Interactive poll team

Snicolette wrote: I am fine with Lorenzo's schedule, for my inclusion.

Edited by jamesbaldwin - July 22 2020 at 11:37

Snicolette wrote: Hello Lorenzo, sure!  I would like to do one with the focus on male singer/songwriters. Not on PA, preferably acoustic oriented, although electric embellishment is fine with me (as in bypass the one ballad every hair band was obliged to do in the 80's).  Lyrics should be included, in original language and English.  I think you'd said you liked the idea of singer/songwriters, I was thinking you might like to escort the ladies on that topic, if not, I'll bring my girlfriends along the next time I do one, or someone else might wish to?

The posting of lyrics presents a problem due to copyright/ intellectual property issues. See this topic: Copyrighted material - A warning

We have recently been obliged to remove a popular and otherwise compliant thread due to it being riddled with the quoting of copyrighted material. We were approached by one of the copyright owners who made it clear in unambiguous terms that legal action would be taken if the quotes were not removed immediately. Members are reminded that they should not include copyrighted material in their forum posts or reviews without the express permission of the owner. This includes lyrics, essays, and all text appearing on other websites, in books, magazines etc. It is usually best to use links to other websites rather than reprint text from them. Members are reminded that they are personally responsible for what they say in their posts and reviews, and as such, may find themselves drawn into any subsequent action which is taken by copyright owners.

^^ Does that include translations of the lyrics?

I was going to post something about that and fair use/ fair dealing laws but deleted it for clarity and because I'm no expert. I would think that translations might well be okay if done by yourself (or google translate and not official, unless with permission), as well as excerpts depending on the context, but I wasn't involved in the warning nor have I been advised by lawyers on such things. I am fairly familiar when it comes to copyright and fair use/fair dealing laws because I used to create parodies (long ago), and because of my job as it involves lots of quoting of material (that gets covered by fair use/fair dealing laws when done/ sourced correctly because of the context), but that's not the same situation as when quoting at this site, so...

If not linking to the lyrics (one would have to be very careful with where one links to too, lots of "bad" one there are themselves no internationally lawful, and some that have presented internet safety concerns, official sources being best), we could perhaps paraphrase bits:

"The female is fond of thee, yes, yes, yes
The female is fond of thee, yes, yes, yes
The female is fond of thee, yes, yes, yes
Having a fondness of that ilk
Thee understands that thou should feel compelled to be pleased" (paraphrased from The Beatles' "She Loves You").

;)


Edited by Logan - July 22 2020 at 12:59

Edited by suitkees - July 22 2020 at 13:32

Once again setting the bar high, thanks to Lewian for his Surprise poll!  I will be posting the new poll either tomorrow or on Tuesday at the latest.  This one, as discussed, will be male singer/songwriters.  There's a wealth of them, so it will be interesting to hear what fans of prog also enjoy in another realm.    

Logan wrote: Snicolette wrote: Once again setting the bar high, thanks to Lewian for his Surprise poll!  I will be posting the new poll either tomorrow or on Tuesday at the latest.  This one, as discussed, will be male singer/songwriters.  There's a wealth of them, so it will be interesting to hear what fans of prog also enjoy in another realm.     How about male gunslinger/songwriters?

  They would certainly be acceptable, I'm just nixing any hair band obligatory ballads, I want the entrants to come from the singer/songwriter genre, not rockers doing a one-off.  

Edited by Snicolette - July 26 2020 at 19:22

Logan wrote: Snicolette wrote:  They would certainly be acceptable, I'm just nixing any hair band obligatory ballads, I want the entrants to come from the singer/songwriter genre, not rockers doing a one-off.   Well then Yeehah! I'll try to bring the big guns. That's Cher straddling a very big gun on a battleship from her "If I Could Turn Back Time" video. I wish she could turn back time and not have done that video. Seriously, I'm all for gun control and will leave the guns behind for the topic methinks. I can't promise that my singer/songwriter won't be very hairy, however.

  As long as the cat is a tom, all well and good.   Edited to add, that my great aunt (who loved Neil Diamond's singing technique) detested Robert Goulet, who she said "sounded like a yowling cat."    And she liked cats, but not Mr Goulet.

Edited by Snicolette - July 26 2020 at 20:45

mathman0806 wrote: Admittedly, he did not sing nor write, but I thought of this Tom.

LOVE this!