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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Mithras

posted by [personal profile] selkie at 10:11am on 04/12/2008
I have come to the conclusion that I only like liturgical carols, carols that predate the Renaissance, and Trans-Siberian Orchestra carols.

Where is my Adam Lay Ybounden, Christians? Why do we have seven iterations of that song with the talking lamb, but not that one? Do you know how creepy a talking lamb is? Do you know what I would do with a talking lamb if it trotted up to me and said 'Do you know what I know?'

Shwarma.

And as for it beginning to look a lot like Christmas, sorry, Burl, baby, but we live in a swamp. It looks a lot like.... September around here.

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posted by [personal profile] gramarye1971 at 03:44pm on 04/12/2008
I do like some carols that were not originally written in English (e.g., Deck the Halls, All Through the Night, Still Still Still), but for the most part I absolutely agree with you.

My biggest problem at the moment is that I can't hear 'O Christmas Tree'/'O Tannenbaum' without mentally inserting the lyrics of 'The Red Flag'. Too much reading about British Labour Party politics this year.
Edited Date: 2008-12-04 03:44 pm (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] aostara.livejournal.com at 05:00pm on 04/12/2008
Living in SoCal, I'm partial to the "Heat Miser" song for my Winter Solstice festivities, personally.
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posted by [personal profile] sovay at 05:54pm on 04/12/2008
And as for it beginning to look a lot like Christmas, sorry, Burl, baby, but we live in a swamp. It looks a lot like.... September around here.

This is autumnal, then: The Devil's Interval, "The Bonfire Carol."

Burn, burn, Judas, burn slow
Bright, bright, bright for our dear Lord's sake
Burn slow for Judas
Judas was a redheaded man

*hugs*
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posted by [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com at 05:59pm on 04/12/2008
I always thought it would be cool to be the Shepherd Boy and go tell the king stuff. And you got to have a talking sheep!
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posted by [identity profile] lonespark.livejournal.com at 06:47pm on 04/12/2008
I was just about to post about my (as yet un-initiated) search for good Yule music. I am partial to medieval stuff, instrumental stuff, and of course totally pagan stuff. Also, "White Christmas", and yeah, it looks and feels vaguely autumnal around here, too. We have snowflake LED lights up, but they will never meet a real snowflake.
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posted by [identity profile] tibicina.livejournal.com at 08:53pm on 04/12/2008
*cheerfully starts singing 'The Lord At First Did Adam Make', just for you*

Even if it is, specifically, for Christmas Eve.
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posted by [identity profile] somerandomchic.livejournal.com at 12:25pm on 05/12/2008
We have a CD of Christmas carols done by the Baltimore Consort, who play period instruments, much of it is in middle or old english. I'm an old music nerd, it was all that lute playing in grad school. I enjoy it. Also, Mary Chapin Carpenter has a new holiday album out that sounds massively pagan in nature (Mary Chapin Carpenter wrote a solistice carol. No shit. She was on NPR talking about it with diane rehm.), but on which she also sings a lot of older, less known carols. I am buying it today.
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 02:43pm on 05/12/2008
Ooooh. That sounds excellent; you will have to prepare a review before we see you this weekend. :)
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posted by [identity profile] lonespark.livejournal.com at 06:02pm on 06/12/2008
Wow, those sound aweome.
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