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I'm surprised no one's pointed out the spelling mistake in the thread title.
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...I'm not so keen myself on the music of The Clash, but that's at least partly beside the point, since as far as I'm concerned what they were using the music for was entirely admirable, ie. as a platform to communicate directly and urgently with an audience who were (and still are) otherwise force-fed a pack of tranquillising lies by media and politicians.
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« Reply #107 on: 12:25:21, 05-09-2007 » |
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I'm surprised no one's pointed out the spelling mistake in the thread title.
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« Reply #108 on: 12:37:08, 05-09-2007 » |
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...I'm not so keen myself on the music of The Clash, but that's at least partly beside the point, since as far as I'm concerned what they were using the music for was entirely admirable, ie. as a platform to communicate directly and urgently with an audience who were (and still are) otherwise force-fed a pack of tranquillising lies by media and politicians.
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« Reply #109 on: 12:39:18, 05-09-2007 » |
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...I'm not so keen myself on the music of The Clash, but that's at least partly beside the point, since as far as I'm concerned what they were using the music for was entirely admirable, ie. as a platform to communicate directly and urgently with an audience who were (and still are) otherwise force-fed a pack of tranquillising lies by media and politicians.
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« Reply #110 on: 14:18:11, 05-09-2007 » |
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. . . is this thread about "Popular Culture", or (alternatively) is it something to which I should be contributing? Here Members will no doubt ask themselves in wonderment, what difference could there be between " or (alternatively)" and plain old " or"? For "or" (no more in the end than a phonetically reduced version of the obsolete conjunction "other") already in itself serves to co-ordinate two elements between which there is an alternative. It were preferable we find to have retained the plain and simple "or" for the "exclusive" signification (Latin " aut"), and to write "and/or" or "or both" when the "inclusive" variety (Latin " vel") is in question. Is this startling "or (alternatively)" something the Member found on one of Fowler's unreliable pages? I am surprised to hear that member Grew finds Fowler unreliable. I wonder what alternatives he would suggest? Or is Mr. Grew actually a descriptivist? |
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« Reply #111 on: 14:35:10, 05-09-2007 » |
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« Reply #112 on: 14:41:59, 05-09-2007 » |
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They have been known in Russia for some time as Битлов. Similarly the Stones acquired a Russified name too - they're the Роллингы.
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« Reply #113 on: 15:24:11, 05-09-2007 » |
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I'm surprised no one's pointed out the spelling mistake in the thread title.
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« Reply #114 on: 15:42:29, 05-09-2007 » |
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I must now concur that this thread has been derailed.
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« Reply #116 on: 20:25:30, 07-09-2007 » |
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Surely the "Beagles" are nowhere near as good as the "Crash"? (IMO)
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« Reply #118 on: 21:06:34, 07-09-2007 » |
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I'll see if I can nudge things back toward the mangled, Sherman's-march-to-the-sea-esque wreckage of the track. . .
Somebody, at some point, wondered why such pop music luminaries as Paul McCartney seldom continue to innovate so spectacularly as they get older, while "composers" often do their best work toward the ends of their lives. McCartney has a newish record out, and while it's pretty solid as pop records go (surprisingly so, I'd say), he hardly reinvents the wheel.
What we usually fail to consider when posing this question, however, is that McCartney belongs to the first generation, more or less, of rock musicians (although I suppose the case could be made that Elvis and Little Richard antedate him substantially enough to constitute an earlier generation), and that rock music during that generation's heyday was principally about being young. McCartney is in his sixties now, but it's easy to lose sight of the fact that many new-wave and indie rockers of the '80s and '90s are now in their forties–and the work they're best known for is not tied so inextricably to dancing, acid, and cars. Any thoughts on whether this middle-aged pop intelligentsia will transcend the pattern their aging forebears have set?
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