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UNFUCKWITHABLE!!!
― chaki, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
otm
― HI DERE, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
The highlight: Skating
― chaki, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
is all of his stuff like this? i saw a used record yesterday that was hella cheap but i didn't know if it was all official awesome stuff like this
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
"Skating" is so the highlight that I almost have problems with a lot of the rest of the record, actually.
― nabisco, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
you're fucking with the unfuckwithable, n.
― chaki, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
"Skating" IS great!
I knew this would be a Chaki thread.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Where is the thread Ned started about this album where we later discovered that Colin Bailey and Monty Budwig probably didn't play on "Linus and Lucy"?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, here's the story at any rate: Snoopy Dogged
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
And here's the thread: Reissue of the Year
― dad a, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
apparently they did fuck with it though; that remaster has the wrong take of Linus and Lucy as well as some other weird problems.
― akm, Friday, 7 December 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
This album rules so hard.
-- M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, December 7, 2007 4:24 PM (56 minutes ago)
definitely search the albums he did with Bola Sete. not really "like this" (more bossa nova inflected) but pretty awesome.
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 7 December 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus is great and features his big hit "Cast Your Fate to the Wind," always the most rocking song on the Muzak playlist.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 8 December 2007 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link
"A Boy Named Charlie Brown" is like this.
― Bobbi Peru, Saturday, 8 December 2007 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
-- chaki, Friday, December 7, 2007 2:21 PM (Friday, December 7, 2007 2:21 PM) Bookmark Link
QFT
― The Reverend, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:00 (seventeen years ago) link
One of the best reasons to look forward to December: the right to play this album without feeling guilty.
― o. nate, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link
I feel no guilt, ever. I'll rock this shit year round.
― Bobbi Peru, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link
^^^Upstanding citizen.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Oddly listening to it right now, over a glass of cheap red wine with the Missus. Agreed. Unfuckwithable (as I wrote here back in 2005.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:29 (seventeen years ago) link
"in person" has a nice mix of standards like "On Green Dolphin Street" and "Jitterbug Waltz" with some Brazilian numbers, but I haven't really listened to it enough.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link
(missed chance to make cheap joke about honoring the yule log fire)
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:36 (seventeen years ago) link
teh charlie brown easter soundtrack is awesome - guaraldi fuzz-bass acid rock
― Edward III, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link
jamz kick in @ 1:49
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8qbXoeaOOE
― Edward III, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link
snoopy-san
― Edward III, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link
古い録音テープから、Windowsムービーメーカーを使って復元しました。
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 8 December 2007 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link
"Christmas is Coming" = BEST EVAR
― The Reverend, Saturday, 8 December 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
as much as i want to be the first contrarian on this thread, i cant. totally, 100% unfuckwitable. best bargain-bin find i've ever had at princeton record exchange.
― max, Saturday, 8 December 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Listening to this now and lord but I love this record. Never much paid attention to it before, but the sequencing is so terrific!
― Clay, Saturday, 8 December 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link
i.e., the way "Hark the Herald Angel Sings" transitions into the relatively (for this album) hard running jazz of "Christmas is Coming" is so great to me.
-- Stormy Davis, Friday, December 7, 2007 5:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
-- James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, December 7, 2007 7:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
seconding Jazz Impressions... and highly recommending From All sides w/ Bola Sete.
― will, Saturday, 8 December 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link
-- akm, Friday, December 7, 2007 11:00 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
What???
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 9 December 2007 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah how could you fuck up THAT ONE out of all the tracks?
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 9 December 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link
i dunno, you can read the amazon comments about it as well as other places on the internet. the earlier version (for instance, the same version you can buy at starbucks) has the correct takes, and apparently some boxed version you can find at costco and best buy on a candian label have correct songs; but the remaster (which has 'greensleeves' added) is all messed up
― akm, Sunday, 9 December 2007 04:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Never noticed it being different before. There's an alternate take of "Linus and Lucy" as a bonus track that's markedly different, but it's a bonus, not a substitution.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 December 2007 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link
okay, it's this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Brown-Christmas-Vince-Guaraldi/dp/B000ICLSMY/r
not the one pictured uptop that is messed up.
― akm, Sunday, 9 December 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Since the thread title begs, I will fuck with this album. "Hark the Herald Angels Sing". It's cute, but can also be a mood killer.
― Bobbi Peru, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
i duno man that intro is haunting and the singy part reminds me of the cartoon
― chaki, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link
What mood does it kill, exactly?
― Clay, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link
The light jazzy mellow mood. I like the intro a lot, but when they start belting it out... sometimes I skip.
― Bobbi Peru, Thursday, 13 December 2007 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
chaki you are so right, it's impossible to have this album on and be sad.
― J.D., Thursday, 13 December 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
only thing it's missing is that awesome little "snoopy" theme that plays when he's decorating the doghouse.
― J.D., Thursday, 13 December 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
... sometimes I skip. http://www.animateit.net/data/thumbnails/105/6fc43d4c.gif
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 13 December 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
I love this album.
― Michael White, Thursday, 13 December 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I think i'm gonna bring it to the office tomorrow.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 13 December 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
'christmas time is here' is the saddest song ever, how can you put it on and NOT be sad?
― akm, Thursday, 13 December 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
The funny thing is of course how the lyrics are anything but that -- it's a gentle celebration when read, and even sung. I wouldn't call it flat out sad as a result, but it's certainly wistful, and in a 1966 context almost seems like it was meant to function in the same nostalgic headspace as "I'll Be Home For Christmas" did a generation earlier. Now that it's become part of all our collective memories, the function has transformed away from being part of a welcoming thought of 'what Christmas is like' -- it, along with the ice-skating part, was the first thing that anyone saw/heard of the special upon first broadcast -- to something else entirely.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 December 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Yep, unfuckwithable. And who could forget this:
http://the-op.com/images/episode/204/gm-snoopy_sm.jpg
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 13 December 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
This is in my top 10 ever, so I'm not hating. But, has anyone else felt jarred by the Hark the Herald Angels number? I feel like it's at a different volume than the rest of the record.
― Bobbi Peru, Thursday, 13 December 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
LP on sale for $7! http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/147/434/2635.html
― mizzell, Thursday, 20 December 2007 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
It truly is one of the very few albums I can listen to in seemingly endless rotations (so long as it's December, that is).
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 20 December 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
"Hark the Herald Angels Sing". It's cute, but can also be a mood killer.
It's grown on me, but it's taken a long while. I agree, though -- it does act as a mood killer. If not killer, then certainly a mood maimer.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 20 December 2007 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Guaraldi hits a few clinkers during his Charlie Parkerish take on "O Tannenbaum," but I could care less. The epitome of a cool yule. I had the earlier version of the album and the sound quality of the reissue is dramatically improved.
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
So unfuckwithable. This shit just rules.
― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Most of the Peanuts TV specials did get screened in Britain but I don't recall ever seeing the Christmas one.
Nonetheless I did go out and buy this album last weekend on the basis of the above recommendations and it is indeed a lovely and wistful thing, sort of a missing link between Bill Evans' Conversations With Myself and Low's Christmas. The vocal version of "Christmas Time Is Here" would have caused a sensation if Brian Wilson had come up with it, except that the absence of harmonies - the kids all sing the topline of the melody - makes it even more poignant. Not sure that "Hark The Herald Angels" acappella quite works in this context, though.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 21 December 2007 09:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, "Skating" has one of the loveliest chord sequences ever. It's a real tragedy that Guaraldi died so young.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 21 December 2007 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm a year late but it's that gruesome time again.This reminds me of proper Xmas. Those that don't happen anymore. Cry.Got this at the weekend and came on here just knowing there would be a thread.
You're all so otfm. 'Skating' is indeed beautiful, 'Linus and Lucy' is as great as ever but 'Christmas Is Coming' is also so good, eventhough the jazz breakdown pushes it slightly too much for these ears.
So where do I turn next Guaraldi wise? Or anybody in a similar vein
Appreciated
Oh and Merry Fucking Christmas
― Fer Ark, Monday, 1 December 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Aw Fk _I missed 'Christmas Time is Here'...
― Fer Ark, Monday, 1 December 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh and Merry Fucking Christmas― Fer Ark (13 minutes ago)
Aw Fk _I missed 'Christmas Time is Here'...― Fer Ark (1 minute ago)
Yer one contradictory dude! :)
― t**t, Monday, 1 December 2008 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
O and Merry Fookin Xmas to ya too, then!
― t**t, Monday, 1 December 2008 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, I was wrapping presents and lost the end of the sellotape - lost my temper too ;-)
― Fer Ark, Monday, 1 December 2008 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
A remarkably early wrapper, you.
I wish I could talk more 'bout Vince Guaraldi but, eh, I've only heard a couple of tunes by him.
― t**t, Monday, 1 December 2008 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Hah - I played this last friday night to some random drunken chixorz
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 08:32 (sixteen years ago) link
so, uh, BEST ALBUM EVER!
― Mangiafuoco (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 08:34 (sixteen years ago) link
So true, on my pod all year round...
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 10:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Last night I saw my son dancing to this album and oh, it was total happiness...
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
:-D And how is that good little dude?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
very well indeed! - but the news is that he will be joined by 2 (TWO!) little brothers next March...next Christmas will be busy around here.
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
! (Did I mention I was planning on swinging by your neck of the woods again in June...)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
This just means we will place you in the twins' room - and good luck! : )
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahah.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
So did Vince ever sing any numbers other than "Joe Cool" and "Little Birdie"? He should have!
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Seriously, Ned, just let me know when. Mi casa su casa!
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Will do!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
everyone start listening to this album again, at the request of chaki
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Monday, 16 November 2009 07:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Always do, always will, as evinced upthread, there's just some shit you can't mess with.
― MaresNest, Monday, 16 November 2009 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
it is way too early to revive xmas album threads but y this is fucking xcllnt
― plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 16 November 2009 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
not yet, but soon. this album still has such an aura and power and is tied to so many memories that i really try not to play it outside of december, out of fear that it will lose its punch. but i would second black orpheus as a capable placeholder in the meantime.
― rent, Monday, 16 November 2009 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Too early to play it just yet, but just an hour ago I was thinking about giving this as my Secret Santa present to a workmate.
― Officer Pupp, Monday, 16 November 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not ashamed to admit I listened to some Xmas tunes last night and enjoyed it.
― o. nate, Monday, 16 November 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Classic, times infinity. One of the few Christmas records that I can still enjoy front-to-back.
― Tantrum The Cat, Monday, 16 November 2009 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Always a tiny thrill when "Skating" or "Christmas is Coming" kicks in during shuffle play
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I usually cant stand Christmas music, but this record is fantastic. The only other Guaraldi I know is James Gang's version of "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" which, if I remember right, is part the Bomber.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
love this stuff, also recommend the modern jazz quartet album "on tour" which hits a similar vibe as this
― mr. que, covering up the vital parts, lest he embarrass the ladi (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i was about to post to the "hate everybody and everything" threadand then i put this on. now is nice.and dude died too early at 47.
― Shackleton Crater (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
ok but now is not too early 2 put this on!
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
no i know, just sayin
― Shackleton Crater (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/jazz-charlie-brown-vince-guaraldi-story/http://www.fivecentsplease.org/dpb/guaraldi.html
― alter cocker jarvis cocker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
"You'd never know when you were going to recognize him," Schulz once commented. "Something was always growing or not growing."
― alter cocker jarvis cocker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
havin a moment to this tbrr
― sugg knight (The Reverend), Friday, 25 December 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
prrrrrrum prrrrrrrum prrrrrum pum pum.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Friday, 25 December 2009 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
sweet icicles of piano
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Friday, 25 December 2009 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
way early i know but i'm just giving 'skating' my first listen of the year and :').
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 22 November 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm considering using Skating at my wedding next May.
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i for one would offer much in the way of :') to that.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
The only Christmas album worth owning. All the others are cheesy classless novelties.
― That's not a "laugh track", it's an audience and you're in it. (MintIce), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Gidouddahere.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
This is a falsehood.
― seandalai, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
have often played this album on repeat for hours without tiring of it.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for the revive; just bought a real copy of this. Beautiful.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
watched the thanksgiving special the other day, and loved the music on that one too. the collegiate-sounding theme is available on comps, but don't think the soundtrack has been released on cd. linus and lucy theme gets a cool, faux-boogaloo reading too
― Dominique, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 06:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I picked up a copy earlier this year and have been waiting all year to play it! Think I'll wait until it gets cold though, feels wrong to play it when the high is 68F.
― need to impressive a girl? (Z S), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 06:05 (fourteen years ago) link
PEANUTS is some str8 garbage and if you can't admit it then you are lying to yourself and to god
― I Want to Change My Password... (am0n), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 06:06 (fourteen years ago) link
is cankles the boob who hates Harpo Marx too?
― Dr Morbius
the fuck u talkin bout blorbius???? i love the marx bros!!
― cankles
― buzza, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 06:09 (fourteen years ago) link
is there a good way to hear the music from all the other specials? you'd figure there would be a box set or something by now, but no such luck.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 22 December 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
there's a CD of the big songs from all the holiday albums, has some overlap with the xmas album but not too much.
this is the only christmas album i really need (even though i have a bunch more). sometimes i think it's the only album i need at all!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 05:05 (ten years ago) link
This year I went all out and practically played it every day this month. And I never once got tired of that.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 05:35 (ten years ago) link
My son's been working on Christmas Time is Here on the piano for the last couple weeks. It's been pretty sweet!
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 06:06 (ten years ago) link
always excited to have a damp snowfall with big fluffy flakes b/c it enhances 'skating' tenfold
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
There was a show on PBS I think about him last year that was pretty great. I have most of his albums plus some other mellow piano-based stuff in a playlist titled "Snoopyjazz."
Start with A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing (1957) and work yr way from there! Some of his tunes get an interesting orchestrated treatment in The Charlie Brown Suite, and George Winston did a couple albums of his music and isn't too bad either.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
heard some kind of indie take on Christmas Time at the grocery store this morning. didn't really live up to the original...
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
This is the only Christmas album I ever need. Though I do also enjoy the Fahey Christmas record(s) that all the vinyl shops are always trying to get rid of.
― Evan, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Tuesday, December 23, 2014 11:47 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
department of superfluous second sentences
― man alive, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
so sad that guaraldi didn't really live long enough to see his tunes become standards
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 01:38 (nine years ago) link
I have listened to this album about 10-15 times this month alone. Not Christmas specific to me any more, it works all Winter, but I only really ramp it up in December. Somed days "Skating" is the best song, but all of them have a special place for me.
There is a really great cover of "Christmas Time Is Here" by Lambchop out there. Kurt Wagner does a pretty funny spoken-word little ad lib in the middle. Well worth checking out if you can find it.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
I did some baking this morning while this was playing, so calming & beautiful
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
"Skating" definitely the perfect soundtrack to the step where you shake powdered sugar on the cookies.
― Evan, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 December 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
Banging this shit rn what up
― Dej & the Fommly Loaf (The Reverend), Thursday, 25 December 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Me too this morning, right after the unsurpassable nat king cole Xmas album
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 25 December 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
officemate has ben playing this all morning. Our room is a happy little corner rn
― sktsh, Thursday, 27 October 2016 11:46 (eight years ago) link
I tried to fuck with this album and it fucked me up.
This is the only Christmas music that I keep in my regular off-season rotation.
― Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Incomplete Filmography (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 October 2016 12:39 (eight years ago) link
Dilla, late '95: The Parcyde's Splattitorium. The VG trio hanging on a pedal point bassline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_qwK-0xmZ8
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 27 October 2016 13:19 (eight years ago) link
have to agree with upthread posters about only listening in december. been listening since i was a kid and it's tied to so many strong memories (and like, smells)
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 27 October 2016 14:23 (eight years ago) link
for better or worse i tend to compare any waltz to Skating. Super-perfection
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 27 October 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
jazz impressions of black orpheus is the one you can listen to outside of december to get yr guaraldi fix
― ciderpress, Thursday, 27 October 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
VG's black Orpheus is certainly one of the cooler outings
my non-seasonal VG trio has been A Boy Named Charlie Brown sdtk
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41gA9mQq7CL.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6DuzxtQyc4
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 27 October 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
redundant, i sorry
"A Boy Named Charlie Brown" is like this.― Bobbi Peru, Friday, December 7, 2007 8:49 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Bobbi Peru, Friday, December 7, 2007 8:49 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 27 October 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
I was gonna play "A Boy Named..." just last night but couldn't find my copy, grrr! Need to re-organize again.
(Ended up putting on a Guaraldi best-of instead)
― “a tub of horses” (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 27 October 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
"great pumpkin waltz" is still my fav autumn/halloween time music
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 27 October 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
gets me every time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvI_FNrczzQ
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link
i heard "Linus and Lucy" twice yesterday, once played live by Los Straitjackets
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:23 (seven years ago) link
My number one album every December. Never gets tired.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
well, thats my xmas groove kickstarted.
― mark e, Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
i love "my little drum"
― dyl, Thursday, 14 December 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link
is this the greatest album of all time? I say yes
― k3vin k., Sunday, 1 September 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link
it probably is my desert island pick
there was a new yorker article a while back about vince guaraldi and i would've posted it here but it was by some serious jazz guy and the tone of the piece was so negative and condescending it bummed me out
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 1 September 2019 04:22 (five years ago) link
I usually only put this on in the wintertime, but I'm feeling especially sad tonight and there aren't many records that can bum me out as this one can. it's hard for me to separate this from the CBS special, which somewhat embrassingly might be one of my favorite 'films'
― k3vin k., Sunday, 1 September 2019 04:31 (five years ago) link
a lot of guaraldi's other work feels very melancholy to me. i'm not sure whether that's something i'm projecting onto it because of this album/special, but i find this track in particular just crushingly sad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R19lxut_dw
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 1 September 2019 05:04 (five years ago) link
i moved into a new apartment the other day, cheaper than my old one, and much better in every way. i'm already a homebody - this is not good for me. i never want to leave home.
anyway, i unpacked the record player and this album first, and played it as we started organizing our new home. every single song is an all-timer imo
― i am also larry mullen jr (Karl Malone), Sunday, 1 September 2019 05:59 (five years ago) link
get out and catch some snowflakes on your tongue. they taste like sugar
― maffew12, Sunday, 1 September 2019 10:47 (five years ago) link
Jerry Granelli is still going strong, loving his Plays The Music Of Vince Guaraldi & Mose Allison album.
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 10:17 (four years ago) link
first snowstorm of the year was yesterday, and this was on all day today. it’s kind of astonishing — and has there ever been an ILM thread with 100+ posts and unanimous approval?
btw props to the folks up there who recommended jazz impressions of black orpheus, really fantastic stuff.
― k3vin k., Friday, 18 December 2020 06:33 (four years ago) link
Love this album so much.Re: non-festve Vince jams, I used to drop 'Samba De Orpheus' at the end of the night at an old DJ gig of mine and it always went down a treat, perk little banger that it is.
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Friday, 18 December 2020 09:57 (four years ago) link
the only bit i don't like is when the kids sing "Hark The Herald". The film isn't something that's traditionally shown at Christmas in the UK, so without context it's quite annoying and disruptive. Best bit: Skating
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Friday, 18 December 2020 10:02 (four years ago) link
ffs that post of mine was a typo fest... *festive, *perky
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Friday, 18 December 2020 12:02 (four years ago) link
im a weirdo who has always hated the special, but this album might be the greatest LP of all time
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 18 December 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
Forever the best, just yesterday I was looking at plugging the gaps in my collection of those 'complete' volumes and had pulled a couple of the 70s ones down from the shelf.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 18 December 2020 13:59 (four years ago) link
saw "Peanuts Portraits" in Rough Trade yesterday and was so tempted to get it
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Friday, 18 December 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
I've been watching some of the early non-holiday specials of late. Lots of Guaraldi weaving throughout. Have they issued his non-xmas Peanuts music?
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 December 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link
Oh absolutely, there are even a couple of volumes of unreleased cues and all.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 18 December 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
the special is probably one of my ten favorite films, full stop
― k3vin k., Friday, 18 December 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
I was thinking about the TV show last week, when I heard "Christmas Time Is Here" on the radio. First, that in the new year I'm going to start a biography of Charles Schulz that a friend gave me a few years back. Then about the show: more than just a great TV show, I'm not kidding when I say--sorry for the hyperbole--I think it's one of the great pieces of art of the past 50 years or whatever. Especially first airing as it did in December of '65, in the middle of all that was happening in the States. I think the date comes up right at the end, at the bottom of the screen--gives me a chill. It'd take a lot more effort and space to explain myself. (I love when "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" comes in.) I was sad when I heard that this was the first year it wasn't going to get a network showing, that it had been bought by one of the big streaming services.
― clemenza, Friday, 18 December 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
the special is one of my favorites as well, and the LP is one of the very, very few christmas-related albums/songs i enjoy around this time of year. i tolerate a few more, and want all the rest of christmas music to not be part of 10% of the year (e.g., "the christmas tenth of life")
also thanks for the Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus tip above! it's brightening my morning up for sure, it's wonderful
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 December 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhTBykWo0mg
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 23 December 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
Jerry Granelli is still going strong, loving his Plays The Music Of Vince Guaraldi & Mose Allison album.― calzino, Tuesday, May 19, 2020 7:17 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― calzino, Tuesday, May 19, 2020 7:17 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Jerry Granelli unfortunately passed away in July. Absolutely incredible and inspiring musician.
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Thursday, 23 December 2021 01:16 (three years ago) link
i do truly love this record but this year my inner voice keeps dolefully singing “omicron is here”
― estela, Thursday, 23 December 2021 03:22 (three years ago) link
;_;
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 December 2021 03:50 (three years ago) link
All time LP.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 23 December 2021 03:59 (three years ago) link
At some point since this thread began, I think the meaning of "fuck with" kind of got reversed. Nowadays if someone says they "fuck with" an album that probably means they like it, no?
― o. nate, Thursday, 23 December 2021 04:06 (three years ago) link
looooooooooooool estela
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 23 December 2021 05:41 (three years ago) link
Crowds are rapt in fearSniffles coughsYour breathing stopsThe loss of all held dear
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 December 2021 06:19 (three years ago) link
A+
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 23 December 2021 09:16 (three years ago) link
yes, thank you forks
― estela, Thursday, 23 December 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
― mr. que, covering up the vital parts, lest he embarrass the ladi (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:47 PM (twelve years ago)
belated thanks for this recommendation btw! i‘ve got it on now and it does have a similar mood, espec “skating in central park”
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 24 December 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
Modern Jazz Quartet and John Lewis absolutely rule. In some strange way that I won't expand on they remind me more of Kraftwerk than Vince Guaralidi! The two European Concert volume albums are ace.
― calzino, Friday, 24 December 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
Never knowingly undersoloed
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Friday, 24 December 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
Still accurate. This, though...is a bit insane.
https://craftrecordings.com/collections/vince-guaraldi/products/vince-guaraldi-trio-a-charlie-brown-christmas-super-deluxe-edition-4-cd-blu-ray
(But I still want it.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
And with the season nigh and with in fact three total reissues this fall on Craft (including Great Pumpkin and Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus), I had occasion for some thoughts
https://www.patreon.com/posts/some-weekly-73870968
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link
best album of all time, perfect wistful melancholy without being morose, as well as having a couple all time uptempo jams. And deep cuts! My Little Drum is amazing.
― omar little, Sunday, 25 December 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
Played this morning as my wife and myself were opening presents, I vetoed her suggestion of Sufjan Stevens, it's always so sad sounding to me.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 25 December 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
Amazing album. No you cannot fuck with it, except for “Linus and Lucy” which is crap. Every time that comes on, my dinner party guests are like, “That was some nice mellow Christmas music we had there, Mr. Snrub. Why did you kill it and put on the fucking Charlie Brown theme song?”
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 26 December 2022 01:50 (one year ago) link
you need better dinner party guests imo
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 December 2022 02:06 (one year ago) link
the correct response is to do this dance
https://media.tenor.com/QQPHo0TcWmcAAAAC/charlie-brown-christmas-dance.gif
― ciderpress, Monday, 26 December 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
for real tho
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 December 2022 02:17 (one year ago) link
except for “Linus and Lucy” which is crap.
Sorry but no. Iconic for a reason!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 26 December 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link
That is just silly. If there's a jarring moment, it's the bad kid singing on Hark the Herald Angels Sing, but that has its charms. 'Skating' is the best cut
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 26 December 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
"Linus and Lucy" haters are defective.
Why yes I got that complete sessions box set I linked above. I regret absolutely nothing.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
"Linus and Lucy" makes as much sense on a Xmas playlist as Thurl Ravenscroft reading an unpopular recluse to filth for 5 solid minutes
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 02:54 (one year ago) link
🤨
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 02:55 (one year ago) link
Why you're a mean one, Mr. H.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
(To be clear, I think “Linus and Lucy” does belong on Xmas playlists)
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 03:24 (one year ago) link
so you're saying that Mr. Snrub's soul is an appalling dump heap
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 04:21 (one year ago) link
“Linus and Lucy”is Christmas in my house.
A Charlie Brown Christmasis perhaps not as iconic in the UK compared to the US but it truly is this planet's best Christmas music.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 04:37 (one year ago) link
"christmas is coming" goes so hard
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
it’s a perfect record. I finally bought a shitty overpriced green vinyl reissue because I felt I had to own it, I play it every couple of days every december. the movie is perfect too
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 December 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
Great new piece from Nate Chinen on another Guaraldi landmark, his Charlie Brown Thanksgiving songs, now available properly standalone for the first time:
https://www.wrti.org/arts-desk/2023-11-20/after-50-years-the-hip-soundtrack-for-a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-is-available-as-a-full-musical-feast
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 November 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiTZWV_rdeU
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 1 December 2024 14:46 (three weeks ago) link
Herc knows what's up, great twist ending too.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 1 December 2024 14:58 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah, that was a great watch!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 1 December 2024 18:24 (three weeks ago) link
“I don’t like the name of my strip at all. I wanted to call it Good Old Charlie Brown, but the person at the syndicate who selected Peanuts just picked it at random from a list of possible titles he jotted down. He hadn’t even looked at the strip when he named it. The syndicate compromised on Sunday, though. Once I rebelled and sent it in without any title. We finally agreed to put Peanuts at the top and include Charlie Brown and His Gang in the sub-title on Sunday.”– Charles M. Schulz, 1969
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 3 December 2024 15:41 (two weeks ago) link
tis the season
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 16 December 2024 22:11 (one week ago) link
Darn right.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 December 2024 22:12 (one week ago) link
played it yesterday!
― sleeve, Monday, 16 December 2024 22:14 (one week ago) link
Nate Chinen piece is great. Ive been listening to the Thanksgiving album on repeat for two weeks.
― the notorious r.e.m. (soda), Monday, 16 December 2024 22:22 (one week ago) link