http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oo0O0PqndDs/SSTNoM7tLWI/AAAAAAAAAME/-tuAFKZLt48/s400/AK+Spend+the+Holidays+-+Cover.JPG
― andrew m., Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
A perennial favorite:http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/t/the-roches/album-we-three-kings.jpg
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR07r0ZMFb8
― The Hood Won't Jump (Eazy), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Gmg0cBzfziY/ST8gZQ1UN3I/AAAAAAAAAXo/rYyK3H26p5A/s320/chris_isaak_christmas_front.jpg
― The Hood Won't Jump (Eazy), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Not instrumental, but has 3 stone cold Christmas classics.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GQtuh1Q_luQ/SN1hyd_O1CI/AAAAAAAADR0/5AAPczO-bz0/s400/VA+-+ZE+Xmas+-.jpg
― Bing Crosby, are you listening? (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/xmaswynton.jpg
i make time for wynton
― lakerfuffle roffle (tremendoid), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Bob Dylan Xmas album obviously
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.deplicque.net/fatcity/fatcity_img/KennyBurrellChristmas.jpg
― we come for space reasons (tremendoid), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/61oVgT7Q2ML.jpg
his silver bells do it for me
― we come for space reasons (tremendoid), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://sister.co.jp/myspace/PettyBooka-bnr-400x240.gifhttp://prod-assets.mog.com/amg/pop/cov200/drg100/g100/g10063er0ap.jpgalltime favorite version of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
guys this is good--i'm gonna check someof these out.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2008/12/Charlie%20Brown%20Christmas.jpg
http://www16.plala.or.jp/christmas1956/02ch-pops03/2002-phil-spector.jpg
http://www16.plala.or.jp/christmas1956/03ch-soul03/2008-badd-santa.jpg
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 December 2009 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I've only heard a few songs from this, but it seems good so far.. Today's indie fans years from now will likely consider it classic.
http://static.boomkat.com/images/169500/333.jpg
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 December 2009 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Two all-time favorites:
http://www.great-songs-of-christmas.com/discountxmadiscount/thumbpic/wonderfulsongsxmas_simeone142.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uSi5uHbJL._SS500_.jpg
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 27 December 2009 07:49 (fourteen years ago) link
aw man i just heard their 'carol of the bells' on christmas day, been soulseeking it since
― we come for space reasons (tremendoid), Sunday, 27 December 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I have these and am sad to put them away now:
http://z.about.com/d/rap/1/0/P/6/-/-/ChristmasRap.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qfj6el71ckQ/SUyySf_Z87I/AAAAAAAACr4/yH87pNWQfIg/s400/VA+-+Soul+Christmas+(Atco+1968).jpg
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 27 December 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31QJCH0G9AL._SS500_.jpg
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 27 December 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Christmas Rappin' by the Grand Rap Masters
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 28 December 2009 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
bump.
i'm picking up a couple of last year's recs right now. super psyched for the kenny burrell album
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Dylan's was so good.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/66975266_23bc2ae060.jpg
― seandalai, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/ekahob/stamey-xmas-2.jpg
http://www.thedurutticolumn.com/discography/images/ghosts_of_christmas_past_1_350.jpg
not instrumental, though.
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
"Ghosts of Christmas Past" is the least Christmassy Christmas album I have - my girlfriend always tells me to change the music within about five tracks.
― seandalai, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Love this stuff. Old English carols. (There's a whole series of them, and the first one is my favorite, but all I see on Amazon is this compilation.)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61IxJkhO2UL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
"Ghosts of Christmas Past" is the least Christmassy Christmas album I have
that's why i like it!
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Also in the "liable to make your girlfriend mad" category:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I8I0aoeC_eE/TPkLi2gfFVI/AAAAAAAAAJU/A0etaKZBFRI/s320/wassail%2Bback.jpg
― seandalai, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm...that's not so legible where I'm sitting. Read the tracklisting here: http://sonicoysterrecords.blogspot.com/2010/12/corner-of-season.html
― seandalai, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.rnbhaven.com/images/albums/destinys-child-8-days-of-christmas.jpg
best xmas album by a length out of a recent spate of downloads...
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 17 December 2010 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.thrillermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/nat.jpg
― Mark, Friday, 17 December 2010 07:12 (thirteen years ago) link
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 9:53 PM (3 days ago)
I need to buy this. The video for his cover of "Must Be Santa" is totally classic.
― markers, Friday, 17 December 2010 07:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I am more for the Christmas single than the Christmas album. Like to compile different acts doing their act on different Christmas songs, as many originals as possible but then also the occasional trad Christmas song thrown in here and there.
Of course Phil Spector has more or less defined the entire Christmas rock style, so his Christmas album is the one to namecheck if one wants one album from the same source.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 18 December 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/a/andy-williams/album-andy-williams-christmas-album.jpghttp://i19.tinypic.com/6k02q8w.jpg
http://www.sergent.com.au/elvis/Elvis%20Christmas%20Album%20Camden%20LP.jpghttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61xkupO4sxL._SS500_.jpg
― suspecterrain, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
My dad was a huge Herb Alpert/TJB fan. One Christmas, when I was a kid on a limited budget, I bought him this budget soundalike. Playing it became such a family tradition that years later I bought my own:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZjQDK7Ysr8
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
This got played more than any other Xmas record in my house when I was growing up:
http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001385169/jinglebellrock_bobbyhelms097_answer_3_xlarge.jpeg
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone jam anything good this christmas? the kenny burrell album cover image is gone but eternal thanks to whoever recommended that.
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
Lots of good stuff on the Christmas S/D thread. Not what you're asking for but I posted my Christmas mix online.
On topic, these albums all deserve to be here:
http://images.borders.com.au/images/bau/MI000018/MI0000187297/0/0/plain/holly-bears-the-crown.jpghttp://blog.balder.org/billeder-blog/Cartoon-Christmas-Hannukkah-Oy-To-The-World-Klezmer-Christmas.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lygyPzoGWn0/TRAxS4Z9HyI/AAAAAAAABKI/-sXM4maW_u8/s400/cover.JPGhttp://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/001/311/0000131128_500.jpg
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
Today's indie fans years from now will likely consider it classic.holy shit, i know i've written some dumb things on ILX, but got damn yo
― billstevejim, Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
calypso christmas looks p. chill
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Thursday, 27 December 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
love getting this LP out every Christmas:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Nv2UeZNgOCk/Sx7kYbbaKfI/AAAAAAAAAWM/Kys6EHMxP-Y/s320/wintersong_1.jpg
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 27 December 2012 07:53 (eleven years ago) link
bump
up now: Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
too bad about missing images in this thread, I'd love to know what some of those were
― Brad C., Wednesday, 25 December 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
i was looking at this thread a week or two ago....me too :(
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
Staple Singers - The Twenty-Fifth Day of December
― city worker, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
Genuinely like the Jethro Tull Christmas album (playing now). Also Don Ross's, which might appeal to folk guitar brigade: https://donross.bandcamp.com/album/flake-wintertide-bundle. Vince Guaraldi and Bruce Cockburn other favourites around this time.
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
Bad Religion's was better than I expected.
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
that lou rawls album i posted a decade ago (bloody hell), still hits the spot.got an airing yesterday of course.
― mark e, Thursday, 26 December 2019 11:27 (four years ago) link
I like the Lou Rawls record too. This one also gets a lot of play:
https://img.discogs.com/hRMKjhQo4jl1pr0fVwVim2Q2pSI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2400337-1286018075.jpeg.jpg
― daily growing, Thursday, 26 December 2019 11:54 (four years ago) link