buckwheat Zydeco
  3. Johnny Cash- old school country
  4. Nick Cave
  5. Bob Marley- old school reggae
  6. Reise Reise- German style metal
  7. Cham- Dance hall reggae
  8. Reel Big Fish
  9. Korpiklaani- folk metal (scandinavian)
  10. Alice in Chains
  11. Panjab bhangra
  12. Iron horse- bluegrass
  13. Amon Amarth- melodic death metal
  14. Red mud- blues
  15. Tito and Tarantula- oddball rock
  16. Big Band
  17. William Elliot Whitmore- morbid country fusion
  18. Tom Waits
  19. Candlemass- black/ doom metal
  20. Sisters of mercy- goth
  21. Flogging Molly- celtic/ rock/punk
  22. Delta Blues
  23. Saturnas- doom metal
  24. Cemetery Polka- I don’t know how to classify this. Evil oompah?
  25. Insect Eyes- dark folk
  26. Dead can Dance- ambient/ world/ new age

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

Lesse:

The Birthday Massacre
Amanda Palmer
Lunascape
Delerium
Bat for Lashes
Nouvelle Vauge
Royksopp
Midnight Juggernauts
Devics
Techno
Industrial

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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.

Love Pandora.

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.

I’ve got at least 30…

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.

  1. Rent Original Broadway Cast recording ( for when I want contemporary show tunes)
  2. Death Cab for Cutie (indie rock)
  3. Tegan and Sara (chick-power indie rock)
  4. Billy Joel (for a fair share of Elton, Barry and Billy)
  5. Madonna (80s pop)
  6. Spice Girls (90s pop guilty pleasures)
  7. Hansen (for the same reason as Spice Girls)
  8. Glee Cast recording (a wide variety from show tunes to pop/R&B)
  9. Journey (classic rock/power ballads)
  10. Green Day (put it on there to hear 90s alternative, but I got a lot of modern emo-kid crap sometimes)
  11. Toad the Wet Sprocket (which succeeded in giving me more of a 90s alternative, but it’s more mellow, like Gin Blossoms and such)

I listen to it on my Blackberry… so I can’t put multiple stations on stations at once.

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.