― 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
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― 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
yr mom's just trying to be nice and talk about something she thinks you might be interested in...i think that's pretty cool.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― mitch dub (ano ano), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link
But my mother's really young so I don't think that counts...
― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― mitch dub (ano ano), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― MITCH'S MUM, Friday, 8 April 2005 01:59 (nineteen 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