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True......new category....Winter Prog!  I actually have certain rock  titles that I find are personally seasonal for me.  I think many of us do.  Summer albums, fall, etc. 

I need to hear that one again too.  ()
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Kate's "50 Words for Snow" may not be a Christmas album per se, but it is a "winter album" that I enjoy but once per year, around Christmas. 
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The sad thing is that this album is one of the most progressive there is ... but the folks are stuck on a format with a screaming solo and a bunch of other turd'y material ... and when you have someone that is phrasing things so beautifully and accompanied by a master drummer in a couple of pieces, that make it all sound so "air'y" it's almost scary ... no one can really listen to it ... it has no "format" that we can recognize, and its impression is like ... this is really special and different ... a poet that stands out ... and no one knows it or hears it, because they are looking for a rock song.






...and so evocative of seasonal elements. the atmosphere created absolutely conjures imagery of cold, winter, snow, night sky like few albums have. the sparseness and space should stand as a great lesson to musicians of all stripes. no, not every album should sound like this one, but she made perfect use of arrangements that (seem) to support the spirit of her material.
 

The Sigur Ros lp () Has a similar 'wintery' feel to me; the environmental atmospherics, the 'Hoplandish' lyrics, the artwork, the slow build of the music just expresses frost and ice and soporific movements of nature in a wintery world... but nothing to do with Christmas really, sorryEmbarrassed.. more like January..

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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Still one of the greatest Christmas Songs of all time...prog or otherwise.


I love this song because it's my true feelings for this holiday! 
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Still one of the greatest Christmas Songs of all time...prog or otherwise.
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Kate's "50 Words for Snow" may not be a Christmas album per se, but it is a "winter album" that I enjoy but once per year, around Christmas. 
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The sad thing is that this album is one of the most progressive there is ... but the folks are stuck on a format with a screaming solo and a bunch of other turd'y material ... and when you have someone that is phrasing things so beautifully and accompanied by a master drummer in a couple of pieces, that make it all sound so "air'y" it's almost scary ... no one can really listen to it ... it has no "format" that we can recognize, and its impression is like ... this is really special and different ... a poet that stands out ... and no one knows it or hears it, because they are looking for a rock song.






...and so evocative of seasonal elements. the atmosphere created absolutely conjures imagery of cold, winter, snow, night sky like few albums have. the sparseness and space should stand as a great lesson to musicians of all stripes. no, not every album should sound like this one, but she made perfect use of arrangements that (seem) to support the spirit of her material.
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carol of the bells tran siberian orchestra
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Kate's "50 Words for Snow" may not be a Christmas album per se, but it is a "winter album" that I enjoy but once per year, around Christmas. 
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The sad thing is that this album is one of the most progressive there is ... but the folks are stuck on a format with a screaming solo and a bunch of other turd'y material ... and when you have someone that is phrasing things so beautifully and accompanied by a master drummer in a couple of pieces, that make it all sound so "air'y" it's almost scary ... no one can really listen to it ... it has no "format" that we can recognize, and its impression is like ... this is really special and different ... a poet that stands out ... and no one knows it or hears it, because they are looking for a rock song.

As for it being a "Christmas" this and that, I find it all too weird, specially in these commercially sounding days ... I mean ... progressive was originally a sort of revolution against commercialism, and here we are discussing something that has become so commercial that we can't even recognize the ones that are not even close to it ... so far apart and away, that it makes for a difficult listen ... or as an old friend once asked me while listening to Ozric Tentacles ... where's the lyrics? ... where's the song?

Gosh, for me Peter Hammill is a great Christmas ... his care and dedication alone, is worth it in his music.
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Run With the Fox - Chris Squire and Alan White
I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
Christmas Song/Ring Out Solstice Bells - Jethro Tull
December Will Be Magic Again (original single) - Kate Bush
In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield (with Les Penning)
Sussex Carol - Rob Reed (with Les Penning) - great YouTube video clip
Merry Christmas - Big Big Train
On Christmas Day - Magnum

....add Slade, Roy Wood, The Darkness, Chris Rea, Bruce Springsteen etc. and it's a festive playlist I can cope with for a few weeks!

"Hey, Santa..... pass us that bottle, will you?"

Edited by Squonk19 - December 09 2018 at 00:56
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I once read that the final choral part on Focus's Hamburger Concerto is actually some Christmas Related thing from Holland... not one of the nicest passages, but whatever (something about the persecution of children born near the birth of Christ, I think)... however, that would make it the best Christmas song ever.
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Thanks for the reminder about Kate Bush. I haven't listened to that in a long while; I'll have to pull it out. From what I remember, it is a great one to listen to at this time of year. I've always considered side one of Ommadawn to be wintery as well.
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IQ - Tales From A Dark Christmas....CD.........  Time to dig this album out Smile
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Kate's "50 Words for Snow" may not be a Christmas album per se, but it is a "winter album" that I enjoy but once per year, around Christmas. 



As for actual Christmas music, I'll take a traditional boys choir before Mass, and then Bing Crosby and Johnny Mathis at home. 

Not very proggy, I'm afraid.Embarrassed




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Happy holidays to everyone. And the best holiday song to be found on this site is Tull's "A Christmas Song."
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Not for latter day prog purists, but for us old-timers who remember that truly progressive music began with the Beatles and took many an interesting turn on the way to prog. Tull fans, Prog Folk enthusiasts, and humanitarians might like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_dsk7u26A
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Nice to see Greg, who sadly is not with us anymore, and Ian with his wonderful flute playing.
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^ Sound's like a wonderful gift.
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Hi,

I PASS!

I leave Christmas for everyone else. I don't need it, and don't have anyone to give it to!

Ohhh, c'mon ... what would I give Vangelis? Sakamoto? Oldfield? Renate? Decamps? Fripp and Toyah? that they don't already have ... well a wonderful hug and a thank you for all of their beings ... is really all I can think of!
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Hmm...I was going to say New Age beliefs but that's so long in the tooth that I'm sure that's a derogatory term now too. LOL
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This site has become a little too serious for its own good. The fact that i enjoy a pagan (a derogatory term in xtian circles) rite does not make me a pagan....I embrace all cultural aspects of non religious dogma...no big sky fairy is going to tell me what I can do on the 21st December...
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If that's how you enjoy music then I'd hate to hear you criticize it. But you are silly a bugger at times so C'est La Vie.
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