This is what they play on my NPR affiliate when NPR has signed off. A curious blend of the worst music ever and then something kinda sublime like Lucinda William's "Jackson"
― Aaron A., Sunday, 13 February 2005 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)
The radio format's called AAA (adult album alternative).
Not a popular format on this board. But rumor has it Pitchfork will be running a long article this week on how AAA's taking over public radio ...
― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)
Is NPR the worst radio station in the history of radio stations or what?
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)
NPR isn't really a radio station, it's just the largest of what are now hundreds of public radio organizations.
― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)
I don't like NPR news, though. Someone recently described it to me as "ambient journalism," and I agree.
― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)
I was pleasantly surprised to hear a snippet of DJ Shadow's "Organ Donor" used as segueway musing during the stock-market crap on Friday evening...and then "Take On Me" a bit later. The woman who chooses the interstitial bits has a blog, too, though I stupidly forgot the address.
This is pretty fucking dire though.
― Telephonething, Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)
But rumor has it Pitchfork will be running a long article this week on how AAA's taking over public radio ...I think this would be a really interesting article! I'm sorta interested in the sociology around AAA, which yes, includes NPR in general (and KCRW/Nic Harcourt in particular), magazines like Tracks and Paste, Starbucks in-store samplers, etc.
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 13 February 2005 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)
Most of it sounds like if you asked Melissa Rivers to write a Joni Mitchell song.
― Aaron A., Sunday, 13 February 2005 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)
AAA is where a lot of great artists get dumped. Anybody past their prime making good music that doesn't really rock that hard. I think if you were working a AAA channel you could have a great hourlong show based on what was available to you, but as a daylong thing, it evens out to bland crap.
― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)
CMJ NMR Issue - 900
Triple A
1 BRIGHT EYES I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
2 ANI DIFRANCO Knuckle Down
3 LOW The Great Destroyer
4 MARIANNE FAITHFULL Before The Poison
5 BRAZILIAN GIRLS Brazilian Girls
6 SHIVAREE Who's Got Trouble?
7 CHEMICAL BROTHERS Push The Button
8 M. WARD Transistor Radio
9 LOU BARLOW EMOH
10 M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us
11 CLEM SNIDE End Of Love
12 ANDREW BIRD And The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
13 ANUBIAN LIGHTS Phantascope
14 BETTIE SERVEERT Attagirl
15 ROOMFUL OF BLUES Standing Room Only
16 FIERY FURNACES EP
17 SONNY LANDRETH Grant Street
18 KINGS OF LEON Aha Shake Heartbreak
19 ARCADE FIRE Funeral
20 ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION Lonely Runs Both Ways
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 14 February 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)