A bit of national self-indulgence here...when Christmas is coming and all.
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It would be nice to hear some of your countries traditional songs as well. I'm always interested in that.
We have Britons, Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, and Russians here, that I know of, but I guess there is lots of others as well.
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 Så Mörk Är Natten I Midvintertid (a Swedish
Saint Lucy hymn)
Jul Jul Strålande Jul (
Yule, Yule, Glorious Yule) Swedish Christmas Hymn
Midvinter Kulning
....as much as I like the winter, I'm really looking forward to the summer though.
Äppelbo March
Jussi Björling - Sverige (1959)
The Summer Hymn @ Royal wedding
This was featured in the excellent German TV drama, "DARK".
Wow. Those guys can sing!
Some of the commentators on this video prefer a different interpretation on a different instrument, but still, I like it.
(above seems unavailable??)
In any case this is probably a better version:
For me, it conjures up images of some old gothic horror movie, or something of the sort.
I always wondered; if Elvis twin brother Jesse would have survived, would they perhaps made this great twin-duo-singers career together?
Imagine all the girls, who screamed their lungs out to
one Elvis - they would have gone fuckin' mental with two "Elvis's".
Finally some
real winter here now - the snow hangs like drapes from the trees.
Vivaldi - Four Seasons (Winter)
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Sergei Prokofiev - Dance of the Knights :Â (Romeo & Juliet)
Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King
Well, this isn't a song really, but it is from an LP-album.
One of my friend, growing up, became a punkrocker. I really didn't fancy the music, but I liked every odd song here and there. Anyway, he had this album with lots of different UK punk bands, and in the middle of it was this "punk poem". At the time I (we) dint no what the word
bollocks meant (
non-english teens). But when we found out, and listened to this track again, we thought, as kids, it was hilarious. But these days not so many people say;
bollocks to that, when they disagree with something (people tend to say;
fuck that, instead).
So anyway, I heard this phrase when I overheard a couple of British guys in a restaurant the other day, and I got a flashback from this "poem", but I couldn't pinpoint it really, where I heard it . And since I had nothing better to do that afternoon I spent it looking for this fuckin song/poem/album. It wasn't easy, and I'd heard it like 30 years ago, on some obscure punk-LP. But when I've started with something I rarely give up. So after some trawling on old punkrock-forums etc. I finally found this obscure nonsensical, idiotic "poem", on the flipside of an obscure punk album. Back then we didn't really know what this "poem" was about, but it turns out it is about a punkrocker kid whom didn't like that the fact that the city had raised the underground fare about 2000% from his last ride.
It was 20p before, but now the clerk in the ticket booth said;
"- It's £ 5.50 please"
"- Bollocks to that, I said"
I'm sorry, but the story is so silly I just had to post it....