We get Sirius Radio with our satellite TV package and enjoy listening to the music channels.

They have channels devoted to Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, The Grateful Dead, and Margaritaville, among others. One has to wonder how they could find enough music from a single band to fill a 24/7 play list without a lot of tedious repetition. They do it with tracks off best selling albums, live performances, and demo tracks of familiar songs, and so on.

After listening to them for 3 minutes, I'm not sure why Pearl Jam is considered so iconic they deserve their own channel, but what do I know.

Usually I tune in to the 40s, 50s, or 60s channels, but this weekend we're listening to Deep Tracks (Deep Classic Rock) where they play album sides and longer tracks than we usually hear on the radio these days. They are playing all Pink Floyd for the past couple of days because Sirius is going to start a Pink Floyd Channel.

Mr. Troutbend is entertaining himself by looking up the various songs on Wikipedia - more information than I'm interested in, but he likes trivia. Fortunately, he's not one of those guys who talks all the time, so he never bores us with what he knows. But ask a direct question, and he'll amaze you.



Anyhow, these long tracks remind me of the first days of FM radio when KLZ FM in Denver would play album sides for us, and to this day, when I hear some dreamy psychedelic rock like Pink Floyd, I'm transported to the wee hours of a 1971 winter night.