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Music Notes #1081504 added December 25, 2024 at 3:19pm
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Little Drummer Boy, by Simply Three
My sixth track for "Invalid Item"  is an instrumental rendition of the Christmas piece Little Drummer Boy by Simply Three.
Ouch. That opening bass beat is almost too much. As I said in the last post, I haven't had a chance to hear my Xmas collection in high quality audio until now. This is another track from S3's Lux album, which means the edginess is played up… which basically means they cranked up the bass notes.
Despite the whopper drums, which after all is a basic element of a song called "Little Drummer Boy," I still like it. In large part I like it because it has no vocals. Last year I tried listening to For King and Country singing Little Drummer Boy, and I found it so annoying I couldn't bear to finish it. Which is a shame, because apparently they're quite proud of their rendition of it and use it as their Christmas album title.
Lyrically speaking, when I first discovered the song years ago, I was puzzled by the anachronistic nature of the story and the fact that it's spiritual yet retro, from the same era as such tacky songs as "Let It Snow" or "Baby It's Cold Outside." I wondered why it's admired by Christians on the same level as the "genuine" Christmas carols of centuries past.
Finding the S3 instrumental version taught me to appreciate it for the melody, and this year as I've encountered it in public I can't help appreciating the spirit of the story it tells. (Though I wonder if a newborn baby would really smile at the sound of an army drum…) In fact, I thought the version performed by The Jackson Five was actually pretty good, "rum-pa-pum-pum's" and all. Perhaps I'll add that to my playlist before the year is out so I can finally sit down and listen to the lyrics.
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