RIP....he sounds amazing even while chewing gum!

Christmas music. Aside from work (I work as a musician), I exclusively listen to Christmas music from Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving in the U.S.) through New Year's Day.

At the moment I'm listening to this:

A couple other favorites I always listen to in December:

Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun

These children in 1960s jackets and ties singing about their life of sin and misery in the house of the rising sun...

Likely story. Love the song. Love the Animals.

The Zombies (1965) are a bit more convincing. Their picked their name prior to the zombie apocalypse obsession.

Do you listen to any Tropicalia? I just picked up some Tom Ze.

Here is a video of Gilberto Gil, Tom Ze, and Caetano Veloso singing Veloso's sublime song "Tropicalia" in 1997. A little choppy, but one of the rare videos of the three founders of the movement on stage together.

This:

http://www.alligator.com/albums/God-Dont-Never-Change-The-Songs-Of-Blind-Willie-Johnson-CD/

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With exception to Question and Darthbarracuda, all your music tastes stink.

This thing of beauty

In 1988, Fates Warning brought the long-form rock medley, adopted in prog rock for over 15 years, to metal. It has been a staple of so-called progressive metal ever since.

The Ivory Gate of Dreams is that gate through which, in Greek mythology, false visions enter one's mind while asleep. The song of the same title is a sometimes haunting, sometimes harrowing meditation on willful sleep, ignoring reality, and awakening to harsh truths. It combines elements of US power metal, early tech thrash like Watchtower, and the budding sounds of progressive metal pioneered in the US by early Fates Warning itself, Queensryche, and Dream Theater. Its acrobatic vocal melodies and guitar lines twist to elicit an odd, otherworldly soulfulness, and its crushing atmosphere sometimes prefigures progressive death metal acts like Opeth that would arise in the coming years.

With exception to Question and Darthbarracuda, all your music tastes stink. — Emptyheady

Yes, we p-zombies have terrible taste in music! Sometimes we will listen to a broken radiator rattling for hours and wonder why no one has used it in a song. But p-zombies being very obedient and docile, we eagerly await to be enlightened by your list of bitchin' tunes to groove to. 8-)

This thing of beauty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_jwv2QMtAo — Noble Dust

Amen, I would of thought there would be more classical heads on here as philosophy usually is paired with the interests of the intelligent/aristocratic. Can't fucking stand rock, that shit should of died in the 80s.

This is proven scientifically to be the most relaxing song in the world (statistically) and has been found to reduce up to 65% of peoples anxiety in neurological scans:

The Zombies (1965) are a bit more convincing. Their picked their name prior to the zombie apocalypse obsession. — Bitter Crank

awesomesong!

Can't fucking stand rock, that shit should of died in the 80s. — intrapersona

Ahh, but I disagree...if you appreciate the structure of classical music, surely you can appreciate this beast of a song:

Or, from the other angle, some classical textures integrated into a rock structure...

Or this maximalist pop tune written by a classically trained composer...

Heck, even Steve Reich loved rock enough to write this...ok, I'm done ;) :