NPR is turning my mom into a corny indie fuxx

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.)

I dunno, wouldn't he take that as a compliment?

I still cringe a little when she says "Ludacris is so FUNNY," with that slight Jewish mother twang.

I dunno, wouldn't he take that as a compliment?

-- Ned Raggett (ne...)

Hurting's mom OTM.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...)

Of course she is, but I can't help but cringe nonetheless.

Has any one here done a review of a group's cd on NPR?

GENE SIMMONS y'all!

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.

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.

But my mother's really young so I don't think that counts...

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.

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.

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).

Stormy, my mom is single ;)

(KIDDING! KIDDING!)

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.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

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.

Those are exactly the kind of comments I hear in my head when the NYer publishes SFJ articles.

Release your (unintelligible).

Haha that reminds me of my boss at an old job who always played XRT, Chicago's sort of adult-alternative station, in the office. Anyway, back when they regularly started playing Moby on that station he called in to them all jovial like he was old friends with whomever picked up the phone saying, "Come on guys, you really aren't going to continue to play this absolute trash on your station are you?". I mean, I'm no Moby defender, but it was pretty hilarious.

A middle-aged partner at my firm the other day asked me what bands I was listening to lately, and then he asked if I liked the Shins or Broken Bells. I just said that I knew them but that I had kind of fallen out of touch with new music. He's a pretty cool guy, but it was still awkward somehow.

I think what I had actually been listening to most recently was Zs, which would have been too hard to explain.

I love the original post

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

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!"