BBC Lyrics vote

[Kevin Perry]

Yeah - someone ought to teach them how to write 'BBC English' :-)

My vote's just gone in for the first 3 lines of SotA.

Kevin Perry
Sonic Energy Authority
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous;
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duties."

----- Original Message -----
From: Jill <jill at THETA-ORIONIS.FREESERVE.CO.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: BBC Lyrics vote


> 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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