You Cannot Be Serious: The All Songs Considered Listening Party
Guests rate the songs at the All Songs Considered Listening Party in Washington, D.C. Jeff Martin hide caption
Guests rate the songs at the All Songs Considered Listening Party in Washington, D.C.
Jeff MartinImagine an evening where you just around with your closest friends or family, and all you do is play music for each other. No TV or video games. No texting. Just a bunch of songs and some great conversations about what you love, or don't love and why.
It's kind of a fantasy — a nice idea that almost never really happens — but for the past few years, All Songs Considered has been hosting listening parties that get pretty close to that fantasy. We fill a club or auditorium with music lovers. We have a panel of two or three guests on stage: some friends, some colleagues, maybe a musician or two. And we play songs. Everyone in the room, on stage and off, has a stack of cards numbered 1 through 10. And as we listen, everyone rates the music. A "1" means you pretty much hate the song and a "10" means you're over-the-moon in love with it. And then we talk about the songs. It gets heated sometimes.
We recently hosted a listening party in Washington, D.C, with Bob on stage and Robin in the audience. Three guests sit on the panel — NPR Music's Stephen Thompson, Katie Alice Greer (singer for the D.C. band Priests) and Emily White, who runs the artists management company Whitesmith Entertainment. Everybody brought songs to share with the audience, but we began with one of Bob's picks, a song that should be familiar to regular All Songs listeners.
You can hear the entire listening party with the link above, or just the songs featured below.
Future Of Music Coalition/All Songs Considered Listening Party
Hozier
- Album: Hozier
- Song: Jackie And Wilson
Deerhoof
- Album: La Isla Bonita
- Song: Paradise Girls
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Fox Stevenson
- Album: All This Time EP
- Song: Out There
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Beach Boys
- Album: Pet Sounds
- Song: God Only Knows
Tears for Fears
- Album: Going to California
- Song: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Bjork
- Album: Vespertine
- Song: Hidden Place
The Flaming Lips
- Album: With A Little Help From My Fwends
- Song: Fixing A Hole
The Flaming Lips
- Album: With A Little Help From My Fwends
- Song: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Immigrant Union
- Album: Anyway
- Song: War Is Peace
Alt-J
- Album: This Is All Yours [LP]
- Song: Hunger of the Pine
Moon Hooch
- Album: Moon Hooch
- Song: Number 9
Stevie Wonder
- Album: Definitive Collection
- Song: Living for the City
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The Ronettes
- Album: Be My Baby: The Very Best of the Ronettes
- Song: Be My Baby
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