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Yeah, I heard that Norwegian Jewel. He was all "blah blah quite a unique voice" and then it sounded somewhere between Norah Jones and some boring short girl with an Irish name I can't think of -- oh yeah Erin McKeown.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 4 June 2006 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link

terry gross = classic?!?!??!? are you NUTS?!?!? ugh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 4 June 2006 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link

TERRY GROSS VS> GENE SIMMONS == TOTAL ULTIMATE WOW

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Sunday, 4 June 2006 06:01 (eighteen years ago) link

terry gross is fucking horrible UGH. what is the difference between wait wait don't tell me and whatd'ya know? i always don't know what i'm listening to. i really only like the news on npr and even that i don't always like because i think melissa block should be fired for sounding so happy about palestinians dying and stuff. i wish we had a bbc.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 4 June 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

WNYC carries BBC in the morning but the reporters are just as annoying as the ones on ATC, especially this one female reporter that always sounds like she's trying to be "provocative."

Terry Gross has great interviews on her show, hence I like her show. Anything that gives Iggy Pop, Rodney Dangerfield, and Kool Herc room to talk at great length (and Gene Simmons to be a complete asshole at great length) is most worthy.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 4 June 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i love terry gross(but not her nervous laugh). her shows with Stephen Colbert(both of them), Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, etc were great. I still need to listen to the Al Gore one. She can be outclassed when she tries to do the really heavy political topics with conservatives, tho, like when she had on Richard Perle.

Also, i don't really like WWDTM(tho i likes the carl castle), which has too much PJ Orouke-style smarm/smirk. I will submit to you that the group is the Ira Glass crowd will be in 20 years. But at least that group has the sense not to inhale into the fucking mic.

whadyaknow has a different vibe to me. it seems like the closest thing NPR's ever gunna get to jewish humor, with the show & the host deliberately doing Groucho's bit(s).

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 4 June 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

marty moss-coane, on philly's Radio Times -- SO CLASSIC. does anyone else know her? (am i still the only philly bitch here? lame.) whenever i hear her voice come over the radio, i feel like cuddling into a little ball. she is so smart and quick-witted and has a great comeback to any stupid call-in asshole.

― killy ii (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

terry gross is a fucking idiot with the most marginal interviewing skills.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Once when I was 8 or 9, my moms took me to see him read. We both fell asleep, and never listened to his shite radio program ever again.

― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 4 June 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a306/paddyface/Rseagull.jpg
Robert Seagull

― is PJ (MILFcGee), Monday, 5 June 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link

She can be outclassed when she tries to do the really heavy political topics with conservatives, tho, like when she had on Richard Perle.

I totally agree with this - she gets all flustered and it's kind of pathetic.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 5 June 2006 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link

hstencil OTM. I get nervous just listening to her neurasthenic tentativeness.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?catid=1945

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

Sandra Singh Lo on KPCC in LA is the absolute worst! BANNED FROM KCRW.

― mucho (mucho), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

terry gross is a fucking idiot with the most marginal interviewing skills.

otm. my wife loves npr and i loathe it. then again, i've waited on these people and see them frequently around the area. would you believe that terry gross' partner is VV jazz critic and pretty awesome dude frank davis?

[this american life = worst of all.]

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link

francis davis.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link

at nite on the weekend at work in the breakroom i listen to american routes and the jazz show that nancy wilson hosts and i really like both of those.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Sometimes This American Life is good too though - the one this weekend was a pretty great story about a famous evangelical preacher who turned heretic. I also heard a good one about a death penalty exoneration, and one about an Iranian immigrant who saved his marriage by reading Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I am captain save-a-host

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link

that's from like 3 years ago!

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 03:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Which one? Maybe they do repeats?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

"the one this weekend was a pretty great story about a famous evangelical preacher who turned heretic."

i liked that one too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i still like open sores too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I really liked that clip of the Oral Roberts singers that they played - I was thinking about tracking down a record.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 03:31 (seventeen years ago) link

they do repeats all the time

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I enjoyed Shawn Colvin last week on PHC. she did a version of the Gnarls Barkley song.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i like this american life (mostly)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link

they do do a shit-ton of repeats

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

stormy, do you get american routes or the jazz show? great show on wes montgomery on the jazz show this weekend. plus, i just love nancy wilson's voice on the radio. so lovely. and american routes had a really nice show/piece on sam moore.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:13 (seventeen years ago) link

don't get American Routes yet but are *going* to get it starting next year. the Chicago public radio station is "radically" revamping its lineup to supposedly take away all "set-based" music shows, while maintaining shows where people talk about music but don't actually play a heck of a lot of it. so, we are losing Blues BEfore Sunrise, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, famous Chicago DJ Dick Buckley's jazz show, but they are keeping Afropop Worldwide and *adding* American Routes. Everything I've heard about AR sounds awesome so I am definitely lookign forward to it!!

We did have Nancy's show a year or so ago but then it ended. I assumed it was maybe a limited run thing? or maybe they just plain got rid of it! wouldn't surprise me. yeah, I thought it was great. and yeah her voice is tops. like a cool drink of water. the profiles are nice and varied. I remember really enjoying the Toots Thielemans one. you can never hear enough Toots Thielemans

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link

the jazz show just has such a great structure. nancy doing the bio thing/contemporaries or friends or acolytes raving/old interviews(if someone is dead)/lots of music/lots of context. so smart. the one i heard on bobby hutcherson was great too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:32 (seventeen years ago) link

american routes is really really good. lots of music too. and the host is smart and a good interviewer. so rare to hear anything involving "roots" music that doesn't smell like ken burns.

i used to like piano jazz. haven't heard it in years though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

my mom's brother is a republican, we don't see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but one time he shot down NPR news by simply saying "too much sang froid for my taste". i think i agree w/ him.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 06:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't stand the asshole music DJ they have on weekends - Jonathan Schwartz. Fuck him and Sinatra too.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 06:27 (seventeen years ago) link

you're fucking kidding. no reason to even listen.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link

You people are way too generous about this guy.

(9:00 in the morning? They crucified people at 9:00 in the morning? That is barbaric.)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Hurting no like the Great American Songbook, zurprize

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Terry Gross may be a dreary bore with marginal interviewing skills, but Tom Ashbrook (On Point) has got her beaten by a mile in terms of raw condescending pomposity.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the Great American Songbook just fine, but I don't think all the artists Schwartz plays have even close to equal claim on it, and I'm turned off by his uncritical fawning over everything.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

you're fucking kidding. no reason to even listen.

yeah, it's dumb. at first, they claimed that they were moving all the music shows to a separate station that would only play music, and then they backtracked and decided that the second station would focus on "non-traditional community-oriented programming" or something -- but that they're still going to cut all the music from the first station.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm kinda amazed stormy doesn't seem more upset about losing "blues before sunrise."

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i was listening to "blues before sunrise" the other week, and steve cushing was all, "yeah, so the station has decided that after 20-some years, the show can't go on, so ummm in a few weeks i'm gonna be out of a job ... so why don't you sign up for our mailing list, and we'll let you know what's happening!" and you could tell he was putting on a happy face but was seriously bummed inside.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not too bummed about losing dick buckley. dude's an institution, but in the last few months he's been mentally deteriorating, and it's been kind of painful to listen to. might as well bring his career to a close.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

saw shellac on saturday, and steve went into this whole long speil about how slutty the women in mpls used to be back in ole punk days....anyway he was going on and on and bob weston interrupeted him and said "steve you know what you sound like?" steve: "a dirty old man?" bob: "no you sound like some kind of underground rock garrison keillor"

pwnd

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i love dick buckley! he always fucked up stuff and played records with scratches. that shit's awesome.

as long as herb kent the smooth gent is still on the air, chicago radio might not be too bad.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know if any of you guys get the Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Show, but it tapes here every Monday, I have seen some pretty good performances (Taj Mahal, Bela Fleck) at it for THREE AMERICAN DOLLARS. DOLLAR BILLS.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Schwartz: Rodgers & Hammerstein :: gabbneb: Democrats

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

wait wait don't tell me is UNBEARABLE.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

lol i love it.

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah wait wait = radio version of whose line is it anyway.

― fukasaku bloodbath (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link

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