Snow On Snow

[Paul]

Just out of interest........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7752029.stm

If you read it though, it is the Harold Darke version, not the Holst version that everybody knows.

Paul

[Cocker Freeman]

Really? Incredible!

I seem to contradict both the popular vote and the experts. My only consolation is that I can think of myself as a rebel (but there really isn't much of a cachet in being a rebel in the Christmas-carol-appreciation-world. Not very rock 'n' roll.)  

In dulci jubilo's streets ahead, mind...

In Dulci Jubilo! Now you're talking. My favourite.

You don't look like a rebel to me, Smith.

[gower flower (Shirl)]

Just out of interest........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7752029.stm

If you read it though, it is the Harold Darke version, not the Holst version that everybody knows.

Paul

Oh b****r, scrap my post then...

[Smithsinarazz]

Just out of interest........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7752029.stm

If you read it though, it is the Harold Darke version, not the Holst version that everybody knows.

Paul

Oh b****r, scrap my post then...

Not at all! They're reasonably similar tunes. They've got fairly similar rhythm, written to fit the words naturally, and they both rise to a long note on "bleak" and have a bit of a pause at the end of each line. Nice and easy to sing, anyway.. The difference is that in the Holst the climax of the tune is on the last "snow" while in the Darke it's on the second "midwinter". Paul'll have some music, won't you?  

Anyway, i liked the rest of the list.. I went through it muttering "yey!" or "bleargh" as the mood took me. Funny how sometimes you can almost disagree with yourself..        

[Smithsinarazz]

You don't look like a rebel to me, Smith.

Nah, I'm bolshie. The difference being that rebels rebel against something meaningful, whereas your true bolshie starts off with arguments about the eating of sprouts and moves on, in time, to endless squabbles with the lady who runs the flexi-system at work!

[GubGub (Al)]

You don't look like a rebel to me, Smith.

Nah, I'm bolshie. The difference being that rebels rebel against something meaningful, whereas your true bolshie starts off with arguments about the eating of sprouts and moves on, in time, to endless squabbles with the lady who runs the flexi-system at work!

Perhaps you need to learn to be more flexible!  

[Cocker Freeman]

Flexibility! That's what boils my sprouts. Flexi-systems, eh? ******g fantastic.

[Sam]

Flexibility! That's what boils my sprouts. Flexi-systems, eh? ******g fantastic.

always steam a sprout