I'm looking for Prog Xmas songs
I'm looking for Prog Xmas songs
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Start with the albums by Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Annie Haslam, Prog World Orchestra (Neal Morse), December People (Robert Berry), Horslips, Steeleye Span and go from there...
I need songs names but thanks.
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Big Big Train's new 7" "Merry Christmas" b/w "Snowfalls" is pretty awesome!!!
Brett mention Neal Morse's Prog World Orchestra "A Proggy Christmas" and rightly so!!! My favorite track is "Frankincense" which mashes up Edgar Winter and "Deck The Halls". Sweet!
Greg Lake "I Believe In Father Christmas" is always a must.
XTC "Thanks For Christmas" might be my favorite holiday tune ever.
Haven't heard it yet but Galdalf's Fist just released "Winter's Mourning" on their bandcamp page. Cool band.
And, of course, Chris Squire's "Run With The Fox". A true classic.
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There's a CD called Merry Axemas that has The First Nowell by Eric Johnson, Amazing Grace by Jeff Beck. Silent Night Holy Night Jam by Joe Satriani, Joy to the World by Steve Morse, Christmas Time is Here by Steve Vai and The Little Drummer Boy by Alex Lifeson.
Jethro tull has a couple;
Christmas song
Another Christmas song
Birthday card at Christmas
Jack frost and the hooded crow
Ring Out, Solstice BellsOriginally Posted by thedunno
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
In The Court Of The Kringle King
O Come, All Ye Progheads
Get 'Em Out By Christmas
The Reindeer Lie Down on Broadway
Last edited by Man In The Mountain; 12-14-2017 at 05:19 PM.
Makes me think of that fake Kansas Christmas album that used to be over at Progarchives.
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Close To The Eggnog
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
Along with a Kansas-styled version of "Up on the Housetop," the first December People album includes a Christmas song ("The Light") that really is Kansas.
Found this video a few years ago on Youtube. Love all the prog references. ��
And then there's this:
Halfway between extreme metal and RIO, and almost like something Sleepytime might have come up with - although whatever SGM did would, of course, have been far creepier.
Apparently they have a whole album of this sort of stuff on the way.
It’s a cover song, but oh well, you can’t live on “I Believe in Father Christmas” alone:
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
A whole album's worth of related material, but I think they are remakes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Je...hristmas_Album
'Ring Out Solstice Bells' mentioned above was a moderate UK hit for them (the only one they had post-1971, as they moved to albums) and one I hear sporadically every year around now.
The Chris de Burgh original is excellent - as is a lot of his early pre-Lady In Red stuff.
^Yeah, when DeBurgh was good (honest!).
He did an 80s remake of 'Spaceman' which is similar yet still inferior.
Marillion has a version of Carol of the Bells:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x_qMcIRbdU
Christmas Day- Shadow Gallery
'The smell of strange colours are heard everywhere'- Threshold
The album is out. Mr. Keneally does vocals on "Let It Snow", with a slight creepy factor at the end. If you know their previous output, this fits right along side. I can almost feel my synapses firing, while listening to it.
I dig the tunes, but does their music usually have that 'processed-metal' type of sound? It reminds sonically of stuff like Between the Buried, Thank You Scientist, etc...you dig? Maybe I need to hear more but these days I'm sort of veering away from that type of approach.
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
Greetings,
One that's somewhat off the radar (and is a cover):
https://vimeo.com/160419271
(It won't embed the Vimeo link for some reason and I believe the YouTube version was removed for copyright violation.)
Cheers,
Alan
Another version of Carol Of The Bells by (presumably now defunct) Bristol band Flights. This one is for those who like the more guitar-heavy, alternative-flavoured stuff.
"One should never magnify the harsh light of reality with the mirror of prose onto the delicate wings of fantasy's butterfly"
Thumpermonkey - How I Wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman
"I'm content to listen to what I like and keep my useless negative opinions about what I don't like to myself -- because no one is interested in hearing those anyway, and it contributes absolutely nothing to the conversation."
aith01
How about this?
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