I'm not even going to list the titles of songs in my preferred music collection, or produce the usual long checklist of oft-quoted "planner's songs" ("Subdivisions" by Rush, "Southern California Wants to be Western New York" by Dar Williams, "We Built This City" by Journey," "My City was Gone" by the Pretenders, any Ani Difranco tune about the decline of Buffalo, etc.).
My background music includes hippie rock, acoustic/AAA rock (along the lines of the KBCO, KGSR or KFOG playlists), 1970s and 1980s rock and retro, 1990s alternative, punk, alternative country, blues, Celtic, and Spanish/Mexican guitar. I've got some extremely deep cuts -- songs that you probably heard on the radio years ago, only a few times, which aren't even heard when your local mullet rock station does a "Deep Cut Thurday" or whatever. Think "City's Burning" by Heart, "48 Crash" by Suzi Quatro, "La Bel Age" by Pat Benatar, and "Had a Dream" by Roger Hodgson. Deeeeeeeeeeep cuuuuuuts ...
The playlist includes, but is certainly not limited to, groups such as The Cowboy Junkies, The Eagles, Edie Brickell, Led Zeppelin, Moody Blues, Pat Benatar, The Waitresses, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Ted Nugent, The Ramones, Dream Theater, Dave Matthews Band, The Go-Gos, Kiss, Liz Phair, Metallica, Patti Smith, Motels, Phish, REM, Laurie Anderson, Oleander, Radiohead, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Southern Culture on the Skids, Juliana Hatfield, and Fleetwood Mac. No rap, smooth jazz, recent top 40/dance, or pop country. It's a diverse playlist, and if I could think of a name for the format if it was translated into radio I'd probably call it "Eclectic Gen-X."
I'd like to have a Cyburbia audio stream, but I don't know what the audience would be like, or if it's worth sacrificing some bandwidth for 128kbps deeeeeeeeeep cuuuuuuuuts.
