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Open Thread: Musical Interwebs Interlude

by Anne Laurie|  December 24, 20158:13 pm| 44 Comments

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  1. 1.

    redshirt

    December 24, 2015 at 8:15 pm

    I really dislike Christmas music. Just my opinion.

    It’s the overt commercialization that’s done it for me. I just can’t stand the marketing.

    Edited to add: I mean this was a big mean bah humbug which was not warranted for Anne’s great thread.

  2. 2.

    Thoughtful Today

    December 24, 2015 at 8:18 pm

    Christmas music on youtube.

  3. 3.

    lamh36

    December 24, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    I posted this on twitter for DougJ, but I’m sharing it with on this post too, since it’s a “holiday music” post.

    You’ve never seen the Nutcracker performed like this!

    California Philharmonic Dancers – The Nutcracker Live 2015

    This was pretty cool. It might actually get my nephew to actually see a classical music performance. He’s not one for classical music…lol

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    NotMax

    December 24, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    Fanciful 3-part harmony.

  5. 5.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    December 24, 2015 at 8:26 pm

    Jim Nabors

  6. 6.

    jeffreyw

    December 24, 2015 at 8:28 pm

    Drifters’ White Christmas

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    December 24, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    In honor of those who have to fly to get to their holiday celebration:

    “Christmas at the Airport” — Nick Lowe

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    December 24, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    @lamh36

    You’ve never seen the Nutcracker performed like this!

    Or like this.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    December 24, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    For the Hamilmaniacs, the Schulyer sisters singing “Silent Night”, with a bonus appearance by Daveed and Oak in hilarious Christmas onesies.

  10. 10.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    December 24, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    My favorite Julie Andrews.

  11. 11.

    Schlemazel

    December 24, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    We all love these Christmas letters from old friends

  12. 12.

    Schlemazel

    December 24, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    @redshirt:
    I’m right there with you.

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    December 24, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    Merry Christmas Eve, Everyone :)

  14. 14.

    rikyrah

    December 24, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    I love Christmas music…about the middle of December. They just start playing it far too early these days.

  15. 15.

    Thoughtful Today

    December 24, 2015 at 8:49 pm

    Decent ‘classic’ Christmas music: Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra …

  16. 16.

    schrodinger's cat

    December 24, 2015 at 8:50 pm

    @rikyrah: So true. I love Christmas carols but not when they start playing them in stores from Halloween.

  17. 17.

    Schlemazel

    December 24, 2015 at 8:51 pm

    @rikyrah:
    I think that’s part of it. There are only, what, 65-70 real songs (lets leave crap like Walkin In My Winter Underwear and Granma Got Run Over By A Reindeer out of this) and there is not much difference between the singers and their versions (lets ignore the horrific PTSD inducing Springsteen thing). Really more than a couple of days of that spoil the lovely stuff.

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    December 24, 2015 at 8:51 pm

    @redshirt

    Just for you, to elicit a smile.

  19. 19.

    redshirt

    December 24, 2015 at 8:55 pm

    @NotMax: Mfph.

    I’d say “bah” but I feel like that’s cliche these days.

  20. 20.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 24, 2015 at 9:02 pm

    Jethro Tull’s Christmas Album:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Otaka5oIQ

    I’m particularly fond of Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow. And Bouree.

  21. 21.

    lamh36

    December 24, 2015 at 9:04 pm

    Happy Holidays everyone!

    I’m working on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

    So no family dinner for me…but I am looking forward to the new year

  22. 22.

    schrodinger's cat

    December 24, 2015 at 9:10 pm

    Muslim folk musicians from India sing Christmas carols

    Non Christmas music for those tired of it.
    Malhari from Bajirao Mastani, this song annoyed the killjoys in India which included Bajirao’s descendants, who called it ahistoric (which it is, but nevertheless enjoyable). Its a commercial movie not a PhD thesis for crying out loud.

  23. 23.

    jamus4

    December 24, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    http://www.onionstudios.com/series/holiday-undercover

    Strongly recommend Drive by Truckers cover of Greg Lake, but an interesting set overall

  24. 24.

    wenchacha

    December 24, 2015 at 9:18 pm

    Some Bruce Cockburn, joined by Roseanne Cash and Lou Reed.

    Merry Christmas/Happy New Year to all the juicers.

  25. 25.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 24, 2015 at 9:20 pm

    I’m also a big fan of The Royal Guardsmen, who, interestingly enough, are from Ocala, FL (Betty C: represent!)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh-J4GSPgAM

    And the original that kicked their quintet of Snoopy songs off:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg_iM-T4E

  26. 26.

    kuvasz

    December 24, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    An all-‘Merkan Christmas.

    Robert Earl Keene’s Merry Christmas from the Family

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg

  27. 27.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 24, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    @efgoldman: tomorrow. Usually there was a Noche Buena put on by friends of the family on Christmas Eve. This is my Dad’s long time research collaborator and his wife, who was my Mom’s long time speech language pathology partner. But they’ve been sick this past year, and while I’m sure their kids are doing a Noche Buena, its likely very small and just for family.

    I’ll get Chinese tomorrow. I already have a post on it cued up (not so subtle notice to the other front pagers to check the scheduled posts before posting…)

  28. 28.

    Johnny Coelacanth

    December 24, 2015 at 9:29 pm

    I played this on the radio once.

    https://youtu.be/qiF8wKobF68

  29. 29.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    December 24, 2015 at 9:31 pm

    @NotMax: I’m a bit disappointed. I was hoping for Nutcracker Rouge.

    Probably Not Safe For Family. Unless your family appreciates burlesque.

  30. 30.

    PurpleGirl

    December 24, 2015 at 9:35 pm

    Of Anne Laurie’s videos, I liked the last one best — I really like a choir like that one. Maybe I should try to attend the mid-morning service at St. Thomas Church in the morning. They have a choir school and the combined men’s and boys choirs are great.

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    December 24, 2015 at 9:37 pm

    Repeated from a couple of threads up.

    A holiday tune for the front pagers: Xmas with Bigfoot.

  32. 32.

    Brachiator

    December 24, 2015 at 10:01 pm

    The magnificent Gloria – Misa Criolla – Jose Carreras

    From the notes: Jose Carreras performs “Gloria” from “Misa Criolla” by Ariel Ramírez. The Misa, a mass for tenor, chorus and orchestra, is based on folk genres such as chacarera, carnavalito and estilo pampeano, with Andean influences and instruments. It is also one of the first masses to be celebrated in a modern language. Ramírez wrote the piece in 1963-1964.

  33. 33.

    mellowjohn

    December 24, 2015 at 10:10 pm

    https://youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8

  34. 34.

    ThresherK

    December 24, 2015 at 10:24 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Quintet? I only knew of two. And I am the right age.

    For a non-churchgoing agnostic, I really like my holiday music.

    There’s something wrong in a world where I only heard “Christmas Bells” the first time this season last night, becuase of an internet streaming radio, but I’ve got a repetitive stress injury from tuning the terrestrial radio away from “The Bell that Wouldn’t Jingle” at least three dozen times since Black Friday.

    The holiday, winter and Christmas music selections, the actual recordings, on the commercial radio have been contracting down to about 50. Weird, old, and forgotten stuff, like handbell ensembles, “meditations”, the Ultra Lounge Chirstmas Cocktail series, a Big Band Xmas, and plenty of old jazz and opera renditions do the trick for me.

    Heck, even Martha Stewart’s “A Martha Kinda Christmas” is better than the radio!

  35. 35.

    artkqtarks

    December 24, 2015 at 10:27 pm

    A cover of Joni Mitchell’s River

  36. 36.

    Lee

    December 24, 2015 at 10:28 pm

    Any of these by Pentatonix

  37. 37.

    Mnemosyne

    December 24, 2015 at 10:28 pm

    A reminder to those with Netflix streaming that “A Very Murray Christmas” is available for streaming. It’s more of a musical special than anything else and has a lot of fun cameos.

    (One cameo people might not “get” right away — the French pop band Phoenix shows up. Their lead singer is married to Sofia Coppola, the special’s director.)

  38. 38.

    ThresherK

    December 24, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: So, see you at Miss Temple’s?

    Seriously, I’m a lapsed Catholic who got that joke right away, but it took me ten years and binge watching on FXX to get “Skip Church’s”,the place where the Bluths always went for Sunday brunch.

    Wow, I could really go for a Skip’s Scramble.

  39. 39.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 24, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    @ThresherK: They did five Snoopy and Red Baron songs. The Christmas one was the the third – came out about two years after the original. They actually, amazingly, did a music video for the first one with someone in a Snoopy suit in a biplane in a simulated dog fight with someone dressed as the Red Baron:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxJbY5N74zo

    I managed to flip to PBS a bit ago to whatever Trans-Siberian Orchestra show they’re showing this year just in time for their electrified version of Caroling Bells.

  40. 40.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 24, 2015 at 10:40 pm

    @ThresherK: I basically try not to go out until Christmas is over. The drivers down here are out of control! I almost got t-boned this afternoon about 3 when on my way home with the four foots from the dog park. Old guy in an SUV who didn’t understand our color coded system of stop lights. I’m thinking of mounting twin fifty caliber machine guns on rotating bases on my car.

  41. 41.

    ThresherK

    December 24, 2015 at 10:48 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I totally forget where you’re located. Should I just say “Florida”? Sounds like the money bet.

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 24, 2015 at 10:52 pm

    @ThresherK: I’m in Florida. Northern Pinellas County. Not sure how much longer. While I’ve got a packet in for an assignment that would keep me down here, I’ve got others in that would take me back up north(ish). I expect to hear in January now that the spending bill has passed.

  43. 43.

    Germy

    December 24, 2015 at 10:53 pm

    Christmas in Jail

  44. 44.

    Zinsky

    December 25, 2015 at 8:17 am

    Love the “Father Christmas” performance by a fat Greg Lake (ELP) and a bald Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), two old warhorses from the prog rock era. They still know how to play though, which gives me comfort going into my old age.

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