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Fifteen Days/Songs of Christmas Music Mixtape Draft - Links to final mixes in post #1 (2 Viewers)

I have so many songs I want to pick and they're almost all rock era originals. This is my favourite of them all, I was playing some others to figure out what to take here and this came on and I replayed it 5 times. I've held off taking it because one of the others is gone but I know I'm going to pick it eventually. 

The first Killers Christmas single and they've done one every year since (always for charity) - this one came out right around the same time as Sam's Town which is probably why I love it so much, it doesn't sound too far off their biggest hits from that era.  

I want to roll around like a kid in the snow
I want to re-learn what I already know
Just let me take flight
Dressed in red, through the night
On a great big sled

7.02 - A Great Big Sled - The Killers - Rock Era Original

(that's a VEVO link, so let me know if it doesn't work)

 
Eephus said:
The 80s were squarely in my wheelhouse but let me be the curmudgeon on Band Aid.  Not on the cause or Sir Bob's vision and earnestness, but on the "once in a lifetime assembly of superstars" angle.  Bono, George Michael and Sting were and are big stars.  Phil Collins and Duran Duran are solidly in the next tier but most of the other artists would have to buy a ticket to enter the hall of fame.

"We are the World" is a much crappier (non-Xmas) song but the talent level (even with the mandatory points deduction for Dan Ackroyd) is much higher than Band Aid.

USA!!!  USA!!!  #1
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The USA has a well known obesity problem, especially in its tourists to other countries.

Band Aid - Feed the World

USA for Africa - We ARE the world

 
Ilov80s said:
Both offensive and an awful song 
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Mrs. Rannous said:
And it's better than that Band Aid crap.  "Do They Know It's Christmas?" is one of the worst, most offensive things ever
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Seriously???

Raising millions and saving lives is offensive now? However naive they were about the politics the intent was noble and pure. The song was written and produced with speed more important than quality. The Xmas deadline had to be met.

criticize the music all you want, but worst most offensive things ever? Pol pot fits that description. Band Aid......not so much

Go sip a latte and preach from your ivory towers about things you havent done a fraction of to solve

 
JB owes 4, Kumerica owes 4

7.x - Bruce - Up 

7.x - cos

7.x - Ilov80s - skip

7.x - Scoob

7.x - Zilla

 
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PIK95 said:
Is there a Google doc or something keeping track of this?
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Even with the Google doc ... maybe once a day the picks taken could be posted to this thread? Doesn't have to be in space-eating spreadsheet form ... text form is fine, even with minimal formatting. Just something searchable.

Don't know about others, but Google docs are blocked at my workplace.

 
First, a category adjustment.  Thought we had two slots for Pop Standards.  Move Little Saint Nick to Wildcard.

So far my playlist has Mariah and Hathaway.  Time to add another soul vocal titan.  

7.xx "Someday At Christmas" by Stevie Wonder

(Sad/Wistful/Depressing/etc.)
Stevie could set an autopsy report to music and make it sound uplifting, but when the first verse includes "playing with bombs like kids play with toys" this is in a dark place.  

Written by Ron Miller and Bryan Wells, the same team that wrote "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday".  Miller also wrote or co-wrote several other songs recorded my Motown artists, including "For Once In My Life".

Stevie has recorded this song more than once.  I'm taking the 1967 original.

 
Doug B said:
Was long overdue. Familiarity shouldn't count THAT badly against a song in this thing ... but I know people vary a lot on that point.
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Yeah, I feel like I am picking songs that are too mainstream, but that's what I like when it comes to Christmas music. The season comes once a year and I like to hear certain songs. 

 
7.x - cosjobs - UP

7.x - Ilov80s - 

7.x - Scoob

7.x - Zilla

 
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simey said:
All I hear is John and the choir.
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I thought that last 15 seconds or so after John cuts off ... isn't that just Yoko singing over the choir?

And I had thought that was the only time in the song her voice was really distinguishable from the choir. The choir (plus a blended-in Yoko) is singing the backing "War is Over" part, right?

 
Doug B said:
I thought that last 15 seconds or so after John cuts off ... isn't that just Yoko singing over the choir?

And I had thought that was the only time in the song her voice was really distinguishable from the choir. The choir (plus a blended-in Yoko) is singing the backing "War is Over" part, right?
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Yeah, you can hear her voice near the end over the choir, but that's it (although I can hear her voice blending with the choir on the chorus). In my link, you can hear her at around the 2:38 mark, and then when they start singing "War is Over" she is drowned out again.  :lol:  

 
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Bruce Dickinson said:
When I started thinking about instrumentals for this draft, one song emerged in its own tier.

When I was in grade school I was forced against my will to take piano lessons.  Because of this indenture, I have a deeper appreciation for music and it is composed and played, can still read sheet music today, was able to lean guitar basics as an adult relatively quickly, and was able to teach my daughter a few basics when she wanted to learn to play keyboards.  So #### you, Mom.

I was never anything special as a piano player.  A couple songs from this soundtrack were about as advanced as I got.

Round 5.xx "Christmastime Is Here" Vince Guaraldi Trio

(Instrumental). 

The nightmares of showing me off to the grandparents and neighbors   demanding I play this every December for whomever walked through the door with two ears and a heart have subsided, and now I can just listen to it or play it purely to enjoy its brilliance.
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I take it back.  Looks like BD is in the know.

 
Bonzai said:
I've honestly never noticed Yoko on that tune.  Until now.   :angry:
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:P  That's why I said I only hear John and the choir. You have to really pay attention to pick out Yoko, cause she blends so much with the choir. The song sounds good to my ears, and it makes me happy. 

 
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