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Holiday Bonus Disc 4

VHHBD04    Number of tracks:49 Track(s)

Introduction:More holiday, Christmas, happy fun times!

Label Name:VHEX  

Album tracklist
  • 1.
    Rockabells -Main Track-
    01:11
    Catchy, guitar driven Christmas Pop Rock that induces happy head bobbing and licking yourself, if you're a Labrador Retriever. If you're not we are not responsible for injuries. Starting with a singsong-ish bell/glockenspiel melody, drums, electric guitars, bass and sleigh bells, the cut builds energy wise until by :16 it's full-bore licking time (again: for you Labradors). The second half follows the same pattern, with a pause for a gratuitous drum fill @:49, returning to an even bigger version of the chorus @:52. Great for tween events, celebrations and, apparently, licking yourself.
  • 2.
    Tailfin Streetfight -Main Track-
    01:16
    Holiday time passing becomes a rollicking, 50s tinged fun Christmas Swing that suggests rebellious leather jacketed, chain smoking reindeer, drag racing and elf hooliganism. Electric guitar driven, this cut features a light, playful glockenspiel melody against a bed of sleigh bells until the action starts @:10 with a hit filled call/answer barrage of guitars, brass, saxes, and drums/bells. A mysterious pad @:31 provides a different intro to a more gritty hit fest returning @:44. A climbing, guitar driven climax starts @1:00.
  • 3.
    Forced Joy -Main Track-
    01:05
    You WILL be happy, dammit. A merciless, forceful and possibly violent orchestral example of aggressive positivity and joy, featuring choir, brass, strings, tubular/sleigh bells and all the Whos in f-ing Whoville. The first half is huge, sweeping and triumphant and @:30 gets smaller and more introspective as distant bells, strings, voices and cymbal swells build to a more understated but still heart warming and optimistic climax @:55. Good for big events, the holidays and snow filled scenes.
  • 4.
    City Starlight -Main Track-
    01:35
    Motown meets Jersey Rock. Alternating between delicate/hopeful and positive/proud, this cut works for overcoming insurmountable odds or making Christmas wishes come true. Starts expectant and sweet with lilting beds of dream like piano arpeggios, glimmering sleigh bells/glockenspiel and swelling/receding horn section chords. @:17 drums and soaring sax/brass section explode into a hopeful feeling of rebirth/optimism. The second half is similar, but loses the brass. The cut adds calming tubular bells @:47 while climbing in tone, then adds walls of electric guitars @1:08. The horns return @1:17 for a triumphant reiteration of the main theme.
  • 5.
    Busy Life -Main Track-
    01:14
    Ever so subtle tension for the family holidays. Persistent marimbas and strings provide an undercurrent of lighthearted activity that grows from neutral to slightly tense with piano, sleigh bells, and harp suggesting time is passing (suggested by clock like strikes of tubular bells throughout) or that something not all that threatening is sneaking around. Like tainted eggnog or disgruntled elves. After :30 the cut gets slower and more spare and builds back to a similarly non threatening level.
  • 6.
    Grandest Entrance Ever -Main Track-
    01:03
    THE most important holiday celebration music ever created usable for Papal visits, royal weddings and mild megalomania. Proud brass fanfares, sleigh bells, strings, fluttery woodwinds and percussion all create a stately, uptempo and joyous holiday celebration for all things caucasian and uptight. A smaller women's choir @:08 expands into a full (men's/women's) choir @:16. The second half is softer with the brass replaced by bouncy strings, winds and gentle women's vocals, suggesting busy shopping malls, warm family bustle and Santa on a treadmill.
  • 7.
    Holiday Love -Main Track-
    01:15
    Sexy and silly. Playful, tongue in cheek, child-friendly, unplugged fun Hipster Rock featuring glockenspiel, acoustic guitar, claps, sleigh bells, brushed drums and woman's vocals. One of the few VH cuts with lyrics (starting @:10), this one apparently is coming on to Santa pretty aggressively, happily suggesting various sexual acts through crude metaphors (although not as misleading as the 80s TV show title "BJ and The Bear.").
  • 8.
    Small Town Big Heart -Main Track-
    01:16
    Celebrating the holidays in a place where there's no internet connection, only one stoplight and where there's a larger number of people than teeth? This upbeat, warm and light celebratory Alternate Folk Rock cut uses banjo, sleigh/tubular bells, thumb piano, autoharp, electric bass and drums to create an intimate look at the holidays, family, pets, farm animals, road trips, and playfully losing a limb in the combine.
  • 9.
    Those Holy Nights -Main Track-
    01:33
    Intimate and heart touching becomes large and heart groping. Sweet sounding, with delayed bells and children's choir starting the cut with an atmospheric, tentative version of "Oh Holy Night" that explodes into a big, celebratory positive mid tempo cut, featuring drum, electric bass and piano @:17. The second half gets larger more gradually, adding shimmering electric guitar @:47 and finally getting biggest @1:09. Good for celebrating family, watching children/babies play, and watching footage of holidays past.
  • 10.
    Black Frost -Main Track-
    01:18
    Evil elves plot to steal Christmas. A bed of busy glockenspiel and celesta against jingling sleigh bells combines carnival like strangeness with holiday danger made more sinister by tolling tubular bells, drums and electric guitars @:07. @:18 conflict begins with climbing, pulsing strings and muscular drums, all climaxing triumphantly @:29. The second half introduces a fast moving piano arpeggio climbing in pitch and tension @:46, returning to the string driven theme @1:01. Attitudinal holiday Rock, good for evil children, foiling Elven terrorists and overcoming the odds.
  • 11.
    Your Home For The Holidays -Main Track-
    01:15
    Wal Mart meets Wall of Sound. Happy, upbeat and guaranteed to be the least threatening holiday cut ever written, this simple, twangy Pop Rock electric guitar driven cut starts with call/answer guitar and tubular bells. @:07 an electric bass, piano, glockenspiel and drums politely enter, (getting biggest @:22 adding strings) suggesting celebrations, family friendly entertainment and sweater wearing models advertising a sale at Old Navy or Target. The second half features smaller beds of solo'd elements and reversed bells, alternate intros and loopable beds with the main mix returning @:59. Do I really have to mention that there are sleigh bells throughout? Didn't think so.
  • 12.
    Holiday Wonder -Main Track-
    01:12
    Child like wonder and mischief. Experience the magic and beauty of the holidays through the eyes of an escaped bunny. Innocent and bouncy, this Classical ensemble uses staccato piano, pizzicato strings, oboe, tubular bells, low brass, cymbals, flute, sleigh bells and marimba to create the feeling of a curious but timid little guy exploring a kitchen. Upward and downward runs suggest him romping over mountains of food. After taking a moment @:31 to hump a slipper, he returns to his innocent frolic @:52. Good for animation, comedy, playful puzzles and humping footwear.
  • 13.
    Stupid Sloppy -Main Track-
    01:13
    Guitar driven happy and clueless Jock Hard Rock that pounds and preens its way past sensible holiday fare, good for football games, extreme gift giving and reindeer hunting. Globs of sloppy distorted electric guitars, pounding drums, electric bass, tubular bells and yes, Virginia, sleigh bells driving their way towards a climax in each half. The second half gets even more rambunctious with a slam happy section starting @:48, good for fast cuts/montages.
  • 14.
    Creepy Crawlies -Main Track-
    01:15
    Christmas nightmare music. Heavy handed holiday horror that should win some kind of award for collecting almost every scary musical stereotype and adding jingle bells! Harp, woodwinds, ghost like vocals, Omen-esque gothic choir, Elfman like bells, dulcimer, "here comes the shark " string figure @:51 and discordant world is ending sections starting @:22 and @:55. Useful for demonic possessions, satire and being stalked by a European orchestra.
  • 15.
    Busy Santas Sweatshop -Main Track-
    01:02
    Dignified industriousness and forward movement, with two varieties of Elf oppression: The blustery, proud and celebratory brass led, full orchestral version, and after :30, the light, bouncy, wonderland of snow and happy faces. The latter featuring staccato winds/strings and a flitty melody that might induce skipping (or nausea), returning to a larger, more stately ending @:55. And since it's a Christmas version there'll be sleigh bells! Lots of 'em! Please kill me!
  • 16.
    Rockabells -Alternative Version-
    02:29
    Lighter, more spare version that extends each section a bit, providing more loopable intros/outros and longer periods of happy tubular bells, glockenspiel and jingle bells creating a friendly bed for holiday revelers and a decidedly unfriendly bed for Pavlovian dogs.
  • 17.
    Rockabells -Alternative Version-
    01:11
    Think of this cut as a badass, tutu wearing fairy that spreads his happy, uplifting Pop Rock like acne across the metaphorical pre-prom forehead that is our world. Starts gentle and childlike, with harps and swirling pads, exploding into drums/guitar/bass driven positive edginess @:08. Good for celebrations, sports triumphs and overcoming the odds.
  • 18.
    Tailfin Streetfight -Alternative Version-
    01:13
    A velour covered holiday to you! Softer, slightly seductive, Lounge tinged version that's atmospheric, intriguing and mysterious. Jittery, delayed piano/glockenspiel lead, measured electric bass, piano and mellow hollowbody electric guitar create a relaxed bed appropriate for deserted holiday streets or seducing a reindeer.
  • 19.
    Stupid Sloppy -Alternative Version-
    01:16
    The same as the holiday version, without the sleigh bells. Also has a more time passing kind of feel @:31 with sidestick "ticking.
  • 20.
    Forced Joy -Alternative Version-
    01:02
    We removed the brass but left the heart warming choir and added a syrupy lead violin that makes it a little more sentimental. Again, the second half is softer and more delicate, good for remembering good times and family stories.
  • 21.
    Forced Joy -Alternative Version-
    01:04
    Big surprise: There are no sleigh bells in this piece! Happy and joyous in the first half, sentimental and all "puppies and pajamas" in the second.
  • 22.
    Forced Joy -Alternative Version-
    01:03
    Sleigh bell free version. Proud, chest bursting pride with orchestral bluster and choir enriched heart warming cheer. Gets sensitive after :30, with the beds of choir and bells sounding childlike and wonderous, returning to the big chest thumping ending @:55. Good for awe inspiring scenery, important news moments and family reunions.
  • 23.
    City Starlight -Alternative Version-
    02:29
    Simple horn swells grow against heart beat like drum/bass pulsing until an uplifting horn section line @:26. The second half introduces the piano bed from the original, but extends it with glockenspiel and pulsing bass and drums creating a driving, yet simple, bed of movement that returns to the main piano driven theme @1:52, with horns returning @2:09.
  • 24.
    City Starlight -Alternative Version-
    01:36
    Like the Christmas version except no sleigh bells. Or any bells, for that matter. Starts sweet/introspective with simple and gentle piano/dulcimer, then grows into an anthemic, uplifting cut @:17 with drums, horn section and electric guitar crashing in. The second half follows the same trend with big electric guitars @1:08 and horns @:1:17. Great for sports successes, reunions and unexpected competitors winning marathons.
  • 25.
    Busy Life -Alternative Version-
    01:51
    Subtle tension and the feeling of time passing with "ticking" marimba, piano, glockenspiel and a string section that gets progressively more complex and rises in tenor until a climax @:40. The second half features alternate mixes of the main ticking feel, alternating between pizziCato (ASCAP) strings, solo marimba and dulcimer. Good for waiting for something to happen, spies, cartoon-ish stalkers or watching mice sneak around on their toes. Trust me.
  • 26.
    Busy Life -Alternative Version-
    01:14
    Sneaking and cautious clock like musical activity that suggests suspense or time passing. Two slightly different beds of subtle, percolating tension featuring marimba, piano, strings, cymbals and flutes that are appropriate for suspense on smaller, more interpersonal scales. Both build to mild climaxes @:29 and 1:10. Good for spies, tales of deceit and mind games.
  • 27.
    Grandest Entrance Ever -Alternative Version-
    01:03
    Brass and choir free jocular background version guaranteed to evoke the happiest holiday memories and optimistic view of the holidays. The second half is happy and bouncy enough to cause cancer, filled with childlike wonder and expectancy.
  • 28.
    Grandest Entrance Ever -Alternative Version-
    01:03
    Slightly more stately version made so by removing the sleigh bells and waterboarding Elves. Gets slightly more childlike after :30 with more delicate bells and bell trees.
  • 29.
    Grandest Entrance Ever -Alternative Version-
    01:03
    Still the most important sounding, optimistic celebration music ever created by man, but this time without the goddamn jingle bells. Works for news, Fourth of July fireworks, anything to do with royalty, and the Pope on a treadmill. Run, your holiness! Run!
  • 30.
    Holiday Love -Alternative Version-
    01:46
    Artsier remixed version of the original, with processed percussion and vocals. Cool sections of delayed vocals that make Christmas carol like beds, like at the top and @1:19.
  • 31.
    Holiday Love -Instrumental-
    01:15
    Simple, spare but catchy stop/start Hipster Rock bed of mid tempo brushed drums, sleigh bells, claps and simple glockenspiel melody (in @:19). Works for showing activity and animated shorts.
  • 32.
    Small Town Big Heart -Alternative Version-
    01:36
    Still the same old, loveable, simple cut with more breaks, loopable mix minus sections and (God helps us all) more simple, strummed Banjo.
  • 33.
    Small Town Big Heart -Alternative Version-
    01:16
    Miraculously just like the main version but without the holiday inducing sleigh bells. Good for barn raising, hay rides, spending time by the fireplace and seeing the bright side of failed crops and harsh country winters by killing and eating your neighbors.
  • 34.
    Those Holy Nights -Alternative Version-
    01:59
    Soft and sweet becomes unbridled joy. Perfect for PSAs, pleads for help or showing adorable puppies and kittens just before the city pound gasses them. Atmospheric bells and children's choir slowly builds into a huge celebration of life and the word "ooh," as evidenced by a choir who obviously is not so good with lyrics. Cut features many alternate mixes of the original, providing loopable sections, new endings/beginnings or just a smaller, more personal appeal for help.
  • 35.
    Those Holy Nights -Alternative Version-
    01:34
    Almost a radioactive dose of positivity. Like the original without the Christmas themed melody. Instead it goes from a soft, gentle hummed children's choir and delayed bells open to a bass and drum driven explosion of happiness and joy @:11 that works for quick montages of happy events, people working together and peace on earth. The second half builds from the quiet delayed bell bed to the happy tubular bell filled explosion @1:01.
  • 36.
    Black Frost -Alternative Version-
    02:31
    Overcoming a holiday dilemma, on a musically smaller scale. A sleigh bell filled holiday version that removes much of the Hard Rock elements, letting the bells, drums, piano and strings do the job of the electric guitars which don't come in until 2:02. A smaller version emotionally, but still suggests that some pointy toed bastard is threatening Christmas. Good for Christmas miracles and more intimate holiday struggles, like depression or writing 49 Xmas oriented cut descriptions in August.
  • 37.
    Black Frost -Alternative Version-
    01:18
    A version that takes away the jingle bells and most of the holiday trappings. Evil carnival like bells lead into a guitar driven maelstrom of attitude and aggressive drumming.
  • 38.
    Your Home For The Holidays -Alternative Version-
    01:28
    Concentrating on the simple twangy electric guitars, drums and electric bass, this cut works as an active but repetitive bed that suggests positive moments of passing time or even a light attitude, like a teddy bear with a criminal record.
  • 39.
    Your Home For The Holidays -Alternative Version-
    01:12
    The subtler, smarter brother of the original. Polite, engaging non-holiday version that replaces much of the bell melody with a dampened piano, giving the cut a more dignified and reserved feel, with strings in @:22. After a series of alternate mix minus variations, a reversed guitar @:54 ushers in a final, rousing version of the main mix.
  • 40.
    Holiday Wonder -Alternative Version-
    01:27
    Stop/start comedy spot that suggests optimistic wonder and childlike awe. Lighter, more spare version with alternate lead oboe lines and more "time passing" pizziCato (ASCAP) strings and marimba sections.
  • 41.
    Holiday Wonder -Alternative Version-
    01:11
    Just like the main version but without the sleigh bells. I really had hoped you would figure that out from the "no bells" designation in the title. Seriously. Why are you still reading this?
  • 42.
    Stupid Sloppy -Alternative Version-
    01:40
    "Pretty" meets "pretty angry." Dropping the bell driven lead melody of the original. Delicate piano starts the cut until it's shattered @:19 by ultra heavy chugging distorted guitars, bass and abused as a child drums that pound their way into your head, giving you a bed of forward moving, and nearly optimistic aggression. @:52 sleigh bells enter with a soloed electric guitar melody, eventually joined by bass/drums @1:15.
  • 43.
    Stupid Sloppy -Alternative Version-
    01:13
    Aggressive, gritty, leg humpingly high strung, gritty but positive, sports Rock that is the sonic equivalent of having someone kick you awake or give you a Brazilian with a lawnmower. In other words, it's messy and violent, but means well. Almost over the top in its exuberance and eagerness, it's perfect for sports, introducing events/products with bluster and extreme body hair grooming.
  • 44.
    Creepy Crawlies -Alternative Version-
    01:54
    Imagine taking the original version and stretching it out, with the climaxes building more gradually and many choices for loopable beds that suggest suspenseful Gothic horror and the tense passage of time.
  • 45.
    Creepy Crawlies -Alternative Version-
    01:15
    Supernatural murderer on the loose? Gothic horror music that fulfills every musical horror movie stereotype. Each half ends with a build to catastrophic, cacophonous death. So over the top it may be used for comedy as well as Halloween, mysteries and the occult.
  • 46.
    Creepy Crawlies -Alternative Version-
    01:15
    We lose the choir and eerie vocals, but leave plenty of 70's horror stereotypes to stab, hack and chainsaw to.
  • 47.
    Busy Santas Sweatshop -Alternative Version-
    01:02
    Lighter, less imposing version that's still bouncy enough to require insulin. This version removes all of the melody and gets rid of about 90% of the brass players, but retains the sleigh bells. Good for children's stories, crowded snow filled holiday streets and suggesting busy activity without those pesky Child Labor Laws getting in the way.
  • 48.
    Busy Santas Sweatshop -Alternative Version-
    01:02
    Still perky and bouncy, but with no sleigh bells. Just the right balance of playful industriousness and childish wonderment. Like a pleasant day camp where kids can learn how to make sneakers and iPhones!
  • 49.
    Busy Santas Sweatshop -Alternative Version-
    01:02
    Suggests busy scenes of happy workers, triumphant marches to victory and an updated version of 40s newsreel music, but this time doesn't have sleigh bells. Yay!