ECM poll

[David Ayers]

Tell us all!

Edited May 17, 2012 by David Ayers

[king ubu]

No idea what thimbles are... excuse me while I go outside and look for some!

[mjzee]

Absolutely voting for the schving...and the little dance too.

[king ubu]

I gather high gnus are quite something, too... on their migration I'm sure they get quite high when they go through that river and have to trample over others in order not to be trampled themselves.

[John Tapscott]

I quite like Gnu High .

[king ubu]

btw, I still can't get over the fact that there's a thread just for me - still cooler would be if I had limitless votes in the poll

[brownie]

Da Da

[A Lark Ascending]

You missed the 'Can we have more threads about whether ECM are crap?' option

[Free For All]

You missed the 'Can we have more threads about whether ECM are crap?' option

You didn't hear? ECM threads are the new high.

[king ubu]

We all have a giant ECM hug fest tonight!

[A Lark Ascending]

I'm not sure group hugs are appropriate for ECM - more the occasional faint smiles and shy glances.

[JSngry]

I piss on cotton in high honor of the ECM quietude!!!

[David Ayers]

Art Ensemble infallibility has a good but not unassailable lead...

[robertoart]

Are they still in business?

I meant to get this one but somehow never did.

Edited May 22, 2012 by freelancer

[EKE BBB]

Idmatiiagts, doo woop, doo woop, doo woop!

[king ubu]

sheesh, this is MY thread, stop peeing on it!

[robertoart]

I am finding the idea of a thimble collection strangely comforting. Where would one begin?

It's real!

Who would have known of such a thing!

My link

Back to your scheduled programming.

Edited May 22, 2012 by freelancer

[David Ayers]

And polishing them is trickier than you might think: http://www.ehow.com/how_5179312_clean-antique-thimbles-unknown-age.html

[king ubu]

tightly woven

[clifford_thornton]

I quite like Gnu High .

Same here.

[skeith]

You missed the 'Can we have more threads about whether ECM are crap?' option

That should be "Can we have more threads about whether ECM is crap"

Britons and Americans - two peoples separated by singular and plural verb conjugations for the same subject!! (I hope I said that right)

[A Lark Ascending]

You missed the 'Can we have more threads about whether ECM are crap?' option

That should be "Can we have more threads about whether ECM is crap"

Britons and Americans - two peoples separated by singular and plural verb conjugations for the same subject!! (I hope I said that right)

They stopped teaching grammar at my school when I was 14. It was 1969. After that it was all about freely expressing yourself, unconstrained by chord changes, key signatures or rhythmic patterns (though those in the know could still tell those who could really 'swing').

[king ubu]

but it must SCHVING!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

You missed the 'Can we have more threads about whether ECM are crap?' option

That should be "Can we have more threads about whether ECM is crap"

Britons and Americans - two peoples separated by singular and plural verb conjugations for the same subject!! (I hope I said that right)

They stopped teaching grammar at my school when I was 14. It was 1969. After that it was all about freely expressing yourself, unconstrained by chord changes, key signatures or rhythmic patterns (though those in the know could still tell those who could really 'swing').

But it is true, if odd, that over here we do think of firms as plural and in America, more logically, they think of them as singular.

However, in the present instance, there is the choice of two interpretations of the original sentence, because part of the sentence is understood (or not).

Can we have more threads about whether ECM are crap? (Can we have more threads about whether ECM RECORDS are crap?)

Can we have more threads about whether ECM is crap? (Can we have more threads about whether ECM PRODUCT is crap?

I'm neutral on this subject, because I've never knowingly heard any ECM recordings (or any Kenny G, either).

MG

[king ubu]

it is as it is