^ Thanks to Neapolitan, I've started my Sunday morning with the gentle sound of First Aid Kit; some talented songwriting and sweet singing. Thanks. The tall girl who plays the zither looks about 12 years old - I wonder if she had permission from her parents to skip her seventh-grade class that day.
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Originally Posted by windsock
Dying thread maybe but here's a bit of a resurrection.
btw seeing as this encapsulates so many artists shouldn't it be in general music?
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^ Personally, I'm always happy to see a thread resurrected, bumped, cross-referenced etc. I like the idea that topics are ruminated over and fully explored - in fact I was planning to resurrect the thread myself with some facts and figures about Tiny Desk Concerts for anyone who is interested:-
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The first Tiny Desk Concert came about in 2008 after Boilen and NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson left a bar show frustrated that they couldn't hear the music over the crowd noise. Thompson joked that the musician, folk singer Laura Gibson, should just perform at Boilen's desk. A month later Boilen arranged for her to do just that, making an impromptu recording and posting it online.
As of August 2018, the series has included more than 400 concerts viewed a collective 2 billion times on YouTube. The series has sometimes drawn criticism for narrowness in the musical genres it includes—described as focused on "hipster-infused indie rock" by Zachary Crockett at Vox—to the exclusion of genres like country and hip-hop. However reviewers also say the series' musical focus has broadened in scope over time. Performer Anderson Paak's appearance on the series is Tiny Desk Concerts' most popular video with 19.17 million views (as of May 2018) surpassing (from November 2017) the previous #1 viewed video of T-Pain, seen 11.48 million times.
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^ Although you have a point, windsock, that the TDCs cover more than just one genre, this passage from wikipedia fairly endorses my decision to put the thread in the indie section. If you want to read a furthur petty rant on the subject of where threads go, you are welcome to open the spoiler below:-
Spoiler for a pedantic grumble:
Perhaps as a newcomer there's a detail about MB that you've not noticed (or don't remotely care about
). But for me, I rather dislike the lack of balance in the music sections. This morning when I signed in, for instance, there were 103 people viewing the Gen Music section, as against 4 people viewing the Indie section. So I prefer to spread attention out across the boards when I can.
Some posters actually take the opposite approach; they put threads in the Gen Music section, either because they don't want to think about genres, or they want to get the max exposure for their thread. Today on the first page of the Gen Music board, for example, there are two threads dedicated to The Stones, and one to Captain Beefheart. These threads, imo, could be attracting interest to the Rock section of MB, instead of contributing to its depopulation.
