C/D: Christmas music

Check out "Frohes Fest" by Unheilig. German carols in the style of Laibach or Rammstein, done totally straight and beautifully produced. If that sounds good, you need to download it now! "Kling, Glockchen, Klingelingeling!"

-- Soukesian, Monday, December 24, 2007 9:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

thanx 4 the tip

My Christmas present to yall is this song
Red Red Meat - Welcome Christmas

Also, I like the Yes singer's version of "The Holly and the Ivy" the best. (Jon Anderson)

HMHB own this thread.

I've started listening to Christmas music. Have you? What are the Christmas releases you're looking forward to this year?

Concord has reissued Christmas with Sinatra and Friends and Ray Charles: The Spirit Of Christmas.

A Fine Frenzy (who?) "will be releasing the six-song EP Oh Blue Christmas, available exclusively at Target, Target.com and the Target area on iTunes."

What else?

Wintersong by Sarah McLachlan is a gorgeous collection of Christmas songs.

Playlist
Sufjan Stevens - Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!
Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
Paul McCartney- Wonderful Christmas Time
Mariah Carey- All I Want for Christmas Is You
Slade - Merry Xmas Everyboy
Sufjan Stevens - Put the Lights on the Tree
Elton John - Step Into Christmas
John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over)
The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song
Ron Sexsmith - Maybe This Christma
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas
Shakin Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

Eels - Christmas is Going to the Dogs
Dean Martin - Let it Snow! x3
Sufjan Stevens - Amazing Grace
Bright Eyes - Away in a Manger
Mike Oldfield -In Dulee Jubilo
Bob Dylan - Little Drummer Boy
Diana Krall -Winter Wonderland
Frank Sinatra - The First Noel
Sufjan Stevens - O Come O Come Emmanuel
Bright Eyes - Blue Christmas
Frank Sinatra - Hard! The Herald Angles Sing
Sufjan Stevens - The First Noel
Mud - Lonely This Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbMYyU3lPi8

jeez leave it till December YOU'RE RUINING IT FOR EVERYONE.

No mention of Kurtis Blow yet?

Thread bumped because it was a long car ride home with half the radio stations now switched over to full-time Christmas music.

None of which played "Christmas Rappin"

Josh L, mediafire your playlist pretty please with Xmas sugar on top.

Last couple Christmases, selections from Amahl and the Night Visitors was really doing it for me.

Could somebody maybe share with me the Sonic Boom "Old Toy Trains" cover and the ZE Records comp?

Wait, nevermind, I found the Sonic Boom track (which was released as Dean & Britta f/ Sonic Boom, apparently).

You haven't lived until you've heard Cher and Rosie O'Donnell's "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" with Rosie's vocals autotuned or whatever that thing was on Cher's voice in "Believe":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhNs42nhkhA

It's either Vince Guaraldi, Slade, the new Dylan for lols, or nuthin

Has anybody ever heard the Rotary Connection Christmas album? I picked it up for a buck over the weekend, but haven't listened to it. (Just not in the mood yet.)

Lou Rawls

http://felt.planetaclix.pt/Related/images/denimaster.jpg

Low's Christmas album, right this second. It's starting to achieve Guaraldi stature for me after a decade's worth of playing it.

Recently got the 2-on-1 John Fahey's k-klassik Xmas alb's. the 1968 solo & the 1975 (mostly) duo's with Richard Ruskin. Waaaaay cool yule tunes.

Ingo Star Cruiser's cover of Low's Just Like Christmas, more ramshackle and even christmassy than the original.

Just made this, anyone want a copy?

01 The Dandy Warhols - Little Drummer Boy
02 Cristina - Things Fall Apart
03 Cocteau Twins - Frosty The Snowman
04 Low - Just Like Christmas
05 Dean & Britta with Sonic Boom - Old Toy Trains
06 The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York
07 Saint Etienne - I Was Born on Christmas Day
08 XTC - Countdown to Christmas Party Time
09 TLC - Sleigh Ride
10 The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
11 Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
12 Sonics - Santa Clause
13 The Raveonettes - Come On Santa
14 Six By Seven - I Believe In Father Christmas
15 Teenage Fanclub - Christmas Eve
16 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You
17 Fear - Fuck Christmas
18 The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
19 The Vandals - Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies.
20 Lisi - My Silent Night
21 Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin'
22 Alan Vega - No More Christmas Blue
23 Prince - Another Lonely Christmas

Um, yes! You know where to find me.

Yes please. Does anyone have the playlist for the one spencer chow did a few years back, I still have all the tunes but not the order.

*ssssshhhh!!! http://www.sendspace.com/file/10legh *

'Last Christmas' has been owning me pretty hard

No love for the Carpenters' Christmas Portrait? Maybe it's just because I grew up on it, but it's the warmest and homey-est feeling Christmas album I know of. If, y'know, that's your thing.

Usually can't stand Bob Dylan, but video and song here is pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVs6X9yIM_k

yes the new Dylan Xmas in the Heart is astounding and an instant holiday classic.

just remembered, Type O Negative - Red Water (Christmas Mourning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9kKA698_WE

I'm looking for good recommendations for any Christmas or holiday music that falls under the category of noise, metal, experimental, or hiphop..

I just heard King Diamond's "No Presents For Christmas" for the first time which is some major LMAO action..

And I heard a few tracks off 2 Live Crew's xmas album a few days ago which sounds surprisingly awesome.

Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin" is the be all and end all of Christmas hip-hop imo.

Oops, already said that on this thread less than a month ago.

this, douglas leedy's electronic christmas, is moogtastic.

http://christmasyuleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/douglas-leedy-very-merry-electric.html

loscil's take on xmas ...

http://loscil.ca/blog/?p=146

I still stand by my Xmas comp...

http://www.quartzcity.net/wp-content/uploads/blogpicts/christmas_cookie_crumbs.jpg

CD 1:
XTC – “Psychedelic Christmas”
The cast of Twin Peaks – “The Twelve Days Of Christmas”
Patsy Raye – “Beatnik’s Wish”
The Ravers – “Punk Rock Christmas”
Tuscadero – “Holidays R Hell”
Dead Moon – “Christmas Rush”
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – “Big Yule Log Boogie”
Shitbirds – “Christmas Is A Comin’ (May God Bless You)”
The Chills – “Christmas Chimes”
The Wombles – “Wombling Merry Christmas”
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – “Fat Christmas”
Sparks – “Thank God It’s Not Christmas”
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – “There’s No Lights On the Christmas Tree Mother, They’re Burning Big Louie Tonight”
Mystery Science Theater 3000 – “(Let’s Have) A Patrick Swayze Christmas”
John Baker – “Christmas Commercial”
Man Or Astroman? – “Frosty The Snowman”
The Moog Machine – “O Holy Night”
August Darnell – “Christmas On Riverside Drive”
Hypnobeat – “Jingle Club”
The Raveonettes – “The Christmas Song”
The Walkmen – “Christmas Party”
Martin Mull – “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope”
Patty Duke and Norman Vincent Peale – “You Can Keep Christmas”
Half Man Half Biscuit – “All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit”

CD2
Six Million Dollar Man – “Christmas Lights”
The Flaming Lips – “Christmas At The Zoo”
Madness – “Inanity Over Christmas”
Mark Mothersbaugh – “Rudolph The Space Deer”
The Go Go’s – “I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek”
Fountains Of Wayne – “I Want An Alien For Christmas”
Patty Marie Jay – “Space Age Santa Claus”
Pink Floyd – “Merry Xmas Song”
The Dickies – “Silent Night”
Grandaddy – “Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland”
Katie’s Kitchen – “Cooking A Delicious Holiday Ring Mold”
James Brown – “Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto”
Saint Etienne – “I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You”
Giant Sand – “Thank You Dreaded Black Ice, Thank You”
Thin White Rope – “Christmas Skies”
Calexico – “Gift X-change”
Martin Mull – “Santafly”
Bad News – “Cashing In On Christmas”
unknown – “Rocking Disco Santa”
Steve Martin & Paul Simon – “Silver Bells”
Sally Kellerman – “O Little Town Of Bethlehem”
Spectrum – “Santa Claus”
Assistant Manager of the Haybridge – “Merry Christmas”

A compilation of Saint Etienne's Xmas releases was supposed to happen, wasn't it?

my private christmas song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcfuPyjlxQk

Just posted elsewhere, fwiw:

Best Thing I Heard Today: Brenda Lee doing Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

And has anybody heard this? It's in our rotation and is surprisingly, non-ironically good. Though some of it is dumb.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q4R71N1NL._SS500_.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEvGKUXW0iI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlJYPZ0UwC0

I'm an oldie but still find Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" the best xmas song ever

so glad this became a standard

Such weird drumming on the bridge parts

hi everyone

the temptation's version of rudolph the red-nosed reindeer is unfuckwithable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aECuU_RN6Aw

Plenty of good stuff on this thread, but this my favourite. Amazed it's not more widely known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDXZsydJU2c

The second best thing Jordy did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_c9GrZQk8

That Jordy song is ace!
I've spent the last month listening to Christmas songs non-stop in order to compile my seasonal mix CDs. Each year it gets harder to find great songs I haven't used before, but it's lots of fun.

This was last year's edition:

Rev. J.M. Gates - Did You Spend Christmas Day In Jail?
Curtis Blow - Christmas Rappin'
Bessie Smith - At The Christmas Ball
King Stitt - Christmas Tree
Can - Silent Night
Marvin Gaye - Purple Snowflakes
Unknown Artist - God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
Low - Just Like Christmas
The Maytals - Happy Christmas (The Christmas Song)
The Beach Boys - Melekalikimaka
Lord Executor - Christmas Is A Joyful Day
Ventures - Jingle Bell Rock
Rufus Thomas - I'll Be Your Santa, Baby
James Brown - Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto
Belle & Sebastian - The Twelve Days Of Christmas
The Free Design - Close Your Mouth It's Christmas
Kingston Trio - We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Shirley Collins & Davy Graham - The Cherry Tree Carol
Cocteau Twins - Frosty The Snowman
Asobi Seksu - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
AKIM & The Teddy Vann Production Company - Santa Claus is a Black Man
Jean-Pierre Massiera - Bonne Année 1969
Wooden Shjips - Auld Lang Syne

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/

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

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

mr veg got me the 1995 Luther Vandross christmas album <3

Lawrence is an unlikely source of Christmas songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAD0Q2h6lkU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbF5cDppz-4

Indeed

Prince's Another Lonely Christmas sounding like a sex jam instead of a carol is A+

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gy6WyZQBtI

The WPRB marathon is the best! I submitted my Mortal Khristmas track last year and he played it <3

(this track)
https://soundcloud.com/found-river/lords-of-yuletide-reindeer-syndrome-mortal-khristmas

nice!

Strolled candy cane lane 2nite listening to Duke Pearson's classic xmas album on Blue Note, Merry Ole Soul.

Every year, the night before Christmas, at peak manic-children sugar rush, I terrorize the family with "Santa's Coming Over" by Low.

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

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.

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)

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