Something to Get You into the Holiday Spirit

Christmas is right around the corner!

Nothing beats the live feed from the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

http://www.wnbc.com/videostream/christmastree/14573999/detail.html

Man, that's worse than Frank Sinatra's version of Jingle Bells.

This is when a taser is needed. My god, that is one of the worst renditions ever.

Can I possibly get a full quality MP3?

nothing beats cartman's version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3k_mQ4duqE

AndrewB said:

Can I possibly get a full quality MP3?

You can't get full quality from something that has no quality to begin with.

Grazza said:
Nothing beats the live feed from the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

Gaah! Stop that offensively sentimental music! Where's the music even coming from!? Bah. Humbug!

Cartman's version was sweet. :-)

AndrewB: I have no idea if there exists an MP3 of this (but I'm betting there does). Maybe start with contacting the guy who uploaded it to YouTube?

AndrewB said:

get a full quality MP3?

That's impossible; MP3s are lossy.

Well, after posting that atrocious version, I thought I'd post something from the other end of the scale.

I'd rather see a santase wad.

Of course you would.

is it wrong to envision a viking singing that? He's the only "non-latin" tenor I know of.

edit:

A singing viking isn't exactly the first thing that comes to my mind, but whatever floats your boat! I liked the revolving Christmas tree bit. :-)

Kristian Ronge said:

A singing viking isn't exactly the first thing that comes to my mind, but whatever floats your boat! I liked the revolving Christmas tree bit. :-)

It's classic 90s comedy sitcoms and I don't think they'll be coming back anytime soon. Today's sitcoms blow. The only thing worth watching is the now-popular "dramadies" like House, and even those are becoming really off. House needs to return to the Season 1 formula and fast- else I may get very bored with it.


oh, damnit, this is about Christmas, isn't it!

YMB said:

You can't get full quality from something that has no quality to begin with.

256Kbit MP3 is indistinguishable from CD audio. As long as you use a high enough bit rate, there is no quality loss.

fraggle said:

256Kbit MP3 is indistinguishable from CD audio. As long as you use a high enough bit rate, there is no quality loss.

I believe you've missed the point.

I believe I missed it as well. Please educate me.

YMB said:

I believe you've missed the point.

Meh, I should have replied to printz instead, then.

It's going to take several of Pavarotti and Aled Jones' renditions of O Holy Night to get over this..

EDIT: Missed the Björling version you put up Kristian, very good but I think I still may prefer Aled :P

Csonicgo said:

I remember this as if it were yesterday. It also gave my dad some ideas... :s

It was yesterday for me, they are running repeats of it at the moment.

Speaking of Holiday Spirit:

fraggle said:

256Kbit MP3 is indistinguishable from CD audio. As long as you use a high enough bit rate, there is no quality loss.

You conveniently link to a German page so that most of us understand what's going on :p

The New Zealanders are certainly in the mood: Drunk Santas rampage through cinema.

Lüt said:

The New Zealanders are certainly in the mood: Drunk Santas rampage through cinema.

LMAO! now thats what I call spreading the x-mas cheer.

fraggle said:

As long as you use a high enough bit rate, there is no quality loss.

I would not go as far to say there's NO quality loss, it simply seems undetectable by the human ear. At any rate, despite my crappy translation it was a very interesting article, I'm quite surprised at the results, being a staunch supporter of lossless audio formats. I would have liked to see more varied music selections, also I felt the quality of the original recordings should come into play.