Opeth on NPR's "Morning Edition"!

[T-Rat]

Hah!

Heard Windowpane as incidental music on NPR!!!

Almost choked on my coffee!

 

[Kenneth R.]

that rocks!

 

[Hyperborean Exile]

It also goes to show just sappy and goofy Opeth is...

 

[Kenneth R.]

you'd cream yourself if SRP was on NPR. but that won't ever happen.

 

[Dee Snarl]

That is awesome!

Mourning Edition?

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

 

[winters epilogue]

Amazing!

 

[daz436]

whats NPR?

 

[Risquit]

National Public Radio is one of the last bastions of intellect in broadcast media. The interns and show producers are likely to be music geeks, so Windopane wouldn't surprise me there.

 

[zortz]

National Public Radio is one of the last bastions of intellect in broadcast media.

<cough>



Cool that they played Opeth though.

 

[Hyperborean Exile]

National Public Radio is one of the last bastions of intellect in broadcast media. The interns and show producers are likely to be music geeks, so Windopane wouldn't surprise me there.

I suppose if your point of comparison is like, Rush Limbaugh or sports talk radio or whatever Clear Channel is programming. But in an absolute sense, NPR is anti-intellectual.

 

[Kenneth R.]

i agree..

 

[T-Rat]

I suppose if your point of comparison is like, Rush Limbaugh or sports talk radio or whatever Clear Channel is programming. But in an absolute sense, NPR is anti-intellectual.

um, you're gonna have to explain this some more, man...

what is the "absolute" sense of "anti-intellectual" and how exactly are you applying that to NPR?

thanks... :Smug:

 

[Hyperborean Exile]

Real intellectuals don't shill for mainstream political dogma and they don't pursue a policy of ignoring anything outside of a narrow band of center-left ideologies and viewpoints.

Real intellectuals also hate Brokeback Mountain.

 

[Kenneth R.]

i never even saw the film. looked boring in preview.

 

[Risquit]

By intellectual, I wasn't refering to political bents. Yes, I know full well of NPR's left leanings. I meant that they seem to respect that not everybody has MTV or even MSNBC-like attention spans. News stories are often as in-depth as print media. And the subject matter is much more far reaching than in commercial news outlets.

 

[Hyperborean Exile]

By intellectual, I wasn't refering to political bents. Yes, I know full well of NPR's left leanings. I meant that they seem to respect that not everybody has MTV or even MSNBC-like attention spans. News stories are often as in-depth as print media. And the subject matter is much more far reaching than in commercial news outlets.

Again, this is relative. It only seems "intellectual" in comparison to the sorry state of the rest of American news media. Its reports are nowhere near as in depth as say, those on BBC World Service.

 

[Kenneth R.]

BBC is by far the best news service i've watched.

 

[Liquid Diamonds]

Real intellectuals also hate Brokeback Mountain.

Why?

 

[Weakness]

I heard WIndowpane on VH1 a few months back during
"Teen Celebrties Top 10 most Embarassing Moments"

 

[Dee Snarl]

Why?

Cuz Hyperborean is a "real intellectual".


Now, I don't know, cuz I'm a fake intellectual, but I have a feeling "real intellectuals" *chortle* don't spend a lot of time on heavy metal messageboards....