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Re: Smashing the geek stereotype..
Sun, January 18, 2004 - 1:12 AMMy favorite is the 80s... I'm still stuck in the 80s. Another is alternative....
The other spectrum... is also some hip hop/rap and local bands.
NO COUNTRY (sorry folks). I was an aweful country square dancer when I went to school in "hick" town.
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Re: Smashing the geek stereotype..
Sun, January 18, 2004 - 11:58 AMI'm all over the place - reggae, heavy metal, 60's, 70's, 80's, classical, alternative, acid jazz, ambient, classics, and occasionally, some snoop dog or cyprus hill. I also LOVE some soundtracks - Pi, Requium for a Dream, Memento, LOTR.
Funny enough, I'm not much into the music my 14 year old son listens to (linkin park sounding bands) though he did introduce me to 'Evanescence' and they seem ok.
My husband and I had a scary realization the other day. We now listen to NPR more than we listen to music. We're becoming our parents. Or rather, we're becoming HIS parents. If we became MY parents, we'd be listening to Bagpipe music (mom's from Scotland) or Charlie Pride. Yikes!
Cheers,
Heather -
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Re: NPR
Sun, January 18, 2004 - 12:06 PMNPR is a funny thing. I used to listen to it constantly. It had a great balance between news, interesting talk radio (Ie, not trash talk radio), investigative reporting, and music. Now when I turn it on, it's the all-iraq, all the time channel. It's very upsetting how much it's gone downhill since bush was in office. It's a very, very, very "left-wing" oriented broadcast system, and with a republican administration, it seems to have broken down, and lost all ability to create anything but negative programming, which is sad.
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Re: NPR
Sun, January 18, 2004 - 12:35 PMThere's a lot of 'war news' on but there's still those unique stories you won't hear anywhere else. Last Sunday, they did a show about show about bananas - history of bananas, different types, banana etiquette, and how there may be a shortage of bananas. It had me chuckling out loud as I was driving around.
We also listen religiously to 'This American Life' - some weeks the show has us cracking up and other times, we want to bawl our eyes out.
We also have some excellent _local_ programming on NPR.
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Sun, January 18, 2004 - 12:41 PMYeah, for some reason the midwest, and smaller towns in the
east coast has outstanding public radio.. I love listening to the minnesota broadcasts.. For a time I lived in eastern pennsylvania, and the public radio/npr/pri stations were absolutely top notch. They had a great mix of music, national programming, local artists & musicians, live shows, etc.. Many happy warm summer evenings were spent with the stereo on, and the windows open, listening to live from lake wobegone, echos, and live from the kennedy center..
Evenings on npr stations in the bay area seem to be long interviews with victims of american cruelty.. Which is interesting, but depressing all the time with little variation, except sometimes they'll interview americans who go to israel to protest. *sigh*
There are a few jewels though. A couple of months ago, I heard an EXCELLENT hour-long segment about the history of the Mount Krakatoa explosion in 1883.. Great factual detail, and some interesting anecdotes from memoirs of survivors.. Those little gems seem to make it worth listening to..
More and more I listen to the pirate radio stations, since they're the only places likely to have any music of interest to me beyond classical or jazz, and they're not owned by clearchannel! -
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Sun, January 18, 2004 - 12:46 PMPlease, give info on pirate radio (something I've never been into), because I am sick of the Clear Channel Wasteland! -
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Re: NPR
Sun, January 18, 2004 - 3:11 PMin bayview/potrero/outer mission you can get good
reception for pirate cat radio, 87.9 ..
You can find more info on www.freeradio.org for station
links and info on how to do your own.
and then there's 93.7, san francisco liberation radio .. www.liberationradio.net
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Sun, January 18, 2004 - 1:02 PMAh yeah! I LOVE that stuff. There's some very good historical broadcasts on NPR.
In June, my husband and I were trying to decide what 'unnecessary costs' we could cut out of our lives. One of those expenses was cable television.
We had to buy some rabbit ears just to get local channels but we get really good PBS reception. Funny thing about PBS is that I see some really good sex scenes on late-night weekend shows! T&A too! Good ol' public television. :)
We've also got our 'community access television' (MCAT) which broadcasts some very interesting subject matter. One of my favorites is a local 'celebrity'. He's a Christian guy, who wears leather, has a mohawk, tattoos, drinks beer and reads from the bible as he smashes the empty beercans on his head. I mean, you don't see shit like that every day - well, at least not in Missoula, Montana. :)
Cheers,
Heather
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Re: Smashing the geek stereotype..
Fri, October 21, 2005 - 10:23 PMI listen to classic rock type stuff, jazz, blues, some hip-hop, old school metal, but most of all I just like live music. Here is a list of bands that have live shows for download or stream www.archive.org/audio/etre...-browse.php and the band I am currently listening to right now is this show www.archive.org/audio/etre...ails-db.php which is a band called ALO and this is them at The Independent
