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cruelnails

"Subpoenaed in Texas, Sequestered in Memphis ..."

Jul 15, 2008 15:51

Ok ... so I'm going to be a bit of a music snob for a second now ...
I subscribe to a number of podcasts including, All Songs Considered and NPR Live Concerts. Every once in a while one of the podcasts introduce me to something interesting and new (Orchestra Baobab, Fleet Foxes, and Kassin +2 to name a few recent favorite finds). However, the host ( Read more... )

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meadowgirl July 15 2008, 21:03:11 UTC

AHAHAAHAHAA!!!! oh, i'm such a white person. have you seen this blog?

Stuff White People Like

it's all about NPR, Starbucks and all that.

i'm such a damn ass white girl right now. gee, thanks. :P

cruelnails July 15 2008, 21:08:02 UTC

Hey, I'm a big-ass white dude and I have nothing against a Starbucks now and then. I just hate the fact that NPR is such a 24/7 real-life "Stuff White People Like".

It's kind of like:
Stuff White People Like - Irony=NPR

meadowgirl July 15 2008, 21:11:52 UTC

i know. but i still love my NPR. and Starbucks. and bumper stickers. and bangs.

that website makes me realize how totally much of a honkey i really fucking am. and it makes me want to run to the ghetto mall for some doorknocker earrings and Adidas or some shit. *LMAO*

cruelnails July 15 2008, 21:17:27 UTC

I have nothing against the things on that site ...

well ... except for Wes Anderson movies.

Anyone of any race must realize Wes Anderson movies suck ...

Of course, if the things on that site were the only things I liked and I constantly looked down at anyone else for not liking them - then I guess I could work for NPR ...

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cruelnails July 15 2008, 21:13:33 UTC

Sorry, I didn't hear you.

I guess I was playing the latest post-ironic masterpiece from My Morning Jacket too loudly ...

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cruelnails July 15 2008, 21:19:33 UTC

Turn off the lights and I'll glow.
To the extreme, I rock a mic like a vandal.
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle.

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anonymous July 15 2008, 22:31:04 UTC

I find pretty much everything on NPR besides Car Talk and the news unlistenable. I want to punch both John "Eklekitkos" Aily and Teri Gross in the dick. And there's some lock guy that does "Texas Music Matters" who must be the poster boy for pretentious, elitist suck-up. Ugh.

bigreddot July 15 2008, 22:31:30 UTC

Damnit, that was me

cruelnails July 16 2008, 00:38:38 UTC

Which reminds me, if you ever hear of me wanting to listen to that news game show that you were telling me about? Please feel free to put me out of my misery.

bigreddot July 16 2008, 01:46:32 UTC

I really couldn't believe my ears when I heard it in Dallas. I thought it had to be some kind of unfunny joke.

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cruelnails July 16 2008, 17:24:04 UTC

Oh, katemosey ...

christastrophe July 16 2008, 16:14:47 UTC

So, is your over-arching conclusion here that New Kids on the Block is, in fact, the sound of our generation and the music that most people of our generation relate to? And, by extension, that Hannah Montana defines our current cultural landscape?

cruelnails July 16 2008, 17:38:19 UTC

I think Hannah Montana does currently define our current cultural landscape. When the large majority of our cultural landscape will go to such great lengths to see/hear Hannah Montana, how can it not?

Do I wish that the Arctic Monkeys and the Hold Steady defined our current cultural landscape? Sure. But when a majority of that landscape doesn't listen to them, how can it?

Artists like the Beatles, Stones, Dylan, etc. didn't define their generation because of what they offered their audience, but because they were massively popular. Their generation defined themselves through the popularity of these artists. It's just a bonus that they were talented ( ... )

I will mock your Hootie and the Blowfish CD and I won't care christastrophe July 16 2008, 20:21:18 UTC

To be upfront, if I was ever on the radio ALL I'd be doing is making fun of people who don't buy Tom Waits albums. There are seven hundred million other radio stations praising Nickleback. I think we can handle the imbalance of somebody somewhere in a relatively tiny room sticking up for better music. But that's not the argument here ( ... )

"Don't need no credit card to ride this train ..." cruelnails July 16 2008, 21:06:42 UTC

I'm totally cool with the embarrassment - and since we're both from San Antonio, I'm sure we can name a few people each who will claim the Macarena.

I once spent hard-earned money on Huey Lewis & the News cassettes and I'm embarrassed as hell about it. I'm not going to deny it or mock it (well, maybe mock it a little) because for whatever reason that does make up at least a bit of who I am or (more accurately) who I was.

I guess my whole problem is that - in my mind - the 'sound of a generation' can't be made up of the stuff that retrospectively we've decided is the coolest. To use your example, Mancini and Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass are every bit as much part of the sound of the 60's generation as Elvis and the Beatles ( ... )