Musical Prognosis: Adult Contemporary?

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Lately I'm in a kind of musical holding pattern... I've got about 12 CDs that I listen to on repeat. I made a list of them today and realized they look quite "adult contemporary"... or maybe "adult alternative" (the weird term they coined on the Canadian music awards for artists like Feist).

Here's my list:

+ Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought
+ David Axelrod - The Edge
+ Juana Molina - Son
+ Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
+ Burning Spear - Sounds from the Burning Spear
+ Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
+ Nine Horses (David Sylvian) - Snow Borne Sorrow
+ David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
+ Sea & Cake - The Fawn
+ Apostle of Hustle - Folkloric Feel
+ Velvet Underground - (various things...)
+ Brokeback - Looks at the Bird
+ Marine Girls

What do you think? Am I still hip?

discostu · **Posted:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:22 pm

Definitely Adult Alternative. We'll let your pal frostingspoon explain the meaning of "Adult Contemporary" in U.S. radio terms.

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

*sigh*

yeah, you're right... but it's slippery slope....

greezy · **Posted:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:27 pm

maybe my genre distinctions need updating, but i don't see dub or old downtempo instrumental stuff (i.e. axelrod) as falling anywhere near "adult alternative."

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

I guess I just see it being a possible symptom of the "world music" tendencies of older people. Heh.

FT · **Posted:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:37 pm

Canadiadult

no guru · **Posted:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:37 pm

I fail to see a problem with any of the CDs on that sample list

Never care about what your taste "appears like" to others. Others aren't any more-better than you and never will be. You are the sole arbitrator of you. If you like you, to hell with external perceptions.

Hipsterism is ridiculous, always has been, and only serves as a grown-up way to still pick on people on the playground.

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

FT Wrote:

Canadiadult

Only two of the artists I listed are Canadian...

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

frosted Wrote:

I fail to see a problem with any of the CDs on that sample list

Never care about what your taste "appears like" to others. Others aren't any more-better than you and never will be. You are the sole arbitrator of you. If you like you, to hell with external perceptions.

Hipsterism is ridiculous, always has been, and only serves as a grown-up way to still pick on people on the playground.

Actually, it was with some pride, and much humour that I made that observation about myself. :wink:

Kind of like: I've moved into my own (mostly)-non-hipster-dependent zone of music listening. Not that I was ever that concerned with it all to begin with, (read: I was "80's girl" in the 90's). I just found it funny to realize. I'm a geezer.

no guru · **Posted:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:46 pm

Polly, you're good enough, you're smart enough...and people like you.

-smalleyspoon

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

frosted Wrote:

Polly, you're good enough, you're smart enough...and people like you.

-smalleyspoon

Heh heh. Pictures found by entering "keener" in google image search...

But check out the source page for the third one! :wink:

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http://www3.uakron.edu/schlcomm/womenshistory/keener_p.htm

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:51 pm

I wasn't aware of "adult alternative" until my mom informed me that they play Feist on the radio station at her work all the time.

Then I went 'oh no'.

no guru · **Posted:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:01 pm

I would get much more satisfaction working for a Triple A format than an AC one, that's for sure.

Musical Prognosis: Adult Contemporary?

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