Apt Phrases, Redolent Of Novel Yet Meaningful Sense
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| 100% | AM (2) | Awful Music |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (AM actually stands for Amplitude Modulation) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | AMERICAN IDOL | A Melodious Enterprise, Rising Idols Chant Assorted Notes (I Don't Overtly Like) |
Robert Anonymous Entertainment:TV shows |
| 100% | CAROL | Christmastime Aria Remembering Our Lord |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions:Christmas |
| 100% | CAROLINE | Created A Radio Offshore, Living In Nautical Environment |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Radio Caroline, a 1960s pirate radio station based off the coast of England and the forerunner of modern rock stations Communication |
| 100% | CHANT | Chorus Hollering, And Nobody's There |
Rico Leffanta Religion |
| 100% | CHOIR | Chanting Hymns Organised In Reverence |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CHOIR (2) | Confidence, Honesty, Outgoing, Integrity, Respect |
John Richard Jones Required to make progress in this world. People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | CLASSICAL | Cultured Listeners Appreciate Sonorous Sonatas In Concerthalls (And Lifts) |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (for 'lifts' our American readers should read 'elevators'. |
| 100% | COMMUNITY ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT | Create Original Municipal Mural, Under No Illusions That You Are Rembrandt... The Spirit's All Neighbourhood Desires. Many Ukeleles Sound In Concert, Performers (Remembering Ordinary Jobs) Enjoy Creating Tunes. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships Art & Literature |
| 100% | COMPOSE | Creation Of Musical Pieces Or Something Else |
Edwin Hermann Art & Literature |
| 100% | COPY PROTECTION SCHEME | Catalyst Of Piracy... Your Purchase Runs On The Elderly CD + Tape Instruments Only... Net Search Compulsory (How Else's Mp3 Extracted?) |
Angela Brett, who would like to buy certain CDs but is forced to download them from the internet instead, since copy-protection schemes prevent the CDs from being played in anything other than than my alarm clock. Unfortunately the iTunes Music Store is not available in this country yet, so that means piracy. |
| 100% | COUNTRY MUSIC | Crying Out Usual Nasal Twang Rural Yarns Marginally Upsetting Some Idiotic Cowboy |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | DANCE | Display A Novel Choreography Effect |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | DANCE (2) | Disco Ability Nicely Conceals Exercise |
Jan Morgan Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | DANCE (3) | Dynamic Ability Nicely Carries Everyone |
Jan Morgan Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | DANCE (4) | Date A Nice Co-Ed |
Jan Morgan Sports & Recreation |
| 93% | DO RE MI FA SO LA TI | Darn, Off-key... Redo Etude Making Its Frequency Aurally Sound. Open Lungs And Then Inhale. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | DRM | Don't Rip Mp3s |
DRM = Digital Rights Management (Microsoft) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | ELKANAH | Everybody Likes Kinship And New Activities Here |
David Brydon, referring to the Elkanah school of music ministry - see http://www.elkitesonline.homestead.com. |
| 100% | EUNUCH | Eugenics Urges Neuter Up Choral Heights |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships |
| 100% | FA | Falsetto's Aria |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | FM | Funky Music |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | HARMONY | Heavenly Arrangment Results - Many Orchestrated, None Yelling |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 78% | HARPIST | Heaven's Angels Required to Play Instrument of Sweet Twanging. |
Angela Brett, after Tony enquired as to whether Chinese heaven has harpists, when Angela described a Chinese writer mentioning people 'harping around in heaven.' Religion |
| 100% | HONOURS | Honouring Old Nimble-One Upset Rolling Stone |
Nanker Phelge -- I see that Keef is miffed that Mick accepted a gong - because of 'pressure' from Tony Blair! |
| 100% | HUMMER | How Un-Moving Mouths Emit Resonances |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE | In Fervid Moments Use Stringed Instruments Creatively. By Encouraging The (Hopefully) Erotic Fervour Of One's Dearest, One Fires Lots Of Venereal Emotions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | JAZZ | Just Add Zip & Zing |
ToneDeaf McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | KARAOKE | Keeps Alcoholised Roisterers Amused, Or Kiddies Entertained |
Tony McCoy O'MyWay |
| 100% | KARMA (2) | Karmas Are Radical Music Appliances |
Sean Lamb (who has a Rio Karma on his wish list). Science:Electronics |
| 100% | LA | Littlest Aria |
Angela Brett |
| 86% | LYRICS | Let You Remember Interesting Chorus or Song |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | LYRICS (2) | Loving You Rarely Induces Choirs Singing |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | MELODY | Musical Excellence Lingers On, Delighting You |
ToneDeaf McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MI | Musical Intonation |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | MULTIMEDIA | Many Users Listen To Intense Music Every Day It's Available |
Sean Lamb (who will never give up his collection of classic jazz OGG files) |
| 83% | MUSIC | Melodic Use of Sound Is Calming. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | MUSIC (2) | Makes Us Sing Its Chorus! |
Robert Anonymous |
| 100% | MUSIC IS MY LIFE | Making Unique Sounds In Concert. I Spend Many Years Lyrically Intoning For Everyone |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | NAPSTER | Nasty American Pop-System Took Extreme Revenge |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers |
| 100% | ORCHESTRA | Our Regular Concert Hall Ensemble Seems To Require Artistes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, as an example of something which is worse with NO STRINGS ATTACHED (Wind, Percussion and Strings) |
| 100% | ORPHEUS | Organ Recitals Present Heroic Efforts Under Stress |
Rico Leffanta Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Mythical Creatures |
| 75% | PIRATE | People's Individual Rights Association [for] Trading E-files |
Imaginary association formed to preserve rights of internet music file swappers. Computers |
| 100% | PUNK ROCK | Present Underwear Near Knees Rip Off Chains Kinetically |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | QUIET RIOT | Quirky Unimaginative Instrumental Entertainment That Really Isn't One's Taste |
Sean Lamb (well, I'm not really a heavy metal fan) |
| 100% | RAP | Repetitive Annoying Percussion |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | RECORDS | Roundels Evidently Contained Operas - Recorded Double Sided |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SHARP (2) | Sounds Highpitched At Rinkytink Piano |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 80% | SONY | Sounds Outstanding (with) No Yanni |
wishes Science:Electronics |
| 100% | SOSUMI | Sound. Overtly Shagging Up Music Industry |
Tony McCoy O'Grady. The makers of the early Mac computers stated that they would never be used to make music. The name of the sound called "sosumi' translates as "so sue me". (see http://www.newtontalk.net/archive/newtontalk.2002-04/1425.html for more information) Computers:Macintosh & Newton People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | TORCH SINGER | They Only Render Choral Harmonies Suggesting Infatuations Never Get Explicitly Requited. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | THE PLAN | Take Heed Embrace Purposeful Life, A Necessity |
Jan Morgan -- Name of a music CD of The Osmonds |
| 91% | THE CRANBERRIES TRADERS | Timbre Has Enchanting Characteristics, Ridiculous-thinkers Await New Bootlegs Eagerly & Really Rare Items are Expensive - Singles, Too, Require Ample Dough, Especially Rarer Songs. |
Angela Brett - Ridiculous-thinkers is a reference to the people on the Ridiculous Thoughts mailing list, a discussion/trading list about the Irish band The Cranberries. Commerce |
| 100% | TEMPO | Tackles Emotive Motion, Pacing Opportunity |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | UNUSON | Unite Nations Using Singing Over Network |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | UPBEAT | Uplifting Performance, Betcha Everybody's A' Tappin' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | VOICE | Vocal Option Is Coming Eventually |
Jason Wilcox Communication:Talking |
| 100% | WALKMAN | While A Listener's Kinetic, Music Around Noggin. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who wasn't sure whether Angela would know the term 'noggin' for head. Science:Electronics |
| 100% | ZZ TOPS' LAST ALBUM | Zachery Zzzzzzzzzra Thinks Old Pop Singers Latest Arranged Song Tracks Are Largely Brilliant, Utterly Marvellous! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela told him that someone had changed his name to Zachary Zzzzzzzzzra to be the last in the phone book. |
| 100% | TRIPLES | Three Repetitions Is Plenty. Let's Enjoy Singles. |
Sean Lamb (after hearing the same song over and over again on commercial radio, it's time for something else) |
| 100% | TWIST (2) | Terpsichory Which Identified Sixties Teenagers |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |