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Okay, tonight's songs are going to be different, in that many of them are very, very bad; many of them are so bad that I can't even bring myself to post mp3s of them.
Today is Beethoven's birthday, so I ought to post some Christmas music by Beethoven, but there are only three tracks by Beethoven in my Holiday music stash.
The first is Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring. I have this in two versions: One is off the Dr. Elmo CD (remember that CD? I said we'd be coming back to it!). The other is as performed by the Maryland All-State High School Band, which is the best performance of that song ever, especially because my father was playing first clarinet for it. But it was the first mp3 I ever ripped from LP, and it was before I really got the hang of it, and the quality *sucks*. I really need to rip it again.
The last one is Ode To Joy as performed by the Jingle Cats. Remember the Jingle Cats? (Ode To Joy isn't really Christmas music, but it certainly qualifies as a Transhumanist Togetherness Winter Holiday Carol if anything should.)
But it is also Phillip K. Dick's birthday, and I've been reading thefourthvine's latest recs set, so we shall supplement the Beethoven with robots. Thing is, I could have done a set of all robot songs, only most of the well-known Christmas songs about automatons and synthezoids are so horribly, horrifyingly bad and creepy I refuse to have mp3s of them on my computer.
Per exemplum: Toyland; Frosty the Snowman; The Marvelous Toy.
But there's a couple which are tolerable.
Merry, Merry Christmas is probably the best song of the Star Wars Christmas CD, for one.
And The Musical Box by Trans-Siberian Orchestra is catchy and just sentimental and melancholy enough.
..And, of course, Chiron Beta Prime by Jonathan Coulton, which is possibly the one Christmas song to defeat all others.
Today is Beethoven's birthday, so I ought to post some Christmas music by Beethoven, but there are only three tracks by Beethoven in my Holiday music stash.
The first is Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring. I have this in two versions: One is off the Dr. Elmo CD (remember that CD? I said we'd be coming back to it!). The other is as performed by the Maryland All-State High School Band, which is the best performance of that song ever, especially because my father was playing first clarinet for it. But it was the first mp3 I ever ripped from LP, and it was before I really got the hang of it, and the quality *sucks*. I really need to rip it again.
The last one is Ode To Joy as performed by the Jingle Cats. Remember the Jingle Cats? (Ode To Joy isn't really Christmas music, but it certainly qualifies as a Transhumanist Togetherness Winter Holiday Carol if anything should.)
But it is also Phillip K. Dick's birthday, and I've been reading thefourthvine's latest recs set, so we shall supplement the Beethoven with robots. Thing is, I could have done a set of all robot songs, only most of the well-known Christmas songs about automatons and synthezoids are so horribly, horrifyingly bad and creepy I refuse to have mp3s of them on my computer.
Per exemplum: Toyland; Frosty the Snowman; The Marvelous Toy.
But there's a couple which are tolerable.
Merry, Merry Christmas is probably the best song of the Star Wars Christmas CD, for one.
And The Musical Box by Trans-Siberian Orchestra is catchy and just sentimental and melancholy enough.
..And, of course, Chiron Beta Prime by Jonathan Coulton, which is possibly the one Christmas song to defeat all others.