BS: popular threads today

Subject: popular threads today
From: greg stephens
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 07:11 PM

Not wishing to be provocative in any way (I'm not a GUEST) I've just being doing a bit of analysis, and big hits at the moment include playing with your genitals, American catholic priests and their bad habits, naming American celtic bands and "Are you ashamed to be American". Is some kind of pattern seeming to form in the swirling mists of Mudcat?

Subject: RE: popular threads today
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 07:13 PM

Spreadsheet boy!

Subject: RE: popular threads today
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 07:14 PM

Stick around. Threads about Mudcat itself (and threads) are making making a bid for the top spot. Of course, I guess you could include them in the above pattern...

Subject: RE: popular threads today
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 07:52 PM

What is folk?

Subject: RE: popular threads today
From: Robin2
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 08:44 PM

So the ultimate thread would be unnamed Irish American priests ashamed to be caught playing with their genitals?

sorry...I'll go away now (THIS one earned me some hail mary's)

Subject: RE: popular threads today
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 08:52 PM

Playing with their genitals is not the problem though Robin!!

There are a lot of pretty popular music threads that have gotten some quick and good responses, it's just that the general BS subjects tend to remain at the top of the list becasue of the number of opinions whereas a music thread can only go so far or have a far more limited number of knowledgeable respondents......The BS has almost NO knowledgeable respondents but we all have an asshole opinion.

Spaw

Subject: RE: popular threads today
From: Robin2
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 09:07 PM

Spaw said:*Playing with their genitals is not the problem*

I agree Spaw, but my catholic guilt upbringing wouldn't let me say it...thanks for saying it for me :)

My posts related to music don't seem to stay up for long, but I have always gotten the answers i was looking for. I think when people are looking for specific information, it doesn't take long for Mudcat to answer. The BS threads are looking for opinions, which can be as long as as varied as everyone here. But I find them as much fun as learning music here, that's just part of Mudcat.

I do have several very musical friends that all of the BS threads have chased off. I keep raving about this site, but every time one of my musician friends come here, the threads are dominated by a bunch of BS. *sigh*

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: Dead Horse
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 05:52 PM

All very boring, and not the ones I even bother to read.
Now, if you want to ask about shanties...............

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 05:59 PM

Folk is what?

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 06:05 PM

Dead Horse, do you know a shanty called "One More Pull?"

(Note: I haven't missed the irony in the title, but I'm really looking for this. Got a new song - supposedly there's an old one. Would like to learn the old one.)

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: JedMarum
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 06:49 PM

It's true; the quickest way to start a popular, long lasting thread at this place is to create a hatefilled discussion regarding your favorite poliical beef. There are lots of lunatics lurking, just waiting to weigh in with their rage, hate, pathos ...

If you want to learn about music - you look through the archives (old threads, the DT or both). Then maybe, if you still have thoughts or questions you can resurrect the old thread with a new thought/question or start a new thread - knowing either will be short lived. BUT you'll get good info!

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: Dead Horse
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 04:59 AM

Could it be The Farewell Shanty? That has the phrase in it somewhere. Then again, "One more pull & then belay" is how oodles of shanties end (in folk clubs its the way the shantyman tells the chorus that they can shut up now:-)
Thought I'd posted reply already, but can't find it. My senile brain probably told my digits to hit wrong button.

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: SeanM
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 05:22 AM

I've heard one sung at a session that may or may not be trad - for the life of me all I really remember is the chorus being "One more pull, boys, one more haul" or some such... is that anything near?

M

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: Hrothgar
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 06:01 AM

"One more pull, and then belay" seems to crop up as the last verse in more shanties than you can point a stick at. I think it just gets used as the indicator that the job (and/or the song) is about done.

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 06:13 AM

"Popular threads today"
Jeans and a T-shirt ??

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: greg stephens
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 06:54 AM

yes,in my convoluted way, my initial posting of this thread was, I suppose, to say : interesting as the BS threads are, if we dont self-ration the time we spend contributing to irrelevant thought provoking/amusing topics, we will inevitably drive away people who could teach us all a lot.And I have come to learn.I have no objection to genitals or American priests, but lets have a selfimposed rule that evry contribution we make to such a thread shouldbe matched by ten on the subject of the tune of St James Infirmary, Blind Willy Walker's hot licks or how many Phrygian mode English tunes you know.

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: JedMarum
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 08:22 AM

I wish it could be so, Greg.

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 08:41 AM

"One more pull" doesn't refer to that popular thread Greg referred to at the start of this thread does it?

I like the threads that dig into the roots of a song and turn up the stories that lie behind them, and maybe the other songs that flesh out the stories, rather than just "What are the words" "Here they are", and that's it. Learning the words is just the first step in learning a song.

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: Cappuccino
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 10:41 AM

It's the Phrigyian modes that give me the trouble, if you'll excuse the expression!

- Ian B

Subject: RE: BS: popular threads today
From: greg stephens
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 10:49 AM

Some of these threads are quite definitely in the Phrygian mode. I also think there's a song called "Pull, Boys, Pull". Anyway life would be a lot better if all you BS posters get a grip and take yourselves in hand, you'll soon be feeling yourselves again.