River of Music: 12 hrs Non-stop Music: Sunday 30 October

[Beef Oven!]

Who are 'we', and when was this?

We are the Proms audience.

It certainly is, even if there's not much left to say about it!

There will always be people who can’t move on.

I'm quite positive about some of the things you urge us to be positive about, though I'm not sure that 'positivity' is a virtue in and of itself.

I didn’t speak of virtues. I spoke about positivity, in this context.

What I have been most negative about on this thread has been Mr GG's negativity towards people who disagree with him.

What planet are you on!!!!!!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

We are the Proms audience.

What all 5,000+ of them?

There will always be people who can’t move on.

Too right! If something isn't right, we should never move on.

[Beef Oven!]

What all 5,000+ of them?

Why don’t you come to one, one day? Then you will be able to comment with some credibility

Too right! If something isn't right, we should never move on.

Things change, and we change with them.

[Cockney Sparrow]

FFS I couldn't give a toss about whether people "agree" or disagree with me
people can think what they like
and I really don't care whether you like the same things at all...........

I have to say, I usually skip your posts. and any responses to them. Life is too short....... (I don't want to be gratuitously offensive but, given the above......).

[Beef Oven!]

I have to say, I usually skip your posts. and any responses to them. Life is too short....... (I don't want to be gratuitously offensive but, given the above......).

I think you are missing the point .....

[french frank]

Why can’t we be more positive, or at least wait before consigning things to the dustbin? It just feels strange to have this sort of mindset in a forum like this. I wouldn’t have expected this forum to be like this. I expect more open-mindedness, curiosity and positivity.

More positive - what percentage would be right? I said it broke about 50:50 but you keep mentioning only the negative - almost as if you didn't notice any positive comments. Which provoked my remark that people are inclined to notice (even inflate the importance of?) the comments that they disagree with.

Negativity towards a programme one didn't enjoy very much isn't necessarily a sign of narrowmindedness, any more than enjoying lots of things is a sign of open-mindedness. It just indicates personal taste, doesn't it?

Some people were constantly attacking other people's comments on the programme without at any point showing any sign at all that they listened to it themselves. Now that mindset certainly seemed to lack open-mindedness, curiosity and positivity.

[oddoneout]

Something I found rather odd was that although I was coming at this exercise 'blind' in that I had read nothing about it beforehand and knew that it was happening only from mentions on R3 I must at some stage have built up an expectation of what it would be like - and was rather disappointed. Now I'm trying to fathom out why exactly.

However, as I've said before, I still think it was worth doing.

[Beresford]

... I must at some stage have built up an expectation of what it would be like - and was rather disappointed. Now I'm trying to fathom out why exactly.

I had the same feeling, and I don't know why. Maybe it was all the prior mentions raising my expectations, or maybe it was all the historic(?) performances. I wonder what the reaction would have been if R3 had just done it, without any trails or blogs.

[Nick Armstrong]

Crikey - not having been radio-listening for some days, this 'River' idea (and this thread) had largely passed me by. From that position on the river bank, I'm surprised how troubled the waters are (having glanced through a few pages below)...

Looking down the playlists, it seems to me that (bar the odd item like the Dr Who theme), I could achieve almost exactly the same thing by sticking my ipod on 'shuffle' ... so I'm not distraught at having missed it (ditto the slightly bad-tempered reaction to it )

[ardcarp]

Not everyone was anti, Calibs. Some of us went with the flow.

[Nick Armstrong]

Not everyone was anti, Calibs. Some of us went with the flow.

Absolutely.

Paddling one's own canoe seems the best way.

(Have the river puns been done to death earlier in the thread? Or was ferney away too...? )

[kernelbogey]

I recognise that I'm apt to criticise BBC activities here without necessarily saying what I like, and perhaps could be more balanced, nuanced. I liked the river sufficiently to become hooked on listening for about the last five hours, dipping in and out of playlist and blog as I went. It was a good idea, and although I thought some aspects could have beeen better handled, and said so, I think it a sufficiently interesting concept to be adapted for regular broadcasts, as others have said. Over the years there has been much posting about too much chatter and listener involvement, and here is an idea for a regular slot of music uninterrupted by talk.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(Have the river puns been done to death earlier in the thread? Or was ferney away too...? )

eh?!




No - I've mostly just been enjoying the pantomime of the Thread: the project didn't appeal, so I did other things instead (including listening to the completed Bruckner Ninth ... in Dee minor).

I do think twelve hours was a little excessive - I'd've thought severn would've been enough (to prevent it becoming a Bore). But what do I know - the Thames they are a changing, and Wear just going to have to adapt to them. Ure never going to get consensus on this: Ouse station is it, anyway; ours not to reason Wye ... we'll all be Calder order in the end, thank Avons for small Merseys. But I do think we need to meet Medway and not insult other Forumistas, even if we don't agree Witham, as I was only saying to my exe.



(You had to open the locked door in the cellar didn't you! Stand back! The floodgates have been opened .... )

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

eh?!




No - I've mostly just been enjoying the pantomime of the Thread: the project didn't appeal, so I did other things instead (including listening to the completed Bruckner Ninth ... in Dee minor).

I do think twelve hours was a little excessive - I'd've thought severn would've been enough (to prevent it becoming a Bore). But what do I know - the Thames they are a changing, and Wear just going to have to adapt to them. Ure never going to get consensus on this: Ouse station is it, anyway; ours not to reason Wye ... we'll all be Calder order in the end, thank Avons for small Merseys. But I do think we need to meet Medway and not insult other Forumistas, even if we don't agree Witham, as I was only saying to my exe.



(You had to open the locked door in the cellar didn't you! Stand back! The floodgates have been opened .... )

[vinteuil]

... me, I'm in de Nile - it's the only thing that stops me going in Seine.