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Happy Holidays to all! Thanks for the smiles this year!

"Merry Christmas, thank you, and you're welcome, Blue (Becky)". "Merry Christmas, to everyone else, too". I hope you all are having, and celebrating a joyful Christmas, and holiday season.

Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year TRF'ers.

Merry Christmas to all you TRF follks! Santa has arrived here in Ballyclare and in a couple of hours we will be stuffing our faces with roast turkey!!

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all at TRF

First heard this on the Rush Forum. It's so pretty.

My mom had a 45 of I Yust Go Nuts At Xmas in her youth, and I played it every holiday in my grandma's basement. The flip side had a comic twist on the 12 Days Of Christmas

Have a Happy and A Merry and whatever else, TRFers!

Imagine not that these four walls contain the Mighty Owl of Thebes? For, gentles all, beauty sits most closely to them it can construe.

I've had my lot of the Arctic Circle. I wish I was back in Oldham ...

Do you want to come back to my place?

Night in the Ruts - Aerosmith

Going for the One -- Yes

Coldplay - The Scientist

Yes -- Yes

It's like a bloody graveyard. I hate it.

"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" -- Dio & Others "Ave Marie" -- Chris Cornell "Christmas Song" -- Dave Matthews "Christmas Time is Drawing Near at Hand" -- Steve Winwood "Silent Night" -- Bad Religion "I Believe in Father Christmas" -- ELP "Someday at Christmas" -- Stevie Wonder "Christmas" -- Blues Traveler "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo" -- Trans-Siberian Orchestra and I know it's your list, Derek, and far be it from me to yuck anybody's yum, but, my god, do I hate that infantile, Betty-Boop-knockoff Madonna version of "Santa Baby"!

Merry Axemas-Carols done by noted plankspankers, including Alex's rendition of "Little Drummer Boy". Multiple "Winter Solstice" CD's from the artists of Windham Hill Records. A two casette compilation by Reader's Digest, mostly of the old classic carols- but does include Yogi Yorgesson's "I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas". A couple of Cd's by Mannheim Steamroller. A Rock and Roll Christmas- Chuck Berry, The Kinks, Greg Lake, and others including "Sock It To Me Santa" by Bob Seger & The Last Heard. Group and solo artists to numerous to count-including a Cd by Rob Halford!

Probably around 1979/1980 during my time in 6th form and playing darts in the school common room. The common room had an old school record player which we played various albums at low volume. While playing darts someone put on Permanent Waves LP and "Spirit of Radio" I was absolutely taken by the song and Geddy's high-pitched singing. And of course the front cover of the album was "intriguing" also. I asked my friend if I could borrow the album and for the next 2 weeks I played it to death on my music centre until eventually I bought the album, and the rest is history as they say

For Halloween, since there is, and has been a thread of "Halloween Songs", and for Christmas, not one of "Christmas songs" including any "Christmas music", I would do it. In not any order, here are some "Christmas songs", and "Christmas c.ds, and albums" I thought of, and I like. I'm sure I can, and will add to my list. Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon & Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney Christmas (Baby, Please, Come Home) - U2 Santa Baby - Madonna Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas II You - Mariah Carey One Wish: the Holiday Album - Whitney Houston My Kind of Christmas - Christina Aguilera Last Christmas - Wham! Thank God, It's Christmas - Queen Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie & Bing Crosby Merry Christmas, Baby - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Christmas All Over, Again, Little Red Rooster - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Winter Came... - Enya A Winter Symphony - Sarah Brightman the Classic Christmas Album, Wonderland - Sarah McLachlan Almost Christmas - Lee Aaron

I recently acquired a copy of My Favorite Headache (Thanks ytserush! And in mint condition). On the back of the CD jacket is a website: www.myfavoriteheadache.com so I checked it out. At the top of the page is "This domain name expired on 2022-12-22". There are still links to current bands and performances, it looks like a ticket community page of sorts. The CD is an Atlantic Recording Corporation, A Time Warner Company, 2000. But how interesting (to me) that a popular, established artist makes a solo album, chooses (?) a period of time to activate a promotional website - and it's 22 years with no renewal? Is that perhaps a Time Warner thing? "It's by the decade! Choose how many you want, ok, add two years if that makes you geschlappy about it". Or an expiry date is arriving and the artist figures it's been long enough? I would love to hear from forum artists more familiar with this business, or friends of Mr. Lee who could shed some light. Thanks, Cheers and Safe Holidays to all :) (Edit: And I just realised that after many years of wanting to own and listen closely to the CD, it arrived on Thursday - the exact day the domain name expired! Might buy a lotto ticket tomorrow?)

One of my very favorites! Can't even tell ya why?

Very popular when I was a kid

Wadin' through the waste stormy winter

EXCELLENT SONG

War -- Judas Priest

Victim of Changes - Judas Priest

Welcome Back, My Friends... -- Emerson, Lake & Palmer

United -- Judas Priest

Tyrant - Judas Priest

V: The New Mythology Suite - Symphony X

Underworld -- Symphony X

Sinner -- Judas Priest

THIS SONG IS THE BEST !

I got the Lad a set of Fischer Ranger 99 skis to go with his boots. He's grown six inches or more and gained 40 lbs since his last pair of new skis, so it was time.

When I was a kid back in the 70s I used to read a comic containing Thor Odinson and War Hammer. Thor was your typical Norse god with blonde hair, blue eyes, rippling muscles and of course his trusty hammer

Nice!

Underrated deep cut.

I'd imagine I had heard them on the radio but in 1978 we moved to a very small town in Illinois and a guy that became one of my best friends was a huge fan. There were four or five of us who spent a lot of time at his house, always listening to music, and much of the time it was Rush. I'll never forget when Permanent Waves was released, he wrote a long letter to the band expressing his concern about the direction the band was going. In return, he got a form letter and info about how to join the Backstage Club. Being the nerds we were, we often had "name that tune" contests where he'd drop the needle and then quickly pick it up and we'd guess.

Most people are actually blaming Dwayne Johnson for the Henry Cavill debacle at DC Studios. Whoever is responsible, there is probably a lawsuit in there somewhere.