Platte im Grunde wegwerfen

English translation: never mind the album

07:04 Jun 10, 2019
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music / American folk and pop music
German term or phrase: Platte im Grunde wegwerfen
This is a remark apparently made by the audience about an American singer performing in Germany.
Roger Rayner
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:32
English translation:never mind the album
Explanation:
People from the audience commented, never mind the album, their live delivery/performance sounded ​"richer".

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Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 11:32
Grading comment
Many thanks for this. I merely wondered if the phrase was a well-known one with perhaps, in this context, an amusing meaning.
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4never mind the album
Michael Martin, MA
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The original article (I assume):
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never mind the album


Explanation:
People from the audience commented, never mind the album, their live delivery/performance sounded ​"richer".



Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 11:32
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
Many thanks for this. I merely wondered if the phrase was a well-known one with perhaps, in this context, an amusing meaning.
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Reference comments


3 hrs peer agreement (net): +2
Reference: The original article (I assume):

Reference information:
Ohne ein Wort an das Publikum zu richten, spielt sich die Gruppe exzellenter Musiker durch das breit angereicherte Album. Aus dem Publikum hört man: Der Vortrag sei "opulenter" und man könne damit die "Platte im Grunde wegwerfen".


    https://www.zeit.de/news/2015-09/16/musik-delikater-folk-von-sufjan-stevens-in-hamburg-16100003
lisa23
Germany
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 3

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  philgoddard: Thanks!
29 mins
neutral  Björn Vrooman: I thought you were carefully trying to avoid mentioning anything that could be used to trace the source? See General Rules, item 1.5.// No idea where to find the KudoZ rules?!? https://www.proz.com/kudozrules
1 hr
  -> Articles in newspapers are not confidential information...
agree  Thomas Pfann: Important context (without which the source sentence makes no sense).
10 hrs
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