Pandora: Does anybody here use this service?

**bjmorga** · 07-17-2009, 12:34 PM

I'm having a blast using Pandora. For those who don't know, it's a free internet radio station that you can personalize. I have two stations now;

New Old Wave: New Old Wave Radio plays music I enjoy that has a New Wave, Post-Punk, and Brit-Pop sound. Newer and older artists are featured here side by side. Largely danceable. Should provide hours of fun for all.

Urban Folk: Urban Folk Radio plays some of my favorite singer-songwriters. I can't really think of anything better to call this than Urban Folk. Some of it has a country tilt, some more acoustic. All of it is good. Enjoy.

Anybody else use it?

**NdGame** · 07-20-2009, 08:19 PM

New to it. I've got three stations:

Whooshy Stuff Radio- swirly/shoegazery type stuff. Going really well. Trying to keep it from skewing too goth (that's for another station). Had to delete Yo La Tengo because it made it skew hippie.

I Like Bad Stuff- supposed to be for my shameful appreciation for Euro-Oontz, but keeps feeding me Britney and rap. Close to deleting.

Proof I Have Balls- Don't make a Pandora station if your tastes within a genre (acid metal) are very, very specific. One more Pearl Jam suggestion and it's gone.

OF COURSE... just as I start to sing the praises of Whooshy Stuff, it feeds me three magnificently awful songs in a row. My friend says grooveshack.com is better. Shall report later.

OK, I'm computer illiterate, and have no idea how to link things. So it's just this.

**Ontir** · 07-20-2009, 10:18 PM

I don't know what it is.

**P-Man** · 07-20-2009, 11:57 PM

The problem I've had with Pandora is that it plays things in blocks. I'll get three death metal songs, five country songs, followed by three pop rock songs. I wish it would mix it together more, because I'd love to hear a Slayer tune bookended by classic country, or Bob Segar mixed up with Children of Bodom and Third Eye Blind.

Other than that it's a pretty neat thing.

**Chiasm** · 08-07-2009, 06:44 PM

I tried it out a few years ago, forgot about it, and then rediscovered it a few weeks ago. I'd recently gotten back into an old 90's alt group called Curve (basically a precursor the sound that Garbage would later popularize) and I created a station based on Curve. I've since found several groups that I like that I'd never heard of like The Birthday Massacre and Collide.

**Spike-X** · 08-10-2009, 02:55 AM

I enjoyed it when I was able to use it, but I'm outside the US and can't access it any more.

It's a shame that record companies hate free publicity.

**Pinball** · 08-10-2009, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by P-Man

The problem I've had with Pandora is that it plays things in blocks. I'll get three death metal songs, five country songs, followed by three pop rock songs. I wish it would mix it together more, because I'd love to hear a Slayer tune bookended by classic country, or Bob Segar mixed up with Children of Bodom and Third Eye Blind.

Other than that it's a pretty neat thing.

It has a Quick Mix function that clumps several stations together, that may give you what you're looking for.

**Pinball** · 08-10-2009, 06:10 PM

Pandora's handy for lots of stuff, but i find it particularly indispensible for classical music, old time rock & roll, and New Orleans style jazz.

And, of course, discovering cool things i'd never heard before. Like this 80's British r&b outfit called Imagination, anyone heard of them?