The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154496   Message #3625935
Posted By: GUEST,Musket
14-May-14 - 03:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Eurovision
Subject: RE: BS: Eurovision
Quite a few other folk instruments too. Synthesisers , pianos, guitars, brass sections, drums, bass, strings section....

Al. If what you consider music was put forward it wouldn't receive mAny votes, trust me. I have lived and worked in the land of Beethoven and Bach. I still have business dealings in the area that spawned Vivaldi. I wake up in Bologna, open the shutters to let the cultural heritage of the renaissance flood my room in a four hundred year old hotel, and shut my eyes to take in the sounds.

And you know what?

The sounds coming from the street cafe below me include a medley of Chas & Dave knees up sing in Italian by a bunch of session singers with a computer drum beat behind it.

Same as in every factory, office and shop from Calais to Baku.

Many years ago, I even heard an orchestra with what suspiciously sounded like The Mike Samme Singers knocking out a jolly version of The Stranglers Golden Brown. I was having breakfast in a hotel in Munich and the waiter turned it up, started singing along.

Naw, in the land of people with dildos on their heads, you need to fix a dildo before gaining credibility.....