― mitch dub (ano ano), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― mitch dub (ano ano), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
the nice thing w/ hey ya is it killed the burgeoning jangle hop fad.
― Hunter (Hunter), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Only if he's waving a glowstick though. (And if he's wearing a diaper just back out quietly.)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Request for Urgent Indie Music Fan Relationship
I am your mother -- as well as the group managing director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and a member of the ad hoc committee set up by the federal government of Nigeria to review contracts awarded by the past military administration between 1985-1993. The members of the committee are interested in the importation of goods into the country with the funds presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria/Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) foreign payments account. And corny American indie music.
Our request is anchored on our strong desire to establish a lasting business relationship with you and your company, and to listen to shitty indie-rock on NPR. We hence solicit your partnership to enable us transfer into your account the said funds and to purchase Shins CDs. You have been recommended to us in confidence and we were assured of your ability and reliability to prosecute business transaction that require maximum confidentiality and a fast Internet connection to download indie mp3s.
Origin of Fund
This fund is presently floating in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) foreign payments account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This is as result of grossly over invoiced contracts which were executed for the NNPC during the last administration in Nigeria, and are presently under verification. To this effect, the present administration in Nigeria set up an adhoc committee to identify, scrutinize and recommend for payment all valid contracts that have been fully executed. In the course of our assignment, we have identified a lot of misappropriated and inflated funds which are presently floating in the suspense account of the Central Bank of Nigeria ready for payment. The companies who executed their contracts have been fully paid. It is now part of the over inflated sum of USD25,320,000.00 that we intend to transfer into the foreign account. I should also add that all of the members of this adhoc committee are Franz Ferdinand fans, son.
My son, I have therefore been mandated as a matter of trust by the members of the committee to look for a foreign partner into whose account we could transfer the sum of USD25,320,000.00 (twenty-five million, three hundred and twenty thousand US dollars) only, and obtain recordings of music from the most obscure American indie bands. Hence I am writing you this letter. We have agreed to share the funds thus:
(1) 65% for us (the committee members) and(2) 25% for account owner (you)(3) 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses that will be incured in the course of this transaction.(4) The latest Decembrist Plan CD.
It is from the 65% that we wish to commence the importation busines. Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and guaranteed since the law under which our committee was set up has empowered us to disburse all the funds found to be floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria redundant account from 1985 till date. We shall commence the transfer of the funds immediately we receive the following information by telefax: (number omitted):
(1) your company's name and full address(2) your banker's name, address, telephone and fax numbers(3) the account number and name of beneficiary.
The above information are to enable us put up letters of claim and job description to the respective ministries for the issuance of the mandatory fund release approval/recommendations. This way, your company will become recognised and accepted as the beneficiary of the contract entitlements before the final remittance to your nominated account by the Central Bank of Nigeria being the paying bank. As well as having excellent taste in indie rock.
We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your absolute confidentiality in this transaction. Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above telefax numbers for more details regarding the transaction.
Yours faithfully, MRS. MITCH DUB
N.B. This letter is being sent by ordinary mail for confidentiality purpose. Also, please remember to bootleg those Shins concerts at school, or I will not pay your tuition any more.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link
FOR REAL! One of his friends is Masta Ace's father-in-law and he is constantly sending me Masta Ace news by e-mail and asking me if I want to interview Masta Ace! And telling him that I really liked Masta Ace's last album only made things worse.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
That...is....fucking....awesome.
Yr dad is cooler than us.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
(to my dad's credit, he kept turning it back up to an audible level, heh)
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I fucking fear some gene in me that's going to cause me to snap ten years later that's going to make me renounce my entire musical upbringing, only to buy greatest hits CDs by Lee Greenwood and Andrew Gold.
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― mitch dub (ano ano), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― mitch dub (ano ano), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I think Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan is all the crossover in musical taste we have.
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Leonard Berstein & NY Philharmonic - "Mahler 2"Pink Floyd - "The Wall"One of the James Brown live albums, don't remember which one.Steely Dan - "Can't Buy A Thrill"Vanilla Fudge - s/t, I thinkDave Brubeck Quartet - "Take 5"
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
my parents love that song too!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Hot!
― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link
And he keeps nagging me to listen to the Interpol and Wilco live recordings in the archive section...
― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link
since my grandmother liked "beautiful" music (what elevator music was called before burt bacharach became hip and all), i wonder what she would think about stereolab. (will never know b/c granny is dead.)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― brokenfuses (brokenfuses), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
"You've probably never heard of ALTERNATIVE ROCK BAND THE SHINS. But now thanks to a surprise hit INDEPENDENT MOVIE, you'll be hearing a lot about them."
"The Shins are an ALTERNATIVE ROCK BAND, but some of their ALTERNATIVE FANS worry that they're SELLING OUT"
I've also never seen the movie, so I was a bit shocked by the idiotic-sounding direct plug Portman's character gives in the movie: "It's this band The Shins. Listen to it, it will change your life (etc. etc.)"
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
ppppspsssAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
My dad tracks anything new that's pop country and western. My mom just likes whatever. (This is how I got her into Aphex Twin.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
I dunno, wouldn't he take that as a compliment?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I still cringe a little when she says "Ludacris is so FUNNY," with that slight Jewish mother twang.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...)
Hurting's mom OTM.
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...)
Of course she is, but I can't help but cringe nonetheless.
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Has any one here done a review of a group's cd on NPR?
― steve-k, Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link
GENE SIMMONS y'all!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
I actually really liked the way Terry Gross did the interview, as funny and awkward as it sometimes sounded. She always sounds a little embarassed at her (ahem) "whiteness" and yet willing to get past that embarassment.
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― everything, Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
i went through a srs "liking diplo and hollertronix" phase way back there in two thousand and something. baltimore club music! money studies! spank rock even. caught some flak for it hereabouts, but that shit was enjoyable. still like his MIA album. gave up when the novelty buzz wore off, perhaps not coincidentally when he started "discovering" rapping children from australia
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
NPR should throw the video for "Pon De Floor" up on their website if they REALLY want the complaints to roll in
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
Spank Rock's first album is totally fun
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
I like how most of our NPR discussions devolve into trying to figure out what exactly we find off-putting about the tone of NPR. It's usually not fully articulated.
It's like when people talk about a mutual friend and the tone is always "he's a cool guy, but I don't know..."
― Cunga, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
we like you but we're ambivalent about you too, npr
― Cunga, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
Well, as we said, there was a conversation online and there were Diplo defenders. Among them, Chris Thompson(ph) of Rochester, New York, who writes: I find it hilarious that you people are tuning in to a show called ALL THINGS CONSIDERED and getting upset at the fact that they're considering all things.
this is kind of top-shelf.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 16 June 2012 08:46 (eleven years ago) link
Ha ha yeah cunga so otm
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 June 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Title of LCD's eventual comeback single.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 June 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
― contenderizer
diplo did like 2 tracks on that album iirc. not that i care.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 16 June 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
i mean piracy funds terrorism
― contenderizer, Saturday, 16 June 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-all-songs-considereds-bob-boilen-went-from-tiny-desk-to-tastemaker/2016/04/08/354beb44-e492-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html
“I’m one of the people who didn’t care for Michael Jackson,” he says. “Talented, yeah, but there are so many other people that will never get their voices heard, and it’s so cool to be able to find the ones you connect with. I just try to find music that makes me think, ‘This needs a champion.’ ”
Many of the acts he loves, such as the Low Anthem and Taken by Trees, fall into the category of indie rock. And he’s been criticized more than once for his indifference to country and hip-hop in particular. Frannie Kelley, co-host of NPR’s “Microphone Check” podcast with rap icon Ali Shaheed Muhammad, was asked to create an “All Songs Considered” for rap music, but she declined. “We said we didn’t think hip-hop needed that, nor was recommending new rap music something that took advantage of either of our skills and assets,” Kelley says. “We said we would make something where we spoke with people in the culture.”
Boilen invited Kelley to his show a handful of times, before and after “Microphone Check” existed, but not to talk about the show. He wanted them to recommend new rap music to his listeners, “songs that he approved,” she says. “I couldn’t do the work I wanted to do within the context of his show. ... You can’t challenge Bob on his show. Ali and I had to create our own show to make NPR Music great.”
Boilen has acknowledged that he tends to play “music that speaks to me,” and his “lack of love for hip-hop, country, classical and metal stand out as big holes in our coverage.” He’s tried to fill them by inviting people with eclectic tastes such as Kyp Malone from TV on the Radio to play DJ. When Kelley suggested the NPR Music team invite hip-hop artist T-Pain to do a Tiny Desk show, Boilen was open to it. T-Pain’s October 2014 appearance is still the most-watched Tiny Desk performance, with nearly 9 million views on YouTube.
But Boilen doesn’t apologize for his tastes. In response to an email from a listener with the subject line “All Indie Rock Considered?,” he once wrote, “I won’t fake what I do when I host the show.”
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 April 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
tiny desk is painfully bad
― de l'asshole (flopson), Friday, 22 April 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
I like when others (not Boilen) at NPR pick acts for it. Anthony Hamilton was great
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 April 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
Tiny Desk is good when it has good artists and bad when it doesn't. I don't understand how the entire thing can be described as "painfully bad."
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Friday, 22 April 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
long legs
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Friday, 22 April 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Friday, April 22, 2016 10:49 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah there's been great ones
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 April 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
The Dirty Three & the Sun Ra Arkestra performances were both great
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 22 April 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
Oh man, need to see those.
I liked the T-Pain one. They're kind of like nicer versions of standard in-studio radio performances -- the room sounds good and it's intimate.
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
i'm sure if i watched one of a band i liked it would be ok (you got me!) but c'mon the whole concept is hair-raisingly cutesy and early-00s indie sincere, the intimacy is so forcedly quirky 'oh how endearingly cluttered this office is'. and the curation, like the music they choose to play in this nauseatingly hungry for authenticity environment is all folky trembling indie vocalists and like wholesome alt-bluegrass bros and pop punk. also t-pain aside i feel like they adhere to what thing of like, only black artists if they play in a style that was popular 3 or more decades ago whats up with that
― de l'asshole (flopson), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
well and the whole point of the t-pain thing was steeped in language of authenticity, like "oh he can actually sing"
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:08 (eight years ago) link
you seem fun
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 22 April 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
that said while i love microphone check i think its a little silly to abdicate critical advocacy of artists & songs, its not like indie bros will stop advocating for their favs
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
xp Well there are other exceptions to that last point, although looking at the list overall you may be onto something. But on the whole it seems like modern "NPR taste" is relatively broad enough that there is some good stuff in there. The name "Tiny Desk" is annoying but I don't really mind the setting, honestly it's nicer than just looking at carpeted studio walls and a bunch of gear.
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:12 (eight years ago) link
i feel like they adhere to what thing of like, only black artists if they play in a style that was popular 3 or more decades ago whats up with that
That's Boilen. See the quote from the Post article above. He has also rationalized things by saying most rap and r'n'b is too foul-mouthed for npr. I wouold be fine with Boilen booking stuff he likes if they also let the folks who do the "Microphone Check" thing and the folks who do the alt-latino and the jazz online NPR stuff also have an equal hand in picking music for Tiny Desk. They only occasionally do
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 April 2016 18:12 (eight years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, April 22, 2016 2:08 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― de l'asshole (flopson), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
the jazz ones are often good. Christian Scott, Matt Ulery, etc.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link
Yeah the acoustics sound very good for jazz too imo.
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
obviously it's playing off of all things considered, but the name of the show should be Bob Boilen's Fave Tunes or something. all songs considered makes it seem like it'll be a wide ranging genre-free zone, which it isn't.
― tylerw, Friday, 22 April 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
i guess i don't really care about the series as a series or what i means or w/e i've just watched specific ones with artists i already liked and i like it mostly because it's really really well engineered soundwise
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
We used the Steve Gunn Tiny Desk as an object lesson for our young teenager: this is how stoned people look and act. Great set, btw.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
yeah what UMS said
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
yes. wonder what the original poster's mom is into these days -- deep private press new age shit?
― tylerw, Friday, 22 April 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
I love the original post
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
This song popped into my head tonite; I haven’t thought of it in 10 years (....bet you haven’t, either) —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgBeu3FVi60
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Sunday, 11 August 2019 06:11 (four years ago) link
To the thread topic -- my mom sometimes emails me links to "Tiny Desk Concert" performance videos... usually I'm already aware of the band (or not interested), though that is how I first encountered Car Seat Headrest (of whom I later became a real fan). "Thanks, mom!"
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Sunday, 11 August 2019 06:23 (four years ago) link