I think I love Christmas music because I've always been fascinated by cover songs. I love hearing different versions of songs I love, hearing new angles and new layers depending on how it's being performed.
Listen to these two versions of "Oh Come All Ye Faithful":
City High's version. This version, available on A Very Special Christmas 5 is impossibly beautiful. Sung over a light hip-hop track, it soars - the girl's voice about two minutes in is so beautiful. The goofy "City High up in here" doesn't ruin it for me. I love it.
And, then, contrastingly, you have this Twisted Sister version. It's campy and the video is corny, but, you know, the lead singer is still able to convey the joy of the song. It's completely different from the City High version and isn't what I would call beautiful, but has this sort of communal joy to it that I think really works.
Rowdies at Dawn
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I made the mistake of renting a place smack dab in the one section of
Prague frequented by 20something beer-chugging loudmouth apes. These two
clips were t...
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