This kid is more special than I originally thought; he devised the Click Track! (tho’ how the ox and lamb actually did “keep time” remains a mystery…)
Just a few steps away was the inspiration for the Chick Tract!
Coincidence…or was it?
I don’t intend to go to hell, anyway…
Shrink, this song makes me wanna kill.
I said kill. I wanna see blood, gore, veins in my teeth, eat dead, burnt bodies, I said kill, kill…
And, like Fenris and lost4life, I really like most Christmas carols. I love the great old hymns, from Veni Emmanuel to Adeste Fidelis, as well as plenty of more recent ones. I love “White Christmas.” And I even love humorous Christmas songs and parodies: Tom Lehrer’s “Christmas Time Is Here, By Golly,” Al Yankovic’s “Christmas at Ground Zero,” and even “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.”
But “The Little Drummer Boy” is right out. I’d rather visit the dentist than hear that “Pah rum pum pum pum.” (Helps that I’ve got a cute dentist, but even if I didn’t. :)) I’d rather be flogged in public by Arden Ranger than listen to one more “Pah rum pum pum pum,” but that’s different, I spose. 
I also dislike “Jingle Bell Rock,” but not nearly as intensely as “Drummer Boy.”
The only version of this song that’s any good is by Jaymz Bee and the Royal Jelly Orchestra, and that’s 'cos the Great Bob Scott is at the helm, giving those drums of his a workout.
None of this slow, solemn, ba-rum-pum-pum pum crap. He’s doing one-handed drum rolls on a snare and a tom at the same time. He’s got his bass thumping. Cymbals a-clanging. It sounds like he’s got 8 arms banging those skins. It’s one of the best drum recordings of all time – up there with Chick Webb playing at the Savoy or Neil Peart doing Rythym Method.
I love it.
Pfft. Like you thought that was such a terrible proposition.
Well, that was kinda my point.
Love it!!!..but then I sometimes sing bass in various vocal groups. It and Handel’s Messiah have bass parts that are wonderful.
I don’t especially like to listen to either one on the radio or TV…I do have a nice version of the Messiah on one of my CDs, though.
Full volume…eyes shut…hard to beat.
I have never heard any of the modern version, but I have hated it as long as I can remember.
The Lion Sleeps Tonight,on the other hand, is one of my favorite songs.