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Post by althea on Aug 14, 2018 15:56:58 GMT
I didn't realise what the roots of lieutenant were. That is very interesting.  |
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Post by althea on Aug 24, 2018 11:36:43 GMT
I want to put singers who don't bother to learn the proper lyrics to a song in room 101.
When I think of all the great lyricists who wrote such wonderful words being misquoted with gusto by some rhythmless non entity it makes my blood boil.
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Post by ARENA on Aug 24, 2018 11:43:52 GMT
I want to put singers who don't bother to learn the proper lyrics to a song in room 101. When I think of all the great lyricists who wrote such wonderful words being misquoted with gusto by some rhythmless non entity it makes my blood boil. Lyrics seem to be of scant importance nowadays. Some were poets: Paul Williams, Don Mclean, Jimmy Webb to name but a few. |
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Post by althea on Aug 26, 2018 15:01:36 GMT
Agreed wholeheartedly. |
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Post by aubrey on Aug 26, 2018 16:08:23 GMT
There have always been crap lyrics and good lyrics.
I always watch out for the blue/true rhyme as a failure of inspiration. Also, school/rule, but there are many more.
Wodehouse says of someone (as a dig at bad lyricists), He had the look of a man who has just realised that moon rhymes with June, and that proper steps ought to be taken (or something like - he is off to write love poetry).
Soft Machine had a great song called The Moon in June, which doesn't use the words at all, starting with a few verses about recording a session for John Peel before going on to meditate on the use of music in modern society. It's really very funny:
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Post by althea on Aug 27, 2018 16:30:54 GMT
Cole Porter,Alan J Lerner,Sammy kahn,Johnny Mercer,Steven Sondheim,Ira Gershwin and Phil harris are some of my favourite lyricists.
I wrote a poem about lazy rhyming (it's about me), called The Cliché Kid.
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Post by anybody on Aug 28, 2018 10:05:47 GMT
Phone 'hold' music. Do they intentionally choose the most banal?
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Post by clioseward on Aug 28, 2018 12:10:40 GMT
Aren't they annoying.
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Post by aubrey on Aug 28, 2018 16:22:19 GMT
Phone 'hold' music. Do they intentionally choose the most banal?
I once got one of Mozart's Clarinet concertos, which I recognised because I'd just been playing it. Lambeth council, that was (I think they have Vivaldi now, the one that always reminds me of the Tories).
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Post by rondetto on Aug 28, 2018 17:08:36 GMT
Why do so many people(of all ages) not pronounce the letter T any more. Where did this come from? Watch the films of the 30's 40's 50's 60' 70's and you don't hear actors saying butter, better, letter without the t's.
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Post by althea on Aug 30, 2018 10:17:40 GMT
I think it used to be a mainly southern thing,Ron,but now many people do it.
I hate the way teenagers talk as though they come from the West Indies.
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Post by rondetto on Sept 7, 2018 15:54:25 GMT
Nick Knowles..............I can't stand the sight of his smug face.
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Post by althea on Sept 9, 2018 12:10:54 GMT
I'm not a fan either. When he brought out that awful record,I found it excruciating to listen to it.I couldn't help laughing at the screen when he sang.
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Post by honeybear on Sept 30, 2018 7:10:33 GMT
Presenters who speak in sound bites. (That's what it's all about.)
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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Sept 30, 2018 7:36:17 GMT
Presenters who speak in sound bites. (That's what it's all about.) It doesn't get any better than this. |
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