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To want normie carols

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thestudio · 18/12/2024 22:24

I can’t get Alexa to give me non-weedy choirboy carols eg from Kings. I don’t want descant, I want a muscular middle-England rousing singalong with plenty of adult men and women singing, but with lots of different ‘parts’. What do I ask for?

I am obviously shocked that I have aged like this.

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MereDintofPandiculation · 18/12/2024 22:27

Bypass Alexa, go straight on to youtube. It's got several years of the 9 lessons and carols from Kings on there.

Also look for West Gallery carols - tha's certainly muscular, and with parts.

CyranoDeBergerQuack · 18/12/2024 22:27

Adding 'normie' to the 'only x more sleeps until x' list (see the post on this in aibu!)

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thestudio · 19/12/2024 00:22

CyranoDeBergerQuack · 18/12/2024 22:27

Adding 'normie' to the 'only x more sleeps until x' list (see the post on this in aibu!)

😂
I agree - but I needed to get the attention of right-thinking ppl who would be annoyed by 'normie' because they are much more likely to know where to find rousing, non-weedy carols.

You have fallen into my trap, Ms Bond.

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CharlotteStreetW1 · 19/12/2024 00:24

Try South Yorkshire/Sheffield carols?

Godfreydahling · 19/12/2024 00:26

Welsh male choir carols?

Drivingoverlemons · 19/12/2024 00:30

Try the Bath Bach choir.

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thestudio · 19/12/2024 00:58

MereDintofPandiculation · 18/12/2024 22:27

Bypass Alexa, go straight on to youtube. It's got several years of the 9 lessons and carols from Kings on there.

Also look for West Gallery carols - tha's certainly muscular, and with parts.

Thank you so much for responding - but actually, the Kings ones are what I’m running from. They seem to be very quiet and slow and reedy and choirboy-ish - or at least, the ones that Alexa is playing me. Maybe she is picking out the crap ones for me?

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Lobstercrisps · 19/12/2024 04:01

My DD sang in 9 lessons and carols last week. She's a belting soprano and the descants I heard her sing were spectacular. So I'd say go for something simpler.

Military wives maybe?

Auburngal · 19/12/2024 06:15

Presume you have Amazon Music? You can search an album on the app and ask Alexa to play that album.

LockForMultiball · 19/12/2024 06:18

Mormon Tabernacle?

MereDintofPandiculation · 19/12/2024 11:52

thestudio · 19/12/2024 00:58

Thank you so much for responding - but actually, the Kings ones are what I’m running from. They seem to be very quiet and slow and reedy and choirboy-ish - or at least, the ones that Alexa is playing me. Maybe she is picking out the crap ones for me?

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In that case, do try for West Gallery. It's as far from quiet, slow and choirboy-ish as you can get. That's the S Yorkshire, Sheffield carols that @CharlotteStreetW1 is recommending.

For cheerful, rollicking dance-like carols (though not full choir) I'd look at some of Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band, or York Waits.

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thestudio · 19/12/2024 12:12

Fantastic - thanks so much everyone, I will have a good go again tonight!

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steppemum · 19/12/2024 12:24

We had carols in the pub last night. It was raucous!
Never heard silent night sung quite like that.

I knwo what you mean though I like to hear real people singing with real voices.

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