Originally Posted By sarahwithbaloo Well it is a style of music I'm wondering if it may be a more Brit Genre not sure an example I can think of is the band Madness. (I'll ask DWB to give you a better explination if no one else does lol I do'nt think mine covers it)
Originally Posted By Rsey103 a warm and fuzzy glee tonight. I'm officially in the Christmas spirit. I liked blaine's reference to Kings Island, a Cincinnati amusement park that I used to go to when I was a kid. Those writers are pretty good with the Ohio references. Is Ryan Murphy from Ohio?
Originally Posted By friendofdd Loved it. That was as "feel good" as it gets. The tribute to the Carpenters was outstanding.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I enjoyed it, since pretty much all cheesy Christmas specials are a good thing. It did seem like they were trying to cram enough songs in to sell a Christmas album (what do you know, they advertised one at the end of the show!), but it still worked. I thought that it was funny that they managed to get all of my least favorite songs, other than Christmas Shoes, in the show (Baby It's Cold Outside, Merry Christmas Darling, Last Christmas). I really enjoyed the Whooville song at the end; it's a simple song, but they had a great arrangement. I thought that the concept of having Sue as the Grinch was clever, but taken a little too far. I did enjoy seeing Brittany as Cindy Loo Whoo, so I guess that made it work. And I'm really starting to like Coach Bieste a lot; I'm glad to see them taking her character and going in a different direction with it. I also thought it was interesting that they didn't seem to have a problem saying "Christmas" when there was an entire episode about singing "God" songs and the drama created by it...
Originally Posted By Labuda For those who don't know, ska is the form of music that reggae sprang from. It originated in the 50s in Jamaica, and good examples of ska are not only the aformentioned Madness, but also The Specials (another British group), Dance Hall Crashers (California group that was most prolific in the 90s), Mighty Mighty BossToneS (they're more ska-core, actually - a heavier version of ska that can approach punk), and Sublime. It really is a super fun kind of music! One of the many genres that have heavy representation on my ipod.
Originally Posted By Labuda And here's the wiki page on ska, which mentions another band on my ipod who I failed to mention above, The Skatalites: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska</a> Oh, and apparently MMB is considered part of the Third Wave of ska. Oh, and they have a new album that I just bought online recently; good stuff still, nearly 20 years after I first heard them!
Originally Posted By lesmisfan loved this episode! I thought that jane lynch as the grinch was a great touch as well even though it seemed a bit out of place and overdone. Loved seeing Artie at the end, for those of you who have seen this know what im talking about! and i too love coach beastie more and more! her and will make a great team against sue! and i think the song that just stole the entire show was Kurt and Blaines baby its cold outside. I dislike most versions of that song but loved loved loved this version!
Originally Posted By Rsey103 why did the santas in the episode pull down their beards when they talked? what dept store santa takes his beard half off to talk to a child? Is it because they wanted us to see the actor's face so we would know who it was? We knew who it was.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan i think they wanted to show how delabitated the holidays were in their hometown. as for the coach doing that i don't know. probably so she could talk easier and seeing the brittany can be dumb, and not notice, it was kinda funny.
Originally Posted By Rsey103 I enjoyed the repeat episode Tuesday nite. New episodes begin Sunday Feb 6 after the Super Bowl. Looks like the glee club is going to do MJ's Thriller on the football field. It's gonna be good...
Originally Posted By Rsey103 And if it's a football episode, we should have plenty of Coach Beiste to enjoy! Look at this photo of Dot-Marie Jones on IMDB: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427963/" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427963/</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm interested to see how they manage to make a football team and marching band make sense, since the last episode showed that it was Christmas time in the school. Moving forward into the spring semester, the football team and marching band should both disband, and recollect themselves during the summer. It will be interesting to see how (if at all) they try to explain this.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x On the Oxygen Network, they're doing a Glee season 2 marathon on Saturday.
Originally Posted By debtee I too have seen the Glee 3D movie at the cinema and I loved it as well Rsey103, I can't wait for the DVD!
Originally Posted By Rsey103 One of the best moments in the film is when somebody tells Rachel backstage that Barbra's in the audience...
