The fortunate listener caught some foreign news on Deutsche Welle, the Beatles on the BBC, Willis Conover's famous jazz broadcasts on VOA.
For one listener, caught up in trying to decipher the aural scenario, that stop came as a rude surprise: Most of what one had heard up to that point seemed like a prelude, or wind-up, to something else.
If the listener catches the wavelength of what I am saying or singing, or gets whatever point whatever line means to them, then I guess as a writer I may have done a day's work".
If the listener catches the wavelength of what I am saying or singing, or gets whatever point whatever line means to them, then I guess as a writer I may have done a day's work...
With listeners caught between formal (and inconvenient) concert halls and costly compact discs, it is no wonder that so few people are listening.
Although it was the biggest-selling single of 2003 in the UK, comparatively few listeners caught its strident anti-war message, or noticed the lyrics which labelled the CIA as terrorists and equated them with street gangs: the band were derided for "selling out".
Listeners catch only glimpses of the Schubert-to-be through clouds of near-boilerplate rhetoric, most clearly in the Allegretto's melodic twists and turns.
The Berlin-based streaming music service has just introduced a new feature called The Upload, which helps listeners catch the best of what has just been uploaded to the site.
Banks performs at fashion events around the world and Haze's recent work is so searingly honest that it makes listeners catch their breath.
Turntable.fm, a streaming music site that lets people take turns at virtual D.J. booths, playing songs for other online listeners, quickly caught fire after it first appeared earlier this summer.
March 26 2012 March 26: When Fiona Apple's début album, "Tidal," appeared, in 1996, listeners were caught off guard by the youthful singer's strikingly sultry voice and sophisticated, jazzy songwriting chops, especially in contrast to her otherwise flighty demeanor, manifested in cagey interviews and onstage tantrums.
