New XM Channel lineup sucks balls!

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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,335
    meistereder wrote:
    Or bring back the old Lithium. Please understand, this is not how Lithium used to be.

    Yeah, I've now heard that from a few different people who are completely disgusted with the channel.

    I have about the same number of friends who had/have Sirius as I do XM. Almost everyone, on both sides, is upset by the new line-ups and channel "changes".

    Ugh!
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    meistereder wrote:
    Or bring back the old Lithium. Please understand, this is not how Lithium used to be.

    Yeah meistereder is right. In early 2007, Sirius did a test run (on Octane, I think) where for a weekend they played a bunch of 90s hard rock to gauge whether they should start a channel devoted to it. I guess it went over well so they started Lithium. Since then it was a really good channel, but it really seems to have gone downhill.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • meistereder
    meistereder Posts: 1,577
    rrivers wrote:
    Yeah meistereder is right. In early 2007, Sirius did a test run (on Octane, I think) where for a weekend they played a bunch of 90s hard rock to gauge whether they should start a channel devoted to it. I guess it went over well so they started Lithium. Since then it was a really good channel, but it really seems to have gone downhill.


    For no reason! Sounds like they ended up pissing off both the XM and teh Sirius users. Which is baffling.
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  • Corduroyboy
    Corduroyboy Posts: 1,256
    Since having a 3 hour daily commute for the past 2 weeks I've got a good listen to the new format and it sucks giant moose balls. I have Sirius and the stations are now crap. The Big 80s and Hair Nation were 2 of my favs and now they are unlistenable. I hear songs I've never heard of in my life on these stations. And Lithium, oh man it blows now. I almost need to thank the FCC for taking so long to decide on the merger. They gave me a few extra months of good Sirius. Now I have shitty Sirius.
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,335
    Corduroyboy wrote:
    Since having a 3 hour daily commute for the past 2 weeks I've got a good listen to the new format and it sucks giant moose balls. I have Sirius and the stations are now crap. The Big 80s and Hair Nation were 2 of my favs and now they are unlistenable. I hear songs I've never heard of in my life on these stations. And Lithium, oh man it blows now. I almost need to thank the FCC for taking so long to decide on the merger. They gave me a few extra months of good Sirius. Now I have shitty Sirius.

    Yeah, well we all are the losers in this merger.

    I was a happy XM subscriber too. I'm by no means blaming Sirius because I've heard both sides of the merger and nobody is happy.
  • celebration
    celebration Posts: 318
    NothingSound wrote:
    Holy shit, they really ruined things. Somehow all the Sirius stations took over the XM ones. Gone are Lucy, Squizz, Top Tracks, Flight, etc. They're been replaced by the Sirius counterparts Lithium, Octane, Classic Vinyl, The Pulse. It's only been a day but already I've noticed more DJs talking (and talking over song intros to boot), changes in the tone of the stations (Korn on Liquid Metal??) and less uncensored channels. They totally got rid of The Rhyme - classic hip hop which was such a fun channel.

    Way to go Mel Karmazin, after ruining FM you finally fulfilled your dream of ruining satellite. I guess as long as Howard Stern is happy, you're happy. Who cares about the 8 million people who chose XM over Sirius probably in part because they don't like Howard.

    ha you said sucks balls in your thread title

    i gave up on radio

    it doesn't work
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  • Pierce
    Pierce Posts: 71
    yeah what is up with lithium....it was my fav channel now they edit lyrics now...for example NIN's "Closer"...."I want to .... you like an animal"....WTF...but i did hear "Love reign o'er me" the other day....which is wierd and cool at the same time...i thought it was a '90's channel...?
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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,335
    I'm pleasantly surprized today. I've been listening to Lithium for the last hour and a half and they've played pretty much all good tunes.

    We'll see how long that lasts!

    --I'm hoping there were enough people bitching that they went back to their "old ways". We'll see...
  • allornone
    allornone Posts: 269
    Lithium has seemed to improve, or at least get back to what it used to be.

    I was driving around with my 5 year old daughter last night looking at Christmas lights. We were listening to Radio Disney, and during a commercial break, Sirius threw in an ad for the Playboy Channel. Talk about class.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    allornone wrote:
    Lithium has seemed to improve, or at least get back to what it used to be.

    I was driving around with my 5 year old daughter last night looking at Christmas lights. We were listening to Radio Disney, and during a commercial break, Sirius threw in an ad for the Playboy Channel. Talk about class.

    That's insane! They edit songs on Lithium and now they are advertising Playboy on Disney?!!!

    What the fuck is going on over there?
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • NickyNooch
    NickyNooch Posts: 629
    I can't believe Sirius got rid of the punk station. XM got rid of theirs too. Ridiculous.

    If I didn't own this simply for Howard Stern I'd be pissed.

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