Clichés

[Scion7]

"Baby, you're the greatest, you made me feel like a woman for the first time!"

I get SO tired of hearing that.  Sigh.

   

[The Six]

"Baby, you're the greatest, you made me feel like a woman for the first time!"

I get SO tired of hearing that.  Sigh.

   

Then stop watching so much Showtime After Dark!

[eyeresist]

The horridly overused clichés for new music are accessible, and its opposite, challenging.

"Advanced". It's not physics, people!

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Russian musicians: soulful
American musicians: brash
Italian musicians: colorful
Asian musicians: robotic

[Karl Henning]

American musicians: brash

Don't forget: American Maverick !!!

[Ten thumbs]

I'm passionate about clichés!

[Karl Henning]

Have a nice day!

[ibanezmonster]

Have a nice day!

Hi, how are you?
Good. (real answer 80% of the time: I just want to go home and sleep, or: ugggghhhh)

(good is one syllable, though, so it's less annoying to repeat 50 times a day).

[eyeresist]

Hi, how are you?
Good. (real answer 80% of the time: I just want to go home and sleep, or: ugggghhhh)

(good is one syllable, though, so it's less annoying to repeat 50 times a day).

It was many years before I realised that "How are you?" is usually not meant as a question.

[Brian]

Russian musicians: soulful
American musicians: brash
Italian musicians: colorful
Asian musicians: robotic

French musicians: sensitive
English musicians: fascinated by obscure works
German musicians: unflashy and/or arrogantly committed to being 'correct'
Dutch musicians: HIP

[eyeresist]

English musicians: fascinated by obscure works

I.e. English works!

[ibanezmonster]

It was many years before I realised that "How are you?" is usually not meant as a question.

Yeah, it's just a dumb way of making a greeting, just as in the Chinese 你好? No idea why certain cultures decided to make a question a greeting.

[Karl Henning]

I.e. English works!

(* chortle *)

[Ten thumbs]

Yeah, it's just a dumb way of making a greeting, just as in the Chinese 你好? No idea why certain cultures decided to make a question a greeting.

No, it isn't dumb at all. It's an invitation to begin a conversation by talking of anything the respondent has been doing. Replying 'Good' or 'I'm fine' has the effect of killing any chance of conversing and it is those responses that are dumb. Unless of course you genuinely don't want to talk - although you are making it obvious.

[ibanezmonster]

No, it isn't dumb at all. It's an invitation to begin a conversation by talking of anything the respondent has been doing. Replying 'Good' or 'I'm fine' has the effect of killing any chance of conversing and it is those responses that are dumb. Unless of course you genuinely don't want to talk - although you are making it obvious.

Oh, it's dumb considering half the time it isn't intended to invite a conversation at all. When it genuinely is, that's okay, though.

[Christo]

Dutch musicians: HIP

Haitink!

[Karl Henning]

"A bad workman blames his tools."

[eyeresist]

I think "How are you?" is an abbreviation of the old world custom of elaborate social pleasantries. In this context, as I understand it, when you meet someone you ask after their families by individual member, and also discuss the weather (it's not just Englanders!) before getting down to business. People who interact in this way would find the exchange of "How are you"s quite brusque.

[Brian]

Haitink!

Kuijken(s), van Dael, Schroder, Leonhardt, van Asperen, Bruggen, van Doeselaar, ter Linden...
...and Immerseel is Flemish, which we all know is the same!

[Opus106]

Kuijken(s)

The surname is Dutch, but the band of brothers that we all know and love hail from Belgium, so I guess you should group them with Immerseel.