I’m not really sure how this song made it onto my radar back in 1993. I don’t think it was a huge hit, and I’ve never been a radio listener. Maybe I came across the video on MTV or VH1.
At any rate, I liked it enough to pick up Robert Plant’s Fate of Nations album. But the rest of the album didn’t do anything for me so I eventually sold it back and forgot all about ’29 Palms’ until a couple of weeks ago.
This now becomes a tale of technology, specifically Apple technology.
I love those J-I-N-G-L-E bells!
Merry Christmas, everybody!
Of all the great old Christmas specials — and there are many — my favorite has always been A Charlie Brown Christmas. It’s quite extraordinary how well the printed comic translated to animation, in my view surpassing anything Charles Schultz pulled off with paper and pen.
From the amazing voice work of the young characters and the famous ‘waah-waah’ voices of the parents to Vince Guaraldi’s delightful score, the Peanuts specials hit on all cylinders. They also tapped into a bittersweet melancholy that I never quite got from the comic strip (though I admit I haven’t been an avid reader of the series).
As my sister mentioned in the ‘Life on Mars?’ thread, this was the clip that turned her from David Bowie-averse into a fan.
About as unlikely a pair as you can imagine, Bing Crosby and David Bowie joined up in 1977 to film what would become a classic Christmas clip. Crosby wanted to feature a talented young rocker on his yearly Christmas special and Bowie got the call.
Every year Movie City News puts up a chart aggregating hundreds of critics’ top ten lists, and it’s usually pretty illuminating to see what stands out.
It’s still early (only 63 lists have been posted and the final number usually comes in around 300) but the current data is already displaying some interesting trends.
