Comments on: Jingle Bells (1993)

Jingle Bells (1993)

doubtfulpalace — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:28:49 -0800

Did someone say "minor-key Jingle Bells"?

I have a better broken version of "Jingle Bells", which I'll post later, but I can't resist posting this first--I doubt I'll ever find an exact rendition of a mefimusicchallenge hypothetical example just sitting on my hard drive again.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:29:56 -0800

Man, that would make a dog howl in agony. Well done.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:39:44 -0800

This is beautiful, really. You turn a boring ol' ditty into a stirring opus. Awesome.

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:16:37 -0800

I would totally expect any minor key rendition of this song to be uber cheezy, but this worked out wondefuly. What Burhanistan and ORthey said.

Oh, there come the lyrics. I LOL'd.

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:22 -0800

This is gonna be a very, very fruitful challenge!

By: Caduceus

Caduceus — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:30:59 -0800

The singing took me off guard. Now my mind is trying to resolve the dichotomy between the beauty of the music and the absurdity of the lyrics.

By: arcanecrowbar

arcanecrowbar — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:14:45 -0800

The recorder or pipes or whatever is what took it over the top for me.

By: doubtfulpalace

doubtfulpalace — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:22:59 -0800

I thought I was making it funnier by cranking up the lugubriosity, but the joke's on me, because I get more people commenting on being moved by it than by my songs that are (1) meant to be sad and (2) competently performed. There's a lesson there somewhere.

This is gonna be a very, very fruitful challenge!

I've been doing these every year since 1993, so... y'all are in trouble.

By: BrnP84

BrnP84 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:26:29 -0800

Oh man, I totally forgot about those lyrics, I haven't heard that since grade school. It was a really moving piece up until the singing than I just started to embrace how funny and awesome it is to make Christmas songs sound depressing.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:27:10 -0800

The recorder or pipes or whatever is what took it over the top for me.
Oh, there come the lyrics. I LOL'd.

These.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:36:53 -0800

Oh this is good.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:23:33 -0800

Heh. It's as if Dracula had his blood-nog spiked one Christmas Eve. And it's also awesome. Well done!