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good play lists..mine would have
Dave Mathew Cortez the killer Live at Central Park..for launching
Garbage..paranoid, Push it
N2 deep...back to the hotel

Dolphin,

I'm looking to purchase this same Kenwood receiver for my boat, but I am unsure about one thing... Does the Kenwood allow you to select from playlists from USB thumb drives inserted into the front face plate? I ask because we have ZERO internet coverage at our lake, and no radio coverage either... so we need a way to catalog and play our very large music library using playlists.

Thanks!

bradesp

Satellite radio works for me. If you've got sky you've got signal. You can also suspend the service during the winter months.

Me, I prefer letting someone else be the DJ instead of having to fiddle with my own playlists. I've got over 15k tracks of music and still find it simpler to just use Sirius or Pandora at home via Sonos and the internet.

This also helps avoid putting up with the absolutely horrendous ways various radio head units handle playing media tracks.

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-Bill Kearney, 2005 348 Vista

I bought the Alpine CDA-118M head unit and from a recommendation from here. I cannot say enough about it. Easy to attach and Ipod, I phone, thumb drive etc. Paired with a pair Alpine amps and and Polk Audio speakers and it is outstanding. I thought about Sirius, and may still get a docking station since my wife has portable unit, but our 4 girls have each made play lists for the boat Ipod, so they have some input into what get's played on the boat as well.

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1994 235 Sundowner w/351 Ford

Grew up with Jimmy Buffet on the sailboat so it's a natural, Jack Johnson is awesome and has the same nautical feel.
Craig Morgan, Brad Paisley, Travis Tritt.
Gordon Lightfoot, Stan Rogers, Great Big Sea, Irish Rovers, Bruce Myers.

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I treat my children well because I want the good diapers when I'm old....

4 kids, 2 dogs, 2 horses, 4 acres, an amazing wife, a boat and no time....

It's easier to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Love the CP Cortez with Warren Haynes. Never launched with it. Will give it a try. I usually end up pissing everybody else off with my high percentage of DMB tunes on my playlists. Try Captain or Big Eyed Fish when you are sitting in the rain or it gets close to nap time on the boat. Bust out Halloween while skiing or tubing (not with the kiddies though).

Country classics are fun. Norah Jones at lazy times. The soundtrack to Shrek also has really good songs that seem to go well with boating. That Oh Yeah song from Ferris Bueller is fun. Lyle Lovett If I Had Boat works, and Million Miles Away by the Plimsouls gets the "I love that song!" response from some of us 40 something's.

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2005 Horizon 250

My Motown portion of my playlist. Need help expanding this part if you have ideas, would love to hear.

I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
My Girl - Temptations
Reach Out I'll Be There - Four Tops
Where Did Our Love Go? - Supremes
What's Goin' On? - Marvin Gaye
Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas
I Want You Back - Jackson 5
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Please Mr. Postman - Marvelettes
My Guy - Mary Wells
(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Baby Love - Supremes
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone - Temptations
Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Stevie Wonder
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) - Four Tops
Stop! In the Name of Love - Supremes
You've Really Got a Hold On Me - Miracles
Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - Temptations
Baby I Need Your Lovin' - Four Tops
Shop Around - Miracles
You Keep Me Hangin' On - Supremes
You Can't Hurry Love - Supremes
Nowhere To Run - Martha & The Vandellas
I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Super Freak Part I - Rick James
Living For the City - Stevie Wonder
I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Ain't Too Proud To Beg - Temptations
I Can't Get Next To You - Temptations
Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) - Temptations
Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson
Heatwave - Martha and the Vandellas
You can't hurry love - Supremes
Do you love me - The Contours
I want you back - The Jackson 5

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1994 235 Sundowner w/351 Ford