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Don't have time to write a mini-essay about the music, so I'll give you Joe Satriani before the Hair Loss Monster got him plus a 19-year old Jennifer Connelly.
 
White Wine in The Sun by Tim Minchin
Yes this is a Christmas song - he's Australian. Aside from that, I kinda feel like Tim speaks for himself.

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Anyone know why the hell Redneck Christmas involves "10 o' Copenhagen" (the Danish capital)?
 
Z_TheWriter said:
Anyone know why the hell Redneck Christmas involves "10 o' Copenhagen" (the Danish capital)?
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Copenhagen is a popular brand of chewing tobacco in the US.
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Don't need to do much explanatory writing about this because the video includes the liner notes and all the background stuff from the artist. The is the first track of Arjen Lucassen's album The Source, the latest in his Ayreon project. Ayreon is a long-running series of metal/prog concept-operas. The Source goes back to the beginning of the story: the rise of artificial intelligence and self-replicating machines and the flight of the Forever. The album as a piece of storytelling is pretty uneven, but musically it's immense. It includes a passage with the lyrics:

01110100
01110010
01110101
01110011
01110100
01010100
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...that somehow manages to be really interesting melodically and in arrangement. That passage is followed by a lovely bluesy groove.
 
Low Down Dirty Christmas by Playing For Change
Playing For Change is a project whose mission is to connect the world through music. They travel the world, meeting musicians - mostly street musicians - in different countries. They record each person contributing to a song, then edit and add that to what the next has in their headphones when they record. This created some very interesting pieces where the song was played by maybe a dozen musicians from different countries who had never met. But as you can see in this one, some of the musicians also traveled to meet each other, played concerts together and recorded songs like this one.

They eventually created the Playing For Change Foundation which builds music and art schools for children around the world - 15 so far.

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YmaOHyd said:
Copenhagen is a popular brand of chewing tobacco in the US.
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Interesting, and a bit weird. From what I can find it has no relation whatsoever to Denmark, which seems strange.

YmaOHyd said:
The is the first track of Arjen Lucassen's album The Source, [...]
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Holy shit this is amazing! :heart:
I was gonna say that stylistically it reminds me a bit of Symphony X but yeah, their lead singer is in it :ROFLMAO:
 
Z_TheWriter said:
Interesting, and a bit weird. From what I can find it has no relation whatsoever to Denmark, which seems strange.
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It was named, I think, to contrast Northern European quality and familiarity with American exoticism, which makes more sense if you remember the brand started in 1822 and competed with Red Man and Beech-Nut.
Z_TheWriter said:
Holy shit this is amazing! :heart:
I was gonna say that stylistically it reminds me a bit of Symphony X but yeah, their lead singer is in it :ROFLMAO:
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As a guest vocalist, yeah. He's on The Source and The Universal Migrator Pt 2: Flight of the Universal Migrator. Arjen is pretty great at casting his guests. There's a series of videos he made on Youtube about casting The Human Equation, which I think is actually a perfect album.
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Surprise country-western gospel music in Swahili!
 
Cool Jul from Pyrus: Alletiders Jul
In Denmark (and the rest of the Nordics), we have a type of Christmas TV show with 24 episodes, one televised each evening from December 1st through 24th - which is the primary day we celebrate Christmas. Every year, there will be several across channels, some new, some returning classics. We call them simply 'Julekalender' - 'Christmas Calendar'.

These are many and varied shows, mostly aimed at children, but often enjoyed by adults - a couple are even primarily for an older audience. Some are about normal people's lives in December, some about their interactions with the more supernatural aspects of the season. There's one about two children finding a way into Valhalla during December. One about three anthropomorphic animals going on a mission to Greenland to find the missing Santa Claus. One is about a girl finding a time machine and having adventures with young teen Jesus.

The show this is from is about Christmas elves living in the Royal Danish Archives. They use magic to enter historical books in order to have conversations, or just fun, with figures from Danish history. But something goes wrong with a spell, suddenly Christmas has vanished from all of the history books, and a mysterious girl with amnesia has appeared in the archives.

The titular elf, Pyrus, singing this song is tired of Christmas always being the same, always so traditional. He wants it to be more "cool".
 
stickygirl said:
Against my expectations, yes - you're right! How the hell did you find this?!
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I've had this album for basically as long as I've been alive. In 1979, this was an hour-long Christmas special broadcast on television here in the US, and my parents loved the music so much that my mom bought the record, and I now have my own copy of it, both on vinyl and on CD. It's one of the few Christmas albums I can listen to without feeling homicidal (I work in retail, so the day after Thanksgiving starts the non-stop Christmas music blitz in our store).

Anyone interested in seeing the full special can watch it here. It's really cute, the Muppet covers of the various standards are a lot of fun, and there are a few other songs that John Denver sings solo, or with minimal accompaniment, that are just as beautiful and enjoyable as Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913.

 
Off_base said:
Disclaimer:
This song is so country that even country people say, "damn, that's twangy"
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Hearing his voice do that almost hurts. 😄
Good song though. More piano solo please Mr. Allan. 🎹
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Kelliezgirl said:
A little more traditional...
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Ok, this is gonna sound weird...
They're obviously very talented. But does anyone else find the visuals for this... vaguely scary? 😅
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YmaOHyd said:
Surprise country-western gospel music in Swahili!
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Not my style normally, but it doesn't matter, this man is so happy he just carries you with him anyway. 😊
Also he can't end a song to save his life!
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Areala-chan said:
Anyone interested in seeing the full special can watch it here. It's really cute, the Muppet covers of the various standards are a lot of fun, and there are a few other songs that John Denver sings solo, or with minimal accompaniment, that are just as beautiful and enjoyable as Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913.
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Gonna save this for when we get closer to Christmas. Thank you :heart:🎄
 
Areala-chan said:
I've had this album for basically as long as I've been alive. In 1979, this was an hour-long Christmas special broadcast on television here in the US, and my parents loved the music so much that my mom bought the record, and I now have my own copy of it, both on vinyl and on CD. It's one of the few Christmas albums I can listen to without feeling homicidal (I work in retail, so the day after Thanksgiving starts the non-stop Christmas music blitz in our store).

Anyone interested in seeing the full special can watch it here. It's really cute, the Muppet covers of the various standards are a lot of fun, and there are a few other songs that John Denver sings solo, or with minimal accompaniment, that are just as beautiful and enjoyable as Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913.

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I probably watched this live, despite my protests. This was during my first marriage and my ex was a huge muppets fan. I loathe John Denver in any form. I don't think I can blame this, but we did break up in 1980. Just saying.
 
So in 2008, Latvia finished 14th in the EuroVision song contest. Their entry was "Wolves of the Sea," performed by Pirates of the Sea. It's on Youtube and it's very very campy and not that good. Sorry, Latvia!

In 2009, the self-styled True Scottish Pirate Metal band Alestorm covered it on their album Black Sails at Midnight, and it's still a routine part of their live setlist.


I've seen them live once. Very good live show, and their walk-out music was the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme.
 
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