Online Surveillance Report

There was a story on NPR recently about surveillance trends in society, and it ended with "New Seeds", appropriately enough.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/10/16/232181204/are-we-moving-to-a-world-with-more-online-surveillance

I heard that too! Brought a smile to my face when I heard it.

Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, BOC is one of the two bands I like who deserve to be played as most NPR outro tunes (the other is Tortoise). Stories about current events which confirm my paranoid tendencies, even better. Now that I think about it, I'd rather that NPR not use BOC for the end of a Diane Rhem show about grooming your pomeranians or whatever. But most "All Things Considered" stories are appropriate.

They play the SHIT out of Bonobo on NPR - it's like they have a hardon for his music to use it in interludes between stories...

I heard flim the other day

They've been using the same Pantha du Prince track as a bumper for ages.

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  On 10/22/2013 at 10:04 PM, Joyrex said:

They play the SHIT out of Bonobo on NPR - it's like they have a hardon for his music to use it in interludes between stories...

Yeah there's a post-rock band that gets played a lot too - Album Leaf maybe...? NPR has a pretty good music website - and yet All Things Considered bumper music is more often than not sounds like subpar Ninja Tune-esque lounge music. The kind of stuff that makes middle-aged liberals feel hip but in reality is only listened to by fedora wearing quasi-bro nerds.

  On 11/8/2013 at 7:05 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 10/22/2013 at 10:04 PM, Joyrex said:

They play the SHIT out of Bonobo on NPR - it's like they have a hardon for his music to use it in interludes between stories...

 

Yeah there's a post-rock band that gets played a lot too - Album Leaf maybe...? NPR has a pretty good music website - and yet All Things Considered bumper music is more often than not sounds like subpar Ninja Tune-esque lounge music. The kind of stuff that makes middle-aged liberals feel hip but in reality is only listened to by fedora wearing quasi-bro nerds.

 

lol I like your choice of words Josh

  On 11/8/2013 at 7:09 PM, ambermonk said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 7:05 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 10/22/2013 at 10:04 PM, Joyrex said:

They play the SHIT out of Bonobo on NPR - it's like they have a hardon for his music to use it in interludes between stories...

 

Yeah there's a post-rock band that gets played a lot too - Album Leaf maybe...? NPR has a pretty good music website - and yet All Things Considered bumper music is more often than not sounds like subpar Ninja Tune-esque lounge music. The kind of stuff that makes middle-aged liberals feel hip but in reality is only listened to by fedora wearing quasi-bro nerds.

 

lol I like your choice of words Josh

 

I'm completely basing this off the people I see with NPR affiliate bumper stickers and the profile pics of dudes who hung out in the chillout rooms on turntable.fm.

Stereotypes? Yes. But stereotypes based on fact.

I was quite amused that "New Seeds" was used in this:

http://youtu.be/tUyK8tD5ExI