Crossover Music, Easy Listening, & Light Classical

[Condobloke]

 

[Condobloke]

 

[Fymgee]

To become truly classical, a writer must cease composing, and start decomposing

what do you mean by decomposing? lol

 

[KGIII]

what do you mean by decomposing? lol

I'll answer for him, as he may be otherwise occupied. This is what he means (I'm pretty sure):


Rotting in the ground. It's a pun, a play on words. It's meant to be a joke, to be funny. These types of jokes aren't always understood by people who aren't native English speakers.

It's a play on 'compose' and 'decompose'.

It's not the first type of pun like this. In fact, if you go way back to Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', you'll learn that Mercutio is killed. As Mercutio is dying, he turns to Romeo and says, "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man".

 

[Fymgee]

I'll answer for him, as he may be otherwise occupied. This is what he means (I'm pretty sure):


Rotting in the ground. It's a pun, a play on words. It's meant to be a joke, to be funny. These types of jokes aren't always understood by people who aren't native English speakers.

It's a play on 'compose' and 'decompose'.

It's not the first type of pun like this. In fact, if you go way back to Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', you'll learn that Mercutio is killed. As Mercutio is dying, he turns to Romeo and says, "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man".

Interesting, thanks!

 

[Brickwizard]

Puns are a part of British humour, so i often forget that non Br English speakers may not understand sorry!

 

[MikeRocor]

Puns are a part of British humour, so i often forget that non Br English speakers may not understand sorry!

I would be sad if my language (U.S. English) didn't include the possibility of puns and such. I was told by a native Hindi speaker (after making a particularly good (and by that I mean "bad") pun) that their language just doesn't have "word jokes". Not sure I'd be able to get by in such a language.

Anyway, it seems like a -lot- of the musical artists I grew up listening to are decomposing these days.

 

[Brickwizard]

@MikeRocor ,

I first heard this pun back in 1960 when watching a TV broadcast of Flanders and Swans US tour the previous year called at the Drop of a Hat,
typical of British humour back then was the following song from their follow-up show , At the drop of another hat, now considered by the leftist lovies as racialist etc,but its of its time the British joking about themselves and the British attitudes of the day

 

[MikeRocor]

@MikeRocor ,

I first heard this pun back in 1960 when watching a TV broadcast of Flanders and Swans US tour the previous year called at the Drop of a Hat,
typical of British humour back then was the following song from their follow-up show , At the drop of another hat, now considered by the leftist lovies as racialist etc,but its of its time the British joking about themselves and the British attitudes of the day

Guaranteed to offend everyone. I love it.

 

[Fymgee]

Puns are a part of British humour, so i often forget that non Br English speakers may not understand sorry!

It's okay!

 

[Condobloke]

 

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[wizardfromoz]

OK you've got me, Brian - why 3 instances of the Heart song? Lol.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Here's a couple from Steely Dan

and

 

[noelw]

 

[noelw]

Smooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooth

 

[Condobloke]