Originally posted by Retune
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Why on earth is record review moving
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Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
Like so many things these days, this seems like parody….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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Originally posted by french frank View Post
There may be a physiological reason why some music gives some people goosebumps. But since I've never really thought about it or experienced it I (for one) shan't be interested in hearing the answer.
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostI suspect that hearing TS talk about it would act as a total suppressant."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
My physiology certainly allows me to experience goosebumps, but I suspect that hearing TS talk about it would act as a total suppressant.
Pretty soon AI will be able to make radio features like the goosebump one but it’ll be some time before it can do anything that requires critical thinking.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
Can’t see any point broadcasting anything that you can find on wiki or by a bit of googling and the “why does music give you goosebumps “ falls into that category. Still it means that feature can be knocked together in a couple of hours while BAL reviewers spend days listening to CD’s and making fine judgements.
Pretty soon AI will be able to make radio features like the goosebump one but it’ll be some time before it can do anything that requires critical thinking.
Thanks for yours on Butterfly, btw!
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Originally posted by DoctorT View PostJust spent a lazy Saturday morning listening to Record review, as I have on most Saturdays since the 1970s. Alas no more, Sounds notwithstanding. An exemplary BaL today too
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
The language we use is so revealing about the way we think isn’t it? I am not sure they can even be separated- but then I tend to think in words . Use of cliché so often means that very little real thought has taken place. That doesn’t matter if you are ordering a home delivery but it does when you’re talking about a complex culturally rich institution. It’s the effort to sound like a U.S. businessman that’s so dispiriting . The thing is he thinks it’s impressive.
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
'A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I put it more shortly? Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you – even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent – and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.'
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I've just thought to look up the headline story of last quarter's Rajar figures: the BBC continues to lose listeners to commercial radio. R3 certainly seems to be throwing everything into losing its 'stuffy elitist' image in favour of lean-back easy listening.
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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Presumably the data shows ( or can be made to show) that people tend to listen to the show on BBC Sounds at a time of their choosing, according to their lifestyle and preferences, so really, anything can be on at any old time.
So although they could , for instance , sensibly move weekend breakfast back 2 hours to make it a much more fashionable Brunch,there isn’t much point.
Or something.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
Also 'immersive' and 'mindful'.
The new agenda seems to be music as emotional therapy. Intellectual approaches are a no-no.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by Retune View Post
This ought to be required reading for senior figures at the BBC:
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
'A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I put it more shortly? Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you – even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent – and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.'
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View PostThere are very many excellent writers at the BBC . Believe it or not even some of the management reports are well written - as they should be given that many of those managers are journalists. The problem is that US business speak has taken over.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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