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
Also it has come to my attention that I love descant
What a spectacular compositional device. I wish they existed outside of carols and hymns, just a beautiful concept
― blurbing about music in architecture magazines (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 23 December 2023 22:47 (five months ago) link
mr veg got me the 1995 Luther Vandross christmas album <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 December 2023 23:01 (five months ago) link
Lawrence is an unlikely source of Christmas songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAD0Q2h6lkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbF5cDppz-4
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 December 2023 23:07 (five months ago) link
Indeed
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 December 2023 23:40 (five months ago) link
Prince's Another Lonely Christmas sounding like a sex jam instead of a carol is A+
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 24 December 2023 23:04 (five months ago) link
fyi we are 75 minutes into jon solomon's 35th annual 25-hour christmas marathon on WPRB princeton: https://marathon.christmas
i worked in retail for much too long, so this is literally the only xmas music i now listen to
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 December 2023 23:18 (five months ago) link
Holiday Rarities: Bing still chasing that White Christmas lightning, ditto Ella, Dinah, Louis Prima, Jo Stafford, June Christy, Julie London, Lambert Henricks & Ross (Jl and LHR my faves so far). Some of this is Seasonal, not strictly Xmas, which helps, as does lack of familiarity.https://indianapublicmedia.org/afterglow/holiday-rarities.php
― dow, Sunday, 24 December 2023 23:27 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gy6WyZQBtI
― mookieproof, Monday, 25 December 2023 00:34 (five months ago) link
The WPRB marathon is the best! I submitted my Mortal Khristmas track last year and he played it <3
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 25 December 2023 01:02 (five months ago) link
(this track)https://soundcloud.com/found-river/lords-of-yuletide-reindeer-syndrome-mortal-khristmas
nice!
― mookieproof, Monday, 25 December 2023 01:21 (five months ago) link
Strolled candy cane lane 2nite listening to Duke Pearson's classic xmas album on Blue Note, Merry Ole Soul.
― omar little, Monday, 25 December 2023 03:05 (five months ago) link
Every year, the night before Christmas, at peak manic-children sugar rush, I terrorize the family with "Santa's Coming Over" by Low.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 25 December 2023 04:04 (five months ago) link
2 EPs/mini-albums that I formed attachments to over consecutive pandemic xmases that was way of propition to their real but slight merits - last year I was played them both constantly as chill out music in between the EPs/albums/mixes/whatever from bree runway, raye and shygirl (all nov 2020 and all still miraculous pieces of work, among the best UK pop of the millennium) so I definitely overrated them by association but they're still among the more bearable xmas music I've heard (towards the R&B side of "Traditional")now I have covid again so I'm bringing it all back
tinashe's comfort & joy EP - it's fine, often good, the arrangement I'm not sure the trap beat always works but I'll take it over sleigh bells and she sounds great as usual
kadhja bonet's california holiday EP - this is a very nice continuous vibe and in the right set and setting it would be a cool moodsetter. it gets a little wispy towards the end but it never sounds unpleasant even when she's covering my least favourite xmas hit (cutting the sleigh bells and making the synth calm down a little make a world of difference)
in conclusion these EPs are fine and even good a lot of the time but you don't need them
― Left, Monday, 25 December 2023 04:07 (five months ago) link
Last year's best new-to-me Christmas song discovery was "Maybe Next Christmas" by Ron Sexsmith, one of those artists I've long heard good things about but never really checked out, something I need to do if "Next Christmas" is indicative of his work, as that's a great song. This year I heard Tyler Shaw's cover of it on the radio, and see Tracey Thorn and a few others have covered it too. Are there any Christmas songs from the 21st century that are undisputed holiday standards yet? This may become amongst the first.
― Lee626, Monday, 25 December 2023 09:10 (five months ago) link
Guru Guru, "Dagobert Duck's 100th Birthday"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMWWbDIcfR0
(Dagobert Duck is the German name for Scrooge McDuck - though Scrooge is actually mentioned in the lyric)
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Monday, 25 December 2023 11:05 (five months ago) link
I had never heard "December" before, it hasn't been covered much. I'm also not really familiar with Kay Starr and I'm now kinda fascinated with her voice, so win/win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCOHYBPl12k
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:06 (five months ago) link