I just have to say that I absolutely love you people. You guys are the complete opposite of the bain of my existence. Pandora is amazing and I hope it goes to the moon.

I tend to like to grow stations out of songs; however, two artist stations that I'm truly enjoying are:

*The Bobs* Your gateway to New Wave Accapella. Be warned that the large presence of humorous lyrics in The Bobs oeuvre does end up connecting to some rather bawdy and explicite songs.

*Loreena McKinnett* Pandora's selection of Celtic vocals is relatively thin. Nonetheless, this station seeks out what's in there, and the results are quite enjoyable.

Thanks Mertsger

I'll check out "The Bobs" and "Loreena McKennitt". I agree we should add more Celtic music.

Any one else have a particularly good station to suggest?

Egads! Are you trying to make it even HARDER for me to step away from a computer? Seriously, many mercis for the list. I needed to go grocery shopping today but that can wait until I've checked some of these out.

"Any one else have a particularly good station to suggest?"

I don't know if this is appropriate to suggest my own? Oh well, if it IS check out "Before the Sale," which I am still training to play a little bit of everything. Right now it is a bit heavy on the electronic child of New Order/Shriekback side but I'm forever tweaking it and it is remarkably good at suggesting new things on its own (I STILL say it reads minds).

A word of explanation: I am trying to re-create a REAL station that was located near Washington, DC, that went on air in the late 60's but was effectively defunct in the late 1990's when it the family that owned it sold it to a big Music R Us empire that turned it into a college format station.

BEFORE THE SALE (ha ha), however, you could tune in and hear just about anything from hard core punk to new wave to ska to jazz fusion to country western...

I have never encountered another station like it and thanks to Pandora, I'm trying to rebuild it here.

jay - music nerd

Jay has got to be talking about "High Fidelity Stereo", WHFS 102.3 Bethesda (later 99.1 Annapolis). Several of us at Pandora were big fans of this station, including myself. I would like to think that Jake, David and Damian would approve of what we are doing.

And no, we can't read minds. But we do read email and blog entries. Tell us what you like and we'll put it in there...

Movie soundtracks from the following artists would be nice:
James Horner
Jerry Goldsmith
John Williams

Why am I not (really) surprised that you all have heard of WHFS? (OK, my eyes popped out, but just a little bit.) Glad to know there are others who rememeber and appreciate it.

Band Suggestion: Davis & Devitt - A fine American folk band.

-jay

P.S. If you are ever in Washington, DC, The Weasel can be heard on 94.7 (classic rock format). He is still a very education-oriented D.J.

WHFS was the best.

Some great stations I've found - which in my opinion have no need for any tweaking - are:

"Bonobo" - a vibrantly mellow band that incorporates electronic grooves with heavy jazz and percussive instrumentation... leads to a ton of great (mostly instrumental) tracks by similar artists which are awesome to play while cooking, studying, painting, reading, you name it! highly recommended.

"The Notwist" - contemporary indie rock, with an electronic twist. hip yet melancholy vocals brilliantly dominate The Notwist, and related tracks drive home the "indietronic" feel with an equal carefree attitude and easy-going synth roots which dont overpower. great for background music or anything else for that matter.

"RJD2" - another groove-driven station, but with its own distinct flavor. if I had music to play in my own personal soundtrack, this would be my travel music. track after track of expansive soundscapes that make you want to float, swim, and dance, and across the world. I put it on when I look at photos of me and my friends - makes it much more meaningful for some reason...

i love pandora

ryan

I've been listening to Pandora for a while now, and I'm an addict, however, I've gotten the feeling that good bass work is sorely overlooked by the music genome. I've tried, and failed, repeatedly to generate a station that plays only songs with smooth bass grooves. Any station suggestions for what I'm looking for?

I'm new to Pandora... great idea. I do find you are lacking in a few areas, which are some of my biggest interests in music. Firstly, you don't have "classical" music. I refer to J.S. Bach and Beethoven, not the Doors or the Stones! I do realize you could have an entire Pandora filled with only "classical" music, so this is not really a complaint, more of an observation.

Also, you don't have much of a selection of "world beat", and the few so called world beat artists I know of, when they are recognized, seem to come up as a guest on a more mainstream artist's music. (for instance, Yousou N'Dour) Perhaps my taste is more eclectic than I thought! There is a lot of great music, but you need to broaden your horizons still.

Also... I'm a Canadian, and I don't see our many great musicians represented much, if at all!!!

Cheers,
Kim

"Pandora is amazing and I hope it goes to the moon."
Yes yes yes. Don't you Pandora guys and gals ever try to stop doing what you're doing to Pandora. It was really good at the beginning and from there it's just getting better and better. I know how you do it; you don't listen only to music, you listen to your audience, and this is what matters most I believe.

Hi hardworkers,
First of all, I wonna say you have blown sweden good in a small but effective way! I love your station and I could not afford to keep it only to me, I passed it on to our 75 members of our association, believe me they love the uniqness in the arrangements of function. It is not like the rest. keep it up and explore the african music too.
Best rgds
Frank.

I can't believe how well this works. I have sent it to all of my friends and everyone is flipping over it!

Hi!

I'm really enjoying this whole concept. I've already discovered so many new artists it's exciting!

However, I just tuned into the artist profile on one of my favorites- Charlie Byrd. Your discography only lists one album for him under the Bossa Nova sub-heading. My personal favorite in that catagory is Brazilian Byrd. It's the album I'd take to the proverbial desert island, so it would be nice for others to discover it, too!

Thanks for all the great listening- I'm spreading the word.

In case you're wondering, I found out about you from an article in Reader's Digest.

hey, I would like to thank you for adding some brazilians bands to Pandora, like Sepultura, Los Heramanos, Skank and Jota Quest. But theres a lot of good brazilian Rock that isnt yet in Pandora like Pitty, Pato Fu, Rodox, CPM 22, Massacration and others. Please, add more brazilian music.
if you need some recomendation I can help you, ok?

Thanks

""Posted by: Etienne Handman at June 10, 2006 05:49 PM

Movie soundtracks from the following artists would be nice:
James Horner
Jerry Goldsmith
John Williams"

I agree completely! in fact i whould like to recomend Howard Shore to.

Best regards

Pandora just keeps amazing me. I have always noticed that my music tastes tend to be a little bi-polar from Save Ferris to Mountain Goats to Andrew Sisters to Scissor Sisters. I now have radio stations that expand my horizons and keeps me on or off ledge depending on my mood.

Oh, I learned about Pandora from this cute guy (I think he's an employee) that I met at Grace Cathedral with my BF.

To me, Pandora ist one of the greatest discoveries in the whole net. I really listen more to it now then to all my CDs, period. Many of my friends are also excited.

I was in a men's choral group in college. I made this one

http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh143652688828758372

It's all of these put together:
Rachmaninov: Choir, by Haggard
Simple Gifts, by Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The King's Singers

all of these put together does a great job on finding good choral music, classical + recent groups.

I would be so pleased if you would get Mercy Me the Christian group .
I have a broad taste in music. This gives me a chance to listen to music I wouldn't normaly try .
Being 69 years old I have so much fun hearing many song that were considered off limit to my young ears as a teen. Late at night I would fall asleep to the R&B with my radio on as low as possible to not arouse my mother. Now I turn Pandora up as loud as I can.
Thank you! Patsy

Check out

http://pandorastations.crispynews.com

A Pandora user driven station recommnedation site.

Thanks,

Tim

I'm confused? (it may because I am seeing this posting by Etienne on Aug 15 (and not June 7/8 ... but it was sent in email by the Pandora mama ship)
It seems to me that there is no longer a way to get to these shared stations. We would need the email of the owner/creator, or it would have to be a Top 20.
Am I wrong?
I wanted to check the *station* "The Roots", but the link brought me to a Search/Create Station dialog and it then of course created a new station owned by me, and seeded with The Artist "The Roots"

Thanks guys...I have spent countless hours on the computer playing various types of music from my past (60's, 70's, etc.) and the present. With kids in each decade through the 90's, I am constantly tuned in to current modes. One that I haven't been able to locate, or dream up yet is "Broadway tunes past and present". Our high school just finished summerstock of "HONK!" and I would love to find some of the music from this and other Broadway hits. Any help would be appreciated. Keep up the good work...I love my music!

Are you able to find any recordings of Frances Faye, A singer popular in several small clubs around the L.A. area (A club called the Interlude, on Sunset Blvd, also the Little Club in Beverly Hills) in the mid to late '50's

What someone said about making it harder to step away from the computer is entirely true. I barely listen to stored music any more. It would be fantastic if some movie soundtracks were added, and possibly some game soundtracks, as they usually contain fantastic music.

Could it also be looked into about adding Muse's Glorious to the appropriate stations? It's available only on the Japanese version, so it may be hard to come by.

Right at this very moment my favourite stations are Franz Ferdinand , Death Cab for Cutie , New Order , Panic! at the disco, and Dirty little Secret (this is a song name, not a band). If they don't appear as links, I'm sorry because I am only semi-computer literate and can't do to many fancy tricks.

Great work Pandora people, I love this project. I'd like to invite people to give my new station a shot.

It's Nitin Sawhney Radio, here:

http://www.pandora.com/?tc=e-001188-0060-1130

Lots of great instrumental music, 'world', electro-ambient, tasteful nusoul/R+B and prog rock. Emphasis on great musicianship, emotive vocals and great songwriting and arranging. From Nitin Sawhney and Trilok Gurtu through to Autechre, Air and thence to Dream Theatre, Tool to Gnarls Barkley, and various low key soul artists, even some classic Miles Davis, moody Pink Floyd and John Zorn and Mahavishnu.

Always fine tuning for the most tasteful and unique mind expanding tunes.

Enjoy, Ash.

Hello hello and hello, you wonderful people, you.

I just want to say THANK YOU and that I am amazed with your work - the extent, and the speed. I had no idea you could (or would) respond so fast to suggestion... you're simply amazing.

I'm telling everyone I know about you, and they are totally in LOVE with you!

Thank you so, SO much!!

I Love Pandora. I used to listen to various radio stations on the net but they didn't give me enough of what I wanted to listen to. I like jazz, mainly Be Bop and Hard Bop of the late 50s to the mid 60s. Pandora has given me the chance to listen to some I've missed and more recent music of the same type. Since then I have bought dozens of CDs I would never had heard of if it weren't for Pandora. Excellent job.

Simply great!
Outsanding opening to the world of music. Becoming such a marketing product...

And an exellent occasion for people to discover more about electronic music, trip hop, electro pop, etc. So eclectic. You'd all love it!
Some stations: William Orbit, Zero7, Emiliana Torrini, Air, Week-end Players, Groove Armada, Ellen Allien, Massive Attack of course, Chris and Rae, etc

Thanks a lot Pandora and greet all the best way to listen to music ever.

Sophie

Pandora has made my days, I live in Amsterdam (but I am from Chile)and they don?t have very good music here in the radio, a lot o very bad pop, so Pandora is like my best friend for work, for party or just to chill out.
My favorites of these week radio
"Mates of Sate", "Cocorosie", "Stars, "Blonde Redhead"
I just hope you will grow and grow, so you can have music for more places... my bests

I'd love to hear *any* film soundtracks, not just the music by the most famous of composers. And more new British music if possible!

Here are a few of my recommendations for some great stations, just make a station using these artist names:

The Secret Machines
Sigor Ros
Portishead
Lemon Jelly
David Holmes
Hot Chip
Republica
The Go! Team

I also find when I'm looking for new music that just typing a random word and running a search is a great way to find new music - type your town or city name for example and see what comes up, or a random word (curry for example) and go from there, great fun and you can often find some brilliant music.

Keep up the superb work Pandora!!

Imagine me from far Nigeria in Africa. This is a station(PANDORA) I have always stay with when I am in the office, but I do not remember when time is gone even to remember to eat will always be late, my friends will join me ooohhh PANDORA!.....

Much as I'd like to spend time singing your praises (because you're all brilliant), I'll stick to suggesting a station or two...

Gogol Bordello for a bit of Russian Punk with a difference - it's hysterical! :)

Ray LaMontagne for something smooth - bonfire on the beach with just the two of you kind of thing...

Pandora has become a huge part of my daily listening experience. It runs in the background while I work and when I am at home it takes on a dominant focus. Many thanks for numerous pleasant surprises!

On August 1 -- The birthday of Jerry Garcia, I returned my attention to Pandora. I had created a Jerry Garcia station at the onset, on that day I added Legion of Mary and The Jerry Garcia Band and just let 'er rip! The result was . . . remarkable! Little Milton, Chocolate Watchband and a ton of Jerry! Thanks for making it easy to memorialize one of my music heroes.

Wow! I just added 3/4 of this list as stations of my own. I LOVE PANDORA. My friends think I work for you guys 'cause I'm always talking about this site. Keep up the good work.

I'm a big fan of broadway musicals and I'd love to be able to put in a few of my favorite broadway composers to hear some of their music that I didn't know existed, or discover other musicals that I should see/hear. I tried but failed in my attempt at this. It would be fantastic to see some of the great musical theatre composers added to the roster.
Thanks for all the hard work, guys. It makes my desk job a lot easier to tolerate!!

I love Pandora -thanks! You guys are my new best friends with your fabulous music collection. It's so intuitive and has introduced me to some new artists Like Regina Spektor. I hope you'll be adding Bhangra to the mix someday. It's a world beat that combines western rock, rap and hip-hop to a North Indian percussive groove. For a great introduction to it, check out the very accessable version of "Pretty Woman" on the film soundtrack "Kal Ho Na Ho", 2003 Sony Music Entertainment (India). I'd also like to hear the Portuguese group Madredeus and more South American pop like Bolivian artist King Africa.

My employer, a State agency, has really elaborate firewalls. THANKS FOR GETTING THROUGH! Originally I used my XM membership for 3 months for streaming stations at work (lots of noise in these cubicles), but it did not last.
I HAVE ABOUT 25 Pandora stations that I have either created or share. WHAT A BLESSING PANDORA IS! Thanks again. --Rob of Rob/Roy in Pennsylvania (and New Jersey in the daytime).

I love Pandora. It has really turned me on to some great music. And my Pandora stations are better than anything on the radio. One small complaint - my favorite all-time band is Spirit. The only Spirit cuts my stations ever play are from Model Shop. Maybe its a music license thing but it's frustrating. Keep up the great work! Love the more obscure stuff!

I WANT A PANDORA T-SHIRT!!!

I feel that promoting Pandora is to promote music-as-an-art itself. No popularity criteria? YES!!! FINALLY!

Qustion: Do you make any deeper analisys of each songs' HARMONY? Just "Minor key" doesn't do for me... I'd like to see more terms like modal interchange, diatonic, modulation.

Anyway, I'm really proud of you guys, and wishing that "external preassures" (like record companies money) do not corrupt your beautiful system.

I hearty cheers to all of you at Pandora.
The concept is great. The interface is sleek and beautifully executed. And I love the fact it keeps growing. Six months ago when I was first clued into your site I went at it with every obscure and underappreciated artist I could come up with and a lot of them weren't there. I got the "we can't find this, but we'll look into it" message a lot. But I didn't really expect that many of those artists would start popping up on less unusual stations shortly thereafter.
My only complaint is that I can't define a pop station very well that will delineate between vocalists and singers. Sometimes I just want to hear singers that can really sing and I can't tell Pandora that Jarvis Cocker is a singer and Ben Gibbard isn't. Or that I prefer Bernard Sumner's voice when he was still trying to sound like Ian Curtis.
But fortunately there's the skip button.
Keep it up and I hope you all are reaping all the benefits of making a living doing what you love.

I want to suggest an amazing artist, Jacob Nasim, who plays the psychedelic jews harp.

Simply put - Your team rocks...and rolls...and grooves...and jams...and beats galore!

I don't know if anyone else has suggested it but the last time I looked, that wonderful composer Philip Glass was unfindable on Pandora. Does that mean he's one of a kind or unclassifiable? Anyway, I love his stuff and would like to listen at work, if possible.
Thanks
Garth

First of all, Greetings from Uruguay!!!

Second, I want to tell you that I believe Pandora is a great proyect, and I wish the best to you.

Third, you Rock!! :)

Ilove you guys

What a great idea! It also looks like you are having fun doing this. This is the future of how music is heard. Very cool.

I often create stations from a song, and have learned about a lot of great artists this way. Thank you to the person who wrote in suggesting 'Gogol Bordello', it's brilliant! I plan to check out a lot more stations suggested by listeners.

I have actually bought more music as a result of learning about new (to me) artists. Thank you!

Great work! I'm from Mexico, I got into pandora from a friend recommendation, thanks for the great world you make people wander into.
Please add more songs from Karate, like airport, it's my favorite song from them and its missing. Thnks

Hey!
My recommendation if you like Neo-Classical Music, try Autumn Tears.. very good..

Congratulations for the team that created and it's managing pandora!

How do I get my old stations back or can I

For all of you out there looking for some Broadway songs, if you search Alan Menken you get a few Broadway selections, "Don't Cry For Me Argentina", and "Music of the Night" were the first ones up on my list. I'd like to find more if anyone knows anything else that helps.