On the Rocks, XM Radio, and Don Tiki - Tiki Music

C cybertiki Member Fort Lauderdale, FL Joined: Jun 28, 2003 Posts: 234	C cybertiki Posted posted on Fri, Aug 6, 2004 2:01 PM I spent a whole day listening to Sirius, and focused on Vacation and Elvis Radio. I wasn't overly impressed by either. I like Reggae, and don't have a problem with Buffet or the Beach Boys, but the genres just weren't mixing well with the Hawaiian standards, and left me wanting. Elvis Radio is cool, but I have all of it in MP3 and if I want to OD on the King, I can do it in the privacy of my own home without paying a monthly fee. I tend to agree with dcrisis that satellite radio will probably never live up to its potential - and why should I have expected that it would? I've always felt that TV and Broadcast Radio have both failed the consumer miserably - this is just another face of the same old problem. All in the name of profit we degenerate into the least common denominator. It's Borders for books, and Wal-Mart for everything else. Hungry? Go grab a Big Mac. It's all gotta be the same in the name of market competition. Differentiation is OK as long as the product is the same (yeah ... I'll take a Whopper with cheese please). The really sad thing is that the market for things that are "different" LIKE EXOTICA MUSIC, would probably be much larger if the mass merchandisers permitted a wider exposure of these items to the potential consumer base. I know it's a lot deeper than that, but the whole rant would take the rest of the afternoon to write, and I'd prefer to go down to the Mai-Kai, sit in the Molokai Lounge and down a couple of Rum Barrels while sucking in the ambience. To that end, I'm gonna shower now, put on my brightest Aloha Shirt, and head downtown. Cheers! Hey Vern! Good to see you again. You coming down for Hukilau?

I spent a whole day listening to Sirius, and focused on Vacation and Elvis Radio. I wasn't overly impressed by either. I like Reggae, and don't have a problem with Buffet or the Beach Boys, but the genres just weren't mixing well with the Hawaiian standards, and left me wanting. Elvis Radio is cool, but I have all of it in MP3 and if I want to OD on the King, I can do it in the privacy of my own home without paying a monthly fee.

I tend to agree with dcrisis that satellite radio will probably never live up to its potential - and why should I have expected that it would? I've always felt that TV and Broadcast Radio have both failed the consumer miserably - this is just another face of the same old problem. All in the name of profit we degenerate into the least common denominator. It's Borders for books, and Wal-Mart for everything else. Hungry? Go grab a Big Mac. It's all gotta be the same in the name of market competition. Differentiation is OK as long as the product is the same (yeah ... I'll take a Whopper with cheese please).

The really sad thing is that the market for things that are "different" LIKE EXOTICA MUSIC, would probably be much larger if the mass merchandisers permitted a wider exposure of these items to the potential consumer base. I know it's a lot deeper than that, but the whole rant would take the rest of the afternoon to write, and I'd prefer to go down to the Mai-Kai, sit in the Molokai Lounge and down a couple of Rum Barrels while sucking in the ambience. To that end, I'm gonna shower now, put on my brightest Aloha Shirt, and head downtown.

Cheers!

Hey Vern! Good to see you again. You coming down for Hukilau?

Post #106678 by cybertiki on Fri, Aug 6, 2004 2:01 PM