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27 December 2005

Fairytale of New York in high-quality video [80Mb].→[More:]
Especially for kellydamnit and Capn.

The akamai stream and the youtube version suffice but have pretty lousy video quality. Some of the ones I found were actually the Top of the Pops performance (nothing special, it was all lip-synched to the single). I spent hours searching for this last night and then hours more in a P2P queue, but it finally arrived and it's fantastic. A day late and a shilling short, perhaps, but enjoy!
In at least one video player this appeared vertically distorted, in others it was fine.

Oh, I've also been helping with the Wikipedia entry. That isn't Shane MacGowan playing the piano!

post by: dhartung at: 18:50 | 10 comments

This is amazing! I can't wait to get home and download.

Thanks!!!!!!

posted by kellydamnit 27 December | 18:56

Hey, you found it! Good on you!

posted by ooga_booga 27 December | 19:24

Thank You! For your act of sharingness, I shall spot you a shilling should you ever find yourself wanting.

posted by Triode 27 December | 19:43

So great... I love that song so much. The "I built my dreams around you" part gets me every time. Sob city.

posted by kellydamnit 27 December | 20:39

Windows media player keeps encountering an "unknown problem" when playing this. It plays, but any use of the WMP GUI during or after play results in the error message and program termination.

posted by orthogonality 27 December | 21:11

huzzah! Scumbags and maggots for all!

This is pretty much the only seasonal song I can tolerate.

posted by Capn 27 December | 22:16

Won't play for me :(

posted by arse_hat 27 December | 22:38

worked fine for me in winamp.

posted by kellydamnit 27 December | 23:12

I will see if I can convert it to something else. I get those errors on one machine only.

posted by stilicho 28 December | 01:26

kellydammit and I are in the same club -- I burst into tears precisely at the "I built my dreams around you" line every time I've ever listened to it. Every single time.

And the boys from the NYPD were singin' Galway Bay
And the bells were ringin' out, for Christmas Day!

*choke*

posted by scody 28 December | 23:27

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