Harmony and Understanding?

Music is very important to me. I am not much for quiet. I like to be listening to something while I am doing something else. Cooking. Reading. Scratching my balls. I like to multitask.

I have talked about Pandora before. It is the music service that lets you set up a "Station" that plays songs from a genre or type of band if you mention a singer or a group or specific song. It will play that song and a bunch of other songs of the same genre or style or period. So if Sixty wants to hear "Baby Got Bach" or Nick wants to hear "The Theme from Barnaby Jones" a whole station springs up.

I was teasing Lisa and I said "the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter has aligned with Mars" and she said what the fuck are you talking about. So I put the song on and it was hilarious. Then I set up a Pandora channel with the Fifth Dimension and it was great. All  the great cheesy songs from the sixties and seventies were on it. You know the songs that they performed on the Sonny and Cher hour or the Glenn Campbell Holiday special. The Carpenters. Tom Jones. The Captain and Tennille. Mac Davis. Tony Orlando and Dawn. Diane Warwick singing the early hits of Burt Bacharach. Classic cheese.

A good time was had by all. 

If you don't like it you can have the Moon align with Uranus.

Pandora Problems

Lately I have sort of become addicted to Pandora. I might have posted about this before. In fact I know I posted that video about Three Dog Night before. Anyhoo I use Pandora all the time. I put it on while I am cooking or writing or just sitting around. It soothes me and lets me relax as I multitask. I had always had music on in the background to smooth off the rough edges.

I wanted to put Three Dog Night on because I had been nostalgic as usual. Listening to them makes me think of the old days of the 1960's when I used to  listen to top 40 on WABC AM radio. That was long before the free form hippie dippy FM radio like WNEW and WPLJ became the "cool" radio to listen too later in the decade. WABC played the same twenty songs over and over. Three Dog Night. Grand Funk Railroad. Cher. The Monkees. And these guys:

They had all the old DJ's spinning the hits. Dan Ingram. Dan Daniel. Of course Cousin Brucie. He was so famous he had a guy who sold beer at Yankee Stadium who copied him and called himself Cousin Brewski. They were the soundtrack of your life.

What is funny is when I programed a station with Three Dog Night I didn't get any of those bands. Instead I got Led Zeppelin and the Jefferson Airplane. If I wanted that I would have programed that. Instead I guess they lump everything together in the genre of "classic rock." I wanted easy listening frothy bubble gum rock and I got that stuff. What a pain in the ass. I didn't want to think about getting a Stairway to Heaven. I just wanted to be a Day Dream Believer.

Pandora gets closer to offering songs on-demand

New York Post August 19, 2016

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Pandora is wading deeper into the music streaming wars.

The internet radio service plans to add two on-demand subscription tiers in addition to its free service, according to a report.

Pandora is close to deals with the major record labels that will allow it to roll out the new options in the US and abroad, although the final terms haven’t been hammered out, WSJ.com reported.

Pandora’s popular free tier has about 4 million listeners who can select artists and “stations” but not specific songs. Spotify, which has emerged as the dominant streaming music service in the US, offers both free and subscription on-demand options.