Seven Songs Meme (Christmas edition)
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amediaw00t! I got tagged again! Which means I can do this one with Christmas songs this time around. Heh, heh. You have been warned.
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your livejournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.
1. "Over the Hill and Over the Dale" - On this Day Earth Shall Ring, Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen, Shinobu Sato, et al.
Exquisite take on the voyage of the Three Kings.
2. "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" - The Christmas Album, Rockapella
I am such a Rockapella-otaku, I can't help it. I also love their Christmas version of "Glow, Little Glow Worm."
3. "The January Man" - When I See Winter Return, William Pint (rhymes with mint) and Felicia Dale
These people usually do sea songs, but their Christmas album is quite nifty.
4. "Walkin' Round in Women's Underwear" - I am Santa Claus - Bob Rivers & Twisted Christmas
Need I say more?
5. "Exultation" - Wassail! Wassail! Early American Christmas Music, John Langstaff, Jean Ritchie, et al
The album is a nifty mix of styles; this tune is what they call shape-note singing and I love it.
6. "More Wood" - Voices of Winter, Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen
One of those songs that's funnier the truer it is.
7. "Personent Hodie" - Thys Yool, Martin Best Medieval Ensemble
I play this for my Latin students every year. It's a very rousing version; one of my students said it made him want to go out jousting.
If I could pimp only one of these albums, it would be Voices of Winter; I would have a very hard time picking a favorite song. "More Wood" is just the one TODS and I happened to hear late at night on a radio station many years ago, inspiring us to hunt it down and buy the album. Every song is a gem; the individual voices and the harmonies are all amazing. Most of the songs aren't specifically Christmas songs, but rather winter-themed. The same trio also did At the Turning of the Year, which has some beautiful pagan/wiccan tunes like "Solstice Round" and "Away Ye Merry Lasses." I don't recommend it quite as highly; for my tastes there are too many sad songs in a row, and there's one song about a psychopath who kills her boyfriend when she mistakes him for a demon that just doesn't do a lot for the holiday mood.
Anyone who hasn't been tagged by this one yet and wants to do it, go for it!
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your livejournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.
1. "Over the Hill and Over the Dale" - On this Day Earth Shall Ring, Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen, Shinobu Sato, et al.
Exquisite take on the voyage of the Three Kings.
2. "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" - The Christmas Album, Rockapella
I am such a Rockapella-otaku, I can't help it. I also love their Christmas version of "Glow, Little Glow Worm."
3. "The January Man" - When I See Winter Return, William Pint (rhymes with mint) and Felicia Dale
These people usually do sea songs, but their Christmas album is quite nifty.
4. "Walkin' Round in Women's Underwear" - I am Santa Claus - Bob Rivers & Twisted Christmas
Need I say more?
5. "Exultation" - Wassail! Wassail! Early American Christmas Music, John Langstaff, Jean Ritchie, et al
The album is a nifty mix of styles; this tune is what they call shape-note singing and I love it.
6. "More Wood" - Voices of Winter, Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen
One of those songs that's funnier the truer it is.
7. "Personent Hodie" - Thys Yool, Martin Best Medieval Ensemble
I play this for my Latin students every year. It's a very rousing version; one of my students said it made him want to go out jousting.
If I could pimp only one of these albums, it would be Voices of Winter; I would have a very hard time picking a favorite song. "More Wood" is just the one TODS and I happened to hear late at night on a radio station many years ago, inspiring us to hunt it down and buy the album. Every song is a gem; the individual voices and the harmonies are all amazing. Most of the songs aren't specifically Christmas songs, but rather winter-themed. The same trio also did At the Turning of the Year, which has some beautiful pagan/wiccan tunes like "Solstice Round" and "Away Ye Merry Lasses." I don't recommend it quite as highly; for my tastes there are too many sad songs in a row, and there's one song about a psychopath who kills her boyfriend when she mistakes him for a demon that just doesn't do a lot for the holiday mood.
Anyone who hasn't been tagged by this one yet and wants to do it, go for it!
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