• burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    10 hours ago

    Of course he’s wrong. Anytime the word “blasting” is used outside of anything but a concert in an area meant for loud music, or maybe a custom sound-proof room that contains the crap you’re otherwise inflicting on others, it’s wrong.

  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    71·
    21 hours ago

    Good piece, but must still make way for the true king of Christmas music, the Ukrainian folk metal piece known as Carol of the Bells.

    • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      20 hours ago

      “Carol of The Bells” is for fighting a massive thirty-story corrupt god, destroying a metro area with wild swings of its tentacles and tongues, running up the side of a skyscraper as fast as you can, holding a batshit crazy-large technosword, collateral damage everywhere, choir lyrics come in, all so that you and the other residents of the city can finally be safe, on the night of Christmas Eve.

      Tell me it’s not.

      • Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 hours ago

        “Carol of the Bells” is two mind controllers vying for control of a glamorous penthouse filled with skateboards and mideval weaponry by posessing members of a wedding reception in order to obfuscate their identities from each other even though unbeknownst to them they are now married and putting off their consumation with increasingly ridiculous excuses.

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        15·
        19 hours ago

        I was at a Lindsay Sterling concert a few months ago, and she brought out a wheel to randomly pick the next song. Carol of the Bells was on there and even though it was mid September, the audience went wild when they saw that one. She even talked it up a bit for those who didn’t know. Landed on something else and everyone was very disappointed.

        Anyway, Hollywood, you need to make Godzilla vs Mecha Santa and have them destroy the city to Carol of the Bells. Hell, I’ll even accept Michael Bay as the director. It’d be like the one thing he’s good for.

        • chaogomu@lemmy.world
          5·
          17 hours ago

          To be fair to Michael Bay, he knows exactly what he’s good at, so that’s exactly what he does.

          There are other directors that I could point to who do not seem to know that they suck at anything other than framing a short action sequence.

        • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          5·
          15 hours ago

          ‘Pain and gain’ was also good.

          He’s not a bad director, he’s got a very specific skill set that doesn’t apply to most projects. ‘Incomprehensible assholes and deranged perverts of history’ would absolutely benefit from his direction.

        • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          19 hours ago

          An old PSP game called The 3rd Birthday opened with some fucked-up aliens invading NYC on Christmas Eve. It was a tragedy they didn’t use Carol of the Bells.

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      17 hours ago

      I always thought carol of the bells was something mainly used in American movies to make choirs sound fancy. In contrast to ordinary carols which are easy tunes and don’t need multiple parts.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      19 hours ago

      I’m struggling to find it, are you sure it isn’t an older song that’s been adapted to metal?

      Cuz I’m pretty sure you’re talking about Shchedryk and that… definitely isn’t metal.

        • dmention7@midwest.social
          3·
          15 hours ago

          “Ding fries are done” is solid ancient internet, but these days I feel a little icky for laughing at it. Its not outright making fun of developmentally-disabled people, but it’s adjacent enough to be a bit… like “it was a different time” kind of humor.

        • Jax@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          13 hours ago

          Yes this is Shchedryk, I love Trans Siberian Orchestra but the song definitely did not start as folk metal song. Just had to set the record straight.

          Edit: Also I’m not disputing that the metal versions are epic, just the origins. I think the OG is pretty epic too.

          Edit2: Oooooh

      • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        19 hours ago

        Have you heard the Trans-Siberian Orchestra mashup of Carol of the Bells and God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen called Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24?

  • ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    20 hours ago

    Absolutely it is! The whole Nutcracker is amazing. The best production of it is hands down the Pacific Northwest Ballets version, with the sets and costumes by Maurice Sendak. I’ve watched it every Xmas since I was a kid. My grandparents gave me a VHS of it when it first came out. I’ve had to do surgery on it when the tape came off one end, still works. You can find it on YouTube, it’s the only thing I’ve bought from them lol.

    I got to see it in person in Seattle while I was pregnant with my daughter. I totally cried.