Posted: 3/28/2016 3:39:53 AM EDT
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So I live in the San Francisco Bay area, Berkeley to be exact. My fiancee and I were driving back home from a dinner with friends late tonight when we were rolling through the radio and came across some of the most beautiful music that has hit my ears in quite some time. The program was called Hearts of Space and tonights show was dedicated to Easter... NPR around here is usually so pragmatic and never deals with religion unless they are kissing ROPers asses so I was in complete shock, but in quiet enjoyment.
When we got home I parked and sat in the car for another 30 minutes until the show ended because it was just so damn refreshing and beautiful. This is the playlist https://www.hos.com/#program/1107 It took my back to my childhood, sitting in the pew listening to the organ and choir just soaking in all that is beautiful.... without all the bullshit of life we now know. Happy Easter to all. This was my favorite piece they played. 
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That's not a thread title you see often  . When it comes to music, NPR has done pretty well, IMO. I used to listen to Hearts of Space as well, but my local NPR station kept changing the day and time it was broadcast and now I don't know when they play it, or if they still do. Great show though.
The Undercurrents program isn't too bad if you take it in small doses. They have a bigger playlist than the standard for-profit stations, but it's still a smaller playlist than I can take too many days in a row. My local station has done some great programming, such as Studio One (no playlist, just whatever the DJ feels) and Back Tracks with Bob Dorr who's local but syndicated nationally who only plays stuff from 25 years and older. |
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Sounds a little like Now we are Free: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yOZEiHLuVU |
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The local vintage rock station ran the Hearts of Space program in my market a very long time ago. It was at the beginning of the New Age Music popularity. Windham Hills Records was just getting started. George Winston had a good following. I used to tape the programs off the radio, so could play them in my car and replay them at home. They played a LOT of good music. There was some I didn't care for, but not very often. They ran the program at 8:00PM. Sort of the 'prime time' for radio. And they ran the program without commercials, through they were a 'for profit' station, unlike NPR. I didn't know the show still existed. Do you know if the program is streamed on line by your local NPR station? |
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I always though that was Enya singing that piece. It sure SOUNDS just like her. I always liked it, in any event. |
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That's not a thread title you see often . When it comes to music, NPR has done pretty well, IMO. I used to listen to Hearts of Space as well, but my local NPR station kept changing the day and time it was broadcast and now I don't know when they play it, or if they still do. Great show though.
The Undercurrents program isn't too bad if you take it in small doses. They have a bigger playlist than the standard for-profit stations, but it's still a smaller playlist than I can take too many days in a row. My local station has done some great programming, such as Studio One (no playlist, just whatever the DJ feels) and Back Tracks with Bob Dorr who's local but syndicated nationally who only plays stuff from 25 years and older. Our NPR affiliate here in SLC is too cheap to subscribe/provide the above. It will be a great day when the tide turns enough that Fed funding stops flowing to NPR. They are biased and don't deserve public funding. |
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HoS is one of the few decent programs remaining on our NPR station. It's now mostly Leftist propaganda. The good music programs still exist, but are now streamed via Internet.
There was a brief market for decent-sounding Internet radios, but it seems to have faded. |
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Most interesting post of the week......NPR, Berkley, California, and Good do not normally co-exist in the same post. Prayers for my brother behind enemy lines. I'll take them. The regional park district just voted to shut down my nearest outdoor range because of the possibility of lead contamination in the water of a nearby lake... even though no lead has ever been detected in any of the streams or lake. 
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I'll take them. The regional park district just voted to shut down my nearest outdoor range because of the possibility of lead contamination in the water of a nearby lake... even though no lead has ever been detected in any of the streams or lake. Quoted:
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Most interesting post of the week......NPR, Berkley, California, and Good do not normally co-exist in the same post. Prayers for my brother behind enemy lines. I'll take them. The regional park district just voted to shut down my nearest outdoor range because of the possibility of lead contamination in the water of a nearby lake... even though no lead has ever been detected in any of the streams or lake. Most any Dem can fap to this |