nasty comments...

at least *I* interpret these as nasty comments...

quick explanation: playlists at WUNH get once-over-ed by the music director to ensure diversity, format adherence, etc... as i've mentioned on here more than once, our format is independent and small/indie label music.

last week, some of you may have heard me play "michigan militia" on my general programming show. GP means that we can play anything, as long as we play a little bit of EVERYTHING. (genre-wise)

today i got that playlist back, complete with the music director's comments. here we go...

"Moxy Fruvous = a little too adult-contemporary-NPR-bullshit for us"

what thinkest we?

kill the communist music nazi people and hold the station ransom! adult contemporary my ass. that aggervates me. Second of all, what the hell is wrong with NPR? :(

what the hell is NPR, anyway? (spot the ignorant brit) :D

national public radio, they have news and good stuff like prairie home companion and whaddaya know with michael feldman. late at night they play celtic music and jazz and all sorts of stuff, not to mention world cafe! it's a wonderful news/music/entertainment station (although it focuses mostly on news) but a lot of people who are less than intelligent brand it as the pretentious yuppie station... but all in all its just a good old fashioned intellectual radio station. it's good stuff

that sounds fun! all the radio stations over here just play pop music, apart from the odd ones like classic fm or jazz fm or xfm (a really bad rock station) that only a few people listen to. i've never heard any uk radio station playing folk music or anything similar. i did discover a country music station on long wave or something but they don't play any of the decent stuff like andrea krause etc. that's why i've given up on radio, except for WFUV which i discovered recently *dances* :)

and as for those aforementioned less-than-intelligent closed-minded people, they deserve a good kick in the pants. so there. :D

yeah, just like the baggage handler playing with my suit case, people who leave empty jugs of milk in the fridge, ya know... them :)

A roommate I had once used to play that every time my ex-bf would come in the room. I never noticed it for the longest time. He used to get this confused look and was like "did I just hear that right? did they just say...?" He never quite got Fruvous. Moron. Sarah

because it doesn't look like it was mentioned, NPR is often news, basically equivalent to BBC radio. In fact, they even play BBC world news late at night. There are national news programs, national call-in shows and syndicated humor/human intrest shows, as well as locally produced new, call-ins and music. :)

ahem. now do you believe what I say about radio? :)

This is the first time I've ever seen "adult-contemporary" and "NPR" in the same comment.

I have a friend who ran into a similar problem at his college radio show. Some band (I don't remember which) that he was playing all the time became popular, and all of a sudden he wasn't allowed to play them on the station.

Just keep playing Fr�vous, but list them on the playlist as The Chia-Pets + Dave or Tall New Buildings. Those who care would know the truth, and your director wouldn't.

My biggest question here though is:

What the hell is wrong with NPR?! [spoken like a true NPR geek]

GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrr

and you can quote me!

~J~

He's the man that "no accounting for taste" was written about.

Basically the music director is just wrong. While some public radio stations have been very fruvous-friendly, I believe the most common stations playing fruvous are college radio. Adult Contemporary is total nonsense. Fruvous' base has always been college students.

While there might have been more college stations playing Fruvous than public stations less people listen to them. More people heard fruvous on public stations then on college stations. I never heard them on a college station and i"ve heard them on public stations in NYC, Philly, and Buffalo.

Adult contemporary? Uh-huh.

A few years back, we were playing Fruvous on our college radio station a lot. A few of us DJ's had discovered Fruvous at the same time, so "King of Spain" came up often, but not ridiculously so. Well, the station manager smashed the CD and posted the broken pieces on the cork board with a note saying that "Bargainville" had a little accident.

what an A** HOLE. WHO'S WITH ME!!!!!!! He can express his opinons but thats just mean!

*sigh*

I will never understand people who have no conception of what music means to true music-lovers... how absolutely horrible and cruel it is to insult the music that a music-lover loves, the music that penetrates them to their soul... I will never understand people who think it is no big deal to publicly declare to all the world that the music that this person likes is shit and not only should never be heard but needs to be destroyed and then displayed as an example for anyone who ever dares to have tastes that differ from theirs, anyone who dares to venture outside what they deem "the norm," who dares to *feel* what they listen to... who dares to be an emotional being and connect to something outside of themselves... to see value in that which goes beyond superficial entertainment.

How Dare He?

Um, does that include Liberace? ;)

Interesting opinion. We all know Fruvous is hard to pigeon hole into the neat categories radio likes to use, but it is still interesting that from a professional's opinion they would be considered adult contemporary. Of course these days that doesn't imply much sophistication, it just means they aren't aimed at 12 year old girls or 16 year old boys (ya know, the male equivalent ;-)) Anyway, I guess you would have to know this guy's perspective, his background, to understand how he could see Fruvous that way.

As for NPR, peoples definition of NPR depends on which NPR station you listen to, the closest one to me (I'm in Canada) is KPLU in Tacoma Wash. They do the news and All Things Considered and even Car Talk but mostly they are a jazz station. You would never hear Fruvous on there except when they were on ATC.

Same here actually Arbie. The Detroit NPR station is basically Jazz except when they have other genre programming on once a week (they have A bluegrass show, and A folk show, and A blues show etc), and the Ann Arbor station is all news/talk (which I like, but alas no fruvous)

my comment?

 

What Would JIAN say??!

 

*g*

man, can't y'all HEAR him ranting about a comment like that in your heads???

*sigh* i kinda miss those rants.....

you know.....the ones where murray has time to do his taxes in his head?   ;)

 

*gigglesigh* I miss those boys so much