William's Song a Day Blog - est. September 2007

From: The Lost Christmas Eve ; Year: 2004; Genre: Symphonic Metal/Progressive Metal Merry Christmas! I decided to deviate away from picking songs that were released in the year that coincides with my song pick number today and pick something more appropriate for The Season. There were a lot of good songs released in '66 that I'll probably pick sometime in the future, but for now here's a rather popular seasonal instrumental from The Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Cheers! Hear Wizards in Winter on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: "Weird Al" Yankovic - Christmas at Ground Zero My song pick two years ago today: Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) - I Believe in Father Christmas My song pick three years ago today: Louis Armstrong - 'Zat You Santa Claus? My song pick four years ago today: Jethro Tull - A Christmas Song My song pick five years ago today: Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Ghost of Christmas Eve

I have been picking some covers lately, and here is another one. This song was originally written and recorded by Rammstein off of the Herzeleid album. I like both versions, however I like the original Rammstein version, ( which can be found here on YouTube ), more. I am picking this version because I loved what Apocalyptica did with the song and I absolutely love Nina Hagen's vocals on this one. Her lower-register vocals are just amazing, she has vocals in this one similar to a Disney movie villainess and almost appears witch-like in the video. A pretty good treat for near Halloween. Here is the music video on YouTube. Here is a television performance on YouTube. +