long legs
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Friday, 22 April 2016 15:57 (seven 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, 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 (seven years ago) link
The Dirty Three & the Sun Ra Arkestra performances were both great
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 22 April 2016 18:00 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
you seem fun
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 22 April 2016 18:09 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
Yeah the acoustics sound very good for jazz too imo.
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:25 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
yeah what UMS said
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:34 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
I love the original post
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Friday, 22 April 2016 18:40 (seven 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