The Boneyard Returns to XM Radio

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Originally Posted by Swanman

... The playlist at Liquid Metal is now basically Pantera, Slayer, Old Metallica, New Metallica, Korn, Slipknot, rinse/repeat. They sprinkle in some cool tunes every now and again, but it's mostly repeat stuff I've heard a billion times before...

I thought this was an XM thing. Hard Attack was a lot more aggressive before the switch. I've heard Ozzy and Metallica more since the merger than the entire 2 years prior to it. There was almost never any Korn on.

Oh well, I'm looking at canceling anyway. With Slacker on my my phone, and a Bluetooth car stereo (which I hope to pick up right before my Sirius scrip expires next month), I have no need of Sirius/XM.

[Swanman]

Originally Posted by unlurking

I thought this was an XM thing. Hard Attack was a lot more aggressive before the switch. I've heard Ozzy and Metallica more since the merger than the entire 2 years prior to it. There was almost never any Korn on.

Oh well, I'm looking at canceling anyway. With Slacker on my my phone, and a Bluetooth car stereo (which I hope to pick up right before my Sirius scrip expires next month), I have no need of Sirius/XM.

That's weird if both channels were harder before the merger. For example on XM, you would NEVER hear Korn, Deftones, Dream Theater (love them but not for liquid metal), new Metallica, new Ozzie and you wouldn't hear one Slayer and Pantera song per hour. They played a lot more obscure/new metal artists than they do now.

And the djs on Liquid Metal now suck sweaty monkey balls. Ward Cleaver and Katie Brutal were eleventy-billion times better than the jagbags on there now.

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Originally Posted by Swanman

That's weird if both channels were harder before the merger. For example on XM, you would NEVER hear Korn, Deftones, Dream Theater (love them but not for liquid metal), new Metallica, new Ozzie and you wouldn't hear one Slayer and Pantera song per hour. They played a lot more obscure/new metal artists than they do now.

And the djs on Liquid Metal now suck sweaty monkey balls. Ward Cleaver and Katie Brutal were eleventy-billion times better than the jagbags on there now.

The music was definitely much more intense. I don't think I've heard this much Anthrax since high school.

Jose and Scotty are pretty annoying. The only thing I like about Jose was the Devil's Dozen (top 12 requested songs of the week). I haven't heard the show in month's so I have no idea if it's changed or not, but it used to be filled with all sorts of new and heavy music.

Mario's not bad. He used to rip anything even somewhat melodic and talk trash about anything with clean vocals. Now he just doesn't seem to talk much. The music played seem to be what the DJ's wanted, now it seems to be a "classic metal" station.

I plan on sending in a letter when I switch to Slacker full time letting them know why. Early last year I basically stopped listening to anything but Hard Attack. Now I find myself listening to my own music.

[Swanman]

Originally Posted by unlurking

The music was definitely much more intense. I don't think I've heard this much Anthrax since high school.

Jose and Scotty are pretty annoying. The only thing I like about Jose was the Devil's Dozen (top 12 requested songs of the week). I haven't heard the show in month's so I have no idea if it's changed or not, but it used to be filled with all sorts of new and heavy music.

Mario's not bad. He used to rip anything even somewhat melodic and talk trash about anything with clean vocals. Now he just doesn't seem to talk much. The music played seem to be what the DJ's wanted, now it seems to be a "classic metal" station.

I plan on sending in a letter when I switch to Slacker full time letting them know why. Early last year I basically stopped listening to anything but Hard Attack. Now I find myself listening to my own music.

I bet it's Mel Karmazin's yearning to turn satellite radio into fm radio. XM was known for extremely deep playlists and now the stations seem to be nothing more than a shallow group of hits from each particular genre. One great example was Lucy, XM's alternative station, had an amazingly deep playlist that people loved, now that it's Lithium it seems to be about 1/10 as deep. People bought satellite because they don't want FM radio, it's reeruned to make it like FM radio.