Random Daily Banter

[briantrumpet]

I’m not a big fan of Whitney Houstan style melisma. When overdone it sounds like the singer can’t hold a note.

I suppose that when technique (either lack of it, or weirdness of it) takes your attention away from the message behind the notes & words, then it's a problem - maybe not for everyone (that depends on the listener to a large degree), but I think that that's where I am with Dylan. I just get no pleasure from the sound of Dylan's voice, and so I can't get past it to the musical/lyrical ideas behind it.

 

[Pross]

I’m not a big fan of Whitney Houstan style melisma. When overdone it sounds like the singer can’t hold a note.

I think she did it OK but the vast majority of people who do it don’t do it well (most female singers you ever hear on X Factor / The Voice etc.) where the ethos seems to be more is more.

 

[briantrumpet]

Haha, context: he did one like this ten years ago. That was a spoof, and this new one is a spoof of a spoof. Both are really worth a watch.

I've still not quite wrapped my head around this. Only in Monroe is a genuine community TV programme, and the two women seem to be its anchors. So my guess is that Colbert originally wanted something a bit viral/edgy, picked a random (?) community TV station, then made his parody around them. And ten years later though (correctly) it would be fun to mark the end of his Late Show by going back there and parodying/referencing that. It's had 325k views so far in less than two days.

Here's the actual channel.

https://cablecast.mpactstudio.org/CablecastPublicSite/show/4075

 

[TailWindHome]

Like Vinted in real life
Girls, you've invented a secondhand clothes shop

 

[AuroraSaab]

Vintage clothes fairs have been a thing for years. Good luck to them but it's nothing new. Nor will it make much of a dent in the Primark/Boohoo market - I'm told you can't give their stuff away second hand. The people buying second hand clothes at fairs aren't fast fashion shoppers in the first place, in my experience anyway.
I can recommend Ebay as a great place to buy top brand leather jackets for not much money.

 

[Pblakeney]

Read today.
It used to be that the village idiot could only annoy the patrons of the pub, now they can annoy the whole world.

 

[TailWindHome]

Read today.
It used to be that the village idiot could only annoy the patrons of the pub, now they can annoy the whole world.

The worst c unt in every pub can now meet in Facebook groups.

 

[briantrumpet]

Slightly amused looking at the figures from a new natty set of temperature/humidity sensors that connect via bluetooth to a phone app, that my old, unairconditioned house had an indoors max 20.8C, min 17.9C, ave 19.3c yesterday, while in the shade in the garden it was 26.2, 14.2, 19.8 respectively. I guess that old housebuilders had some idea of what they were doing.

 

[First Aspect]

Kimi Badenoch will take credit for the window tax and blame Labour for abolishing it.

 

[briantrumpet]

I've still not quite wrapped my head around this. Only in Monroe is a genuine community TV programme, and the two women seem to be its anchors. So my guess is that Colbert originally wanted something a bit viral/edgy, picked a random (?) community TV station, then made his parody around them. And ten years later though (correctly) it would be fun to mark the end of his Late Show by going back there and parodying/referencing that. It's had 325k views so far in less than two days.

Here's the actual channel.

https://cablecast.mpactstudio.org/CablecastPublicSite/show/4075

Ha, looks like Colbert has wound up the right people. Paramount seem to be triggered. I can only guess they think they own Stephen Colbert in some way despite them having fired him at Trump's behest.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Bon Dylan is 85 today, and I still don't get a single one of his songs as a song. That'd imply singing. Sorry.

Spoken like a music teacher.

Just been listening to his original versions of Knocking on Heaven’s Door and Lay Lady Lay. Absolutely brilliant songs, sung brilliantly, even if not pitch perfectly…every word is sung just as he meant it to be. It just works, 60 years later.

 

[Ian H]

Spoken like a music teacher.

Just been listening to his original versions of Knocking on Heaven’s Door and Lay Lady Lay. Absolutely brilliant songs, sung brilliantly, even if not pitch perfectly…every word is sung just as he meant it to be. It just works, 60 years later.

Watching the River Flow, etc. 'Polite' versions of Dylan's songs mostly don't work for me.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Watching the River Flow, etc. 'Polite' versions of Dylan's songs mostly don't work for me.

As shown by several Manfred Mann hits of the 60s.

 

[briantrumpet]

Actually probably quicker than First Class post on Earth then.