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« Reply #15 on: 13:16:41, 19-04-2008 » |
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We met a young American once - he was quite nice really - but at his University he had gained an Arts degree in "the History of Rocks and Rolls." For a long time we thought he was pulling our leg.
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« Reply #16 on: 13:26:50, 19-04-2008 » |
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That's probably what was once known as a "Sandwich course".
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« Reply #17 on: 22:00:33, 19-04-2008 » |
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The Americans have some very strange degrees and Universities!!
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« Reply #18 on: 23:37:50, 19-04-2008 » |
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We met a young American once - he was quite nice really - but at his University he had gained an Arts degree in "the History of Rocks and Rolls." For a long time we thought he was pulling our leg.
That's probably what was once known as a "Sandwich course".
The only Sandwich course I know of that involves rocks and rolls is the famous Sandwich Golf Course. But I don't think it's that close to a university! I understand, however, that many who use it find afterwards that they have managed to incapacitate themselves by somehow pulling their leg. Baz |
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The Americans have some very strange degrees and Universities!! Klingon anyone? |
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« Reply #20 on: 12:44:35, 21-04-2008 » |
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Probably that to Jonathan!!
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We met a young American once - he was quite nice really - but at his University he had gained an Arts degree in "the History of Rocks and Rolls." For a long time we thought he was pulling our leg. No, probably something else. |
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« Reply #23 on: 13:39:19, 21-04-2008 » |
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There's something really cheesy about the Beatles. There's something even cheesier about Radio 3 playing them - rather like your ancient and dundrearied grandfather playing the Sergeant Pepper album at medium volume just to show you that he's 'down with the kids'.
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« Reply #24 on: 13:56:52, 21-04-2008 » |
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rather like your ancient and dundrearied grandfather playing the Sergeant Pepper album
Released in 1967. Let's say he was 20 when he bought it. That would make him 61 now. Does this mean I can't play music I bought when I was 20, for fear of looking like I'm pretending to be young?  |
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rather like your ancient and dundrearied grandfather playing the Sergeant Pepper album
Released in 1967. Let's say he was 20 when he bought it. That would make him 61 now. Does this mean I can't play music I bought when I was 20, for fear of looking like I'm pretending to be young? [/quote Well, I still play the stuff I listened to when I was twenty...in fact, I rarely listen to anything released after 1980. But this whole thread reminds me of an edition 'Blockbusters' back in the 80s, when Bob Holness told a teenager who'd just won a music centre that he could 'listen to anything on it - from Bach to the Beatles!'  Seriously, though, I'm a great admirer of their pandeotonic clusters. Their lyrics are poetry set to music. Their songs will be played in a hundred years' time. * *with apologies to Henry Root. |
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When my sister was a weeny bopper screaming to the latest Beatles EP,
(to the tune of Pop goes the weasel) My daughter wants a new gramophone She's worn out all the needles And that's not all, I broke it in half!  I HATE THE BEATLES! Tom Lehrer again? I'm not sure. Just in case anybody has any doubts, I quite like most of the Beatles stuff. |
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« Reply #27 on: 14:18:42, 21-04-2008 » |
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Edit to remove what I posted.
Once I had logged off I realized what I had said was inaccurate and unhelpful.
I agree with Ron below.
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« Reply #28 on: 14:51:23, 21-04-2008 » |
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Is it really worth getting so worked up about two songs over an entire week? That's considerably less time than is wasted on trails every day.
Quite apart from the long-standing Jazz remit, R3 was introducing its audience to popular music as far back as the very early seventies, when it commissioned Derek Jewell (the then 'Jazz and Popular Music Critic of the Sunday Times') to create a programme called Sounds Interesting, which ran for several years, and certainly changed my listening perspective (prior to that, despite living as through much of the sixties as a teenager, my already burgeoning record collection was firmly solely classical). He concentrated on the less commercial side of the scene at a time when there were some very fine musicians involved in creating music which despite its contemporary language had infinitely more thought and craft behind it than much of the chart material, and which in turn has since left its mark on some more serious composers.
Music actually doesn't live in the tidy compartmentalised world into which it appears some would like to force it: there are all sorts of cross-links and references between various genres. Nobody's expected to listen to (let alone like) it all, but it's worth remembering that just because something doesn't fit within your own appreciation zone it doesn't immediately negate its value (or validity) to others.
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« Reply #29 on: 14:58:47, 21-04-2008 » |
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Very true, Ron.
I've spent the morning listening to Van Der Graaf Generator......whose music is considerably more challenging than that of several 'classical' composers I could name.
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