The Music Thread

[GoCubsGo]

One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, that's featured at the end of the 60 Minutes report will be shown on CBS Sun 11/28 8 pm.

[Vrede too]

'Weird Al' Yankovic Shades Kid Rock's 'Parody Video' With A Blunt Clarification




Kid Rock - Don't Tell Me How To Live (Official Video) - ft. Monster Truck

Weird Al!

[neoplacebo]

Claudia Lennear, the black woman who inspired the Stones song "Brown Sugar" laments that the band has dropped it from its performance lists. Keith Richards comments; "I don't want to get into conflicts with all this shit."
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cla ... 30351.html

[Vrede too]

... One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, that's featured at the end of the 60 Minutes report will be shown on CBS Sun 11/28 8 pm.

Tonight:

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
11:35 PM ET ON CBS • TV-PG • Stereo • CC

Lady Gaga talks and performs with Tony Bennett

[GoCubsGo]

... One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, that's featured at the end of the 60 Minutes report will be shown on CBS Sun 11/28 8 pm.

Tonight:

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
11:35 PM ET ON CBS • TV-PG • Stereo • CC

Lady Gaga talks and performs with Tony Bennett

Cool, thx!

[GoCubsGo]

... One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, that's featured at the end of the 60 Minutes report will be shown on CBS Sun 11/28 8 pm.

Tonight:

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
11:35 PM ET ON CBS • TV-PG • Stereo • CC

Lady Gaga talks and performs with Tony Bennett

Of course they saved the Tony Bennett segment for last....

But damn! 95 years old and I know he's on auto pilot but if you didn't know you'd never know.

[Vrede too]

Lady Gaga talks and performs with Tony Bennett

Of course they saved the Tony Bennett segment for last....

But damn! 95 years old and I know he's on auto pilot but if you didn't know you'd never know.

As I was posting that I wondered if there should be a comma after "talks". How could it be anything else? Still pretty cool.

[GoCubsGo]

Lady Gaga talks and performs with Tony Bennett

Of course they saved the Tony Bennett segment for last....

But damn! 95 years old and I know he's on auto pilot but if you didn't know you'd never know.

As I was posting that I wondered if there should be a comma after "talks". How could it be anything else? Still pretty cool.

Yep, comma needed.

[O Really]

No comma. "Lady GaGa talks ... with Tony Bennett". She did indeed. She also performed with Tony Bennett. With a comma, we'd be saying "Lady Gaga talks"? Seriously? I didn't know. I thought she only sang.

[Ulysses]

I see even Lady Gaga is not safe from the BRD Hall Monitor set...

[O Really]

I don't see anything hall-monitorish about mocking or criticizing a headline. After all, we've got a whole thread on "Dumb Headlines." Nobody has been anything but complimentary toward GaGa herself.

[GoCubsGo]

I don't see anything hall-monitorish about mocking or criticizing a headline. After all, we've got a whole thread on "Dumb Headlines." Nobody has been anything but complimentary toward GaGa herself.

Please excuse him, he has an unjustified case of unnecessary butthurt.

[Ulysses]

I don't see anything hall-monitorish about mocking or criticizing a headline. After all, we've got a whole thread on "Dumb Headlines." Nobody has been anything but complimentary toward GaGa herself.

For Christ's sake, you guys are arguing about a COMMA!

Get real.

[neoplacebo]

Let's discuss the possibility of a coma, as well as who could benefit from one, directly as well as indirectly.

[Ulysses]

Let's discuss the possibility of a coma, as well as who could benefit from one, directly as well as indirectly.

You mispelled "comma".

Shame on you.

[O Really]

Commas are one of the most important punctuation marks:
Thanks for the sandwich, but I already ate Grandma. Thanks for the sandwich, but I already ate, Grandma.

Let's go get some Mexican, Baby. Let's go get some Mexican baby.

[Ulysses]

Commas are one of the most important punctuation marks:
Thanks for the sandwich, but I already ate Grandma. Thanks for the sandwich, but I already ate, Grandma.

Let's go get some Mexican, Baby. Let's go get some Mexican baby.

Provided one wasn't in line when common sense was being handed out.

[Vrede too]

Let's discuss the possibility of a coma, as well as who could benefit from one, directly as well as indirectly.

You mispelled "comma".

Shame on you.

Whooosh. He intended "coma", duh.

You misspelled 'misspelled'. Shame on you.

[Vrede too]

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
11:35 PM ET ON CBS • TV-PG • Stereo • CC

Lady Gaga talks and performs with Tony Bennett

Fwiw, it's a blurb rather than a "headline", but that may not have been clear from my quote of zap2it's TV listings.

No comma. "Lady GaGa talks ... with Tony Bennett". She did indeed. She also performed with Tony Bennett. With a comma, we'd be saying "Lady Gaga talks"? Seriously? I didn't know. I thought she only sang.

Usually, "talks" would indicate with the host, which is what Lady Gaga did for much of the show, and placing a comma after "talks" is still saying that she sang. IMO, "Lady Gaga talks, and performs with Tony Bennett" would have been a more accurate descriptor, though I suspected what we ended up seeing, regardless. I did think that Bennett might appear to sing on the show, but it was a preview of the concert being shown Sun night, instead. I wasn't surprised or disappointed.

For example, Thursday night's Colbert blurb is:

Actor and comic Kevin Hart; Robert Plant and Alison Krauss perform.

The semicolon creates a distinction between talker and exclusively performers, just as a comma would have, and that's standard presentation for zap2it. Anyhow, it's a blurb, not great literature. Precision is not to be expected.

I don't see anything hall-monitorish about mocking or criticizing a headline. After all, we've got a whole thread on "Dumb Headlines." Nobody has been anything but complimentary toward GaGa herself.

For Christ's sake, you guys are arguing about a COMMA!

Get real.

Butthurt Useless is showing poor comprehension, as usual, in accusing you of "arguing". It's merely a semi-academic discussion among folks that enjoy language more than he does. You are correct, and quite funny, in citing the importance of commas. Useless' grammar teachers failed in impressing that upon him.

The name-calling, expletive, all caps and exclamation point all indicate that it's Useless that's "arguing" and being a whiny "Hall Monitor " about our heretofore friendly discussion. Funny that. He clearly "wasn't in line when common sense was being handed out." Maybe he's the one that should "Get real."

Gaga’s full interview and the performance of “Anything Goes” can be seen here:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lad ... 35591.html

[O Really]

Comma or no, I think GaGa and her relationship/performance with Bennett is great. I started an appreciation of them two or three years ago when they first did that Christmas "Baby it's cold outside" ad.

Yeah, I enjoy language and have a lifelong understanding of the importance of knowing (even if not always using) the rules of usage, grammar, and words themselves. Drives me nut's to see sign's with apostrophe's stuck in improper place's. I always think - wait, somebody got a job to make a sign, put that apostrophe in there incorrectly and whoever looked at it after, including the customer, never even noticed?