Car Thread

[Mitch]

Having been a professional driver for over 13 years, and having shifted gears X thousands of times in a rig, and long before cruise control became standard equipment on most cars, I learned to use cruise at every opportunity. Put the automatic in D and set the cruise. Hell, I use cruise from the house down to Walmart, 3 miles away. Since the only feeling I have in the bottoms of my feet is numbness, I drive with my hands and my thumbs on the buttons. Need to slow down slowly, hit decel; need to speed back up slowly, hit the resume button. Need to stop, hit cancel, gain speed back, hit resume. Whenever I do have to use my foot on gas or brake, I can do it for a short time, but too much time on the gas and I'll have a horrible cramp in my right shin, and then it's back to cruise control.

Don't have Sirius in either of my vehicles, but if I did, it would be locked on "50s on FIVE". Love that DooWop!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

If you have a modern radio that tells you what songs are playing. Watch it. It will flash up tire specials or local store specials. My radio will flash across the bottom. Now playing pink Floyd Money. Buy 3 tires get the 4th free at NTW.

Define "modern".

I rarely listen to the radio other than to get the traffic reports; virtually nothing else is worth my time on the radio.

Pink Floyd? What station actually plays music anymore?

This is one of the very few real uses I would have for internet in a car -- internet radio.

The only thing dumber than paying for TV is paying for radio...and that would be me (Sirius/XM). Nothing better than setting off on a 6.5 hour drive Upstate while listening to one of those 'back-of-the-rack' classic rock stations, Tom Petty radio, or Underground Garage. Then throw in Metropolitan Opera, the Golf Channel, Blue Collar Comedy...quite the assortment, Rufus...would be handy on those drives up to PA.

My wife had Sirius in her car -- usually something hideous on it.......but paying for radio is a bit silly. 8 gig flash drive is what I use when I drive to Chicago. There and back doesn't get us through the entire storage drive - there's stuff on it that I've yet to hear!!!!

Up to PA and back is a short hop in comparison; that's what the 6 CD's in the rack are for then,

[healey36]

I had a 5-disc changer in the trunk of the BMW but I rarely, if ever, used it. Being short on trunk space I took it out.

Do you have a USB-port on your radio or do plug in via the MP-3 jack?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I had a 5-disc changer in the trunk of the BMW but I rarely, if ever, used it. Being short on trunk space I took it out.

Do you have a USB-port on your radio or do plug in via the MP-3 jack?

Never understood putting your CD disc in the trunk - always told me that it was an afterthought and that the guy that decided on that design did not like music.

The USB port is inside the center console area next to the port for the phone charger; I can plug an iPod in there directly and use it through one of the options on the radio that will use the display there.

[healey36]

My newest car is a 2009 Saturn Vue = stone-age, lol... No USB-ports...

[robert.]

I bought a $100 cd player/ radio at best buy. It does almost everything. My wife can use it to view photos from her camera. It will tell you the artist name and song playing. Yes it has a usb port. somehow it can answer your phone too. I have no clue how to do that. I think my cell phone can play songs on it through blue tooth. MGK 102.9 out of philly plays classic rock. Most of their djs are older names from philly. DeBella, Debbie Calton, Andre Gardner and ray koop.

[Mitch]

The older WJ Grand Cherokee Jeeps (99-'04), had the six disc changer in the right rear quarter. Most of the trouble we had with them was that they despised home burnt CDs. There is a difference in the thickness of store bought CDs and Memorex CDs. Later, they put them in the center under the radio, then just incorporated them into the radio. Ejection was still a problem, so it had nothing to do with it possibly being more damp in the rear. Now with all the options available in the vehicle sound system, there's no reason to even need a disc changer.

[E7]

Define "modern".

I rarely listen to the radio other than to get the traffic reports; virtually nothing else is worth my time on the radio.

Pink Floyd? What station actually plays music anymore?

You might want to take a look at WXPN public radio from the University of Pennsylvania.

http://xpn.org/

They are rebroadcast from a number of places, although I am not sure if you will be able to pick them up in your car.

They play a pretty wide variety of stuff, some of which you might enjoy and some I'm certain you will probably hate!

If you look on their website they have play lists for some of their air time which will give you somewhat of an idea of their fare. They have some shows dedicated to specific music types (Blues for one example) and they spotlight a lot of Indie artists.

Here is the URL for their Playlists:

http://xpn.org/playlists/xpn-playlist

[E7]

Here's a random snippet of today's playlist:

10:23 pm Muddy Gurdy - See My Jumper Hanging On The Line
10:19 pm Sleepy John Estes - Diving Duck Blues
10:15 pm Kenny Neal - Blues Mobile
10:01 pm Luther Allison - Little Red Rooster
09:58 pm Guitar Slim - Twenty-Five Lies
09:53 pm Denise LaSalle - I'm A 24 Hour Woman
09:49 pm Sweet Pea Atkinson - Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
09:46 pm Miss Freddye - Miss Freddye's Gonna Fix Ya
09:40 pm AJ Ghent - Wash Ya Hair
09:37 pm Bo Diddley - You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover
09:33 pm Shemekia Copeland - River's Invitation
09:28 pm Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager - I Can't Be Satisfied
09:26 pm B. B. King - You Upset Me Baby
09:22 pm Ursula Ricks - My Street
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09:18 pm Ray Charles - One Mint Julep
09:15 pm James Armstrong - Blues Been Good To Me
09:12 pm Elmore James - Look On Yonder Wall
09:08 pm Keb' Mo' - Look On Yonder Wall
09:02 pm Tinsley Ellis - Sound Of A Broken Man
08:59 pm Percy Mayfield - Strange Things Happening
08:51 pm Lucky Peterson - Back At The Chicken Shack
08:47 pm Buddy Guy - I Smell Trouble
08:44 pm Little Walter - Blue And Lonesome
08:41 pm Johnny Nicholas - Blues Came Fallin' Down
08:37 pm Jimmy Reed - Take Out Some Insurance
08:33 pm Slam Allen - When The Blues Come Around
08:30 pm Howlin' Wolf - I Ain't Superstitious
08:25 pm Popa Chubby - Preexisting Conditions
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08:20 pm Albert Castiglia - Knocked Down Loaded
08:16 pm Sweet Pea Atkinson - Last Two Dollars
08:11 pm Samantha Fish - Poor Black Mattie
08:06 pm Indigenous - You Broke It You Bought It
08:00 pm Sam Taylor - Fussin' All Night
07:54 pm Duke Robillard - Blues In My Heart
07:49 pm Denise LaSalle - Your Husband Is Cheatn' On Us
07:45 pm Greg Sover - Jubilee
07:41 pm Robert Finley - Medicine Woman
07:38 pm Rex Granite Band featuring Sarah Benck - Stop Doing What You Want
07:32 pm Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials - Icicles In My Meatloaf
07:27 pm Willie "Big Eyes" Smith - Don't Think I'm Crazy
07:23 pm Muddy Waters - I Love The Life I Live (I Live The Life I Love)
07:20 pm Bettye Lavette - Person To Person
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07:12 pm Satan & Adam - Down Home Blues
07:08 pm Muddy Gurdy - Going Down South
07:02 pm Tinsley Ellis - Kiss This World
06:45 pm |Geator's Rock'n'Roll Rhythm & Blues Express| - 1-20-2018, Part 3
06:23 pm |Geator's Rock'n'Roll Rhythm & Blues Express| - 1-20-2018, Part 2
06:02 pm |Geator's Rock'n'Roll Rhythm & Blues Express| - 1-20-2018, Part 1
05:42 pm |Many Moods Of Ben Vaughn| - Many Moods of Ben Vaughn #315 1-20-2018 Part 3
05:22 pm |Many Moods Of Ben Vaughn| - Many Moods of Ben Vaughn #315 1-20-2018 Part 2
05:00 pm |Many Moods Of Ben Vaughn| - Many Moods of Ben Vaughn #315 1-20-2018 Part 1
04:56 pm Lower Dens - To Die In L.A.
04:52 pm Toots Hibbert - Knock On Wood
04:46 pm LCD Soundsystem - I Used To
04:41 pm Hurray For The Riff Raff - Nothing's Gonna Change That Girl
04:38 pm Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
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04:35 pm Squeeze - Annie Get Your Gun
04:28 pm Talking Heads - No Compassion
04:23 pm Tash Sultana - Jungle
04:17 pm Low Cut Connie - Shake It Little Tina
04:14 pm McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
04:09 pm Toto - Africa
04:03 pm Blondie - Out In The Streets
04:00 pm Childish Gambino - Redbone
03:55 pm Delta Spirit - Trashcan
03:49 pm Pylon - Volume
03:46 pm The Kinks - Who'll Be The Next In Line
03:39 pm New Order - Age Of Consent
03:34 pm The Cranberries - Zombie
03:29 pm The Cranberries - Promises
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03:21 pm Blur - Beetlebum
03:18 pm Split Enz - I Got You
03:13 pm Dr. Dog - Listening In
03:06 pm Kyle Craft - Heartbreak Junky
03:03 pm Brenda & The Tabulations - Dry Your Eyes
03:00 pm The Pixies - Debaser
02:55 pm INXS - Don't Change
02:50 pm Mott The Hoople - Walkin' With A Mountain
02:47 pm Harry Nilsson - Cuddly Toy
02:41 pm The Kills - Last Day Of Magic
02:39 pm XTC - This Is Pop
02:36 pm B. B. King - Ask Me No Questions
02:29 pm The Cure - A Forest (Tree Mix)
02:23 pm Sheer Mag - Just Can't Get Enough
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02:19 pm Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
02:15 pm The Ramones - My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)
02:10 pm Rotary Connection - Turn Me On
02:06 pm Pulp - Babies
02:02 pm Brazilian Girls - Pirates
01:54 pm Bob Mould - Heartbreak A Stranger
01:52 pm The Breeders - All Nerve
01:48 pm Trey Anastasio - Shine
01:48 pm Trey Anastasio - Shine
01:44 pm Patti Smith - Redondo Beach
01:40 pm Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Fear Is Like A Forest
01:35 pm Portugal The Man - Live In The Moment
01:30 pm B-52's - 53 Miles West Of Venus
01:26 pm MGMT - Time To Pretend
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01:22 pm Darlingside - Eschaton
01:15 pm My Morning Jacket - Mahgeetah
01:11 pm Strand Of Oaks - Passing Out
01:06 pm Greta Van Fleet - Highway Tune
01:03 pm Them - Baby Please Don't Go
01:00 pm Elvis Costello - Everyday I Write The Book
12:56 pm David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things
12:53 pm Jacob Banks - Chainsmoking
12:48 pm David Gray - White Ladder
12:47 pm David Gray - White Ladder
12:44 pm Lana Del Rey - Video Games
12:40 pm Lo Moon - This Is It
12:32 pm LCD Soundsystem - Tonite
12:28 pm Peter Gabriel - Big Time
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12:25 pm The Specials - Gangsters
12:22 pm Sixteen Jackies - Movie Was Bad
12:17 pm Talking Heads - Heaven
12:14 pm Superorganism - Everybody Wants To Be Famous
12:08 pm Robert Plant - Bones of Saints
12:03 pm Elton John - Amoreena
12:00 pm Low Cut Connie - Revolution Rock n Roll
11:55 am The Killers - Human
11:51 am Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Holy Mountain
11:47 am Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
11:43 am Toots & The Maytals - Time Tough
11:39 am Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real - Fool Me Once
11:34 am Brandi Carlile - The Joke
11:31 am The Doors - Love Her Madly
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11:25 am Blondie - Heart Of Glass
11:21 am Chris Stapleton - Midnight Train To Memphis
11:15 am The Cure - Fascination Street
11:11 am Suzanne Vega - Luka
11:06 am Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Hope The High Road
11:02 am Iron And Wine - Grace for Saints and Ramblers
10:59 am K. T. Tunstall - Black Horse & The Cherry Tree
10:56 am Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
10:53 am James Hunter Six - I Don't Wanna Be Without You
10:49 am Spoon - The Book I Write
10:46 am R. E. M. - The One I Love
10:43 am Mt. Joy - Silver Lining
10:36 am The National - Day I Die
10:33 am Lucinda Williams - Real Love
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10:30 am Bruce Springsteen - Because The Night
10:25 am Mondo Cozmo - Plastic Soul
10:20 am Beck - Dear Life
10:20 am Beck - Dear Life
10:16 am Paul Simon - The Obvious Child
10:11 am Dr. Dog - Listening In
10:06 am Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - You Worry Me
09:59 am Neil Young - Razor Love
09:57 am Autumn - Eagles
09:56 am Dean Evenson & Soundings Ensemble - Eagle, Salmon Swirl
09:51 am Rufus Wainwright - Dinner At Eight
09:47 am Gordon Jenkins - Green
09:41 am Joni Mitchell - Little Green
09:36 am Red Garland - Winter Wonderland
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09:34 am Sandy Denny - Winter Winds
09:28 am Richie Havens - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
09:23 am Tom Caufield - The Green Ray
09:19 am Jim James - Baby Don't Go
09:15 am Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight
09:11 am Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair
09:08 am Keola Beamer - Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
09:03 am Mipso - Spin Me Round
08:57 am Lucinda Williams - Born To Be Loved
08:52 am Ed Trickett - January Man/Gently
08:48 am Dead Horses - Deep Blue Sea
08:38 am Dominique Eade - When The Wind Was Green
08:34 am Eleanor McEvoy - At The Mid Hour Of Night
08:30 am Liz Story - Snowfall
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08:26 am Joan Baez - There But For Fortune
08:22 am John Gorka - Crowded Heart
08:10 am Kathryn Kaye - What The Winter Said
08:06 am The Early Mays - Narrows Of The Year
08:02 am Priscilla Ahn - A Good Day (Morning Song)
07:58 am Liona Boyd - Serenade For Winter
07:56 am Nancy K Dillon - White Dove Reprise
07:51 am Nancy K Dillon - A Game Of Swans
07:46 am Simon & Garfunkel - Leaves That Are Green
07:42 am Rick Braun - Maybe Next Year
07:36 am Richie Havens - Follow
07:27 am Ry Cooder - Green Dog
07:23 am Barbara Higbie - Snowfall Lullaby
07:20 am True North - Seed, Leaf, Flower, Seed
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07:14 am Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song
07:09 am Tim Story - Glass Green
07:05 am Tiny Ruins - Me At The Museum
07:02 am Lisa Beth Weber - In The Morning Here
06:52 am Herbie Hancock - Edith and the Kingpin
06:47 am Laila Biali - I Think It's Going to Rain Today
06:41 am Fiona Joy Hawkins - A Winter Morning
06:38 am Bob Livingston - It Just Might be Your Lovin'
06:32 am Devonsquare - Walking On Ice
06:26 am David Matthews Trio - Blue in Green
06:24 am Richie Havens - Morning, Morning
06:20 am Cat Power - Blue
06:10 am John O'Connor - Moon in My Pocket
06:05 am John Serrie and Gary Stroutsos - The Sunrise Song
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06:00 am Kelly Mulhollan - The Great Cold
05:56 am Ron Sexsmith - Snake Road
05:51 am Nick Drake - One Of These Things First
05:48 am Little Walter - Key To The Highway
05:26 am Kraftwerk - Autobahn
05:21 am Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home)
05:17 am David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
05:12 am David Bowie - Space Oddity
05:07 am Car Seat Headrest - Destroyed By Hippie Powers
05:03 am The Cars - Sad Song
05:00 am Alex Chilton - My Rival
04:54 am The Libertines U.S. - Bad Memories Burn
04:51 am Three Dog Night - I'll Be Creeping
04:43 am LCD Soundsystem - Home
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04:38 am Stereo MC's - Connected
04:31 am Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hanging On
04:25 am Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
04:21 am Graham Parker - White Honey
04:17 am Iggy Pop - Rock And Roll Party
04:15 am Danny & The Juniors - At The Hop
04:11 am Dan Auerbach - Stand By My Girl
04:07 am Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
04:04 am The Jam - Beat Surrender
04:00 am Grace Vonderkuhn - Worry

[rogruth]

Nothing for me.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Define "modern".

I rarely listen to the radio other than to get the traffic reports; virtually nothing else is worth my time on the radio.

Pink Floyd? What station actually plays music anymore?

You might want to take a look at WXPN public radio from the University of Pennsylvania.

http://xpn.org/

They are rebroadcast from a number of places, although I am not sure if you will be able to pick them up in your car.

I used to listen to XPN in the 80's when I lived in Delaware and then in Levittown, PA. Back then they played a lot of experimental, avant-garde, innovative stuff and electronic stuff along with a generous helping of prog rock, and the Stars End show was not at 1 am, but rather several hours earlier and not just 1 night a week. I used to load up a 3600' tape on the reel to reel and let it run at a slow speed to capture 6 hours of music that I could listen to later. Wore out a lot of tape back then....

I see I can stream it far easier now that when I checked in on it a few years ago, but that play list was not the old XPN that I listened to in the 80's. But the Stars End show still exists albeit while I'm sound asleep. I do miss that reel to reel........

[E7]

Nothing for me.

The playlists change daily, Maybe if you tried listening to new and different things you might develop a taste for other kinds of music. My first question would be, have you listened/are you familiar with everything there? Also note that many different types of music not listed there are played at various times. Maybe you need to explore a bit??????????????????

[MurphOnMillerAve]

And all of that mentioned so far is far, far better on the ears than listening - even for just a few moments, my limit - to those howling, crotch-grabbing testimonials that exclaim hatred for police and/or triumph over the next booty-call to service. Or have I been missing something in the appreciation department? Oh well, music is a pretty subjective matter, I would suggest. The wide range of different reactions it inspires in each of us is interesting to me.

[E7]

I see I can stream it far easier now that when I checked in on it a few years ago, but that play list was not the old XPN that I listened to in the 80's. But the Stars End show still exists albeit while I'm sound asleep. I do miss that reel to reel........

All I can say is If you listen enough, I'm sure you will hear some things you enjoy. Having listened to bits of it at various times, over the last 7 or 8 years, there is a lot more variety there than anything else radio wise than I can pull in while in the car. It ain't perfect, but it's way ahead of the alternatives.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I see I can stream it far easier now that when I checked in on it a few years ago, but that play list was not the old XPN that I listened to in the 80's. But the Stars End show still exists albeit while I'm sound asleep. I do miss that reel to reel........

All I can say is If you listen enough, I'm sure you will hear some things you enjoy. Having listened to bits of it at various times, over the last 7 or 8 years, there is a lot more variety there than anything else radio wise than I can pull in while in the car. It ain't perfect, but it's way ahead of the alternatives.

I'll have it on tap when I tire of or if Progzilla crashes. I have a large number of Youtube "stations" that strung together many hours (days?) of music that I like to have on when at the keyboard working or in the shop. I used to have several stations on 365Live, but that platform went up in smoke a few years ago....

Or have I been missing something in the appreciation department?

Possibly - the variety of music available is nigh on infinite - well beyond what you can actually listen to in your lifetime. If you restrict yourself to a specific time period or style of music, then you are missing out of on a lot of good music.