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  • Beresford
    Full Member
    • Apr 2012
    • 555

    To rhyme would it be "Singen with Bingen" or Working Hard with Hildegard".
    But I missed the sloganising element. (There's a lot of it about.)

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    • Ein Heldenleben
      Full Member
      • Apr 2014
      • 6779

      1000 pages of posts on one programme - a truly historic moment and only 8 away from another …

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30286

        Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
        1000 pages of posts on one programme - a truly historic moment and only 8 away from another …
        And don't forget all the ones that were on the old BBC messageboards. And on the R3 Facebook page until they decided to pull the plug on them - a bit too public.
        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8782

          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          And don't forget all the ones that were on the old BBC messageboards. And on the R3 Facebook page until they decided to pull the plug on them - a bit too public.
          But there is a grumpy group on Facebook, run, I think, by one of your great friends …….

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30286

            Originally posted by antongould View Post
            But there is a grumpy group on Facebook, run, I think, by one of your great friends …….
            If it's the one I'm thinking of, never much of a friend Too rude for the likes of I. And I too polite for the likes of 'e.

            I meant the original BBC R3 Facebook page which once allowed listeners to start topics of their own - the ones they wanted to comment on, not the ones selected by R3. It was supposed to be the new, up-to-the-minute version of the old messageboards which everyone had stopped using That and their Twitter account just turned out to be publicity/marketing tools for Radio 3.
            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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            • Eine Alpensinfonie
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 20570

              Originally posted by french frank View Post
              That and their Twitter account just turned out to be publicity/marketing tools for Radio 3.
              Sycophantic marketing too...

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              • Serial_Apologist
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 37683

                Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                Sycophantic marketing too...
                Simple frantic marketing!

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                • Bax-of-Delights
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 745

                  EA’s breathless excitement over “Plaid” (sp?) electronic music cuts no ice with this listener who enjoyed Tangerine Dream, Beaver and Krause, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band etc etc way back in the 70’s. I hear nothing “new” or innovative in the present bunch of electronica composers, merely a reiteration of simple phrases pushed to enervating lengths.

                  Their tediousness is only surpassed by yet another outing for that master of the “I wrote one good tune so let’s replicate it a thousand times, give it a new title and the mug punter won’t notice” Scott Joplin. To be found every single day on R3 on one programme or another.
                  O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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                  • kernelbogey
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 5745

                    Michael Torke - Tahiti: pretty empty-headed, IMVHO.

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                    • rauschwerk
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 1481

                      Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                      Michael Torke - Tahiti: pretty empty-headed, IMVHO.
                      I thought it the most dreadful pap.

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                      • Joseph K
                        Banned
                        • Oct 2017
                        • 7765

                        Originally posted by rauschwerk View Post
                        I thought it the most dreadful pap.
                        Although sort of funny because of it, IMO.

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30286

                          Originally posted by rauschwerk View Post
                          I thought it the most dreadful pap.
                          You're obviously not the intended audience!

                          Torke says, “I have always wanted to write a composition that would inspire a woman, coming home from a long day of work, to draw a bath, light candles, and listen to it on her pink iPod.”
                          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                          • oddoneout
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2015
                            • 9192

                            Originally posted by french frank View Post
                            You're obviously not the intended audience!

                            Torke says, “I have always wanted to write a composition that would inspire a woman, coming home from a long day of work, to draw a bath, light candles, and listen to it on her pink iPod.”
                            I'm not sure the "intended audience" would necessarily think much of his explanation. It falls into the category of TMI and better left unsaid on several counts, to my way of thinking.

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22120

                              Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                              I'm not sure the "intended audience" would necessarily think much of his explanation. It falls into the category of TMI and better left unsaid on several counts, to my way of thinking.
                              Dire music seems to have littered this morning’s programming as it progressed through Essential Classics!

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                              • kernelbogey
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 5745

                                Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                                Michael Torke - Tahiti: pretty empty-headed, IMVHO.
                                I thought I had noticed this week that the first half hour of Breakfast (0630-0700) is free of such fare; a quick check of the playlists supports this notion. There does seem to be a certain creeping-in of Radio 2.1-type music as the programme wends on. I'm an admirer of Hannah French; to be fair to her she was slightly laughing in her back-announcement of the Torke piece.

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