Re: More on TV & Smith/Smith's schtick / RE: (TV) Patti w/ Tom show suggestion

[Graham Urquhart <gurquhart@madasafish.com>]

Well I guess it's difficult to take issue with such a well considered 
analysis. :-)

On 29/12/2011 13:43, Keith Allison wrote:
> On 29/12/2011 03:51, Glenn Cooper wrote:
> > As an aside: what does "pretentious" mean?
>
> 1.  Claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, 
> especially when unjustified.
> 2.  Making or marked by an extravagant outward show; ostentatious.
>
> high-flown, high-sounding, hollow, inflated, magniloquent, mannered, 
> ostentatious, overambitious, pompous, puffed up, showy, snobbish, 
> specious, vainglorious
>
> I give you - Patti "I'm A Poet" Smith.
> >   How do we separate pretention
> > from ambition? Was Dylan being pretentious when he made rock's first 
> > double
> > album?
>
> No
> > Was Marquee Moon pretentious?
>
> No
> > Does one become pretentious as soon as
> > one attempts to break any kind of new ground?
>
> No
> > What about Coltrane's
> > more free-form explorations - pretentious?
>
> I haven't the faintest idea having, mercifully, never heard them.
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