Your English is better than my French could ever be. Music of outstanding merit should be close to the best you have ever heard. I also encourage telling us about music we have probably not heard before.
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Hi,
I concur with Malefoda and aggree with FritzTheCat in #100, as if I turn on my online dictionary dict.leo.org that usually proves very helpful for me to participate the discussions here and in many other boards, I get no less than 18 different meanings for »outstanding« and six for »merit«. That calculates to 108 possible combinations. One of the »outstandings« even could be re-translated as »to be done yet«. So I also have some issues in unterstanding how it is meant exactly. Or may I ask if this thread been intended as coterie?
Best regards!
Well, I'm prepared :blink:!
Best regards!
You can have outstanding debt, obligations, or responsibilities. Things you have not yet paid, taken care of, or performed.
If you are outstanding at something, you are among the best, at the top of your group, occupation, or skill. In this sense outstanding is not a large universe of people but instead a small, unique, and highly qualified sub-set. A rare honor bestowed on the few.
Merit simply means you deserve the accolade for whatever you are outstanding at. You've earned it, and deserve it.
But I realize this thread was not begun as a discussion. And I have a deep abiding appreciation for all recommendations the OP has offered over the years.
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This is their first and only excellent album they have put out to date...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYaw...I-xGt&index=10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U6Ae39QGzU
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sorry Clark, just one more to confuse our Euro friends. :)
LOL:D:D:D!
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No, Heather (hjames) is right. This thread managed to be about musicians who did/do what they do better than anyone else has. Until recently. Robert Pete Williams and Son House did this so much better. They were preternaturally expressive and gifted and sounded like it. William's "Prisoner's Talking Blues" and House's "Death Letter" are well known and easy to find; these are not obscure, esoteric recordings. Brushy is sincere and his music is honest, which are good things. But he is not a great talent at expressing what he feels through music.
I appreciate and cherish so many musicians and songwriters and composers, many of who are not even close to the best at what they do and do not belong in this company. The whole idea of this thread - and I know because I started it - is to raise the bar as high as you can imagine possible. It's about the musicians who raise it to where it is.
Early in this thread Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond were mentioned. These bands were interesting to me when I was a teenager. Not so much now, pretty mediocre stuff.
But I understand that you need to side with hjames. No problem there. I will not post in your thread any longer.