They did it here too, loved it. And I just heard in a Year-end NPR All Songs, Christgau poo poo this type of thing. Saying people only find the audiance interaction/participation stuff from The Decembrists interesting because the public has become used to decades of entertainers ignoring them.

ugh hate him and he ruins the podcats for me.

Christgau eats poo poo.

perzactly.

ugh hate him and he ruins the podcats for me.

I like the idea of podcats. I think its the kind of thing that would intrigue tommyrot too.

Christgau used to be safely ghettoized at the Voice. Now he's loosed on the nation.

In all seriousness, that\'s a really dumb thing to say. Lots of bands today do audience participation. Sometimes it\'s annoying and sometimes it\'s good. The Decemberists happen to be quite good at it, mostly due to the charm of Mr. Meloy. But they aren\'t breaking any new ground or reviving anything.

I would like to post that "Edible Flowers" by the Finn Brothers is my new favorite crack song, which I have to listen to 500 zillion times a day at least and that all of you who download that kind of thing, should go download it RIGHT NOW.

And Christgau is indeed an ass.

I lurve my NPR podcasts and All Songs is one of my favorites of them.

Mr. Meloy is quite the charmer. We also did an audiance only sing-a-long with the "I Love New York..." part of Myla Goldberg.

And I am now listening to The Decembrists in Jon B's honor. Perhaps I will sing along here in my office.

Oh, come now. I hate to be the guy to defend him, but Christgau's not an ass and not deserving of this invective. He's just plain wrong sometimes, as people often are. Dave Marsh, Jon Landau, Jan Wenner: those guys are ass.

on the podcasts I have listened to with him, he talks over everyone and cuts people off even when they are directly asked a question by the host.