XM channel 40 Deep Tracks

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Wed May 06, 2009 3:34 am

I realize that Satellite XM stretches the term radio, but Stan mentioned AOR FM radio. It's hey day was during the late 60, and most of the 70's I believe and I loved it. I wonder if anyone here has checked out channel 40 on XM yet, (I think it's 58 on Sirius), it sounds just like the 70's with all great old album tracks that haven't seen the light of day except for being played on someone's turntable (mine, haha) for 30 years, it includes 20 minutes tunes with actual long solos. When I first heard it I couldn't believe some of the things I was hearing, it was like going back in a time machine. I have it on quite a bit in my new car which came with it, Satrad is definitely worth the 12 bucks a month you have to pay for it, all sorts of programs on it. Little Steven's Garage Rock is also a great channel.

woodyng · Post by **woodyng** » Wed May 06, 2009 10:32 am

that's my go-to channel,they play a lot of great tracks that you haven't already heard 10 million times,and i am constantly being suprised and delighted at (some) of the things they dig up.....i do miss "music lab" (i only have siriusxm in my car),and there is a jamband channel that basically seems to play phish and dave matthews ad nauseum.......

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Wed May 06, 2009 9:19 pm

woodyng wrote:i do miss "music lab" (i only have siriusxm in my car),and there is a jamband channel that basically seems to play phish...

I miss the Music Lab station as well.
Phish is another band like The Grateful Dead (I call them The Dreadful Grate). I just can't get into either one of those bands.

8mileshigher · Post by **8mileshigher** » Wed May 06, 2009 10:15 pm

Every Saturday afternoon (depending upon your time zone) that one XM Disc Jockey usually starts his set on the Deep Tracks with the long version of In A Gadda Da Vida (Iron Butterfly).

Whether you like the song or not ---- Ya gotta admire him for sticking to his guns and doing it week in and week out... certainly would never fly on commercial radio. Makes me think the DJs are calling the shots on the Deep Tracks - not some Program Director or whatever they call those statisticians who decide how many times a Brittney Spears song or American Idol fave should get repeatedly played every hour on Top 40 formats...

Cheers

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Thu May 07, 2009 12:50 am

In a Gadda Da vida, I like it always did, the Iron Butterfly Theme, that's a great one. I heard Train To Nowhere tonight, Savoy Brown, haven't heard that song for a million years. I also like the Underground Garage, but am listening more and more to Deep Tracks. Deep Tracks is inspiring me to buy CD's, I've been buying only LP's now for a while but can't play them in the car. I just ordered The Kinks Picture Book box set because of song lyrics printed somewhere here and also something I heard on Deep tracks.

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu May 07, 2009 9:55 am

This is interesting discussion and it surely touches on radio in one form or another. The question I have is will this focus on the music of our teens be as popular a decade or two from now as it is today?

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Thu May 07, 2009 3:59 pm

admin wrote: The question I have is will this focus on the music of our teens be as popular a decade or two from now as it is today?

Some of it Peter, will undoubtedly pass into oral tradition. I can imagine "Yesterday" being played by folk musicians in two, three, or four generations. I can also imagine Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" being played then, too.

Which songs will be sung then depends on how effectively the singing and playing traditions are passed down through any given family. If the parents pick and sing, there's a chance the kids will pick and sing, and on it goes. Thus the pop music of our growing up years becomes the folk music of generations to come.

JimK

8mileshigher · Post by **8mileshigher** » Mon May 11, 2009 5:01 pm

admin wrote: The question I have is will this focus on the music of our teens be as popular a decade or two from now as it is today?

Those of us who have gone through raising teenagers probably have stacks of our kid's old CDs tucked away in the garage, untouched for the last five or ten years..... fame fades fast in the music industry. I know its all subjective specualtion, but I doubt Deep Tracks will be playing any American Idol or Spice Girls stuff 10 or 15 years from now... but they'll probably continue to play Beatles and Dylan.

I wonder if the Paris Hilton CD from a few years back (or the Kevin Federline CD) will ever become collectors items ?

woodyng · Post by **woodyng** » Wed May 13, 2009 3:24 pm

i heard a full-lp-side length live version of "nantucket sleighride" today followed by "don't stop on the grass,sam" ...i have not heard those since i abandoned the lp collection for cds,so i was in audio nirvana.....i love it when i hear something other than mississippi queen and born to be wild,for example. i hate the way entire band careers are reduced to 1 or 2 songs by the (terrestrial) radio programmers.....

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:00 am

admin wrote:This is interesting discussion and it surely touches on radio in one form or another. The question I have is will this focus on the music of our teens be as popular a decade or two from now as it is today?

I just saw this tonight, actually most of the stuff on Deep Tracks focuses more on stuff I heard during my 20's, there is very little 60's content there unless it's late 60's. It reminds me of the home town station that my ear was glued to during the 70's: Boston's WBCN, The American Revolution which was an early AOR station. It's similar to the way FM radio was during the 70's here in the States before they got bought up by the big conglomerates, slowly homogenized and ruined.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:04 am

woodyng wrote:i heard a full-lp-side length live version of "nantucket sleighride" today followed by "don't stop on the grass,sam" ...i have not heard those since i abandoned the lp collection for cds,so i was in audio nirvana.....i love it when i hear something other than mississippi queen and born to be wild,for example. i hate the way entire band careers are reduced to 1 or 2 songs by the (terrestrial) radio programmers.....

I still have Nantucket Sleighride on LP, haha! I have a couple other Mountain LP's also, great band. I also saw them twice many moons ago. I heard The Monster by Steppenwolf either yesterday or today, don't hear that one on commercial radio either.

JakeK · Post by **JakeK** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:02 pm

"Tom Petty's Buried Treasure" is a fun little show...I've heard a lot of good music from that.

8mileshigher · Post by **8mileshigher** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:16 pm

Yes, TP's Buried Treasure is good stuff... and if you enjoy the tunes, they publish the set-list for each show, historically going back, over on TP's commercial web-site... so you can get the name of the artist or any tune that TP spun on the turntable... http://tompetty.com/index2.php?module=n ... tem_id=756

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