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Merry Christmas, Bluesky!!!

no offense to Kendrick Lamar but the best diss track of all time is still “You’re a Mean One Mr Grinch”

What are some of your favourite Christmas songs that most people don’t usually listen to? Personal favourites of mine are the two Weird Al ones, and the two Fountains of Wayne ones.

#music

IDK who needs to hear this, but you're allowed to like one part of a band's discography and not the other. You don't have to know the whole history of a band to be a fan. You can just simply LIKE the music. You don't need to know names of every album or song or band member. You can just LIKE music.

"I'll take movies for $400"

Tim Burton directed this dark tale starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter

"You gotta be kidding me"

Christmas... Country Style Scott Van Teeffelen · Album · 2006 · 11 songs

If anyone wants to listen, he remastered it last year and put it up on streaming:

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/5KvfRW...

Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/chr...

…and wherever else you stream.

The cover art for “Christmas, Country Style” by Scott Van Teeffelen, depicting a young Scott on the left side of the cover, with a winter background behind him.

Throwback almost two decades ago to my first paid recording gig - when my dad was recording his Christmas album and wanted me to say good night at the end of a song.

After all these years, I have him to thank for my interest in #music

All of Creed's songs are about Jesus which makes them christmas music

I don’t know how I always get sucked into whatever movie my wife is watching, but I assume some sort of magic is at play everytime.

Will have to check them out - thank you!

Do you have any recommendations for your favourite poetry books?

*furiously taking notes*

Just once, I’d like to see a Hallmark Christmas movie where the girl from the city doesn’t randomly quit her 7 figure job to live with a guy she met three days ago in the middle of nowhere.

#christmas

Writer: We need a name for what jazz music is called in Star Wars

George Lucas: Jizz

Writer: Really? Um. Maybe instead it could-

Lucas: (eyes glowing, voice booming from the heavens, speaking an inevitable truth older than time itself) Jizz

It’s amazing how many times you don’t notice a tambourine in the background of a song until you listen for it.

#music

everyday you tell yourself

" I'll never be one of those people with dirty airpods"

and one day you wake up and you're exactly who you said you'd never be

Heavily debating making a playlist called “Pick Up The Damn Phone” where every song starts with the tone of a phone ringing. I even got a few already in mind:

Telephone Line by ELO
I Beg Your Pardon by Kon Kan
Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too by Say Anything

Any others I should add?

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Oooh this one was already one of my favourites

The particular one that I’m on a decent amount is for a very small prog rock band in Australia (Black Dime Cabaret) - people are super cool on there and I’ve gotten some decent songs from them :)

I’ve had good success with talking directly with other music fans on communities like Discord, with a good mix of algorithms through YouTube recommendations and Spotify Discover.

Found some of my favourite bands that way!

a man in a suit and tie stands at a podium with the words next question written below him ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands at a podium with the words next question written below him

Mambo Number 1
Mambo Number 2
Mambo Number 3
Mambo Number 4

Gonna go a bit later and say Pamela

Electric Light Orchestra!

It’s because when you feel any pain, you can just hit the drums, and that makes you happy :)

(At least from the point of view from someone who’s played drums live for over a decade at this point)

Anyone have any good tips for writing verses? I feel like I can typically nail a good chorus but struggle in writing a cohesive verse.

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Red Hands by The Dear Hunter!