My favourite carol is In the Deep Midwinter, which I had never heard until I went to an Anglican university.
In the Bleak Midwinter?
Ed Harcourt does that on the Mojo mix and it is now one of my favorite christmas songs too!
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'Harm's Way'
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There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
lisah - Oct 08, 2008 5:50:34 am PDT #9501 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Sue - Oct 08, 2008 6:13:35 am PDT #9502 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Yeah, Bleak!
Jon B. - Oct 08, 2008 6:52:05 am PDT #9503 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Silkworm did a great version of "In the Bleak Midwinter" as well.
Jesse - Oct 08, 2008 7:06:15 am PDT #9504 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I love that song, too, as long as I don't think about it literally.
Trudy Booth - Oct 08, 2008 7:07:27 am PDT #9505 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I love that song, too, as long as I don't think about it literally.
Heh.
I love how many Jewish singers do Christmas albums.
Jewsrock.org has a piece on the phenomenon. I love that site. [link]
Jesse - Oct 08, 2008 7:09:28 am PDT #9506 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, and I think my favorite Christmas album might be some 50s compilation I bought at a store like Banana Republic or something.
Dana - Oct 08, 2008 7:12:06 am PDT #9507 of 10003
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
The most popular version of "In the Bleak Midwinter", as far as I know, is the setting by Gustav Holst. The text is a Rosetti poem, isn't it?
megan walker - Oct 08, 2008 7:13:09 am PDT #9508 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Silkworm did a great version of "In the Bleak Midwinter" as well.
There's also a version on It's a Wonderful Life by Kerry Getz, which is another decent modern Christmas album. It also has a version of "Maybe this Christmas".
If you like real carols, the Fred Waring album is great with things like "Master in the Hall" and "March of the Kings".
Kathy A - Oct 08, 2008 7:20:45 am PDT #9509 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Another of my favorite Christmas albums is a Starbucks compilation called "Winterlude," with everything from Marlene Dietrich singing "Little Drummer Boy" in German to Bing and Bowie doing "Little Drummer Boy" from his last TV special, and lots of other songs.
Laga - Oct 08, 2008 2:50:27 pm PDT #9510 of 10003
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've lost my favorite Christmas album. It was casette tape and I've forgotten the name but it was something like "Hard Christmas" and it had "Christmas Wrapping" "Fairytale of New York" some Queen Christmas song, Bing Crosby and David Bowie's "Little Drummer Boy" and many more awesomely off-beat songs.
My second favorite is a bunch of Bing songs even though my sister never fails to remind me that "nothing says Christmas like beating your family". But the first disc we play when we start decorating the tree is always The Jingle Cats.