Walk The Dog - Week 10
Sounds: Classic and some new Texas country
Positives: You do hear a few songs and artists on this channel that you would've heard on X Country, but then a lot of older country with some rock roots that you don't hear on regular radio
Negatives: DJs definitely take the lowest common denominator, talking in old hillbilly drawls and doing the phony opening and pouring a beer for you sound effects
Blastability: Medium. It does sometimes get too twangy for my taste
Overall: Good channel for what it's meant to do
Sounds: Funk, disco, new R&B
Positives: This channel definitely fits the funk requirements that people have been asking for for a long time
Negatives: I had to look back to my old journal entry when I did "XM Bootcamp" back in 2004 to confirm this one:
Sounds: Modern R&B, Classic R&B
Overall: Drop the modern R&B! There's another channel for that!
Unfortunately XM decided to go in the other direction and I hear no classic R&B on here
Blastability: Medium to high depending on whether it's some good funk or a new R&B or disco tune
Overall: Thanks for the funk, but work on the classic R&B
Sounds: Sappy love songs and ballads
Positives: Imaging definitely fit the station's goal with sultry voices
Negatives: Its original name "The Heart" is much better than the current name
Blastability: Very Low. This has been the most difficult channel to listen to for me thus far in WTD
Overall: I understand to each their own, but I just don't see a need for this channel what with plenty of other channels carrying songs on this one, Delilah's love show on numerous US radio stations, and the fact that so many of these songs are just long, drawn out, and overly sappy for their own good so they actually don't really represent the best work that each artist has.