Sirius/XM programmers have it in for me!!

The BBQ Pit
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Attention: Whoever programs Sirius/XM channel 32 (The Bridge)…

I don’t know if you’re taking payola, if you’re lazy, or if you’re trying to drive me mad, but kindly quit playing Deacon Blue and Moondance so freekin’ much!!! I don’t spend a lot of time in the car, but I swear, every.single.time we go somewhere, both of those damned songs are played.

I’m pretty sure there are lots of songs from the last 4 or 5 decades that qualify as “mellow rock.” Choose a few of them! Don’t make me get stabby!!

I can’t believe we pay for that. Oh, wait, yes I can. Spousal unit wanted it.

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In their defense, it is a fantabulous night.

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In fact…
We’ll it’s a marvelous
night for a moondance
With the stars up above
in your eyes

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I have The Bridge programmed on my vehicle’s speed dial and I have the same complaint. I was excited when I found it because they happened to play a rare string of good songs when I first started listening but that was just a tease. They waited to pull me in before they started hurling the shit. I think that the is tactic of whoever programs the play list. You will get a few good mellow rock songs from the likes of Gordon Lightfoot and James Taylor before they start unloading the turds from bands I wanted to forget about decades ago. I don’t think they understand that there are more than enough really good mellow rock songs to make a consistently listenable station and they don’t need to sneak in 3rd rate filler.

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That assumes that they can discriminate between really good and 3rd rate filler, or even have the slightest inclination to do so.

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I was 1992 and I was a freshman in college. Me and my friends would drop a hit of acid and light a joint and put on a CD to wait for the LSD to kick in. The five albums we listened to were:

1- Steely Dan - Greatest Hits
2- Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
3- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
4- Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
5- Bob Marley - Greatest Hits

What good times we had!!!

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To do what? Drink scotch whiskey all night long and die behind the wheel?

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Do they still call Alabama the Crimson tide?

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yes

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I’m going to have to start singing It’s a Small World to purge those earworms!!

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The used car we bought a few years ago had a Sirius/XM radio built in, but we didn’t subscribe unti we drove across the country two years ago. We tried it then, since we figured it would be hard to find terrestrial stations with music we’d like as we travelled. But after a few days we realized that we were hearing the same pieces over and over again. On the classical channels. On the rock channels.

That and the crappy sound quality made it a no-brainer to cancel the subscription after the first month.

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You should sue them if they play too long.
mmm

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Problem is, transmissions from the planet Zorb also tend to feature endless repetitions of stuff like “Ferry Cross The Moglbriw” and “813%97ville”.

I agree that “The Bridge” is a wretched station, but it is hard to imagine anything tolerable in a “mellow rock” format. As The Most Interesting Ohioan In The World, I don’t always listen to rock on Sirius, but when I do it’s usually the Underground Garage.

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When I’m in control of the radio, I’ll opt for public radio channels or the comedy channels (altho all 3 comedy channels that I listen to are as guilty of playing the same bits over and over) or for music, I’ll pick the non-acoustic channel, or possible 40s music. I’d prefer to listen to local stations, but where we live, the pickin’s are pretty slim and not to my taste.