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14 Dec 2004, 06:40 AM | #16 | |
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nope, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" ("Jesus bleibet meine Freude") comes from another cantata, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" (I think)...don't know the number of that particular cantata but yes, it's a beautiful piece of music too I'm a Bach enthusiast, but not an expert by any means
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ah, Cantata no.147- looked it up (that sort of thing always bothers me) You should listen to that whole work- all of it is really beautiful
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16 Dec 2004, 06:50 AM | #19 |
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There's a very beautiful Corelli piece (it was featured in the oriiginal Laserium, for those whose memories can stretch back some 30 years) as well...
And I'm getting hooked on Do They Know It's Christmas? 20 for some reason. I still think the 1984 original is better, however... |
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At the weekend, I heard once again "Fairytale of New York ~ The Pogues & Kisty McColl", great song shame about the teeth! , how could I have forgotten to mention it before
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My favourite: don't know. I do quite like 2000 Miles by The Pretenders. My least favourite is anything that has been what I would call "slaughtered" by The Jackson 5. Steps' terrible cover of Slades classic Merry Xmas Everybody also makes me cringe.
I say a lot of it is down to how it is performed. For example, I like Santa Claus is coming to town by the Crystals, The supremes, etc, but not the Jackson 5. Even though it is the same song! |
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Chris De Burgh's song A Spaceman Came Travelling is a beautiful song, which for me is unfortunately spoiled by the error in the first verse — a light-year is a measure of distance, not of time. (It's the distance light travels in a year.)
Anyone covering this song would IMO be justified in altering this lyric to " 'Twas long years of time"... Mind you, forum rules forbid me to post my parody of part of the final verse, even though (unlike many parodies) it isn't dirty. (Suffice it to say that it's connected with the Holocaust, although I hasten to add that it's just a joke and not meant to offend anyone nor express any pro-Nazi sentiments.) |
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I has suddenly occured to me that East 17's "Stay Another Day" is a decase old this year, it doesn't seem that long! |
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I'm sick of pretty much all Christmas music and songs, except for "Good King Whatshisface" (dunno how to spell it), although I've yet to get the new age group Cusco's Christmas cd, which has a few Christmas tunes on it that I'm not familiar with, so it's not like it's all done 5 million times junk of "Jingle Bells" and all. They're an excellent group too, so it shouldn't be too bad.
Of interesting note is having the Christian metal band's Stryper's thundering rendition of "Winter Wonderland". Quote:
http://members.shaw.ca/atariaddict/catmelody.mp3 Note: I don't know how long the above will take to download, I sent it to a guy on a website, sending all three songs separately, but he put them altogether into one. It probably won't take too long though. Have fun |
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Best: Last Christmas by Wham. Never fails to bring a tear to my ear, but then I am a big softie.
Worst: Stop the cavalry by Jona Lewie. I just dont like it. |
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Under-played Christmas music
Thought I'd bump this thread as it's nearly Christmas.
Too much Christmas music is overplayed and thus we get sick of it. But a couple of lesser known favourites of mine are: Joni Mitchell - River (from the album "Blue") and Simon & Garfunkel - Silent Night/The Nine O'clock News These two superb songs remind us that Christmas is not the happy perfect senario depicted in most other compositions. With your help, I'd like to put together an alternative compilation of good but under-played Christmas music in time for playing next Christmas. _Malc Last edited by Malc 44 : 22 Dec 2005 at 11:54 PM. |
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My favorite song right now is by Kenny Chesney~All I Want for Christmas is a real good tan.....probably because I wish I was someplace basking in the sun. And, my all time favorite would have to be Elvis~I'll Be Home For Christmas.
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Here we are again one year on.
"Christmas is all around" as featured in Love Actually, lightheartedly performed by Bill Nighy. The song itself is appalling but I love the tune, I also like the was it was done in mick taking way... dread to imagine what Wet Wet Wet think though! (It'd be interesting to hear Robert@fm's opinion on this too!) I now cannot endure either Wham!'s "Last Christmas" or "Frosty the snowman" by the jackson 5 with a straight face, makes me nauseous thinking about them quite frankly! As for Wizzard's "I wish it could be christmas every day" that merely fits into the "dull" category, it's not objectional in the same sense as the two others mentioned in this paragraph. Some more positive tunes now. Have to say I like Proper Crimbo by Bo Selecta. Okay I said tunes but I can't think of anymore right now. |
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I don't like most of the rest, they tend to be too mushy |
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