Poetry

[Wodewick]

Don't get me started.

Jazz and poetry.

Shoowbdeee raa skeee, bee be be show doo wap. ahhhhhh, ra ta skillidy bop.

Scat - Shirley (ie not representative of all Jazz)

[minestrone]

Scat - Shirley (ie not representative of all Jazz)

Jazz fans would make you believe Dizzy Gillespie invented the diminished seventh.

Self important tripe if you ask me.

[Mich the Tester]

Don't get me started.

Jazz and poetry.

And rugby.


What next?

[minestrone]

And rugby.


What next?

Bob Dylan.

Atonal tripe.

[Mich the Tester]

Bob Dylan.

Yep, I'm with you there.

[wobbegong]

Jazz fans would make you believe Dizzy Gillespie invented the diminished seventh.

Self important tripe if you ask me.

Agreed, and while I loathe it as a genre, trad jazz (Dixieland?) is worlds apart from modern jazz, which, as far as I can tell, is just five guys each playing a different tune that they just made up.

[minestrone]

Just listened to Belle & Sabsatians's "I fought in a war"

I fought in a war
and I left my friends behind me
to go looking for the enemy

Can someone tell him he never fought in a war and he never went looking for the enemy.

[TimberWolf]

Poetry made palatable:

(might be called 'music')


Tell her to find me an acre of land [Very practical]
(On the side of a hill a sprinkling of leaves) [nice sing-over]
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme [that's poetry!]
(Washes the grave with silvery tears) [acceptable poetry]
Between the salt water and the sea strands [hmm, losing it now]
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun) [wtf]
Then she'll be a true love of mine [oh, ffs]

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt [A what?]
(A hill in the deep forest green) [My favourite line]

[minestrone]

Must be about the Normandy landings I guess.

[sal626]

I don’t mind some poetry, but at school I couldn’t stand teachers telling me how great a particular poem is. I get that you like it…why do I have to like it?