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One of my favorites is Vanessa Williams' and a jazz trio doing "What Child is This". Very well done. I believe it's on youtube.
 
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Angliru said:
One of my favorites is Vanessa Williams' and a jazz trio doing "What Child is This". Very well done. I believe it's on youtube.

Here's a link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmHGZrWKzlk

I'm not a fan of her vocal style, but instrumentally, it's cool.

Here's a couple more.
The Leisure Society - Last of the melting snow (elegant and wistful)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IElQavcqcUM

This is as seasonal as Tom is going to get
Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktCocv-bBDg
 
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Libertine Seguros said:
The best modern song ever written, hands down.

I heard Jacques Brel for the first time about 15 years ago, when a friend played me a CD. I was particularly struck by the emotion in his delivery of "Ne quitte pas" and "Le Moribond". The second one especially because I remembered a very cheesy cover version entitled "Seasons in the Sun" from the 70s when I was knee high to a grasshopper - definitely not the Cat Stevens' version). The intensity had me completely gripped. It was surprising how many songs I actually knew without actually having heard the man himself. Just shows what an influence he was.

Edit: From the oracle of all wisdom, I guess the cheesy cover was Terry Jacks in 1974.
 
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Yes, Terry Jacks is the one that rewrote the black humour of Le Moribonde into the sickliness of Seasons in the Sun, so he is to blame for all of the awful versions of that.
 
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ah, good ol carcass. :D love the story about them frequently consulting an anatomy dictionary during the bands' formative years. now that's dedication, kids!

been listening to entombed lately. oldie but goldie, cant really beat left hand path when it comes to death metal albums.
 
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fvck the sun! immortal was almost too hilarious live. good tunes too :D

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