Corniest selection in The Current's list of the top essential songs since 2000

wealthy minneapolis liberals are some of the most detestable people on the planet, or maybe i just think that because i have to deal with them all the time at work. it only makes sense that their favorite radio station is forgettable indie pap

j. so so otm

They're doing a lot better job of it than most public radio stations, in my opinion.

there are at least three public radio stations in mpls that do 10000x better

not to mention the college station

Kicking myself for voting "Such Great Heights" before noticing the obvious winner, the unbearably corny Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes "Home", the only song on this list which makes me IRL cringe with embarrassment when I hear it.

To those who doubt me I ask you, which other songs on this list have a spoken word interlude where the singers deploy cartoonishly affected fake southern accents to discuss how in love they are?

not being terribly up on regional American radio I'd never heard of this station before but 6 Music (BBC digital station) cater to much the same audience in the UK afaict

googled to see if they'd done a similar list and this one from 2013 is p lol in its similarity, both in terms of how many actual same picks there are and the fact nearly every post itt could apply to 6 Music with only the names changed

My understanding is that 6music list was voted for by listeners, I think even 6music wouldn't be corny enough to vote Clocks to #1 if it was just staff and DJs.

143 Animal Collective My Girls
142 Spoon Inside Out
141 Florence + The Machine Shake It Out
140 The Darkness I Believe in a Thing Called Love
139 Foster the People Pumped Up Kicks
138 Jet Are You Gonna Be My Girl
137 Alt-J Breezeblocks

This section is hilarious.

xxp 6music is a far better station, whatever you think of it.

yeah that seems a fair assessment looking at the Current schedules and what playlists are available. seems to be very light on specialist programming

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Thank god for Radio K, KMOJ, and KFAI

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

this thread is the corniest and youve been told.

actually i mean it. the corniest thing, it’s here.

KMOJ is a treasure

#4 in these results is entirely new to me. i've never heard of trampled by turtles or wait so long. it is.....not great.

Arcade Fire should win this for Wake Up.

Too late Moka

Kicking myself for not noticing “Home” on the list when I voted. Just goes to show everyone’s voice is important , one vote can change the world.

Trampled By Turtles is an outlier on this list - an acoustic/bluegrass-y jam band that is "big" in its world, but its world is not the same world as the other 49 artists here. (maybe there are a couple other worlds represented, but you know what I mean.)

given that, i would say that Trampled By Turtles' presence on this list is largely driven by the fact that they're from Minnesota ... home of The Current.

Yeah, Trampled by Turtles got my vote. I wish Minnesotans could hear some of their music the way the rest of the world hears it

which is funny because normally minnesotans are super obsessed with what the rest of the world thinks of them

a very palpable hit

I can't believe I missed a thread where we were bagging on the Current!

Anyway, i'm not sure whether The Current deserves all this snarkiness...

I would argue they do and the reason isn't exactly their playlist, which is terrible, but unlike the other light-FM adult pop station in town Cities 97 which is easily ignored, is that the Current plays what they play but they act like they are WFMU. That sometimes around 6 PM they play a 20 yr old Guided By Voices song and they act like OMG FUCK THE MAN THE COPS WANT TO SHUT DOWN OUR EDGY STATION!!

Yeah, Trampled by Turtles got my vote. I wish Minnesotans could hear some of their music the way the rest of the world hears it

― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Sunday, June 2, 2019 10:14 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which is funny because normally minnesotans are super obsessed with what the rest of the world thinks of them

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This exchange should be played on a loop during the entire state fair

Tired: Indie rock is played out
Wired: Indie rock backlash is played out

AAA Radio, forevah!

That sometimes around 6 PM they play a 20 yr old Guided By Voices song and they act like OMG FUCK THE MAN THE COPS WANT TO SHUT DOWN OUR EDGY STATION!!

LOL

I don't have any real beef with AAA radio except when public or community broadcasters adopt the format because what's the point. CBC Radio 2's general non-classical programming seems to have m/l gone that way a lot of the time and just why. Someone has to think of the children.