I miss The Loft on XM. Mike (His wake sets were great) and Franny in the evening. Throw in some Vin Scelsa and Meg Griffen made for great listening.....
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For me, it's the other way around. I listen to RP when I'm not slaving over my own station, Pretty Good Radio
Prettygoodradio.org is a labor of love between me and my best friend since middle school. We've been toiling over a hand-picked 10k+ song punchbow full of garage rock, psych, surf, RnB, blues, some jazz, classic rock and all kinds of things in between genres. Really the only hard and fast rule is that anything we put in the pot has to somehow compliment all that has gone before it. We subtract from the library as actively as we add to it. It's eclectic, fun, and full of surprises. Give it a try if you want to hear The Ramones into word-jazz from Ken Nordine into Beefheart, Les, Baxter and the Shirelles and somehow it just works.
We'd be honored to be one of your go-to's when you need something even further off the beaten path of the venerable Radio Paradise!
Mostly listening to whole (complete) albums of any given genre. An opposite approach to letting yourself be sprinkled with music (such as RP streaming), even while active with other duties, finding that Classical, Jazz, Ambient, or World music are often conducive to further one's mental concentration on any given subject, which cannot easily be said of Rock, Pop tunes switching on behalf of either an algorithm or a DJ's mental flow.
That's a good thing to do. I think it must be a bit frustrating for some artists to craft a whole album, consider the track order, etc. then have everyone put it on a playlist and hit random.
Then again, I've been searching out the little-played stuff in my music library by sorting by track name, picking a letter and adding anything I don't recognise to the play list
Mostly listening to whole (complete) albums of any given genre. An opposite approach to letting yourself be sprinkled with music (such as RP streaming), even while active with other duties, finding that Classical, Jazz, Ambient, or World music are often conducive to further one's mental concentration on any given subject, which cannot easily be said of Rock, Pop tunes switching on behalf of either an algorithm or a DJ's mental flow.
Scala Radio in the UK which plays an eclectic classical music mix. Some traditional stuff mixed will Film scores, computer game music and classical interpretations of rock music. I never even knew The London Punkharmonic Orchestra existed until they played their version of 'Pretty Vacant'. Maybe an album RP should feature?
