New material on our YouTube Channel

This week, we’ve added two new playlists of music videos with the key words PUT and LOOK. So you can find songs from the likes of Paul McCartney, The Coral, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The Ramones, The Libertines, Jet, Dido, ABC or Monty Python (yes, that song) for your education and entertainment!

Remember that you can find song lyrics on many websites, but two that we like are A-Z Lyrics and Leo’s Lyrics.

Finally, please tell your friends about the channel and leave us a message to let us know what you think!

Go to the Exit YouTube Channel

Strange Random Music Quote:

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. – Frank Zappa

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Greg Lake – I Believe in Father Christmas (1975)

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Video, Lyrics and Making Of for one of the best Christmas Songs ever.

Quick bit of trivia – the instrumental “chorus” between verses is called “Troika” from Prokoviev’s Lieutenant Kijé Suite. Another part  of the  same Suite (“Romance”) also ended up in Sting’s Russians.

Hope you enjoy it and Merry Christmas from the Exit blog!!

They said there’d be snow at Christmas

They said there’d be peace on Earth

But instead, it just kept on raining

A veil of tears for the Virgin birth

 

I remember one Christmas morning

A winter’s light and a distant choir

And the peal of a bell

And that Christmas tree smell

And their eyes full of tinsel and fire

 

They sold me a dream of Christmas

They sold me a Silent Night

And they told me a fairy story

Till I believed in the Israelite

 

And I believed in Father Christmas

And I looked to the sky with excited eyes

Then I woke with a yawn

In the first light of dawn

And I saw him and through his disguise

 

I wish you a hopeful Christmas

I wish you a brave New Year

All anguish pain and sadness

Leave your heart and let your road be clear

They said there’d be snow at Christmas

They said there’d be peace on Earth

Hallelujah, Noel, be it Heaven or Hell

The Christmas we get, we deserve

Strange Random Santa Quote:

Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we’ll be seeing six or seven. – W.C. Fields, The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips & One-Liners

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Unhear it – get that damn song out of your head!

Unhear.it – voted Exit Office Web 2 silliest timewaster of the week, any week.

What does it do? Taking a selection of catchy songs from the online network Soundcloud, it allows you to clear a song out of your head for good.

We created this site for those of you that have a song stuck in your head and you can’t get it out no matter what you do. Using the latest in reverse-auditory-melodic-unstickification technology, we’ve been able to allow our users to “unhear” songs by hearing equally catchy songs. So really all we’re doing is making you forget your old song by replacing it with another one… sorry.

via Unhear it – get that damn song out of your head!.

Strange Random Tune Quote:

I know only two tunes: one of them is “Yankee Doodle,” and the other isn’t. – Ulysses S. Grant

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BBC News – Eurovision 2010: How to write the winning lyric

The Official Website

What’s the main ingredient of a winning Eurovision lyric? The answer is “love”.If you look back at every winner of the annual song contest since it started in 1956, the most common lyrical theme is affairs of the heart.”Love” accounts for an impressive 2% – or one in 50 – of the 12,299 words that have been sung from the winner’s podium discounting common words like “I” or “and”.

via BBC News – Eurovision 2010: How to write the winning lyric.

Here are the lyrics of all the winners from 1956-2009, fed into the Wordle website and showing the frequency of each one – translations into English have been used where necessary. Click on the graphic to see the full-size picture.

Favourite lyrics from this year’s batch:

ARMENIA

Artist: Eva Rivas

Song: Apricot Stone

I began to cry a lot

And she gave me apricots

LATVIA

Artist: Aisha

Song: What for?

What for are we living?

What for are we dreaming?

What for are we loosing? [sic]

Only Mr God knows why

(But) His phone today is out of range

FRANCE

Artist: Jesse Matador

Song: Allez! Ola! Ole!

Allez, allez, allez, allez

You need to dance

Everybody dance with me! Badamdam

It’s the sound of the year

Danbadam badamdam

Everybody, danbadam badamdam

It doesn’t get much better than this. Enjoy!

Strange Random Eurovision Quote:

“I am of the opinion that it’s OK to watch and even possibly enjoy Eurovision as long as you don’t take it too seriously.”

Eurovision observer Mike Taylor.

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