Happy Holidays everyone.
(Just posted this on a thread for Nico at ILM, but maybe I should have posted it here?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5WlUKxLKT4
― am.curious.sometimes, Thursday, 25 December 2014 02:19 (nine years ago) link
oh hey I never heard that version before
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
real talk there is no better Christmas song than "Morning Christmas"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of72CQmBKvw
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:24 (nine years ago) link
Fantastic Everlasting Gobstopper - Schoolgirl Psychedelia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah9U5BHoiF4
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:35 (nine years ago) link
that Dennis Wilson song is amazing!
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
The Flirtations - Christmas Time Is Here Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wjchvZMDE
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
Kathy & Carol - Brightest and Best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzQz8nzWs2A
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
Chauntelle DuPree - Walking in the Air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQR0oVYJLPE
I've never even seen The Snowman, but this is beautiful
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Thursday, 25 December 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
I must be the only person I know who does not like Phil Spector's Christmas Album.
Give me Andy Williams and Johnny Mathis any day. They remind me of my grandfather's Oldsmobile and his Benson & Hadges.
― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Thursday, 25 December 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
It is mentioned a few times itt, but I just got Jimmy Smith's Christmas album and highly recommend it. Groovy.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 28 November 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
Off thread topic, but his Dynamic Duo lp with Wes Montgomery is also essential.
― xelab, Saturday, 28 November 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
Actually it contains the seasonal Baby, Its Cold Outside so sort of on topic
― xelab, Saturday, 28 November 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
I bought the Air Supply christmas album for $3. Yet to find out if I overpaid
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 November 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
this thread has reminded me of my own posting re the xmas album by the boy least likely to.had totally forgotten about it.off to go a digging.the tim wheeler/emmy the great xmas album is a lot of fun aswell.that said, my fave, is still the girls aloud mini-lp that came with early editions of 'chemistry'.love that way more than all the over exposed classics.
― mark e, Saturday, 28 November 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
that beach boys song seandalai posted last christmas is fab.
not really into the festive tune spirit yet tho, usually i'm already itching to put together an all-christmas playlist by mid-november :'(
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 10:11 (eight years ago) link
2015 Mix. Take It Russ Clark GriswoldWhat Christmas Means to Me CeeLo GreenMerry Christmas, Baby Beach BoysDear Santa Mr. Little JeansI Was Born On Christmas Day Saint EtienneSanta Claus Is Comin' to Town Lou RawlsRun Run Rudolph Dwight YoakamMust Be Santa Bob DylanMr. & Mrs. Santa Claus George Jones & Tammy WynetteCountdown to Christmas AnchovySilver Bells Raul MaloOnly You (with James Corden) Kylie MinogueSilent Night Nick LoweChristmas (Baby Please Come Home) Darlene LoveMistletoe Justin BieberIt's ChristmasTime Yo La TengoSleigh Ride The Soulful StringsWinter Night Eydie GorméChristmas Time's A Coming Emmylou HarrisLonely Pup (In a Christmas Shop) Adam FaithChristmas Wrapping The WaitressesChristmas Blues Charles Brown with Bill DoggettHang a String of Lights Great Lake SwimmersOnly Dust Behind Allo Darlin'Children Go Where I Send You Nina SimoneChristmas Eve Firefox AK & Tiger Lou
― campreverb, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:27 (eight years ago) link
Los Straitjackets pretty reliably kill it on Christmas tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CFsaNKRTIs
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 23:57 (eight years ago) link
thanks to Stevie D for the XTC 'Countdown To Christmas' recommendation (7 years ago lol) it's amazing.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 12:30 (seven years ago) link
haven't started on this yet
― wanderly braggin' (seandalai), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 12:49 (seven years ago) link
all the talk about the free folk scene a little bit back got me listening to richard youngs' "festival of carols" from '92. pretty good!
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link
see also: https://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Glasgow-Wassail/release/1158092
― wanderly braggin' (seandalai), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
Any "classical" Christmas recommendations?
― djh, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
Annual plug for my big playlist of classic (not classical) but underloved Christmas songs: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/1c1STHtL9vh4ZDHgvwYNoc
― wanderly braggin' (seandalai), Saturday, 10 December 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
Rostam has a pretty nice version of 'Fairytale of New York' on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/album/2mMLPgz8Z83RQ4aDSDHxdNLove to know who is singing with him.
― campreverb, Thursday, 30 November 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
here's this year's rotation. Starting to realize I have a lot of xmas music!
Beatles - Christmas singlesVince Guaraldi - Charlie Brown ChristmasV/A - Ultra Lounge: Christmas CocktailsEnya - Christmas EPV/A - Christmas Gift for You from Philles RecordsCarpenters - Christmas PortraitCarpenters - An Old Fashioned ChristmasV/A - Christmas with the Rat PackTchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite (Karajan, Berlin)Lawrence Welk - Jingle BellsLawrence Welk - Merry ChristmasJackie Gleason Orchestra - Merry ChristmasBing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters - A Merry Christmas WithBeach Boys - Christmas AlbumElvis Presley - various Christmas songsand several random xmas singles (Wham, Queen, Prince, James Brown, Mariah Carey, etc)
― Dominique, Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:38 (six years ago) link
god I can't wait until I don't have to write anything else and can start listening to my Christmas music
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:38 (six years ago) link
girls aloud vs xmas : mini-lp : perfection.
― mark e, Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
oh, as i have said before.sorry.
Only very recently realized how many wonderful Xmas classics came from the Phil Spector album. Dude's a total POS but boy could he make some music.
― Oiled Launch (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 December 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
They've been playing the I Heart Radio Christmas channel at work this week, and I swear it's just a 2 hour mix looped over and over. I mostly can't hear it at my desk, only when I'm walking around, but I'm sure I've heard Bobby Helms "Jingle Bell Rock" and Darlene Love "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" at least 3 times each day.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 15 December 2017 04:21 (six years ago) link
This is the worst Christmas song I've heard in a long while. I heard it in a store and almost had to drop everything and get out of there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSzYapIhhI
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 20 December 2018 08:11 (five years ago) link
This, on the other hand, is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JpKiqublLQ
― groovypanda, Thursday, 20 December 2018 08:31 (five years ago) link
I wish “a Minor Threat Christmas” was a thing
― calstars, Sunday, 23 December 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
skronk Christmas in an Albert Ayler style: https://marswilliams.bandcamp.com/album/mars-williams-presents-an-ayler-xmas-vol-2
― seandalai, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
yeah, was blasting out 16 minute xmas medley off that this morning - very good.
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
Probably not a popular opinion around here, but I picked up Diana Krall’s Christmas Songs in a charity shop, and maybe I’m just a sucker for a contralto voice but I’ve listened to it daily for the last couple weeks.
― Hakuna Mutato (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
A Christmas Gift to You from Phil SpectorThe New Possibility by John FaheyA Charlie Brown ChristmasMerry Christmas Everybody - SladeChristmas in Hollis - Run DMC
― Ae$op Rocky (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 02:44 (five years ago) link
Bleak AF.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQgsiSth0Rk
― I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 02:59 (five years ago) link
Probably not a popular opinion around here, but I picked up Diana Krall’s /Christmas Songs/ in a charity shop, and maybe I’m just a sucker for a contralto voice but I’ve listened to it daily for the last couple weeks.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 02:59 (five years ago) link
Seems like I've heard a couple different covers of William Bell's "Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday" on Holiday Muzaks so far this year, and I am so here for it getting added to the Great Xmas Songbook.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
At a crafts & arts store: an album of acappella + beatboxing songs, featuring a rendition of Cohen's Hallelujah.
― Pataphysician, Thursday, 12 December 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
highly recommend Amanda Shires’ ‘For Christmas’ albummostly original songs ~about~ Christmas that are really good & vibey - and produced without the usual christmassy instruments but still gives a christmas feel warm sound, gorgeous piano in a big roomand a couple xmas standards anyway i love italso Aimee Mann’s ‘Another Drifter In The Snow’ had been a yearly favorite for many years now
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 04:00 (five months ago) link
Didn't know the Aimee Mann one so listened to it this morning and it is indeed very nice so thanks for that
I still prefer Sarah McLachlan's Wintersong though which has something of the same vibe
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 08:40 (five months ago) link
Alela Diane made a really nice one this year-https://open.spotify.com/album/0f65HaoVulkki85T2gTGeJ
― campreverb, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 18:39 (five months ago) link
My winter/Xmas playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1m444tcGkY42aZ2y8Fadmm
(Hood, mum, Stina Nordenstam etc)
― djh, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:32 (five months ago) link
My poll of 50 of my yearly favorites is still active for another few days:Holiday Playlist Favorites!
― Chris L, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:37 (five months ago) link
In a moment of extreme geekiness, I made a playlist that (originally) contained every song mentioned in a Twitter thread in which BBC Radio 3's Elizabeth Alker had asked about people's favourite Xmas/seasonal music. I had the idea that I'd bung everything on Spotify and delete anything I didn't want to hear again ... but, as with many of these things, I ran out of enthusiasm. Here's what's left:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/16lHO2Lh2D6tbFPE1k5IFC
― djh, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:48 (five months ago) link
I intended to immerse myself in Christmas music this year, but have failed so far. The Christmas songs that I like have a tendency to clash against one another, like so many mismatched, tacky ornaments. How do I fit the Ramones next to Neil Diamond next to Alexander O'Neal? I've been struggling through trying to build a playlist for years. I can never seem to make it a listenable journey. How many versions of Have Yourself a Merry Little do I have to sit through before I find the right one? The right one is a Mountain Goats version that JD sang for the Onion AV Club 12 years ago that barely exists online anymore and is definitely not on Spotify - what kind of pale substitute is fucking Frank Sinatra, anyway?
Just call me Scrooge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zELoHtKDp5I
One of my favorite modern Christmas songs is Why Can't It Be Christmastime All Year by Rosie Thomas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYtR-a356Mg
― peace, man, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 20:16 (five months ago) link
there are some great jamaican christmas music mixes around, but I couldn’t find one that was kind of focused on a vintage ‘60s rocksteady sound. so i made this one. threw some ska and mento in for good measure ;)
https://www.mixcloud.com/abschied/christmas-in-jamaica/
― budo jeru, Saturday, 23 December 2023 22:37 (five months ago) link
Two new-to-me Christmas delicious chestnuts I’ve been gifted this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYaB3q_h0ZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orAVtA7mris
― blurbing about music in architecture magazines (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 23 December 2023 22:46 (five months ago) link