A blog, generally about music, usually for projects hosted by Jeff. I may also write about the 48-Hour Media Prompt Challenge if I don't feel like writing a story or poem inspired by the given song. Other bits of poetry or different topics of discussion might end up here as well.
Thank you so much for sharing that. It was genuinely fascinating and surprisingly educational. I sometimes worry that I come across a little too serious, but we all muddle through in our own ways, don’t we? I’m really glad you took the time to write this. It gave me a new way to think about things, and I appreciate that more than you know.
Amethyst Angel, this version of "Carol of the Bells," reminded me of the version by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Classic Music with a techno beat and I go way back. I found the Ferry Corsten version of Barber's Adagio years ago, and it remains one of my all-time favorites in that genre.
Sorry if this is a shock to the system to find out that a retiree likes music with a heavy techno beat. But in my defense, there is a much younger man, hanging out in this aging body, waiting for the Lord Jesus to return. Then, I can be young, again, during His Millennial Reign.
I'm with 🍬Candywyn🎶 on this one. Just look up, "Carol of the Bells" (all genres), and see how many versions there are. I just did, and found a YouTube video, that was nearly a half-hour long with at least a dozen versions of it.
Sorry for the long comment, but "Carol of the Bells" is one of my favorite Christmas songs. Can you tell?
My tenth choice for "12 Days of "Christmas"" is another instrumental rendition of I Saw Three Ships, this one by my Irish group known as Alisa Jones (the ones who play the fiddle, whistles, guitar, uilleann pipes, Celtic harp, boderon, bouzouki, concertina and bass…)
Their version is light and lilting, bright and cheerful, as befits the melody, layering different instruments in different sections and never piling on more than three or four at a time. It does lack melodic variation, repeating the same “phrase” a dozen times over without attempting to add anything different. But I suppose that's the charm of a song like this, where you can have a catchy hook and not even remember what the words are. The hook becomes the song, and my loop-loving brain plays right along, insisting on repeating an already repetitive tune ad infinitum...
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