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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 19, 2018 16:56:41 GMT
Sorta like Dancing With Myself .........
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 22, 2018 3:22:44 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 22, 2018 4:25:46 GMT
I found that recording of Silver Bells I liked. Johnny Mathis.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 22, 2018 17:42:58 GMT
It takes a great artist like Reed to understand class, despair and to have empathy and to know that Christmas doesn't only come in December. Be nice to everyone, Merry Christmas.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 23, 2018 19:48:12 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 25, 2018 18:07:01 GMT
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Dec 25, 2018 18:49:18 GMT
Duh !
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 12, 2019 18:21:32 GMT
Bringing this thread back because we are two weeks away and there's some awesome music in this thread.
Missed this classic song last year - not an overt Christmas song exactly - but one of the very rare songs that uses the holiday and music to rather illustrate something else - I'd say it illustrates a very lost soul in need of help - revealed as such over the course of this great album - and yet it never tips its hand in any way....... which somehow makes it more sad......and more hopeful too.
You can play it loudly and joyously sing along, and if you look at it a slightly different way you could play it and cry your eyes out:
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 12, 2019 19:14:36 GMT
Damn we posted some good stuff last year!
Xmas has come early - I never heard The Yobs until now (thx Frank Portman), this whole album is very good, very hilarious.
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 12, 2019 19:57:22 GMT
As far as hymns go, there was always something haunting about "I Wonder as I Wander." I'm no music expert, can't really explain... But it has a darkness to it, a contemplation that is lacking from shallower compositions that usually flood churches at Christmastime. I love the way that each verse ends without resolution: the song never really ends, it wanders on forever.
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Post by LaraQ on Dec 14, 2019 0:03:32 GMT
Hands down the greatest Christmas song of all time.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 15, 2019 18:50:10 GMT
The White Stripes and their funny/spooky Christmas song recorded at their peak too - doing that crunchy loud thing that they sort of invented/perfected......it's a (Christmas) gift.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 15, 2019 20:03:02 GMT
The great Nick Lowe who stopped playing Rock and Roll as he got older but this actually kind of is exactly that and of course when he reverts to Old (Saint) Nick he bashes it right out of the park.....
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 15, 2019 21:22:20 GMT
At this time the following year that they did this - they'd be within a month of breaking up and not speaking. One big brilliant dysfunctional family.
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Post by cheesecake on Dec 15, 2019 22:43:49 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Dec 15, 2019 22:44:45 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Dec 15, 2019 22:45:52 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Dec 15, 2019 22:46:37 GMT
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Dec 16, 2019 2:08:00 GMT
Christmas tends to bring out my most forgiving musical nature. I even love that screeching harridan Mariah Carey when it's the season to be jolly.
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Post by cherry68 on Dec 16, 2019 20:50:00 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 17, 2019 0:31:08 GMT
Mattsby is a fan of the band and with the decade coming to a close and their stupendous Arabia Mountain album obviously on any decent best of list - you should be too. Here they celebrate the holiday as drunk and ragged as ever.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 17, 2019 17:33:56 GMT
Hey - what's the best Christmas song to describe a sex shop? Yeah, it's this one by the cheerily bitter Graham Parker.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 18, 2019 15:17:26 GMT
Blondie rip this traditional song to shreds (um).
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 18, 2019 20:17:06 GMT
One of the loveliest Christmas songs and saddest too:
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 18, 2019 21:41:41 GMT
All music always acts like an attempt to tell "the truth" but the Blues - before it was watered down at least - did something far different - the Blues, at its best conveyed wisdom, which is much different from mere truth or fact.
John Lee Hooker had great wisdom...... he's seen some Christmas Blues and he's wasted.
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