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Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: Frenchie on 12 December, 2009, 08:01:40 pm
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For us it is Roberto Alagna's Chants Sacres CD, with Bach, Faure, Berlioz, Bizet and of course Adam's Minuit, chretiens! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWq5OWYaXDw) (a childhood memory for me)! Fabulous!
CD: Chants sacres: Roberto Alagna: Amazon.fr: Musique (http://www.amazon.fr/Chants-sacr%C3%A9s-Roberto-Alagna/dp/B000025U6S/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1260647983&sr=8-6)
What's on at yours?
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Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije, esp. Troïka of course.
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My family will probably try a load of poncey shite as listed in the previous posts. I think I'll commandeer the CD player though and bung on some Guns 'n Roses or something equally offensive to my tame relatives tastes....
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My family will probably try a load of poncey shite as listed in the previous posts.
Talking for you Bobb, he?!
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Oscars dad is now, thanks to an ill-advised visit to the iTunes store, the proud owner of 4' 33'' by John Cage. I suspect that will be the top pick on his iPhone over the festive period.
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My family will probably try a load of poncey shite as listed in the previous posts.
Talking for you Bobb, he?!
No. It's just that many of my uncles/aunts/cousins etc are incredibly boring people.....
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The only one I can stomach is this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IippcraBPKA)
I'm disgusted to find out that Snow Patrol tried to cover it though.
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The only one I can stomach is this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IippcraBPKA)
The acceptable face of Christmas music :thumbsup:
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Probably Porcupine Tree.
Or John Coltrane.
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For me it has to be A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from Kings.
I have a recording of the 1967 Festival - it's absolutely beautiful.
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The Phil Spector - Christmas Album
Diana Krall - Christmas Album
Various classical Christmas CDs of carols etc.
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Kate Rusby - Sweet Bells
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Slade, Wizzard, Greg Lake and Pariah Carey of course :thumbsup:
actually Stings new christmas toons LP is pretty good
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Kirsty McColl and Pogues.
Or something thuddy and noisy. Not a lot of poncey stuff here to go "mmmmm" to. ;D
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The Phil Spector - Christmas Album
I love that. And Now That's What I Call Christmas, which I bought on vinyl when I was a teenager.
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The Phil Spector - Christmas Album
I love that. And Now That's What I Call Christmas, which I bought on vinyl when I was a teenager.
I was wondering how long this thread was going to last before everyone started pitching in with the classic pop fluff ! In that case I will +1 Fairy Tale of New York :)
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Poncey stuff rules. M'kay.
Oh, and a bit of modern Gaudete (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBZ8v9L8444). Well, a lot actually. :thumbsup:
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My family will probably try a load of poncey shite as listed in the previous posts.
Are you calling me a ponce!? >:(
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Poncey stuff rules. M'kay.
Oh, and a bit of modern Gaudete (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBZ8v9L8444). Well, a lot actually. :thumbsup:
I love the Steeleye Span version, but I think you can't beat a male choir singing it in a cathedral or church. The acoustics really add to the music.
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Oh, and I Want An Alien For Christmas by Fountains of Wayne.
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Poncey stuff rules. M'kay.
Oh, and a bit of modern Gaudete (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBZ8v9L8444). Well, a lot actually. :thumbsup:
I love the Steeleye Span version, but I think you can't beat a male choir singing it in a cathedral or church. The acoustics really add to the music.
Yeah, I like the traditional choir arrangement as well. Same with a choir doing In Dulci Jubilo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXze_TLUTqM). :thumbsup:
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Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.
As soon as I here that in a shop or on the radio, Christmas is officially on the way IMO.
YMMV ;)
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I'll go with Reg and King's College Nine Lessons and Carols. Even though I'm playing for about 6 carol services this year, I'll still enjoy listening to the 'proper' service!
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The only one I can stomach is this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IippcraBPKA)
I'm disgusted to find out that Snow Patrol tried to cover it though.
Snow Patrol?! Argh, I've just found it on Youtube. It'll be awful.
Must...resist....
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Kirsty McColl and Pogues.
Or something thuddy and noisy. Not a lot of poncey stuff here to go "mmmmm" to. ;D
Was christmas eve.... the drunk tank.
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Sufjan Stevens's Christmas box set, Phil Spector, Elvis Christmas album and Mariah Carey (yep, you heard it right - it's ace).
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Thea Gilmore's Strange Communion featuring St Stephen's Day Murders, that has just been released, Johnny Dowd's Jingle Bells from The Pawnbroker's Wife.
.......and the 80's cheesey stuff!
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2000 miles by the Pretenders gets my vote.
Kevin Bloody Wilson always gets me in the mood for Christmas:
YouTube
- Hey Santa Claus you xxx
(http://tinyurl.com/6ku4n4)
NSFW link
Edit - aargh, can't change the URL to something less sweary - mods feel free to edit/move if required. It is at least cycle related (tenuously)
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I love Gaudete, but any carols will do
ps and the little drumer boy
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Fist Me This Christmas - The Wets Spots (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRfvSOuwM_4)
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Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.
As soon as I here that in a shop or on the radio, Christmas is officially on the way IMO.
YMMV ;)
amen to that.
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Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.
Oh yes! So underrated it's a classic.
Very sad about Patty Donahue though...
Patty Donahue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Donahue)
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Eek! I just saw this on the front page:
[Arts and Entertainment] Re: Your Christmas Music by The Spinners
Please don't do that to me.
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"The Phil Spector - Christmas Album" Ah yes, for wallowing in nostalgia and indeed tearfulness for the days when life was fun....or at least the days when I was YOUNG.
For my depressed present, "A Christmas Message From A Hooker In Minneapolis" will do.
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As always, I bow to the Bard of Harvard:
Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZR3lJobjw) ;D
And not forgetting Bob Rivers (you might need to hit play after the song's loaded and buffered in the site's player)
Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire (http://www.bobrivers.com/#v8652c7i3)
Walking Round In Women's Underwear (http://www.bobrivers.com/#v8730c7i23)
White Trash Christmas (http://www.bobrivers.com/#v8275c7i23)
Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow! (http://www.bobrivers.com/#v8742c7i25)
Definitely "not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste." :demon:
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I've been getting odd looks in the office this morning because I've got Lobachevsky as an earworm...
Back OT, pretty much all Christmas music is dreadful.
As always, I bow to the Bard of Harvard:
Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZR3lJobjw) ;D
And not forgetting Bob Rivers (you might need to hit play after the song's loaded and buffered in the site's player)
Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire (http://www.bobrivers.com/#v8652c7i3)
Walking Round In Women's Underwear (http://www.bobrivers.com/#v8730c7i23)
White Trash Christmas (http://www.bobrivers.com/#v8275c7i23)
Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow! (http://www.bobrivers.com/#v8742c7i25)
Definitely "not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste." :demon:
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Chiron Beta Prime (http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/index.php/Chiron_Beta_Prime) has a certain something...
And Loreena McKennitt singing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is good enough that I can sometimes forget it should probably be counted as christmas music.
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I've been getting odd looks in the office this morning because I've got Lobachevsky as an earworm...
;D
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I love the Steeleye Span version, but I think you can't beat a male choir singing it in a cathedral or church. The acoustics really add to the music.
Seconded, the choir at St Paul's today were superb with Gaudete this afternoon.
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Something modal played/crooned as background music in the Indian restaurant.
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I don't "do" Christmas music.
So I will be listening to the same stuff as all year:
1. The Raconteurs
2. Franz Ferdinand
3. David Gilmour
4. The White Stripes
5= Gotan Project
5= KT Tunstall
7. Pink Floyd
8. La Roux
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. Jem
But with extra 16. Rage Against The Machine
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I love the Steeleye Span version, but I think you can't beat a male choir singing it in a cathedral or church. The acoustics really add to the music.
Seconded, the choir at St Paul's today were superb with Gaudete this afternoon.
I prefer the Kipper Family (http://www.kipperfamily.co.uk/lyrics/lyrics5.php#59) "version" though.
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We're listening to Diana Krall's Christmas Songs as I type.
It's surprisingly lovely :)
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Probably the best of this year's crop:
Watch: Julian Casablancas Performs I Wish It Was Christmas Today (http://beatcrave.com/2009-12-22/watch-julian-casablancas-performs-i-wish-it-was-christmas-today/)
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As always, I bow to the Bard of Harvard:
Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZR3lJobjw) ;D
+1. Man's a genius.
Mine: Slayer. I like to put the 'Anti-' into Christmas....
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Kirsty McColl and Pogues.
That does it for me. But also as I've said elsehere I've been gripped by The Waitresses and Girls Aloud (You give me something that I'd never get from Santa Clause)
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I love White Winter Hymnal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE) by Fleet Foxes.
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We are going through Mozart's symphonies in reverse order. I don't suppose we'll get beyond no. 40 tonight.
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As always, I bow to the Bard of Harvard:
Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZR3lJobjw) ;D
+1 here too.
And Allan Sherman
The 12 Gifts of Christmas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOjpS-25C_Y)
They were the 2 Christmas songs played at home when I was growing up ;D
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I love White Winter Hymnal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE) by Fleet Foxes.
ah yes thanks that's quite fun
reminds me somewhat of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBZ8v9L8444)
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Fairytale of New York will do for me . . .
. . . but I got The White Room by The KLF as a pressie and that's in the car ATM
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That is a brilliant album!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qBoy2rhVw
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I bought this today whilst doing the TescoTango
http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/16586393/100-Essential-Carols-And-Hymns-For-Christmas/Product.htm
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I had to go to Halfrauds at lunchtime to get some new number plates. I'd managed to avoid Merry Xmas Everybody so far this year, but then some arse of a DJ played it on the radio >:(
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Messaien: Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jesus
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Messaien: Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jesus
Funny coincidence: I'd not even heard of this until my son bought it the week before last.
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I'll just chuck the Now That's What I call Xmas Cds in the stereo and leave it on shuffle.
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Stuff a CD containing few hundred "Greatest Christmas Ever....." type MP3s into the CD player and leave it on "repeat" (same mentality as AndyK).
I think it contains Classical, Mowtown, Bing, Buble, Wizzard...and the rest
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Messaien: Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jesus
Funny coincidence: I'd not even heard of this until my son bought it the week before last.
I had the good fortune to see Steven Osbourne perform this at the Wigmore Hall a few years back.
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Whatever Radio4 are playing.
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Messaien: Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jesus
Funny coincidence: I'd not even heard of this until my son bought it the week before last.
I had the good fortune to see Steven Osbourne perform this at the Wigmore Hall a few years back.
5th January 2000 by any chance?
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I did say in another thread that most of the "popular" Crimbo songs drive me nuts, but here are some seasonal tunes that I do actually like:
Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas (http://www.youtube.com/RXCEdrnaFlY)*
Mike Oldfield - In Dulce Jubilo (http://youtu.be/X4uLZcaRXcU)
Prokofiev - Trioka (Lt. Kije suite) (http://youtu.be/5QsRDpsItq0) Dashing through the snow...
SAHB - There's No Lights On The Christmas Tree Mama (They're Burning Big Louie Tonight) (http://youtu.be/j1_NIF_Hihk) ;D
ETA: Oh and there's this one from last year Corey Taylor - X-M@$ (http://youtu.be/od7GUy9XS7c) NSFW!
* Unlike the horribly twee, over-saccharine gloop that invokes stabbity rage, it's a protest about the commercialisation of the festival, so it sits in the same bittersweet folder as A Fairy Tale of New York. :thumbsup:
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6Music have been playing a modern xmas classic in the making: From the Atheist Xmas ep by Gruff Rhys (of Super Furry Animals): the rather jaunty Post-Apocalypse Christmas
Post-Apocalypse Christmas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U3JqmNuRN8)
The Ep also includes the track Slashed Wrists This Christmas!
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I'm getting sick and tired of all the usual Christmas music so I prefer something loud and fast from 1986 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a5fHMlb4V0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a5fHMlb4V0)
but if you want some normal here you go :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD3p2z9nBGY&list=FLPcjqLq-7UsLsWSx5p4L-aQ&index=15&feature=plpp_video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD3p2z9nBGY&list=FLPcjqLq-7UsLsWSx5p4L-aQ&index=15&feature=plpp_video)
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Messaien: Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jesus
Funny coincidence: I'd not even heard of this until my son bought it the week before last.
I had the good fortune to see Steven Osbourne perform this at the Wigmore Hall a few years back.
5th January 2000 by any chance?
Sounds about right :thumbsup:
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I think my favourite piece of festive music is Troika from Lieutenant Kije.
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I think my favourite piece of Christmas music at the moment is Howard Darke's arrangement of 'In the bleak midwinter': -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYAv8xvBK74&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYAv8xvBK74&feature=related)
It's a new arrangement to me, and as much as I hated the choirmaster at my mother's church for picking it this year when I saw it (fiddly to get right and bits were too similar to the normal version), it has really grown on me with practising.
Of course when I decided to record something on youtube for Christmas I sang something a little cheesier :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_3s9FIl3Pc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_3s9FIl3Pc)
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Kirsty McColl and Pogues.
That does it for me. But also as I've said elsehere I've been gripped by The Waitresses and Girls Aloud (You give me something that I'd never get from Santa Clause)
Having been away for a bit, I've just rediscovered British TV, and had the horror to discovering that Tesco have purloined and bastardised Fairy Tale of New York to provide the soundtrack to one of their Christmas ads. Is absolutely nothing sacred? Why would you do that? Have you no sense of irony? Stuff it, Radio 4/6 it is.
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Anybody else remember The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) , best of the recent stuff IMHO.
Then there's The Jethro Tull Christmas Album , classic stuff.
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I think my favourite piece of Christmas music at the moment is Howard Darke's arrangement of 'In the bleak midwinter': -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYAv8xvBK74&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYAv8xvBK74&feature=related)
It's a new arrangement to me, and as much as I hated the choirmaster at my mother's church for picking it this year when I saw it (fiddly to get right and bits were too similar to the normal version), it has really grown on me with practising.
Of course when I decided to record something on youtube for Christmas I sang something a little cheesier :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_3s9FIl3Pc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_3s9FIl3Pc)
Marcus, I really enjoyed those! The Harold Darke arrangement has been around a long time and they do it at King's most years but I know what you mean about the similarities. I think I may have been abroad (or drunk) when the Winter's Tale was first a hit so I'm never sure who is the original (was it David Essex?). Lovely montage, too! Christmas wishes to you, too! I'm wondering what it's like up at Tan Hill at the moment!
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Aww, Marcus, that's really lovely.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4--Lkb_Oldo
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Whatever floats your boat, Biggsy! I don't remember that one but I made myself watch it all the way through and it's a precursor of that special type of harmony singing beloved of boy and girl bands ever since, called - unison! I'm off to take another St John's Wort! :)
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Sarah Cracknell floats my boat to the Moon.
This is most gorgeous:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IippcraBPKA
This is most weird:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ut5w7PV53U
This will be too twee for the humbugs, but sounds lovely if you're on a lot of hard (prescription) drugs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vm9_mXmtKo
Keychangetastic.