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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2021 14:58:31 GMT
I need to go full JAZZ in the future.
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Post by rayge on Sept 16, 2021 15:06:06 GMT
Oh, and 'agenda' is plural, so you could lose the 's'
I agree with you that G is talking nonsense. But I don't think agenda is plural. It seems to me that it is a feminine term, and it's plural would be agendae in Latin. Nothing like criterium/criteria. I am right about its origins - I did actually study Latin, albeit long, long ago - but as usual I'm fighting a lost battle - although this on-line source at least suggests that, like 'sheep', 'agenda' is both singular and plural.
And of course Criterion criteria is Greek, but perhaps that was your point.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Sept 16, 2021 15:09:28 GMT
I need to go full JAZZ in the future. jazz and 70s soul/funk seem to attract the most votes as long as they are half decent. folk from the late 60s/early 70s normally does well. garage punk, punk rock, psych, 60s soul, blues, 50s, early 60s, PROG and 80s are 50-50. anything from the 90s onwards is a gamble, but there are some who will always vote for it regardless of the quality. uk freakbeat is cup suicide.
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Post by osgood on Sept 16, 2021 16:12:52 GMT
I agree with you that G is talking nonsense. But I don't think agenda is plural. It seems to me that it is a feminine term, and it's plural would be agendae in Latin. Nothing like criterium/criteria. I am right about its origins - I did actually study Latin, albeit long, long ago - but as usual I'm fighting a lost battle - although this on-line source at least suggests that, like 'sheep', 'agenda' is both singular and plural.
And of course Criterion criteria is Greek, but perhaps that was your point. No, it wasn't but I appreciate your attempt to help me save my face.
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Post by rayge on Sept 16, 2021 16:19:02 GMT
Well, I've just done my daily three ties and two of the tracks were actually painful to listen to and the rest were thoroughly underwhelming.
If music affects me at all these days - and it's becoming increasingly unlikely as I drift towards anhedonia - it's largely to do with memories of past ethusiasms rather than something new hitting the parts of me that used to stimulate a positive affect.
I'm sure it's something to do with the way I am aging - there's certainly no sign of any of the pathologies that usually accompany anhedonia. Something similar has happened with reading creative work, novels or poetry,and movies. I used to love them, bathe in them, but I hardly ever feel need these days. And even in things I do enjoy, the reaction is different. I admire comedy, but rarely laugh out loud. I love looking at things - photos or paintings or landscapes - but they don't evoke feelings in me the way they used to.
It's not that I'm incapable of pleasure, btw. I can still find it in many places, just not in some of the art forms that I used to rely on. And my natural introversion and undemonstrativeness doesn't help.
Which of course says nothing about why all you other cloth-eared chumps are being negative about everything and upsetting G, but that's my story.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2021 7:09:08 GMT
I need to go full JAZZ in the future. jazz and 70s soul/funk seem to attract the most votes as long as they are half decent. folk from the late 60s/early 70s normally does well. garage punk, punk rock, psych, 60s soul, blues, 50s, early 60s, PROG and 80s are 50-50. anything from the 90s onwards is a gamble, but there are some who will always vote for it regardless of the quality. uk freakbeat is cup suicide. I would add it is much easier to pick up votes with an obscure post-punk or indie track than it is an obscure 60s cut, irrespective of quality.
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Post by DarknessFish on Sept 17, 2021 8:01:53 GMT
Is there any evidence to back that up? I mean 70% of the picks are fairly obscure 60s cuts. Obscure post-punk doesn't go down well at all in my experience, it's why I'm always last.
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Post by DarknessFish on Sept 17, 2021 8:07:06 GMT
Someone hire a statistician, pronto!
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Sept 18, 2021 13:55:40 GMT
I've come up with a new voting technique for the final two CHAOS rounds: I press play on both clips at the same time, and whichever one finishes first is the winner.
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Post by fange on Sept 18, 2021 14:08:41 GMT
I've come up with a new voting technique for the final two CHAOS rounds: I press play on both clips at the same time, and whichever one finishes first is the winner. 😥
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Post by osgood on Sept 19, 2021 7:09:45 GMT
Congrats fange, well done! Who would have thought Sun Ra was going to give you your final point!
It's being extremely uncertain until the very end. All the time Clive Gash, neige and fange have been swapping positions. It was fun to follow from my high chair.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Sept 19, 2021 7:17:18 GMT
thanks for organising the final, oz!
great job.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2021 8:08:01 GMT
Many thanks Os and Ray.You both did a sterling job. Well done Fange for winning it!
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Post by osgood on Sept 19, 2021 8:15:31 GMT
My discoveries in the final, Suzie Ungerleider, The Comet Is Coming and Artlu Bubbles, plus the reminder of revisiting Herbie Hancock, Stereolab, Caetano Veloso and Sun Ra.
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Post by fange on Sept 20, 2021 12:31:30 GMT
Hmmm, maybe we could run a side competition, "Guess whose track it is". Finalists would have to do it through PMs.
I reckon I can get 'em all, so I'll take up the challenge! How did you go? I'm not very good at picking what others chose; it never crossed my mind that you were against me in C!
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