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grnidone

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What's Your Pandora Station?
« on: January 04, 2011, 08:01:47 PM »
Mine is a band called "Thievery Corporation" ... sort of ambient funk.  It makes me feel like I'm in a modern club in New York.  I also like the "New Age" station to have background music.  I've found that I cannot listen to music that has words when I work...it's just too distracting.

What's your fave Pandora station?
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Re: What's Your Pandora Station?
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2011, 08:57:20 PM »
Most commonly listened to, in no particular order
Cake.
The beatles.
Wilco
Chopin
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Re: What's Your Pandora Station?
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2011, 09:00:44 PM »
When I was using Pandora One I would just plug in my favorite bands, find good related stuff and go buy on iTunes.  Now I am all iTunes.  I like how they've lengthened their song previews quite a bit to get a better feel for a song.  Their recommendation engine is decent also.

former stations:

Dream Theater (prog rock/metal)
Iris (some type of synth)
Tree 63 (christian rock)
Hard Rock Radio (80s arena rock bands)
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Re: What's Your Pandora Station?
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2011, 09:31:25 PM »
npr most of the time.
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Re: What's Your Pandora Station?
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2011, 10:25:27 PM »
I listen to NPR a lot. 

When I listen to Pandora while working:
Zoot Sims
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Re: What's Your Pandora Station?
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2011, 04:22:50 PM »
I don't use pandora any more, after they cut me off at 40 hours/month or whatever. Switched to last.fm, no limit and much fewer commercials.

I generally listen to "Black Eyed Peas" radio. Not typically my type of music, but upbeat for working and not intelligent enough to be a distraction. Trying out Thievery Corp now, seems interesting.

Bonz - Cake! Thanks for the reminder, will plug that one in, in a bit.
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Re: What's Your Pandora Station?
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2011, 06:22:57 PM »
When I am doing any web stuff that needs concentration, I listen to SwissGroove.com

Its groove/jazz type stuff

Not the sort of music I would listen to at any other time, but it seems to occupy only the part of the brain that I am not using for coding etc.

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Re: What's Your Pandora Station?
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2011, 06:53:06 PM »
Mostly on national Danish radio p3, Spotify or itunes.
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Re: What's Your Pandora Station?
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2011, 06:59:36 PM »
Hey that swissgroove is pretty good! I love jazz, got my foot tapping now. Not using the browser to play is a plus.

Thievery Corp is great too, good thread to expand my ears.
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Re: What's Your Pandora Station?
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2011, 07:44:24 PM »
> but it seems to occupy only the part of the brain that I am not using for coding etc.

That's what I listen to Chopin for.  If there are any words I listen to them and can't do anything else well that requires focus.

My wife likes to have NPR on as "background noise".  If it's on, I actively listen to it and then she gets annoyed when I don't hear what she's saying to me.  (and really annoyed when I shush her for talking over NPR.)
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Re: What's Your Pandora Station?
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2011, 09:30:33 PM »
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That's what I listen to Chopin for

yeah - classical works for me too.


If I had my time again, one of the many things I would love to do would be to study the psychology (and maybe physiology) of why we like different types of music - I have a load of half baked theories I would like to prove/disprove.
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Re: What's Your Pandora Station?
« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2011, 06:30:50 PM »
Grooveshark.com is pretty good too, no audio ads (yet.)

BTW, for some reason last.fm is not playing any ads in opera.
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