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
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
While I kind of like Greg Kot, nice guy, pretty smart, I was sort of embarassed for him, at least based on the little pull quotes they used for the piece. I'm he sure he actually had some interesting things to say that they didn't include. But here's a grown man assessing "indie cred" and talking about "hey man, they have to get paid" and "DIY" uggghhhh ... rock journalism.
Kevin Whitehead on Fresh Air is awesome though. Big ups to tha KW
I played my mom Pinback once.. one of their "hits", and she told me.. "How can you call this music? They can't even make melodies or sing.".. then proceeded to play her Alan Jackson CD. -- donut debonair (do...), April 7th, 2005 1:02 PM.
No offense or anything DB, but I would seriously listen to five hours of Alan Jackson before I'd listen to Pinback.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 8 April 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Exactly. Besides, I don't think The Shins have been "DIY" for a very long time. It was almost like he just had this ready-made statement for any indie band.
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 8 April 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I played Future Sound of London at my parents once and mum said "ooh i like this, this is interesting". Usually, they have at me for playing my "funeral dirges" (ie, the bloody Cocteau Twins, or Dead Can Dance).
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 8 April 2005 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 8 April 2005 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 8 April 2005 10:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Stormy, my mom is single ;)
(KIDDING! KIDDING!)
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 8 April 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― breezy, Friday, 8 April 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:
It's time for your comments and, today, they're about Diplo.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "EXPRESS YOURSELF")
DIPLO: (Singing) Express yourself. Express yourself. Express yourself. Express yourself. Express yourself. Release your (unintelligible).
CORNISH: My conversation with the world famous DJ this week sparked a conversation among listeners at NPR.org. The gist of that conversation was this: Many of you expect smart music coverage from us about classical releases, jazz certainly, even the work of a 14 accordion orchestra.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
CORNISH: But Diplo is not the kind of music that some of you expect or want to hear from ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
CORNISH: Lance Glousky(ph) of Guadalajara, Mexico, is not alone when he writes: The staff of NPR seems mostly like sane adults. Why can't they use some taste when choosing this stuff? Could anyone really like this music without being on amphetamines at a rave?
And G.Q. Lewis(ph) from Charlotte, North Carolina, writes: I typically don't provide negative feedback, but perhaps we've grown apart. NPR, where are you now? Where did you go? I miss my old friend.
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.
― buzza, Friday, 15 June 2012 04:59 (eleven 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