The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Beresford]

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.)

[Ein Heldenleben]

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

[french frank]

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.

[antongould]

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 …….

[french frank]

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.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

That and their Twitter account just turned out to be publicity/marketing tools for Radio 3.

Sycophantic marketing too...

[Serial_Apologist]

Sycophantic marketing too...

Simple frantic marketing!

[Bax-of-Delights]

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.

[kernelbogey]

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

[rauschwerk]

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

I thought it the most dreadful pap.

[Joseph K]

I thought it the most dreadful pap.

Although sort of funny because of it, IMO.

[french frank]

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.”

[oddoneout]

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.

[cloughie]

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!

[kernelbogey]

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.