surprisingly unusual xmas post

[muladhara]

I'm not really a Christmassy person, and I've got worse as I've got older. But anyway, this year I feel inclined to share a handful of musical things with you guys :)

1. A rhyme to the tune of "We Three Kings", but with lyrics about Persona 3 (I reposted it last year, but I'm just linking this year because I don't want the whole thing still on my journal in April, y'know? It's here: http://muladhara.dreamwidth.org/101922.html

2. The world's creepiest Xmas song, by Chris de Burgh: A Spaceman Came Travelling (if you've been my friend long enough: yes, I have posted this before. I'd post it every year if I could be arsed (but I'm lazy). I just like it and find it really creepy. Blame my dad. OK).

3. One of my favourite tunes played by one of my favourite guitarists: In Dulci Jubilo by Mike Oldfield (You might notice this video shows he's playing all the instruments - something I found out he did when watching a documentary about Tubular Bells, and something I absolutely love :) )

(Relatedly: his version of the William Tell Overture has (at the time of writing) the best comments (esp for Youtube!)

4. This isn't an Xmas song, but for some reason, it really makes me think of winter, so here we are: The Prophet's Song by Queen (yes, it's over eight minutes long, but it's AWESOME and that's all you need to know).

Comments

[ruuger]

Oh cool, I'd never seen either one of those Mike Oldfield videos. I recently read his autobiography, and realised that even though I've been a fan of his for almost 20 years, my fannishness had been pretty much limited to just listening to his albums.

[muladhara]

Me either - we should check out more! (Especially if there are more filmed in the same way because watching him play everything is kind of hypnotising!)

I've only ever really listened to the music, too, I suppose because I thought he was a musician of my dad's era (which how I got started listening in the first place) and then it's just never occurred to me to watch videos and stuff, you know?

[ruuger]

Sounds like a plan! :) Did you know that he has a new album coming out in January? I've been thinking that I'll do a 're-listen' of all his albums next month as a sort of a prelude to that.

...although I now realise that I don't actually own all of his albums... it's time to hit Amazon sales, I guess ;)

(what I really wish is that he'd do a tour to promote the album since he's the only one of my 'childhood heroes' that I haven't seen live - I've already seen Queen and Jean-Michel Jarre)

[muladhara]

:D I did not!

Heh, you're not alone - I don't have them all, either, and what I do have came via my dad. Sadly, I can't afford to round out my collection at the moment.

[halley]

That Chris de Burgh one is certainly creepy, but I like it •‿•

[muladhara]

I'm glad someone else thinks so! I think it's the tune that does it, really, because if you take the story as is - alien visits Earth, people think it's the son of God, etc then that's not so weird and creepy - that's a standard sci-fi story, but there's something about the tune that just makes me go, brrr.