Egads! She went and enjoyed music on NPR. Although at the risk of sounding like an insufferably pedantic asshole, all music should be… damn I even have to tell myself to shut the hell up…
I wish NPR would stop featuring music I’ve already heard, so my fiance would stop saying “Oh, I heard this on NPR the other day…” I don’t want to ever hear anything about anything on NPR, thank you.
Even annoying things or obnoxious things have good attributes. Some people who work at NPR have good taste in music, so: sometimes they end up playing good music.
’tis not a problem for us in the UK!
Although on a rather tenuously related note I have noticed that I am definitely erring towards hipsterdom, thankfully no-one (I know) particularly knows about them here & I at least have the claim that I was like that before I knew about hipsters (I imagine I still don’t have a complete picture, but hey ho!):P
@Jacob: I’m 56, and I suspect I’m far from the oldest.
That said, I find a lot of what NPR plays nearly insufferable. I think they try *way* too hard to be … what’s that word again?
NPR’s audience is around 45-50, and they wish it were younger. They think that one slightly “edgy” 5-minute music feature in a 2-hour news show will somehow make 20-30 year olds love them. Perhaps they are right.
This American Life’s music is usually picked out by Jessica Hopper, who is a pretty killer music writer who wrote “Girls Guide to Rocking” and “Emo:Where the girls aren’t” as well as playing in a number of punk and hardcore bands back in the day. She’s got cred for miles and great taste, so if you like the music you hear on TAL its not surprising because IT’S GOOD SHIT.
@ken: i went to my first folk festival when i was 24, because i could volunteer and get in for free. that experience revitalized an interest in music that wasn’t being made in 1991. prarie home companion is music by people who like melody; people like me who grew up on grunge need to get over shitty music for shitty music’s sake. i’m not saying run out and get some lady gaga, but…there’s some good shit out there. cbc radio 3 is awesome, give it a chance.
@Ben – I’m sure it can be boiled down to ‘As I lack any other skills, I must say that I am a better consumer than you’
That’s the impression that I always get, anyway.
CBC > NPR.
If NPR IS A SCHOOL councellor TALKING TO you about the weather,
cbc is an interesting teacher talking about sthg not correlated in any way to th’ subject.
May 18, 2010
Luckily, this is rarely a problem.
May 18, 2010
Oh no, not Radiohead!
May 18, 2010
OH GOD ITS SO TRUE
May 18, 2010
Must know song!
May 18, 2010
I fail this labor.
NPR introduced me to Dengue Fever and Ida Maria, both acts I really like… In my defense, 2009 was a weird year all around.
May 18, 2010
Egads! She went and enjoyed music on NPR. Although at the risk of sounding like an insufferably pedantic asshole, all music should be… damn I even have to tell myself to shut the hell up…
May 18, 2010
tsun tsun, dere dere
she’s rococo for cuckoo puffs!
May 18, 2010
I wish NPR would stop featuring music I’ve already heard, so my fiance would stop saying “Oh, I heard this on NPR the other day…” I don’t want to ever hear anything about anything on NPR, thank you.
May 18, 2010
Even annoying things or obnoxious things have good attributes. Some people who work at NPR have good taste in music, so: sometimes they end up playing good music.
May 18, 2010
’tis not a problem for us in the UK!
Although on a rather tenuously related note I have noticed that I am definitely erring towards hipsterdom, thankfully no-one (I know) particularly knows about them here & I at least have the claim that I was like that before I knew about hipsters (I imagine I still don’t have a complete picture, but hey ho!):P
May 18, 2010
It must be difficult to not like what you like, and like what you don’t like. But the vector is more important than the disease, nes pa?
May 18, 2010
Is there no Pacifica in Girl’s hometown? Such a thing is a sadness.
May 18, 2010
Pacifica. Grateful Dead Hour. I say no more.
May 18, 2010
For those of us pushing 40, NPR is the last link to decent music. Oh crap, am I the oldest person to read C&G?!
May 18, 2010
SHAWTY’S LIKE A MELODY IN MY HEAD THAT I CANT KEEP OUT, GOT ME SINGING LIKE “NA-NA NA NA” EVERYDAY! ITS LIKE MY IPODS STUCK ON REPLAY!
May 18, 2010
You mean you don’t like Animal Collective?
May 18, 2010
@Jacob: I’m 56, and I suspect I’m far from the oldest.
That said, I find a lot of what NPR plays nearly insufferable. I think they try *way* too hard to be … what’s that word again?
NPR’s audience is around 45-50, and they wish it were younger. They think that one slightly “edgy” 5-minute music feature in a 2-hour news show will somehow make 20-30 year olds love them. Perhaps they are right.
May 19, 2010
MrLapin speaks the truth.
Oh how I love the readers of Cat and Girl.
May 19, 2010
Nick Spitzer pities you.
May 19, 2010
This American Life’s music is usually picked out by Jessica Hopper, who is a pretty killer music writer who wrote “Girls Guide to Rocking” and “Emo:Where the girls aren’t” as well as playing in a number of punk and hardcore bands back in the day. She’s got cred for miles and great taste, so if you like the music you hear on TAL its not surprising because IT’S GOOD SHIT.
May 19, 2010
anybody especially bummed that they like the music featured on prairie home companion?
May 19, 2010
@ken: i went to my first folk festival when i was 24, because i could volunteer and get in for free. that experience revitalized an interest in music that wasn’t being made in 1991. prarie home companion is music by people who like melody; people like me who grew up on grunge need to get over shitty music for shitty music’s sake. i’m not saying run out and get some lady gaga, but…there’s some good shit out there. cbc radio 3 is awesome, give it a chance.
May 19, 2010
Whooop! for Minneapolis where public radio has its’ own awesome indie/local music station.
May 19, 2010
I’ve never understood music snobbery. Maybe Terry Gross will explain it to me someday.
May 19, 2010
Prairie Home Companion is where I first heard Brave Combo, so there’s that… They seriously tore that shit up though.
May 19, 2010
Hurray for CBC radio 2 and 3!!
May 19, 2010
It was Janelle Monae, wasn’t it? That was what got to you, Dorothy?
May 20, 2010
@Ben – I’m sure it can be boiled down to ‘As I lack any other skills, I must say that I am a better consumer than you’
That’s the impression that I always get, anyway.
May 21, 2010
The other night I enjoyed music on the Starbucks XM channel. argh.
May 22, 2010
I get the local NPR station through my computer speakers. So if I’m not listening to anything currently, I get the NPR station.
June 3, 2010
CBC > NPR.
If NPR IS A SCHOOL councellor TALKING TO you about the weather,
cbc is an interesting teacher talking about sthg not correlated in any way to th’ subject.
June 7, 2010
And the moral of the story is… don’t put the volume too high, or you will wringe!
January 10, 2011
Grrl, if you enjoy something you enjoy it, so just enjoy it!
September 17, 2013
New in Berlin, NPR on local radio, 2006. Yep, Dixie Chicks.