I've been a huge fan Vince Guaraldi. The man was simply a god damn visionary musical genius who deserves to recognized on the same playing field as Bill Evans and Art Tatum. Between the three Vince is the best to listen to while stoned out of your fucking mind. Sure, you can make for an argument that he sold his soul and opted to write cheesy "pop jazz" for proletariat commercial television for obligatory end of the year consumer materialism that stared a bunch of scruffy animated miscreants who all had severe psychological issues - especially the lead character who seemed to be suffering with a chronic form of depression that would make Robin Williams blush:
"What a liberal fag." - Trollvis
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, Vince Guaraldi...fucking genius blah, blah, blah. When Vince was "commissioned" to write for these oddly depressing cartoon holiday series he wrote his best work. One of them was the 'Linus & Lucy' theme which from what I can tell is an ode to family incest because that whole Peanuts cartoon was really, really fucked up in so many ways. Imagine a fucking beagle who can magically time travel with a flying dog house to shoot down proto-Nazis. Am I right? Fucking-A I am!
"See! Right there on the ground! No sign of a Holocaust! - Trollvis
Now the Linus And Lucy theme has been covered by so many and any dude who can play it on the gee-tur with a degree or competence can play with my steering wheel anytime. But...then came this and really, Vince's brilliant tune suddenly turned all Coldplay. I'll never feel the same way about Vince's music after I heard this. Fucking retards.
WARNING Listen at your own risk, cretins: