RENT (1996 OBC Recording) - "Christmas Bells"

[stephjannetta]

5:15 til the end is the best part of the song!!

[RunFastNumber40]

And it's beginning to snow...

[atwulf]

Thumbs up if this is the only Christmas song you can relate to. Merry Whatever from the poor side of town.

[TheNegativeAlchemist]

Downtown here there are all these signs for some church that say, "No Room at the Inn?" Every time I see them, this song pops into my head and I feel like singing it in the middle of the crowds of people...

[dancerkier1]

Rent kinda makes me want to become a poor starving film maker living in new york city

[mickeys12]

Does anyone else find themselves listening to this song more than others during Christmas time?

[Uratnik]

god... Such a shame the best song (by far!) in the musical, was left out of the movie... I didn't even know this song existed until a good 4 years after I had seen the movie =\

[amazemeack]

i'm sorry... they took this song out of the movie and cut down Goodbye Love? i have just been completely justified in my decision to never see it.

[greendragons44]

Honest living dude was reincarnated in the movie... To the answering machine!

"SPEEEEAAAAK."

[mage2killer]

Doing this at my school! i cant wait!!!

[dsmitty882010]

I LOVE the (not sure what you call it) at 04:28..LOVE IT!!!!

[dsmitty882010]

@dsmitty882010 where it starts 04:53

[MoMoRocks111]

@dsmitty882010 ...The harmonies?

[dsmitty882010]

@MoMoRocks111 no its like when you all those different parts going on Im not sure what its called..you would think I would know seeing how I was in choir for two years lol..but Im drawing a blank lol

[MoMoRocks111]

@dsmitty882010 ....Yeah. Those are the harmonies! xD

[Lovelikegods]

@dsmitty882010 It's not Harmonies; it is called a fugue. And yes, it is wonderful. :]

[OneSongGlory8]

at about 4:53 i give up even trying to figure out what everyone's saying......

[TheNegativeAlchemist]

@OneSongGlory8 I think it's something about Angel haggling a coat for Collins... some junkies going "Got an C man?" and everyone else talkin about what they don't have for Christmas.... gahh.

[firefly927]

@OneSongGlory8 Angel says: "Let's get a better one"

[MoMoRocks111]

Wait...I just LOVE hearing Anthony Rapp go "I'm oooooooooovver her!"

[MoMoRocks111]

LOOOOVVVVEEE this song!!!! Ugh, I was in the "High School Edition" of RENT......This song was murdered.. :'(

[cjstone1992]

"THAT'S MY COAT!!!!"

[KHooksMixer]

4:29 (Built up) 4:50 (More) 5:02(Screw It) 5:30 (Pandemoniom). I Love <3 This Musical.

[KuroNeko3770]

@Mike0Powell I so plan on it!! Its going to be hard to find people though :( only 3 people in my school like rent but somehow it shall be done VIVA LA VIE BOHEME!!!!!!!!

[TheJonaynay]

I'm a lucky bitch. I get to sing honest living.

[KuroNeko3770]

if only life was a musical. Rent has to be my FAVORITE thing in like the world right now!!! i want to get a whole group of rentheads to gather and learn the songs and go out in public and just randolmly bursting out in singing rent songs and dancing to rent songs!!! that is my GOAL right now!!!!!!!!!

[Mike0Powell]

@KuroNeko3770 Do it! What a great flashmob idea!

[Shadowclaw27]

@KuroNeko3770

Ohmygodyesss<3333

We're planning on doing a La Vie Boheme flash mob for a Senior Prank

[musejoanjett]

@Shadowclaw27 Oh My God if you do, that would be cool if you filmed it!

[Shadowclaw27]

@musejoanjett

We're gonna try to ^-^ It's gonna be hysterical

[TheRamenLovinGamer]

@KuroNeko3770 Same, I would totally join you. My life goal is to sing La Vie Boheme at lunch in school.

[HPismyfuturehusband]

@KuroNeko3770 RENT FLASH MOB

[Shikamarukan]

@KuroNeko3770 Really, why would you want your life to be like RENT? I mean, it's a story about people struggling with AIDS/HIV

[KuroNeko3770]

I@Shikamarukan I meant I wish life was a musical with the random bursts of singing and dancing. That would be so much fun!! I think it would make life alot less stressful, well that's my opinion wherever I am stressed I sing along to my favorite songs and dance like an idiot.

[Clovvach]

@Shikamarukan I think (s)he ment the singing/dancing aspect more than the actual plot of rent. XD

[Aerial33]

@KuroNeko3770 do it <3

[tamarajoy06]

@KuroNeko3770 count me in! :D

[TRASHYgah]

Can i listen to this in june? Fuck it. ;)

[osahju914]

@TRASHYgah you have to ask?.... ;)

[bluebirde67]

I finally heard 'Let's not hold hands yet'!!!! I have super-ears!

[Wickedlymiserables]

@bluebirde67 No i am sat here with my head on the speaker trying to hear it!

[ColtenASherk]

I think this is definitely my favorite song on the OBC soundtrack <3

[Ilovethatshim]

4+ people are Jewishh, (:

[DataTasha4Ever]

@Ilovethatshim No, they're just mean. I'm Jewish (sorta) and I triple-like this song.

[TheBlackdog57]

@Ilovethatshim I hope one of them wasn't Mark...

[IVH93]

I love Angel's and Collins' part. When I saw the movie, that was actually what I thought about Angel... I was like: "Give, give all she does is give!" (shaking my head as if I can't believe it)

[tcteng34]

This just might be my favorite song in the whole thing! :D

[yourveryowncatlady]

oh buddy, when everyone is singing their respective parts at the same time acapella, serious chills occur

[bluebirde67]

It was snowing today and when I looked out the window all I could say was "And it's beginning to And it's beginning to And it's beginning to... Joanne which way to the stage.. SNOW" along with. "Chirstmas bells are ringing." And it's April 3rd...

[OnItDPearl320]

i just got cast in this play its a bitch to learn lol

[txmarz]

OMG EVERYTIME I hear this song I love rent even more! I'll go a few weeks without listening to any rent and then I hear this one song and become obsessed again! <3!

[123marasma]

I'm thinking I should go around singing this next December, I can just imagine peoples reaction to a caroler singing something like this.

[boosedok]

@123marasma you should make it a flash dance or event i might do that actually!

[kittypetro]

THATS MY COAT

We give discounts!

[sowrongitschar]

. . .and it's beginning to SNOW!

[icheer560]

This song has so much going on at one time...There's always something new to hear no matter how many times you listen to it! Its like it's never the exact same song! =) lol Love it!

[mikockla]

HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING HONEST LIVING

[nito057]

@mikockla you have 2 in excess

[mikockla]

@nito057 bummer lol. I didn't really count when I was typing XD

[dsmitty882010]

@mikockla my favorite part of this scene lol...that one and when he said "Honest living brutha" *car screech* "Feliz Navidad" LOL

[ShadyTidus1]

It's snowing where I live right now. :)

[tallperson605]

just in time for the season :)

[nidopug]

This song has become a Christmas tradition for my seasonal playlist.

[gedwolfe]

This song is one of the most powerful songs in the whole musical.

[RisingPhoenyx]

I always forget how much I love this song. Was the first RENT song I ever heard :)

[JKrowlingrockx]

"There thats her!" "Maureen?" "Mimi!" "Whoa!"

hehe. Way to act natural, Mark.

[TechnicolorYear]

Quite possibly a new favorite Rent song :O

[ttuplin]

"I'll just get fat, it's the one vice left when your dead meat".

[DancingCatOfTwilight]

oh if only i had seen the original cast on broadway! my life would be complete!

[Hoopermazing]

@DancingCatOfTwilight I saw the OBC a couple of times in 1996. Trust me, life goes on unimpeded.

[6greyxrose]

1:51 - 2:29 "You Dont Have To Do This Hush Your Mouth Its Christmas I Do Not Deserve You Angel Wait, What's On The Floor Give, Give, All You Do Is Give Let's See Some More Give Me Some Way To Show No, No, No... How You've Touched Me So  Kiss Me Its Beginning To Snow" <3

[IntoTheDissonance]

@Kailation I understand how it wouldn't work for the movie, I think they made a good choice. Nonetheless, its an AMAZING song.

[actressindemaking]

This is such an amazing arrangement! I played Joanne in a production of Rent, I was always so gutted that I was the only one in the entire cast not in this song, still it was so unbelievable to be able to stand in the wings and hear this every night. Good times :)

[Winken]

@actressindemaking I'm in a production of Rent right now as Roger, and our Joanne is going through the same thing. She's pissed that she doesn't get to be in Christmas Bells or La Vie Boheme.

[lilmissjess99]

how can anyone dislike this its amazing ^_^ !!

[OMGirl0702]

I LOVE THIS SONG! so sad it was cut from the movie

[Duckie608]

lol i love this! :]

[mellojellobonbello]

Let's go eat - I'll just get fat, it's the one vice left when you're dead meat. <3

[iamtheicekid]

still a great tune though

[SqueekyHedgehog]

i HATE staged recordings):

this is my ALLTIME favorite song from Rent....but when you get a bunch of actors in a studio, they can't perform at the same caliber that they would have sounded at a live show(:

still love it....but i hate recordings....):

[iamtheicekid]

@SqueekyHedgehog

agreed. they sound so phony in recordings.

[crazycakes9943]

has anyone ever had anything bad to say about rent? i mean come on its perfect lol. i practicly worship it :) wish i could see it live. I would give my arms to see it live O.O

[Uratnik]

I love this song. I can't believe they took it out of the movie. I think it may be my favorite song from the musical. Just the way the chaos is so organized. It's an oxymoron that works out amazingly.

[LaughingViolinist]

I did an amateur performance in the summer. across one of the pages for this song (where there was about 5 lines all going on at the same time with different words) there's just the word CHAOS underlined several times.

[midnightblackfire]

Personally I like the new version of this song just a little bit more... please don't shoot me! There are some old songs I like better, and some new... and some I can't decide.

[juliaspike]

ya know! i personally don't think mimi is that great. compared to rosario. i think she nailed it. the movie soundtrack seems more put together, but they had 10 years to get it right, where this is fresh. i just seen this live, and it was great.

[BloodyScreams]

I love the chaos in this song 8D

[dramachik09]

adam pascal's voice is so freakin powerful. love it.

[dsmitty882010]

@dramachik09 its a tie btwn him, Collins and Roger...

[nixypixy69]

im one of the junkies in our college show of rent

and its so hard but worth it if we can get it to sound like this

x x x

[62345005]

So did it sound like this?

[nixypixy69]

hmm

well we got there in the end

but obviously were not boradway or westend slandered

hehe

x x x

[jdthemindfreak]

I was Angel :)

[chelseaarocks]

this is amazing live

[transformers07fan]

I agree. I just saw the show last night down in appleton and it was amazing! I though Adam and Anthony were the best ones. :) Then again...Mark and Roger are my favorite characters. :)

[iloveanthonyrapp]

man rent makes me feel soo good inside. it makes me feel safe and just really happy. today is halloween.

RIP-ANGEL

[Chuck3791]

Fave song! =D

[HaNnAhBhAm]

omg adam pascals voice...... :O frikin awsome dude

[TheSoulMan8]

I'm playing Benny in our version and I get so confused by this song when I stand around and don't sing anything in the bit when everyone is singing at the same time

[mikokat]

I hate to make you all jealous, but I just got cast as Mark in the School Edition!

[kjag23]

the school edition sucks... But Congrats though!

[LURCHINATOR1]

i was cast as collins in a local stage company. was amazing. u will b sad when the show ends. i was but we doin it again in the capital. amazing. feel sorry for angel tho walkin round in heels.lmao.x

[misterred23]

Lucky

[rentrapp]

absolute favorite song of all time!!!

[tippoff]

One of my favourites :)

[thisishowwelove]

does anybody know what they're saying at the end of the song??? it's so cool how they do the ripple but i wann know what's being said!!! o.O there's something about the rights to remain silent then maureens performing...idk.

[mbgirl05]

there saying snow

adding on to "and it's beginning to...."

[thisishowwelove]

lol. no. i was talkin about the part b4 that. they were all talking at the same time but the person who posted this has a link to the script so i figured it out.

[mikokat]

With all of the singing at the end, this must be the hardest number to sing in the whole show! I wonder how long it took to rehearse this...

[gigametroid99]

When my school did Rent, I wasn't put into Christmas Bells, which annoyed me, since this is one of my favorite Rent songs (besides La Vie Boheme, which I wasn't in, either). So I started sneaking into the scene during the last week of rehearsals, and even the performances. No one noticed that I wasn't supposed to be there.

[chelseaarocks]

i asked the music director at my school if we could do rent and she said that our school district wouldnt allow it. because apparently rent is horrible and too risky to do as a family show.. it makes me so mad

[RENThead91]

I'm in college and I hope that one day that we can do RENT. It'd be great. :) But my one friend told me that her high school was one of the first high school's to do the full version of RENT. She played Joanne and she said it rocked! But maybe you should fight the issue and try to get the school district to allow it.

[chelseaarocks]

really? thats awesome. i really wish they would allow it.. maybe i will try to fight it

[gigametroid99]

That sucks. Well, my school does two plays a year, and we did How the Grinch Stole Christmas earlier that year, so we already had the family show down.

[OnlyHopeProductions]

really?? this was in 1996???? i refuse to believe its adam pascal and the others. but... AHHHHHH!!!! SOMEONE TELL ME WHATS GOING ON!!!! PLEASE!!!! IM CONFUSED!!! DID THEY GET THE ORIGINAL CAST BACK 10 YEARS LATER FOR THE MOVIE?!?!?!??!!!

[DaredToMove]

yes most of the main cast returned for the movie, except joanne and mimi.

[JonathanDPal]

No they didn't

[JonathanDPal]

They got some of them back but not all of them

[ikujameytreekotreeka]

Execpt for Joanne, Mimi, and the extras everyone who is in the movie was in the orignal brodway.

[mikokat]

Yes, they did.

[thisishowwelove]

yes that was really adam pascal.....0.o

[AnotherMaybe321]

the last minute or so is crazy

[CoconutHorse]

I get chills! Everyone rocks in this song. I love Angel.

[midge002]

one of the best songs in rent

[chelseaarocks]

this is one of my favorite songs from the whole movie. it is genius and it is ttly rent. this cast is amazing.. my new favorite christmas song =]

[chelseaarocks]

lol sorry i mean the whole play =]

[flirtyfarie99]

Ditto!

[TheHannahCity]

she said "would you light my candle?" and she put on a pout and she wanted you to take her out tonight. she was more then okay but i pushed her away, it was bad i got mad and i had to get her out of my sight :)

[CardinalWinter]

"That's Mimi" "Woah!!" lol

[tinngrinn]

The sqeegie guy doesn't sound like he has very much energy...

I like the one filmed live on Broadway better. (The squeegie guy, I mean)

Other than that, my favorite version of the song! <3

[lilmia15xox]

I love this song! I love the different groups of harmonies. I wish my school could perform this, it'd be so cool! :D ♥ "And it's beginning to snow!"

[horatiowack]

Adam Pascal and Jesse L Martin allllways give me goose bumps no matter what they're singing.

[thoamsxxman]

I so want to do this for a group competition thing, but it's too long T.T

[FizzyDotsYo]

AndIt'sBeginningToSnow is my pen name on fanfiction that's how much I fricken love this song! It's so awesome! I saw this live in June...I got Adam, Anthony, and Telly's autographs!!!

[LeaderSonozakiMion]

I typed in Angel at the ATM in the food emporium once... It didnt work?

[BroadwayBabe18360]

@LeaderSonozakiMion

That's weird. I'm now a millionaire.

[tallperson605]

@LeaderSonozakiMion Guess it was the wrong one :(

better luck next time

[iCarlll]

AMAZING SONG. WORKED SO WELL.

[311Bass]

Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living Honest living

[jokerboy54]

my favorite line in the whole song. lol :D

[Temarisboy]

Can't you spare a dime or two?

[ryuho666]

I'm in this now, and this song is the hardest! But AMAZING! I love it

[Nejitard2]

Cool! i'm in my school's production of RENT! I'm playing Maureen!

[Itsnotfair]

me too! lol

[cookiemonster10493]

:D Amazing.

[rentwickedchick]

i know, right!>!

[rentwickedchick]

I love this song!! Has anyone seen the broadway show? at 'rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,' the guy flips everyone off- so funny! I just saw the play about a week ago! i hugged the girl who played maureen (not idina- i'd have fainted!) and everything! How hott is adam pascal?!?

[domellcun]

Yeah...LOL at "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer" the guy sticked both of his middle fingers to symbolize Rudolph's antlers..haha..its hilarious!

[rentwickedchick]

sticked?

[iTsKaYLuhh]

hahaha i <3 the part! and adam is beond hot....

there is not a word on this universe to describe how hot he is

[rentwickedchick]

OMG! I know right? i'm going to look in a thesaurus... nothing

[calliesaiyan]

AMEN his voice is sexy hjeavenly. <3 i wish they had kept this part in the movie.

[renrocksdaworld]

I know me too, this is one of my favorite songs D:

[rentwickedchick]

My obsession at the moment :)

[iTsKaYLuhh]

mine too

except ive seen the broadway show 12 times and i will be seeign the tour 4 times : ]

obsessions rock

[rentwickedchick]

holy crap! where do you get the cash to see it so many times???

[iTsKaYLuhh]

you have no idea!

[PessimisticOptimist2]

d'ya get the money at the Food Empourium from typing ANGEL into the ATM machienes? hehe

[Nejitard2]

That's how I get my money. It's how every RENThead gets their cash.

By the way, love your username.

[PessimisticOptimist2]

thank you :]

[iTsKaYLuhh]

omg! you discovered my secret!! lol

ive been to the Food Empourium though and the life cafe and the moondance cafe :-)

[esmetyler1]

'Joanne, which way to the stage!?'

:)

[CreamboatCreations]

/ ▌\

/ \ ☻ Bob is dead and I killed him, you're welcome

[cookiemonster10493]

so amazing. :)

[TheHarlequinHeroine]

This officially became my Christmas carol the first time I heard it. I think I might go carolling and sing them this wonderful song. Jonathan did an amazing job with the whole show, I wish I had talent like his!

[shadowkid379]

"CHRISTMAS BELLS ARE RINGING! on tv"