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« Reply #30 on: 21:43:44, 29-04-2008 » |
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It's just a matter of time before Lennon & MacCartney are composers of the week.....I've been thinking it for some time.
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« Reply #31 on: 22:49:46, 29-04-2008 » |
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« Reply #32 on: 01:09:54, 30-04-2008 » |
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Is it really worth getting so worked up about two songs over an entire week? Yes; it is a question of principle. Life would be frightfully nasty brutish and short if we had no principles would not it? |
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« Reply #33 on: 01:21:36, 30-04-2008 » |
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it is a question of principle. Life would be frightfully nasty brutish and short if we had no principles would not it? But how do we determine what our principles should be? And if the answer is 'With difficulty' or even 'We cannot', then perhaps life just is nasty, brutish and short. With glimpses of light, of course. T. Hobbes moderated by S. Beckett? |
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« Reply #34 on: 06:43:12, 30-04-2008 » |
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As Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave said 'I dont believe it!!' What music critic was saying about The Beatle's music being compared to the songs of Mahler. I think from The times I beleieve? |
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« Reply #35 on: 10:12:35, 30-04-2008 » |
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What music critic was saying about The Beatle's music being compared to the songs of Mahler. I think from The times I beleieve?
That was William Mann, in his classic Times article of 1963, which can be read here (note also the comparison with Maxwell Davies). |
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« Reply #36 on: 13:03:32, 30-04-2008 » |
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Is it really worth getting so worked up about two songs over an entire week? Yes; it is a question of principle. Life would be frightfully nasty brutish and short if we had no principles would not it? Yes but Grew, it is your principles which often make life nasty and brutish for the rest of us  music is music, art is art, R3 is for all It's just the noisy musicless performances that get my goat  John W |
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« Reply #37 on: 19:17:01, 30-04-2008 » |
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It's really begun....Macca was singing on the Brekky "Show" this morn....AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH !!!
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« Reply #38 on: 20:34:59, 30-04-2008 » |
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Wot, Jan, 'The Long & Winding Road'; original version, or makeover? |
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« Reply #39 on: 20:44:49, 30-04-2008 » |
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Nah mate, some bit of Coward....followed by some more sung by BLIDDY STING !!!! AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!
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« Reply #40 on: 20:48:53, 30-04-2008 » |
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Jan, do you mean that Macca was singing a Noel Coward song? I'm assuming that Sting was 'doing' Dowland?
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« Reply #41 on: 21:03:45, 30-04-2008 » |
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No, both Coward, I think....couldn't be sure as I switched off in disgust !!!!!
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« Reply #42 on: 21:33:32, 30-04-2008 » |
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Yes, I heard some of the Noel Coward stuff earlier on and found it (for want of a better word) "twee". I'm sure it has it's place but I'm not certain it's on R3. But that's just my opinion and I am sure some people will disagree with me.
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« Reply #43 on: 21:38:20, 30-04-2008 » |
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An innocent question: Which is more important, keeping Noel Coward 'in his place' or learning when 'its' does and doesn't need an apostrophe? |
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« Reply #44 on: 07:59:16, 01-05-2008 » |
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Like Sting trying to sing some Dowland!! Yuk!! Sounded awful. The Mrs likes it. She has it on her MP3!!! Sometimes you have to bite your lip and say, yes darling sounds lovely(!)
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