Interactive poll team

It's such a different ouvre than the progressive one where lyrics can be important, but are not necessarily the primary consideration...and prog relies so much on the instrumentation.  I agree, we can look up the lyrics (even in other languages) and often people will have provided a translation on the the YT, as well.  At worst, Google translate, if necessary, as Raff said.  

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

LOVE this!  

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

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

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.    

Edited by suitkees - July 22 2020 at 13:32

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

^^ Does that include translations of the lyrics?