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Post by lowbasso on May 2, 2017 22:39:14 GMT -5
Sirius/XM satellite radio in North America has announced they will begin an all Beatles Channel on May 18 on Channel 18. As Stella once said; IT'S ABOUT F%$CKING TIME!!!!!! Guess they can finally afford the royalty payments...
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Post by John S. Damm on May 3, 2017 3:47:37 GMT -5
I hope I get this Channel 18 in my Sirius car subscription, sometimes these channels are only on the internet, the XM part.
It sounds good and long overdue. I like the Pandora Beatles station.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 6:19:03 GMT -5
I hope I get this Channel 18 in my Sirius car subscription, sometimes these channels are only on the internet, the XM part. It sounds good and long overdue. I like the Pandora Beatles station. What do you mean by car subscription ?
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Post by John S. Damm on May 3, 2017 11:34:35 GMT -5
I hope I get this Channel 18 in my Sirius car subscription, sometimes these channels are only on the internet, the XM part. It sounds good and long overdue. I like the Pandora Beatles station. What do you mean by car subscription ? I only get Sirius Satellite radio in my car on my factory installed, Sirius capable stereo system. I do not get it over the internet or through my personal devices. I think that service is the "XM" part and there are some good stations there that are unavailable to me on Sirius. I hope this Beatles Channel is not one of them!
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Post by debjorgo on May 3, 2017 16:49:02 GMT -5
My friend at work says he heard an ad for it on his sirius car stereo. He got sirius with his new car. He never has paid anything for it and he has had it for a long while now.
I thought I read somewhere you could get the Beatle Channel free for a while if you have pre-installed sirius on your car stereo.
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Post by John S. Damm on May 3, 2017 23:30:58 GMT -5
My friend at work says he heard an ad for it on his sirius car stereo. He got it with his car. He never has paid anything for it and he has had it for a long while now. I thought I read somewhere you could get it free for while if you have pre-installed sirius on your car stereo. When I bought my car I got it free for a year. After that I pay for it annually. Current Channel 18 sucks on Sirius, it was like industrial Rock from the 1990's. I listen for 10 minutes and thought "Good Riddance!"
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Post by John S. Damm on May 4, 2017 7:17:11 GMT -5
BREAKING NEWS:
This morning there is Beatles activity on Sirius/XM Channel 18! There is a streaming commercial for the May 18 coming Beatles Channel with a loop of snippets of songs mixed with interviews of the four Beatles, Eppy, G Martin and other "Beatle People!"
It is very trippy, like listening to the LOVE soundtrack as you will hear 30 seconds of a Beatles song then snippets of interesting interviews(some of which I didn't recognize) and it keeps going!
As I wrote seven hours ago here, last night Channel 18 was horrible Grunge, Speed and/or Industrial Rock with songs from Nine Inch Nails, Korn and others I had to endure in the 1990's with my oldest stepson!
On a hunch I went to Sirius Channel 18 this morning on my 4.5 minute commute to the office and now my Car stereo display says: BEATLES ROCK and then every 45 seconds the Display would have moving script that said "The Beatles Channel Coming 05/18/2007 at 9:09 a.m."
LOL it starts "The One After 909!"
I do not know when this never-ending commercial started but it was not there yesterday the two times I was in my car last night and went to Channel 18. Both times it was that awful "Depression Rock" stuff!
I will let you know if that is still running as I need to travel in about an hour. That commercial cannot be nonstop new stuff as it must repeat at some time so it must be a long loop where we will hear the same bits again. But I was impressed with the snippets of songs: the old familiar studio versions, live cuts, alternate studio cuts and BBC versions! Very eclectic!
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Post by lowbasso on May 4, 2017 8:48:44 GMT -5
My friend at work says he heard an ad for it on his sirius car stereo. He got it with his car. He never has paid anything for it and he has had it for a long while now. I thought I read somewhere you could get it free for a while if you have pre-installed sirius on your car stereo. Most new cars now have Sirius/XM satellite radio pre-installed. When you get a new car you get the channels free for three months. After that you must buy a subscription. Three year packages give you the best rates. The subscription can follow you if you sell and buy a new car. There are also premium talk channels offered which cost extra ( like a tv cable package) The Beatles channel will come with a standard package subscription. You receive this service in you car regardless of where you travel in North America. I have had this service in my cars for almost 15 years now. There is a channel that is all Springsteen as well. And Steven VanZandt runs a channel called Underground Garage that usually plays a lot of Beatles. There are all channels that play formats of all 50's, or all 60's, or all 70's, or all 80's. There are political talk channels, there are weather/traffic channels for most major US Cities, CNN has its own channel that broadcast it tv programing. There are all country western ,all jazz, all Sinatra style music, all Broadway, all rock, all classical. You get more than 100 channels commercial free. Worth the price of a subscription. Now there is one coming with all Beatles.
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Post by debjorgo on May 4, 2017 16:57:40 GMT -5
I'd probably listen to it one day, then I'd be done.
I'm quite happy listening to my own collection in my car. I cannot stand talk radio.
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Post by lowbasso on May 15, 2017 21:04:31 GMT -5
Was listening to preview of the new Beatles 24/7 channel today on Channel 18. Sounds like they are really putting some time and effort into this channel. It begins precisely at 9:09am (ET) this coming Thursday morning. Looking forward to it!
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Post by John S. Damm on May 18, 2017 10:22:04 GMT -5
At 9:09 a.m. there was a disappointing oral summary of The Beatles history with quick sound-bytes, a contemporary greeting mostly from Paul(of course!) and barely a word or two from Ringo and finally the first song played was "All You Need Is Love!" Good choice! Next was what had to be the new Giles Martin stereo remix of Sgt. Pepper/WALHFMF as even on low fidelity satellite radio, I heard a huge difference and those drums on "With A Little Help" just explode! I had to then go in my office. Look forward to listening more but was a little bummed that Ringo got just a word or two in, last I heard he is a surviving member of The Beatles. And sadly, John and George can only be present by old sound-bytes that in John's case are decades old!
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Post by lowbasso on May 18, 2017 11:12:21 GMT -5
At 9:09 a.m. there was a disappointing oral summary of The Beatles history with quick sound-bytes, a contemporary greeting mostly from Paul(of course!) and barely a word or two from Ringo and finally the first song played was "All You Need Is Love!" Good choice! Next was what had to be the new Giles Martin stereo remix of Sgt. Pepper/WALHFMF as even on low fidelity satellite radio, I heard a huge difference and those drums on "With A Little Help" just explode! I had to then go in my office. Look forward to listening more but was a little bummed that Ringo got just a word or two in, last I heard he is a surviving member of The Beatles. And sadly, John and George can only be present by old sound-bytes that in John's case are decades old! I thought satellite radio reaches everywhere, including the clouds (Heaven?) You mean John & George can't get it and they can't talk to us? I was expecting to hear how many Lennon/Harrison Songs are now in the catalogue up on high waiting for Paul to nix when he hears them.....
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Post by mikev on May 18, 2017 13:51:25 GMT -5
At 9:09 a.m. there was a disappointing oral summary of The Beatles history with quick sound-bytes, a contemporary greeting mostly from Paul(of course!) and barely a word or two from Ringo and finally the first song played was "All You Need Is Love!" Good choice! Next was what had to be the new Giles Martin stereo remix of Sgt. Pepper/WALHFMF as even on low fidelity satellite radio, I heard a huge difference and those drums on "With A Little Help" just explode! I had to then go in my office. Look forward to listening more but was a little bummed that Ringo got just a word or two in, last I heard he is a surviving member of The Beatles. And sadly, John and George can only be present by old sound-bytes that in John's case are decades old! I thought satellite radio reaches everywhere, including the clouds (Heaven?) You mean John & George can't get it and they can't talk to us? I was expecting to hear how many Lennon/Harrison Songs are now in the catalogue up on high waiting for Paul to nix when he hears them..... I hear the heavenly coffers offer 100 different versions of Cry For a Shadow.
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Post by John S. Damm on May 18, 2017 14:31:53 GMT -5
I had to drive to an out-of-county courthouse so I got some decent listening time in.
I heard "Simply Shady" which pleased me no end as when has that last been played on any form of radio! On the way back I heard "Apple Scruffs" which pleased me too!
It is a good mix of John, Paul, George and indeed Ringo(I heard "Only You" which does not get played these days like it did in the mid-1970's).! I was afraid this was going to be the "Paul McCartney and his backing Beatles" show! It is not thus far.
The Beatles' BBC version of "Sweet Little Sixteen" was played and it was amazing, John just nails the vocal and I about cried, thinking of the late, great Chuck Berry and how much John Lennon loved him as an artist!
The Beatles Channel is addicting! Right now it is fun because I have not heard the same song twice! But I have subscribed to Sirius Satellite Radio since 2009 and I know that one does start to hear repeats and more often than one should on satellite radio.
But for now it is fun!
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Post by lowbasso on May 18, 2017 16:45:53 GMT -5
VERY HAPPY so far! I picked my car up from the service station, and the very first song I heard on the Sirius XM station was about as obscure a solo song as you could hope for... John Lennon's "My Baby Left Me" off MENLOVE AVENUE! After that it was "Hello Goodbye" (uggggh... they play that song do death even on standard commercial garbage radio today!) Then "For You Blue" (kind of rare...) Then "Day Tripper" (Ho-Hum again...) Then another colossal surprise: "Cheer Down" LIVE IN JAPAN -- from George Harrison! So there were 2 deep tracks tossed in between .. very encouraging! Day Tripper " ho-hum"....... Joe, you are definitely not a 1st Generation fan......
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Post by debjorgo on May 18, 2017 20:22:48 GMT -5
Daytripper is on my Beatles 27 playlist in my iPod. This is my top 27 (I have 29 songs in it) Beatle songs that I feel sound great now and represent the band as a cool modern band. Most of the songs are alt-boot versions but Tripper is from the new remixed Beatles 1.
I'm on the fence with this debate. I probably would skip it if it came up in the car and I was by myself. But it's not a bad song for the channel.
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Post by John S. Damm on May 18, 2017 20:27:55 GMT -5
Some NYC lady made a video of the first seven minutes of Sirius/XM The Beatles Channel so for those who missed it, you can hear the beginning starting at 9:09 a.m. May 18, 2017:
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Post by lowbasso on May 18, 2017 21:35:03 GMT -5
Day Tripper " ho-hum"....... Joe, you are definitely not a 1st Generation fan...... Oh really? You might have fared a little better had you picked another song, but it just so happens that "Day Tripper" was one of the earliest 45's I vividly recall having and loving as a child of 4 and 5. Loved that introduction, even then in the mid-60s when it was a new record. Yup, I was a Firstie. I hope you understand that the "ho-hum" was because we've heard these most popular songs a gazillion-and-a-half times already...and if anything, I'd expect an older First Generation Fan to be even more tired of it than I am. And "Day Tripper" just sp happens to be one of the 7 or 8 songs that presently makes the circulating rounds of boring commercial radio, anyway. Who needs Sirius for that one? They should have opened with All My Loving this morning. That is the first song we all heard on The Ed Sullivan Show live on Feb. 9, 1964. But instead it was All You Need is Love. Well JSD and Joe K should be happy it was a John song! I haven't listened to an FM station doing rock for years other than when Ken Dashow does Breakfast With The Beatles on Sunday mornings in NYC when I am in town. Only listen to Sirius/XM now for years. Can't really call any Beatles song ho-hum. Even Hey Jude and Let it Be which come closest for me. Now their solo material is another story. I don't mind them playing solo Beatles though. Because when they revert back to a Fab Four song, you will hear how much better all four were together! Ok Joe, let me have it!!!! He-He! LOL!
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Post by debjorgo on May 18, 2017 22:22:30 GMT -5
All You Need Is Love is not a great song to use, for me. It seems like a flower childish relic from a time gone by. The message is good enough but the music just seems so out of place today. (Remember this is extreme beatlefan critique amongst other beatlefans, and should be taken as such!)
All My Loving is not a bad choice. It's got a very old fashion, even for '64, lyric style, "Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, tomorrow I'll miss you, remember I'll always be true". But it's got a great little rolling guitar running through it and the third segment, section, second chorus, whatever it's called, that really rocks. It's brought back to serve as the coda and finishes the song with excitement and power. I like the song!
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Post by John S. Damm on May 18, 2017 22:37:57 GMT -5
I wanted "The One After 909" and I must say that I didn't care for that quick history lesson that started it as heard in the video I posted above.
I heard "Can't Buy Me Love" twice although the second version was from the BBC.
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Post by sayne on May 19, 2017 0:07:02 GMT -5
What do you mean by car subscription ? I only get Sirius Satellite radio in my car on my factory installed, Sirius capable stereo system. I do not get it over the internet or through my personal devices. I think that service is the "XM" part and there are some good stations there that are unavailable to me on Sirius. I hope this Beatles Channel is not one of them! Have you tried getting the app? I downloaded the app, connected my phone to my car radio - viola!. Free Sirius.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on May 19, 2017 5:14:18 GMT -5
Can't really call any Beatles song ho-hum. Even Hey Jude and Let it Be which come closest for me. I don't think ANY Beatles song is a "ho-hum" song inherently - I only grow tired of hearing some of the more overplayed ones, that's all I mean. Especially the common ones we hear practically 24/7 on regular commercial radio these days anyway. Well, it's just that you have your mind made up that no solo song can match - let alone surpass - any given Beatles song, and this is simply untrue, unless one is simply being stubborn. Obviously when taken on a song-by-song basis there are solo songs which arguably equal or better some Beatles: Maybe I'm Amazed > What You're Doing Photograph > What Goes On What Is Life > It's Only A Northern Song Mind Games > Dig A Pony Jenny Wren = Blackbird Somedays = For No One Just this morning I took a quick car trip 'round the block and the first song I heard was Paul's "Heart of the Country" (another song that's as good as some of his songs on The White Album, for instance)... ...followed by the BBC "So How Come No One Loves Me" (not among their best for me, though it was still a pleasure to hear such an odd song played on the radio on a sunny morning drive at sunrise! ) ... ...then as I pulled into my parking space I heard that all-too-familiar crooning of "Heee's A Reaaal Nowherrre Mann..." and I quickly turned the radio OFF, and was glad I'd made it home precisely at that time! Yes, "Nowhere Man" is a GREAT song -- and by the way, it's another I had on 45 as a child with the picture sleeve, and I loved it! -- I just don't care to hear it on the radio as much as some other deeper cuts. On the contrary, I think a lot of newbies (and older more stubborn 'Firsties' who felt there was no life after The Beatles) are going to be very impressed at how many good songs there are after the breakup that they're newly discovering.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on May 19, 2017 5:28:13 GMT -5
They should have opened with All My Loving this morning. That is the first song we all heard on The Ed Sullivan Show live on Feb. 9, 1964. But instead it was All You Need is Love. Well JSD and Joe K should be happy it was a John song! I was thinking that "Magical Mystery Tour" would have been better, in the sense that it's a festive "welcome!" type of song. Even "Sgt. Pepper/With A Little Help From My Friends" (with the NEW 2017 MIX) would have been better than "All You Need Is Love". I only think "All My Loving" would have been a good choice if they actually used the ED SULLIVAN Version - complete with Ed's introduction of The Beatles. Now THAT would have been perfect.
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Post by John S. Damm on May 19, 2017 10:37:47 GMT -5
I only get Sirius Satellite radio in my car on my factory installed, Sirius capable stereo system. I do not get it over the internet or through my personal devices. I think that service is the "XM" part and there are some good stations there that are unavailable to me on Sirius. I hope this Beatles Channel is not one of them! Have you tried getting the app? I downloaded the app, connected my phone to my car radio - viola!. Free Sirius. LOL, I'm listening! What does the app cost? Is it the Sirius/XM app? I now have a iPhone 7 after years of refusing to get a smart phone despite everybody blowing me shit about it(maybe that is why I delayed it!).
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Post by John S. Damm on May 19, 2017 10:44:27 GMT -5
Even "Sgt. Pepper/With A Little Help From My Friends" (with the NEW 2017 MIX) would have been better than "All You Need Is Love". Those two, in what had to be the 2017 Stereo Re-mix, were songs #2 and #3 played so that was cool! I do not mind "All You Need Is Love" as song #1 on this new Channel as the message is good. I must admit that I am addicted to this station but as I have written, I have been with Sirius for eight years and things do get old. I am thrilled that newer Solo Ringo is getting played because these are songs no one but us diehards hear who buy his albums! I heard "The Other Side Of Liverpool" which is quite good but no one knows it except us types. I also heard already his "Y Not" song which is wild! I have not heard "Mumbo" yet so I am getting a little impatient!
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Post by lowbasso on May 19, 2017 15:14:03 GMT -5
I too am hooked on the new Sirius Channel! Up in Canada at the moment, and I listened today for the first time and love it!! They played a couple of solo songs, then a Beatles song and it was like eating your peas and carrots cause they are good for you, and then came dessert! Big hunk of Chocolate Cake!! When you hear solo material interspersed with a Fab Four number, the Beatle songs just come at you like jewels found in the woods!! The magic that was all four together really jumps out at you!! I like this kind of format!
Driving home from Canada to Jersey tomorrow. 9 hour drive with the channel on!!!
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Post by sayne on May 19, 2017 15:55:03 GMT -5
Have you tried getting the app? I downloaded the app, connected my phone to my car radio - viola!. Free Sirius. LOL, I'm listening! What does the app cost? Is it the Sirius/XM app? I now have a iPhone 7 after years of refusing to get a smart phone despite everybody blowing me shit about it(maybe that is why I delayed it!). Yes, it's the Sirius/XM app. It's free and you don't need an account. You will have access to all their programming.
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Post by sayne on May 19, 2017 16:00:09 GMT -5
I wish they would have moved some channels around and given the Beatles Channel 9. Then, when they do commercials, the announcer can say, "All Beatles all the time on Sirius. Channel Number 9, Number 9, Number 9."
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Post by Joe Karlosi on May 20, 2017 5:31:47 GMT -5
They played a couple of solo songs, then a Beatles song and it was like eating your peas and carrots cause they are good for you, and then came dessert! Big hunk of Chocolate Cake!! When you hear solo material interspersed with a Fab Four number, the Beatle songs just come at you like jewels found in the woods!! The magic that was all four together really jumps out at you!! Funny, I've been having a different reaction.. for me, when I am listening to "Come Together", "Hello Goodbye" and "Can't Buy Me Love" for about the 20,000,000th time it's like being force-fed a stale piece of old meat as leftover from the refrigerator. --- But then when I hear never-before-aired BBC songs like "Soldier Of Love" and "I Just Don't Understand" -- or never-before played solo gems like "Cheer Down", "She's About A Mover", "Working Class Hero" and "Little Woman Love" -- THAT'S like a big hunk of sweet dessert!
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Post by John S. Damm on May 20, 2017 12:06:50 GMT -5
The Beatles Channel is addicting! Right now it is fun because I have not heard the same song twice! Oh, I have. And sometimes repeated within the SAME DAY (and I have only listened approximately a total of 4-5 hours over 2 days thus far). Some of the typically overplayed songs I've heard twice so far are: Nowhere Man Come Together I Should Have Known Better I Feel Fine Day Tripper Michelle I Saw Her Standing There The solo songs choices have often been astounding in their unusualness. I heard Paul doing "Little Woman Love" and "No More Lonely Nights", John's live 1972 version of "Instant Karma" and also the POB "Working Class Hero", George's "Pure Smokey" and "Unconciousness Rules", and Ringo's OLD WAVE songs "Hopeless" and "She's About A Mover"! For me though what really slows things down in their tracks is whenever the station plays "other artists covering The Beatles" - good or bad, I don't listen to the station to hear covers of Beatles songs from Boys II Men or Ritchie Havens. I am also not keen on "artists that inspired The Beatles", those I can tolerate that a little more. There's also a feature where listeners are permitted to play DJ, and they submit their 4 favorite song choices. Ah, now THIS is when we get to hear many overplayed common tracks like "Hey Jude", "Strawberry Fields Forever" .. and something called "Yellow Submarine". Hey, I heard "Hopeless" too and that was cool! My early take is that Ringo is the big winner with this station because it is playing Solo Ringo that gets played nowhere else or maybe never played! I think some Beatles fans who ignore Ringo are in for a pleasant surprise although that doe not forgive Ringo for making some really bad Solo albums but he does have good songs out there, they just never get heard unless we as individuals play his albums. I agree Joe that the covers kind of distract me and the "Words Of Wisdom From The Beatles" or whatever it is called annoys me, some pompous voice read two lines from "Mother Nature's Son" before the song played and hey, Paul has really good lyrics there but "words of wisdom?" It is that kind of pompous shit that earns us scorn from other Rock and Roll fans! If it was called "Great Lyrics From The Beatles" I would be more comfortable with it but "Words of Wisdom?" I know, it is riffing off the "Let It Be" lyrics but it is pompous and a waste of time, just give me the music! I am not hearing a lot of Solo John but I did hear "Power To The People"
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