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Sean Trane 
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 Posted: April 28 2007 at 16:24 |
 Certif1ed wrote:
I like the music of Didier Squiban - but it's nothing special, just second-rate coffee-bar piano music with a pallid jazz complexion and Gallic Celtic hints. Rather beige really - but nice background for when I don't want my ears to do any work.
But who's even heard of Didier Squiban outside of France?
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who's even heard of him in France?  
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Certif1ed
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Posted: April 28 2007 at 13:27 |
There are plenty of albums I like that I know aren't particularly wonderful music - and I wouldn't expect anyone to like them as much as I do - it's a personal thing.
I like the music of Didier Squiban - but it's nothing special, just second-rate coffee-bar piano music with a pallid jazz complexion and Gallic Celtic hints. Rather beige really - but nice background for when I don't want my ears to do any work.
But who's even heard of Didier Squiban outside of France?
But there are also plenty of albums I detest that I know are well-composed and very popular: If it's popular, then how can it be bad?
Who is one person to say an album is bad if 30,000,000 people disagree?
I'm thinking here of any Prince or U2 album you happen to name - I can't stand either, and don't think much of their compositional skills .
So obviously, they're bad... 
Edited by Certif1ed - April 28 2007 at 13:32
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 09:52 |
Sasquamo wrote:
If I don't like an album, then it's bad. What's the problem?
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There's a subtle difference. "I don't like the album" is less absolute than "the album is bad". The latter suggests that the album is bad by "objective" standards. But of course it also depends on the readers ... some may treat these two statements equally, while others might take offense. Personally I consider it nit-picking ...
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Yontar
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 09:22 |
Sasquamo wrote:
If I don't like an album, then it's bad. What's the problem?
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exactly... i wouldnt say bad though, i would just say its not your style or not quality material in your opinion.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 09:12 |
chopper wrote:
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Yeah..YOU are Mike, after all, you did get the Monty Python connection.  |
I believe the correct quote is "You're all individuals".  |
Yo ... Ness! Actually he first says "You're all individuals", then a little pause, then "You're all different". BTW: I'm really not smart ... I googled it! 
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 08:37 |
chopper wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
Ok, so I'm not *that* smart.
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Yeah..YOU are Mike, after all, you did get the Monty Python connection. |
I believe the correct quote is "You're all individuals". |
Smartarse!
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chopper
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 08:30 |
Snow Dog wrote:
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
Ok, so I'm not *that* smart.
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Yeah..YOU are Mike, after all, you did get the Monty Python connection. |
I believe the correct quote is "You're all individuals".
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Fassbinder
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 08:19 |
Epitath wrote:
not my cup of tea |
Certif1ed wrote:
Tea culpa? |
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 08:18 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
Ok, so I'm not *that* smart.
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Yeah..YOU are Mike, after all, you did get the Monty Python connection.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 08:08 |
Ok, so I'm not *that* smart.
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Certif1ed
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 07:47 |
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Epitath
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 07:38 |
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not my cup of tea
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 07:25 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
^ reminds me of the old Monty Python joke (from Life of Brian): "You're all different!" -> "I'm not!". |
Thats why I said it Mike!  *needs smacks palm on head emoticon*
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 07:20 |
^ reminds me of the old Monty Python joke (from Life of Brian): "You're all different!" -> "I'm not!".
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 07:15 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
Face it ... we're all genius! |
I'm not!
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 07:10 |
Face it ... we're all genius!
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 07:04 |
Jon Bon Jovi.  Yep, got that.
Genius. Yep, I understand the meaning.
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tuxon
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 06:58 |
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Bon Jovi is a genius though, as is Shatner, we are surrounded by geniussis and we don't even recognise it.
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I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 06:29 |
^ so being "self-ironic" is automatically genius, but writing really clever hooklines and grooves isn't? I guess it lies in the ear of the belistener (woops, *that* was genius!).
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Certif1ed
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Posted: April 27 2007 at 06:08 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
^ remember what happened to me when I mentioned the words "genius" and "Jon Bon Jovi" in the same sentence? |
Oops - you did it again.
"Transformed Man" is a work of genius though, and I don't mean in an accidentally and fashionably humourous-in-a-bad-way type of genius. It took me a while to get it because I was laughing too much at Shatner - then I realised that Shatner was laughing himself... Genius.
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