Vinyl Cafe thread (thread will likely die very soon)

[MontaukProjekt/PE]

My Thoughts on Vinyl Cafe:

Anyone here listen to Vinyl Cafe? This is the most Canadian thing I have ever heard. This ultra Canadian guy hosts this show where he reads funny stories about a family that owns a record store. The show is done live most of the time from some very obscure Canadian towns most of which I've never heard of but surprisingly live near some. He also gets Canadian talent on. Sometimes he just does editorial type monologues. This makes me homesick even though I live in Canada. Its a CBC thing.


Anyone ever gone to a live broadcast? Anyone read any of the books?

[crumbum]

I don't begrudge anyone enjoying this program, which among other things is a pretty good showcase for a certain folkie strain of Canadian indie music and is besides that dearly beloved by many people close to me, but I have to say I fucking hate Stuart McLean's voice with its phony homespun lilt. The way he pauses in the middle of a sentence and then... SHOUTS the next word drives me nuts. When I hear him I literally run for the radio to turn it off.

[MontaukProjekt/PE]

I don't begrudge anyone enjoying this program, which among other things is a pretty good showcase for a certain folkie strain of Canadian indie music and is besides that dearly beloved by many people close to me, but I have to say I fucking hate Stuart McLean's voice with its phony homespun lilt. The way he pauses in the middle of a sentence and then... SHOUTS the next word drives me nuts. When I hear him I literally run for the radio to turn it off.

His tone is quite obnoxious

[amiright??]

I have been to a live broadcast. It was a Christmas one. I enjoyed it. So sue me.

[MontaukProjekt/PE]

I have been to a live broadcast. It was a Christmas one. I enjoyed it. So sue me.

I think the issue here is the fact that Stewart Maclean sounds so amazed by everything he is saying. He says everything with a sense of wonderment and amazement. "Morley picked up the kids from school, so Dave put away the model car." as though he is revealing a universal truth hidden for a long time.
Anyway his tone aside I absolutely love the Canadian-ness of the whole thing.

[Bryan]

I fucking hate Stuart McLean's voice with its phony homespun lilt. The way he pauses in the middle of a sentence and then... SHOUTS the next word drives me nuts. When I hear him I literally run for the radio to turn it off.

Yes! And isn't this thing a wholesale ripoff of the Prairie Home Companion?

Basically, this show is the essence of what I hate about CBC. The folksiness! It kills me!

[MontaukProjekt/PE]

I fucking hate Stuart McLean's voice with its phony homespun lilt. The way he pauses in the middle of a sentence and then... SHOUTS the next word drives me nuts. When I hear him I literally run for the radio to turn it off.

Yes! And isn't this thing a wholesale ripoff of the Prairie Home Companion?

Basically, this show is the essence of what I hate about CBC. The folksiness! It kills me!

Definitely Not the Opera a ripoff of this american life??

[Bryan]

Definitely Not the Opera a ripoff of this american life??

Those two shows don't seem particularly similar to me.

[amiright??]

DNTO has definitely started to rely on first-person anecdotes more heavily since the rise of This American Life's podcast.

[Sarah]

My eldest sister listens to the CBC all the livelong day, every day, and I'm pretty sure she loves Vinyl Café.

[hardweek]

He's our Garrison Keillor.

That said, in small doses,  I quite enjoy some of the stories. Galway is a good one.

I also like that he broke Seth to a larger audience. I've been a long time fan since the Palookaville days.

But, yeah that pump fake mid-sentence stutter stop bugs me after awhile, enough to unsubscribe to the podcast.

[dave from knoxville]

I have flipped on many of my podcasts recently; I am heavily-FOTcentric at the moment, with an odd fascination with brainy theological discussion. Here's the current roster.

Am I Right
Best Show
Best Show Gems
Bitslap w/KBC
The Bugle
Comedy and Everything Else
Comedy Bang Bang
Coverville
Crazy Liberals and Conservatives
Doug Loves Movies
Dusty Show
Film Vault
Fredericks Mind Thing
Hold Your Applause
How Was Your Week
Judge John Hodgman
Left Right and Center
The Treatment
The Math Factor
Night People
On the Media
All Songs Considered
All Songs Considered Concerts
Pod F Tompkast
The Sound of Young America
Professor Blastoff
Seven Second Delay
Sklarbro Country
The Smartest Man in the World
Start the Week
Superego
Tony Campolo
Too Much Information
Unbelievable?
Radiolab
WTF

This is almost manageable. There are 3 or 4 on the hanging-on-for-dear-life class, and I feel like I should pick up one or two edgier music blogs, just so I can stay musically ahead of my students (which isn't hard when most of them love Journey and Bob Seger, but still). I am currently about 420 podcasts behind (then I can start to work on the 700 CDs I haven't heard yet.)

Somebody call for help.

[amiright??]

My eldest sister listens to the CBC all the livelong day, every day, and I'm pretty sure she loves Vinyl Café.

Does she like Jian Ghomeshi?

As for Stuart's weird speech patterns, watch a YouTube video of him to see what causes it...

[Sarah]

I believe she does.

[hardweek]

Does she like Jian Ghomeshi?

As for Stuart's weird speech patterns, watch a YouTube video of him to see what causes it...

I'm not following: are his speech patterns something more than an affected cadence?

As for Jian, great radio host, but...on a Canada Day many, many years ago, I was working at a record store, and he came in with his band Moxy Fruvous for an in-store performance. After the show, we were chatting and he asked if I was coming to the show they were playing later that night. I didn't have the heart to say that I hated his band, but luckily I had an out: Huevos Rancheros were also playing that night at a different venue.

He scoffed at me, made a  smarmy "hmff" sound, and said, "that band that sounds like Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet?"

To which I responded, "better than that band that sounds like the Barenaked Ladies."

On another Can-Con tip: is the New Pornographers Hyundai Accent commercial running stateside?