BBC Lyrics vote

Dave Greenhalgh d.greenhalgh at VIRGIN.NET
Mon Oct 4 20:14:36 EDT 1999


Hey, maybe this is pre-ordained,  have you noticed the distinctly avian look
of the back ground .gif on the vote accepted page?

Dave

Jill wrote:

> M Holmes wrote:
> >
> > The BBC web site has a vote on the best song lyric. I wondered if we
> > ought to decide on a line from one of Calvert's pieces and then go vote
> > 'im into the chart?
> >
> > Maybe the first verse of Spirit of the Age?
> >
> > FoFP
>
> Hmmm.  Time is a bit short - final votes have to be in by 6pm on October
> 6th (Wednesday).  Here's the website address
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/poetry/npd_vote.shtml
>
> My own preference is for Ten Seconds of Forever or First Landing on
> Medusa but both these are spoken pieces and I guess they are looking for
> a sung lyric.
>
> In that case Spirit of the Age probably would be best, it's certainly
> contemporary enough but how much of Quark Strangeness and Charm is
> Calvert and how much Brock?  Or Kerb Crawler?   Or Steppenwolf?
>
> Perhaps we should each vote our preference to focus on the writer rather
> than a particular song.
>
> jill  (amused to see where the BBC have put the apostrophe in Nation's -
> although it might be intentional I guess if they are taking devolution
> seriously!)
>
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> J.D.Strobridge at ed.ac.uk
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