Thursday Music Link
Expect a lot more TML tracks to be coming from this new source. I have one of those last.fm accounts too, but it's not really very representative of my music taste; ever since I used it for music for a barbecue this summer, last.fm has got a fixed idea that I am much more of a reggae fan than I actually am.
Mi Revalueshanary Fren
This means that I can control the content of TML without even opening a web browser, or even listening to the track in question.
ReplyDeleteI've got some friends who hate poetry that is written in a phonetic rendition of a dialect (or patois or whatever) and I see their point, it can be patronising and repellent. There's a chapter in Ulverton, for instance, which is unreadable to me.
ReplyDeleteBut I use Mi Revalueshanary Fren as a counter-example, because anyone will like it. I like it better written down even than performed I think, because the rhythm is so strong.
Yes, I agree on written down versus performed. James Kelman had a good essay somewhere about dialect/patois transliteration, but I can't find it (I presume it must have been in "And the winner is ..."
ReplyDeleteThis actually runs back into the Kipling thread at Jamie's. Orwell's essay on Kipling has a dig at him for phoneticking the three soldiers' accents and goes so far to alter the spellings back in the bits he quotes.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you're right about last.fm and reggae. I accepted a couple of recommendations for old rocksteady bands and now it's obsessed! clearly their algorithm can get into a pathological local maximum.
ReplyDeleteI am actually beginning to quite like the Trashcan Sinatras, since it appears that more or less whatever I ask for in the way of early 90s indie, it comes up with "and of course Sir would be wanting the Trashcan Sinatras with that, wouldn't one?".
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