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KurtfromLaQuinta

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Posted: Mar 4, 2025 - 4:26pm

 Steely_D wrote:

Imma let you finish, but the Seventies was the best decade for music of all time! Of all time!


No. No. No.
It was the 50's.
Or maybe the 60's.
Oh, it was the 70's.
Wait... it was 80's.
Then again the 90's were awesome!
And those '00!
Even them 10's.
Now we got the '20's. Come on!





Steely_D

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Posted: Mar 3, 2025 - 8:38am

 rockroll360 wrote:


I totally agree with you. I love the eclectic mix but sometimes it becomes stagnant, especially on the mellow mix. There is 8 great decades of music out here . Share it all  ! 

Imma let you finish, but the Seventies was the best decade for music of all time! Of all time!


rockroll360

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Posted: Mar 3, 2025 - 8:14am

 DrLex wrote:

My 2 cents: I think the Main Mix is doing great. Like others who commented here, I had the feeling it had become a bit stagnant in the past few years. Not that I don't want to hear new things all the time, on the contrary. What has always attracted me about RP is that it combines a foundation of familiar golden oldies with a regular sprinkling of fresh material. The best songs among this fresh material will then eventually join the classics. If it would be all fresh material all the time, it would be alienating, and if it would be the same songs all the time, it would be boring. The current mix again feels like a good balance between these two.



I totally agree with you. I love the eclectic mix but sometimes it becomes stagnant, especially on the mellow mix. There is 8 great decades of music out here . Share it all  ! 
R567

Location: UK


Posted: Mar 3, 2025 - 6:01am

Currently, I find that some Main Mix playlists are really engaging and interesting, and others are either bland easy-listening or have terrible audio quality. Some playlists sound like they have been through the very worst kind of Optimod processing, and a few hours later a different playlist sounds fine. Or maybe it's just the loudness war and my ageing ears.

RP is still great, though, and many thanks for it.
buddy

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Posted: Feb 6, 2025 - 5:48pm

I’m quite enjoying the main mix these days. Very nice tonight. Thanks William.  â¤ï¸âœŒï¸
buddy

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Posted: Dec 11, 2024 - 3:52pm

It's fun to have a bunch of new tunes to add to My Favorites....
DrLex

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Posted: Dec 11, 2024 - 3:11am

My 2 cents: I think the Main Mix is doing great. Like others who commented here, I had the feeling it had become a bit stagnant in the past few years. Not that I don't want to hear new things all the time, on the contrary. What has always attracted me about RP is that it combines a foundation of familiar golden oldies with a regular sprinkling of fresh material. The best songs among this fresh material will then eventually join the classics. If it would be all fresh material all the time, it would be alienating, and if it would be the same songs all the time, it would be boring. The current mix again feels like a good balance between these two.
NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Dec 8, 2024 - 1:19pm



this chat made me think of this.

your doing good. Personally I've been loving the new material lately.
I noticed the hiatus yet at the same time, you were setting up multiple streams and life changes, so had a lot of tolerance for it.

I think the NY interview nails it.
It was never the "recipe" it was the indefinable art that makes this place great, the subtext in the mixes that make me laugh or just nod with a "yeah, I get it". You've certainly made my life richer.

Keep it going. And the multiple streams are great. 


buddy

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Posted: Dec 7, 2024 - 8:19pm

 Steely_D wrote:


Hear hear. I cranked up the main in the car the other day (remember when we were getting excited that we could listen to it in the car?) and it sounded so flipping good. Felt like a bit of a Renaissance, and made me glad that I've stuck with it, and happy I've been referring it out to all my music-loving friends. 
Keep on keeping on! 


I remember being on the RP mobile app beta on my iPhone 1. It was pretty shaky but it could have been that sketchy first iPhone.

Now I can drive from Denver across the barren wastelands of Texas to Dallas & listen to RP the whole way via my iPhone 12 attached to Apple AirPlay in my Subaru. Great tech!

Steely_D

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Posted: Dec 7, 2024 - 6:49pm

 buddy wrote:
Couple of decades listening/contributing here. 

So I came back to the Main Mix & gotta say - William, you're back baby & your a badass!  I really enjoy hearing your input on songs & whatnot, and I can hear the rejuvenated excitement in your voice.  Thanks for all you do for all of us.




Hear hear. I cranked up the main in the car the other day (remember when we were getting excited that we could listen to it in the car?) and it sounded so flipping good. Felt like a bit of a Renaissance, and made me glad that I've stuck with it, and happy I've been referring it out to all my music-loving friends. 
Keep on keeping on! 
DutchAmsterdam

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Posted: Dec 7, 2024 - 5:07pm

 William wrote:

I definitely appreciate your feedback. Thanks for taking the time to post. 

I also can’t help but notice that many of the things people were complaining about a year ago echo how I felt at the time. Those feelings are part of why I’ve spent so much time adjusting the playlist the past few months. It bored me too much of the time. 

I’d be curious to hear from some of the original posters in this thread. See if their feelings have changed. 




William, today I had the Main Mix on for most of the day (and still going, past 2 a.m. here in Amsterdam). I love the mix. And yes, I did check out many of the songs I heard that were new to me (and ones I simply did not remember the title or artist of).

To my delight I heard some great hits as well (e.g. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Avalon, Feelin' Alright, Albatross, et cetera).  Frankly, when I read your Main Mix email — in which you listed "Most big hit songs, especially from the 70s thru 90s" in your What's Out section — I was afraid I wouldn't hear songs like those in the Main Mix anymore. I'm glad they're still in the mix!

Thanks for all you do!

Isabeau

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Posted: Dec 7, 2024 - 7:49am

 William wrote:
I also can’t help but notice that many of the things people were complaining about a year ago echo how I felt at the time. Those feelings are part of why I’ve spent so much time adjusting the playlist the past few months. It bored me too much of the time. 





buddy

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Posted: Dec 6, 2024 - 2:58pm

Couple of decades listening/contributing here.  stevesancarlos & kingen pretty much said it all for me, very similar experience over the past year+. 

I would add that William has had a lot going on with the changes in is personal situation, location, bringing in Alaana & staff, upgrading the hell outta the site. It's been exciting to witness. Not to mention a quarter of a century of standing up RP & being the creative genius artist behind the best music streaming site on the planet. No mean effort there.

So I came back to the Main Mix & gotta say - William, you're back baby & your a badass!  I really enjoy hearing your input on songs & whatnot, and I can hear the rejuvenated excitement in your voice.  Thanks for all you do for all of us.

       
kingen

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Posted: Dec 6, 2024 - 3:42am

I just visited the forum to do a quick post about the new main mix. I've been a RP listener almost since the beginning and have also made a couple of donations, and during the two last years or so I've felt that the main mix has been rotating the same tracks. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but I have more and more resorted to the rock mix and the mellow mix. I was very impressed with the long email I received from William about all the effort he has put into RP over the years in terms of choice of music, the tech (FLAC and so on) and audio quality. I feel that the changes being made to the main mix is awesome. I truly enjoy what I'm hearing! I listen to RP at least during my 8 hours of work, but also during the evening at home. Great work William, RP has really been a faithful companion through my adult life. :)
Isabeau

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Posted: Dec 6, 2024 - 2:25am

Loving the main mix these days. Incredible new music. I keep saying "What is this? I gotta rate it!"
stevesancarlos

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Posted: Dec 5, 2024 - 6:43pm

 William wrote:

I definitely appreciate your feedback. Thanks for taking the time to post. 
I also can’t help but notice that many of the things people were complaining about a year ago echo how I felt at the time. Those feelings are part of why I’ve spent so much time adjusting the playlist the past few months. It bored me too much of the time. 
I’d be curious to hear from some of the original posters in this thread. See if their feelings have changed. 


I have gone through many ups and downs with RP over nearly two decades and have taken several long pauses.
To me, it feels like William has been reborn lin a sense. I used to lament the dearth of new tracks. Now, I’m thrilled to hear so many newer cuts. Maybe it’s the addition of William’s daughter plus several new staffers. Perhaps the weed supply in Eureka is THAT good. I don’t know, but to my ears RP has never EVER sounded better. The ‘vibe’, to use William’s term, has evolved from dated and a bit melancholy to more eclectic, risk-taking, and lighter.

black321

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Posted: Dec 5, 2024 - 6:30pm

just read William’s Main Mix email…quite the stream of consciousness!  Thank you for your work. 
William

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Posted: Dec 5, 2024 - 5:49pm

 DutchAmsterdam wrote:


Late reply, but yes. I especially miss the sprinkling of some familiar big hits oldies in between all the cool and interesting new and old music. 

Much though I love Radio Paradise, I find myself listening less often to the two main channels I use - the Main Mix and the Mellow Mix. And that while I have some music playing almost day and night. 

Thing is, I'm not the only one who has noticed the change. In the past I had visitor after visitor comment on the station, asking me what I listen to - mostly because they liked the great mix of music. Nowadays that rarely happens. 

I just read William's email in which he explains his current approach to the Main Mix. That just underlined it for me. Even though I still listen, and I still tell people about it, I have a sense of loss. And increasingly I find myself reaching for my own eclectic mix of music.

I definitely appreciate your feedback. Thanks for taking the time to post. 

I also can’t help but notice that many of the things people were complaining about a year ago echo how I felt at the time. Those feelings are part of why I’ve spent so much time adjusting the playlist the past few months. It bored me too much of the time. 

I’d be curious to hear from some of the original posters in this thread. See if their feelings have changed. 


DutchAmsterdam

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Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands


Posted: Dec 5, 2024 - 1:30pm

 R567 wrote:

Anyone else think the Main Mix is far less interesting than it was a year ago?



Late reply, but yes. I especially miss the sprinkling of some familiar big hits oldies in between all the cool and interesting new and old music. 

Much though I love Radio Paradise, I find myself listening less often to the two main channels I use - the Main Mix and the Mellow Mix. And that while I have some music playing almost day and night. 

Thing is, I'm not the only one who has noticed the change. In the past I had visitor after visitor comment on the station, asking me what I listen to - mostly because they liked the great mix of music. Nowadays that rarely happens. 

I just read William's email in which he explains his current approach to the Main Mix. That just underlined it for me. Even though I still listen, and I still tell people about it, I have a sense of loss. And increasingly I find myself reaching for my own eclectic mix of music.
buddy

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Posted: Oct 19, 2024 - 1:21pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:
It never fails. Whenever I hear a song I haven't heard before, or want to read the lyrics of or whatever, the playlist is stuck several songs back and stubbornly refuses to update.  


Spooky dude!  
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