OH MY! U2 cover THE classic PROG Christmas song
Posted by Beany on 2 December 2008 - 11:04pm.
and it's bloody good IMHO
All we need now is a version by Sarah Brightman. Shit...?
Thank god nobody's done a disco version. Spoke to soon...
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U2
2 dull. It just does nothing and goes nowhere, and will Bono never get rid of that cold? It must be about ten years now.
*cough*
I'll let this one slide, Beany, but we introduced a new one-video-per-post rule recently - multiple instances of the embedded player slow down page loading times and push other people's contributions further down the page more quickly than they deserve. It's in the FAQ.
I missed that too
How about this for a compromise: embed one clip and put "Continued in Comments" at the end, embedding the rest in a comment to your own post?
Yep
That's exactly the kind of solution we like.
Mea culpa
It's some time since I read the FAQs. You're a good man Fraser. Dare I say it...a santa. It won't happen again. Unless Kate Bush does a version...
But surely
It doesn't apply where the lovely Sarah Brightman is concerned. I'd happily sit waiting all day for a page to load if it meant I got to watch her frollicking in the snow.
Just for you Niks
This includes her version of I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday.
WARNING: includes footage of her in her Hot Gossip days AND kissing Cliff Richard. You might want to be sitting down.
Hmmm
I think I better wait til I get home to watch that.
Adam busy as usual
Good to see Adam busy as ever on his bass guitar. Mark Radcliffe always describes AC/DC's drummer as having the easiest job in showbusiness but I think Adam Clayton has that title. (If you discount the "working closely with Bono for 30 years" from his Job Description).
Surely the classic 'prog' Xmas song
is 'Run With the Fox' by Chris Squire and Alan White?
Greg Lake's song is just a nice acoustic ballad with a big finish - it's more X-Factor than 'Prog'. Merely being written by a musician who has played in progressive bands does not necessarily make a song 'prog' - by that logic, Bucks Fizz were prog :-)
Bucks Fizz not prog?
Putting out The Lost Masters Vol 2 certainly suggests they were.
Shouldn't the credits read
..Lake/Sinfield/Prokofiev?
I always thought the Russians
contribution was the killer part of the song but isn't that the case with most of ELP apart that is from the bits done by Aaron Copland!
I Believe in Father Christmas version 3
The christmas tree seems to be by same graphic designer as Tory party logo.
The Edge
Can he now be known as the Sledge?