Favorite Prog Christmas Album?

[RS]

The one by Keith Emerson is good. I'm not sure of how many
other proggers have created instrumental Christmas albums.
Seems like this may have been an underdeveloped theme in
Prog albums. Emerson's has original "Christmassy" tunes, not
just remakes of standards.

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[sdavmor]

RS wrote:
> The one by Keith Emerson is good. I'm not sure of how many other
> proggers have created instrumental Christmas albums. Seems like
> this may have been an underdeveloped theme in Prog albums.
> Emerson's has original "Christmassy" tunes, not just remakes of
> standards.

The December People on Magna Carta. The Tull Christmas album.
Both are very good. The first is a very clever pastiche in which
you can play spot the band and spot the songs. The second is for
all practical terms a new Tull record. Several new songs, some
adapted old Tull seasonal songs plu some very nice instrumental
takes on Christmas carols all progged up.
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[progea]

On Nov 22, 7:32 am, RS <paramindsoftw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The one by Keith Emerson is good.  I'm not sure of how many
> other proggers have created instrumental Christmas albums.
> Seems like this may have been an underdeveloped theme in
> Prog albums. Emerson's has original "Christmassy" tunes, not
> just remakes of standards.

Not instrumental (as in both "not pivotal" and "with vocals as well")
but Chris Squire's is not bad either.