A Proggy Christmas album
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Topic: A Proggy Christmas album
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Subject: A Proggy Christmas album
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 07:48
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I am interested as it at least has a Christmas theme Its out In November and features Transatlantic members among others! http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=39390" rel="nofollow">  http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=39390" rel="nofollow - A Proggy Christmas - The Prog World Orchestra http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=712" rel="nofollow - Neal Morse On that thought what are the other Proggy Christmas albums available over the years Yeah its an old idea but let's give it a new thread for Christmas coming up! ------------- 
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Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 08:16
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Little tragedies! They have a Christmas one available for streaming on this very website ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 08:16
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I must admit that I am not interested in Christmas albums at al, not even prog. While Momentum may be found somewhere on top of my list of 2012 vintage I want to hear, Neal's forthcoming Christmas album, wrapped in a cover with Sgt. Pepper-based artwork in Christmas colours, does not kindle my interest at all.
Of other Chistmas albums I know that Jethro Tull has released one, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra seems to have a preoccupation with this theme and Neal Morse released a, probably home-brew, EP some 12 years ago.
BTW, does it ever snow in Australia during Christmas time  ?------------- 
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 08:21
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The December People - Sounds Like Christmas. Chris Squire's Swiss Choir. Jon Anderson's Three Ships. Moody Blues' December. Chicago 25. ELP - I Believe In Father Christmas EP. Ten Point Ten - 12 25. ------------- 
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 08:31
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Bah, humbug. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Iron Nate
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 09:26
You might laugh but it actually happened on Christmas day about 5 or 6 years ago at a ski resort in New South Wales. Though I can't see it happening again in my lifetime. |
someone_else wrote:Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 12:34
 ? This is what part of Sydney looked like on Oct. 12 this year ! ------------- |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 12:38
Why can't you guys give Halloween a chance ? Just for starting this thread take this  :http://www.ericidle.com/blog/?p=47" rel="nofollow - www.ericidle.com/blog/?p=47 ------------- |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 14:14
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Another reason for me to dislike Neal Morse. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: The-Winkler
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 14:51
| Was going to buy it but then a friend gave me a spare copy he has :-) |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 15:35
| Never heard it but doesn't Jethro Tull have a christmas album? |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 17:22
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I bought it at the show in Seattle 2 weeks ago....but have not listened to it yet.....probably will not till December, have too much other stuff I want to listen to first. -------------   
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 17:23
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Legend pt1 by SAVIOUR MACHINE. it talks about the birth and rise of Jesus Christ. That's Christmas, but the intense way to go. Truly epic. ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: appudds
Date Posted: October 18 2012 at 23:04
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< ="application/x-relevantknowledge" id="pluginBm" ="true">Heard snippets of this album posted by Neal Morse on his FB account. It is actually nice. But I would wait for more. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 19 2012 at 01:33
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Christmas-Album-Keith-Emerson/dp/B000C8OWWW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350628241&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow - http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Christmas-Album-Keith-Emerson/dp/B000C8OWWW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350628241&sr=8-1
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: October 19 2012 at 05:15
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It rarely snows in Christmas but Aus had snowfall this October! We used to have a Christmas in July camp that was fun as it was colder. My birthday is 2 days before Christmas I can celebrate it all at once and get double the pressie! This year my wish list of prog is extensive! -------------
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: October 19 2012 at 05:22
Yeah the shops take advantage of Halloween in Australia even if Aussies genarally dont check this        and this  -------------
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 19 2012 at 05:26
I can imagine that. The 2012 prog vintage year has been good until now  .-------------
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Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: October 20 2012 at 05:38
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Another Xmas album..... Horslips' 1975 album "Drive the Cold Winter Away".........this is more straight folk than anything prog. But I love it.
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: October 20 2012 at 12:36
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Jethro Tull has a Christmas album, but I've never heard it. Anyone out there love it? ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: ProgShine
Date Posted: October 21 2012 at 09:26
And they have it as a free download on their website: http://littletragedies.com/" rel="nofollow - http://littletragedies.com/  ------------- https://progshinerecords.bandcamp.com 
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Posted By: ProgShine
Date Posted: October 21 2012 at 09:29
And no, I've added the album because it is interesting for the Prog community in general, but... look at that cover!   ------------- https://progshinerecords.bandcamp.com
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 22 2012 at 07:56
"What, so hot snow falls up?"  "Woo-hoo!" ------------- What? |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: October 22 2012 at 09:16
Don't laugh but I never saw or touched snow. 
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 22 2012 at 09:19
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It is cold, wet, and white. -------------
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Posted By: ElectricPoetry
Date Posted: October 22 2012 at 11:30
| A band called Ten Point Ten had a great Christmas album. Its worth a listen. |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: October 22 2012 at 12:15
Then I've heard of this invention. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 22 2012 at 16:22
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Hi, Surprisingly enough, I have never enjoyed any of the Christmas albums out there ... which for me is not the same thing, just because someone celebrates it. The lady I loved the most in my life, asked me before Christmas, what I wanted? ... I told her ... just you ... just the chance to spend some time with you and have fun and do whatever we want ... and she was upset for 3 days ... and then on the day before, Christmas Day and the day after? ... we had a marvellous time ... and had the house all to ourselves and such ... with so many musical instruments to have fun with! But, sometimes ... it's not enough! But if she wants flowers, she gets them now from me without a comment! (I'been'trained!) I'll put on Robin Hood and his Merry Men by the Goons ... and the International Christmas Pudding story ... and it warms my cockles some a lot more than any top ten soap music for my ears!
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: ProgShine
Date Posted: October 22 2012 at 20:33
I was able to see sknow back in 1994, in south Brazil (yes my friends, Brazil snow once each 20 years )But I guess next month on Poland where I'm heading to will be a common thing ------------- https://progshinerecords.bandcamp.com
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 01:08
bless
 There are a few nice Christmas songs. Might be biased but Greg Lake's always does it for me (guess what? he's touring this year nearing Christmas ..wonder why that is?!) and Steelye Span's version of Gaudette is gorgeous. Not to mention The Pogues Fairy Tale Of New York which is always worth an annual spin. After that I have to shut my ears when Slade , Roy Wood and all manner of other atrocities are getting pumped out from shop stores everywhere for a month.
BTW I have ordered Keith Emerson's Christmas Album. I am intrigued to hear it. Always avoided it before but for some reason I finally gave in to the urge to get it this year.
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 12:10
NP: I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas NP: The Beatles Christmas Shows (there are 7 of them!)
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: ProgShine
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 12:21
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Xmas music, usually, is used to make people happy, because they remember such great moments with their families and such, you know, all gathered on the table and all. As for me, I don't remember one single xmas that was a full nice day, always some fight, discussions and complainnings like 'why we don't have this, or that'. And many of them was like each one in the family in his/her bedroom. So no, no musical memories. On top of all that, Simone, a brazilian singer, did the worst version of John Lennon's 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)' in 1995 and since then it's the 'one song' for xmas, so, go figure ------------- https://progshinerecords.bandcamp.com
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 12:46
This is the same thing that I usually reject, and not because I do not have a family or a dinner table to share with anyone ... I simply like the quiet and the "inner" space a lot more, and yes, this is a change from my previous years. I have extended family here in Vancouver with another part in Las Vegas, and they have been, all my life, the most wonderful folks I have ever met, and I have loved Christmas in Las Vegas many times, but all in all ... at 61, I'm happier alone ... and while I am "alone", I'm never lonely ... I can apply myself to playing music and next thing you know its 4 hours later ... or I can write another poem, and next thing I know it's 3 hours later ... or I can go take a nap and next thing you know it's 4 hours later. Or I might want to play some CD or other ... but unlike many people here, ALL of the music I have ever heard ... FOR THE MOST PART ... is already a part of WHO I AM ... and I am not sure that many folks here know exactly what that means ... so for me, it's like saying that everyday I hear one of these or something knew, it's ALWAYS Christmas for me ... the love, care, excitement ... I don't know how to ask for more! Sorry ... I'm not that materialistic despite having so many CD's and LP's! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: October 25 2012 at 01:33
Don't love it....it's OK. There are only 3 new Ian Anderson penned pieces on it; with the first track "Birthday Card at Christmas" IMHO being easily the best thing on the album. Although Martin Barre's "A Winter Snowscape" instrumental is superb and a great closer... (I think the version of this track on his "Stage Left" album is better though). Tull's Xmas album is mostly full of reworked old Tull numbers (which are IMHO not better than the originals) or reworked traditional classical instrumentals (most of these are interesting but not essential). This album is something that I play very infrequently....even at Christmas! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 25 2012 at 01:44
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Had my first listen to Keith Emerson's Christmas Album. Might be my last. Other than a nice version of Silent Night with a gospel choir its full of horrible cheap sounding snyths from the eighties. Close to unlistenable. Avoid like the plague! |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: October 25 2012 at 07:27
 ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 25 2012 at 15:14
For me one of the better Christmas albums of late is Jordan Rudess - Christmas Sky....Its legit Christmas songs and his keyboard playing is really nice.
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: November 06 2012 at 07:43
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LOLOL always gets me this every Christmas when i watch it http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_459925&feature=iv&src_vid=8cGH4sZIpr0&v=66DpPh7q7xw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_459925&feature=iv&src_vid=8cGH4sZIpr0&v=66DpPh7q7xw
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: November 06 2012 at 07:52
This sounds pretty cool. I'll have to check this one out. Love the album cover. Reminds me of supertramp's ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: November 06 2012 at 07:54
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This is quite nice really still not as hilarious as this http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_459925&feature=iv&src_vid=8cGH4sZIpr0&v=66DpPh7q7xw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_459925&feature=iv&src_vid=8cGH4sZIpr0&v=66DpPh7q7xw -------------
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Posted By: AlexDOM
Date Posted: November 06 2012 at 19:04
| Got the Prog Rock Orchestra album, it's pretty sweet. A little foretaste before I convert to Christmas music after Thanksgiving! |