Christmas Album
From the blog:
I'm also curious what sort of Christmas songs to expect from John Roderick. That could easily get interesting. I'm kinda expecting some family holiday angst material, like Shop Vac or Alone at Home but with jingle bells.
I don’t know how soon I can let you hear it, but I’m excited to announceI'm curious to see what that's going to be like. He has a couple Christmas songs already (Podsafe Christmas Song and Chiron Beta Prime). "Original songs" may just imply that he's doing material he's written himself rather than holiday standards, in which case the two songs I cited might be included, or it could be that he's doing new material.
that John Roderick and I will be putting out an album of original
Christmas songs sometime this Fall. I was in Seattle for a stretch of
time around PAX, and we decided to get together and write and record and
see what happened. What happened is that we experienced a legitimate
CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, and also wrote one Hannukah song. It’s mostly just
the two of us playing all the instruments, except that we got a little
help on a few tunes from our friend Jason Finn, who likes to play the
drums. Mixing is happening now. I’ll be sure and let everyone know the
moment you can listen and obtain these soon-to-be-classic holiday songs.
I'm also curious what sort of Christmas songs to expect from John Roderick. That could easily get interesting. I'm kinda expecting some family holiday angst material, like Shop Vac or Alone at Home but with jingle bells.
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Don't forget Christmas is Interesting!
So this one time Roderick mentioned to me in passing that Jonathan was staying with him before PAX, and they might work on this Christmas album—which had started out as a joke (on Twitter?) but was gradually becoming a more serious proposition. I asked if they'd spend all week writing songs and a thoughtful smile crossed his face. "I assumed we'd be covering standards," he said. "I hadn't thought about *writing* songs..."
I told him that Jonathan had already written a few Christmas songs, which was news to Roderick. As Jonathan said later: "I don't think he's really listened to my deep catalog."
So there. I'm totally taking some unjustified credit for putting the idea in Roderick's head! (For all I know original songs were JoCo's plan the whole time.)
Trying to imagine the two of them belting out Jingle Bells or Go Tell it on the Mountain, or perhaps a lovely rendition of Silent Night. This really has to happen.
I may still also be a tad over-excited from the show. *cough*
As for me, I can tell from the preview track that I'll like four, maybe five of the songs. The others may or may not grow on me. Funnily enough, Christmas in Jail is the one I took an immediate dislike to!
Funny but I never even considered whether I would actually like the music on this Christmas album or not. I'll buy it because it's made by Jonathan Coulton, and he's built up enough good will with me, that I assume anything he puts out is worth buying. I guess I'm a JoCo completist.
I also want the t-shirt.
ETA: does anyone else automatically read the name of the album to the tune of 'one finger at a time' from Todd the T1000? And when I look over he is making a gift: One Christmas at a Time.
http://www.citywinery.com/newyork/one-christmas-at-a-time-an-evening-with-jonathan-coulton-and-john-roderick-12-14.html
(email with download link if that wasnt apparent)
He posted this one just a few weeks ago.
You can see information about the video on the YouTube page.
y'all need to update your wiki.
go go go!