C/D: Christmas music

I'm already kind of burned out on Christmas music, been listening to it all month to prepare the annual mix CD.

i only just started, with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBMzGq1vhs

Yeah, that's a good one!

today's discovery: The Mills Brothers

awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWPQcWKWw84

i only just started, with this:

http://www.youtube.com/v/EDBMzGq1vhs&fs=1&hl=en

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, November 27, 2012 3:45 PM (Yesterday)

aw man this kicks ass

i'm sick of xmas music but i'm excited about the music my group is doing for our xmas concerts. i bet you're not sick of howells' "a spotless rose" yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8nlryCOomI

or "adam lay ybounden":

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

omg gb they are beautiful

could never get tired of that!

Breaking the sanctity of the thread somewhat, this is going on the compilation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYe7F59xiVE

As is this disco sensation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otPK3m3s04A

This year's family Christmas CD consists of …

1 Miss Frances – ’Twas the Night Before Christmas (Part One)
2 Mahalia Jackson - Go Tell It on the Mountain
3 Scala & Kolacny Brothers – Wintersong
4 Sufjan Stevens – Sleigh Ride
5 Kate Risby – The Holly and the Ivy
6 The Roches – Good King Wenceslas
7 Harvey Arlene Band – Lets Get It Together This Christmas
8 Tracey Thorn – Maybe This Christmas
9 The Temptations – Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
10 Calexico – Green Grows the Holly
11 The Youngsters – Christmas in Jail
12 Punch Brothers – O Come, O Come Emmanuel
13 The Chesterfield Kings – Hey Santa Claus
14 Scritti Politti – Snow in Sun
15 Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler – Marshmallow World
16 Jimmy Smith – Jingle Bells
17 Saint Etienne – 21st Century Christmas
18 Irma Thomas – May Every Day Be Christmas
19 Ernest Tubb – Merry Texas Christmas You All
20 Little Joey Farr – Rock’n’Roll Santa
21 Pet Shop Boys – It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas
22 Keith Richards – Run Rudolph Run
23 Detroit Junior – Christmas Day
24 Mariene Paul – I Wanna Spend Christmas With Elvis
25 Andrew Bird – Auld Lang Syne
26 Miss Frances – ’Twas the Night Before Christmas (Part Two)

5 Should be Kate Rusby

Ok, just finished brewing up this year's batch:

Oscar the Grouch - I Hate Christmas
Celia Cruz & La Sonora Matancera - Jingle Bells
Lou Rawls - Good Time Christmas
Mistletoe Disco Band - Silver Bells
John Zorn - Winter Wonderland
Man or Astroman? - Frosty the Snowman
Huey 'Piano' Smith and the Clowns - White Christmas Blues
Michigan and Smiley - Drummer Boy
Stormy Weather - Christmas Time is Coming
Lou Levy - Jingle Bell Rock/Deck the Halls
Cordell Jackson - Rock and Roll Christmas
Bobbie Boyle - Santa Claus Goes Modern
Pee Pee Dynamite - A Groovy Christmas and a Happy New Year
The Galaxies - Christmas Eve
Shonen Knife - Sweet Christmas
Al Hirt - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Red Simpson - Truckin' Trees for Christmas
Nina - Do You Know how Christmas Trees are Grown?
The Young Tradition with Shirley and Dolly Collins - Is it Far to Bethlehem?
The Stridells - I Remember Christmas
Gruff Rhys - Post Apocalypse Christmas
Momoiro Clover Z - Santa San
The National Jazz Orchestra of Scotland - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Lou Rawls - Good Time Christmas

i should think so.
this is my all time fave xmas track.
dug out the album earlier today just so i can play this ....

The National Jazz Orchestra of Scotland - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

is this the, erm, actual National Jazz Orchestra of Scotland, or is it an iteration of Bill Wells' National Jazz Trio of Scotland? (If the latter, what release is it on?)

Eh yeah it's the Bill Wells "trio", oops. They just put out a Christmas album!

today i introduced myself to Leontyne Price. so pretty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1memQ3H7Fc

also Jussi Bjorling! O Holy Night in swedish, incredible tenor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nrDfqoYzNo

dunno was just feeling kinda opera-y today

search: leontyne price doing "we three kings of orient are"

in fact, here it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WhAQ1ckQEI

oh wow, beautiful

shameless self/friends promotion, this comp is great:

http://sartorialrecords.greedbag.com/buy/all-ready-for-the-25th/

This is not as great as its writeup, but it's still fun:

Finders Keepers sister label Cache Cache and X-Ray Pop's Doc Pilot inaugurate an ongoing collaboration to plunder the hidden depths of one of the most original and productive independent groups of the French DIY domestic synth pop/pocket punk funk/homemade tape scene with this cut AND paste Christmas cartridge of well loved and unknown festive interference spanning the first 20 years of the groups self-propelled anti-career. With a consistent omnipresence on European tape co-ops through the 80s and early 90s this troupe of battery operated cabaret cosmonauts combine duel French femme vox with alternating dreamy metronomic private pop or erratic pulsating cosmic rock via their Casio-to-cassette production line. A standout track on the lauded rare alternative funk compilation and sited as a closely guarded influence for the well informed X-Ray Pop are a group who are easy to scratch the surface but almost impossible to get the bottom of, with a warren of unexplored passages they truly are a band with musical gift that keeps on giving!

Precariously bridging gaps between Fontaine, Robeiro, Sunforest, Cluster, ESG, Williams and Currie, The Plastics, Weekend, Stereolab and faithful generations of adventurous continental Walkmans, this group sends a 9v current from Elli and Jacno to Elly and Rikkert and, if at all possible, provides pop punks equivalent of Vera Chytilova’s Daisies, maybe... Joyeux Noël!

I heard this for the first time tonight and teared up...unaccompanied makes it v haunting and tender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjlck_QX4Z8

Mall-store muzak was playing "Now That's What I Call Today's Christmas" earlier today. I was so miserable the entire time I was there. Serious-ass "destroy."

"Are there any K-Pop Christmas songs?" I wondered. Of course there are - most of what I've found are insipid, but this is cute and nuts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rET24WLL89Y

The National Jazz Trio of Scotland - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

yeah this is really good! i saw them at cafe oto and as much as i like bill wells in general i wasn't 100% convinced by their takes on the christmas traditionals, but now that i have the recordings i'm coming around to them.

also as it's past uk midnight, merry christmas!

indeed merdy, backatcha, enjoy the seasonal excess !

so, am i the only person who likes the tim wheeler/emmy the great crimbo album ?

Merry Christmas, folks!

I put my mix up on Mixcloud: http://www.mixcloud.com/ialadnaes/christmas-2012/

my choir director sent us youtubes of poulenc's four christmas motets. so beautiful.

here's videntes stellam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy1PTnYnRMM

definitely too early to start with this, but it has happened.

I had a blast of it the other week.

i have been secretly listening to the christmas fm station

i know it's too early but :D

Happened today for me, on the radio...I actually started, secretly, three weeks ago. Here and there. No playlists.

:)

Had my first encounter with Xmas music of 2013 tonight while shopping in a bookstore that had some horrible version of "Marshmallow World" playing over their speaker.

Christmas music can kiss my ass

In a Bleak Hindquarter

just the traffic passing by for this bloke...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHFdYYIaEIc

Christmas music is hard.

Tom Lehrer not mentioned once in this thread

"Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" is more of an Easter song, really.

Does anyone know about 80s Benelux electronic/industrial/ambient comps "Oscar's X-Mas Songs"?

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Oscars-X-mas-Carols-1984/release/504675
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Santa-Claus-Comes-Oscars-X-Mas-Carols-1985/release/794802
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Is-That-You-Santa-Claus-Oscars-X-Mas-Carols-Vol-3/release/793284

yesssss minimal wave christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJvU0ub2fVg

John Zorn's A Dreamers Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Mtoqt92Ek

my current favorite christmas albums:
-Louvin Brothers Christmas
-Ser Christemas - The Elizabethan Singers (Louis Halsey conductor)
really feeling trad carols at the moment

also finally was introduced to Aimee Mann's Christmas album and I looooooooove it

the new xmas album by the polyphonic spree is just gorgeous.

Christmas merengue/bachata/cumbia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOddkg4YhRQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trX--P5cSoA

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

not so hot on the polyphonic spree album tbh

This year's Christmas mix:

Batman - Christmas Carol Caper
Electric Jungle - Funky Funky Christmas
Banda Jaripera - Otra Vez Navidad
The Klezmonauts - Joy To The World
Kay Martin and Her Body Guards - I Know What You Want For Christmas
Joe Gibbs - Let X-Mas Catch You In A Good Mood
The Trashmen - Dancin' With Santa Claus
Little Eva and Big Dee Erwin - I Wish You A Merry Christmas
Lord Nelson - Party For Santa Claus
Pastor TL Barrett and The Youth For Christ Choir - Jingle Bells (Part 1)
Bert Jansch - Mary and Joseph
Margo Guryan - I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
Marlene Paul - I Wanna Spend Christmas With Elvis
Coldcut - Coldcut's Christmas Break
Lynne Richards - Christmas In Ireland
The Soulful Strings - Sleigh Ride
Magic In Threes - We Three Kings
Nazir Ali, Nahid Akhtar and Mehnaz - Happy Chrismis
Margie Joseph - Christmas Gift
Chucho Avellanet - Winter Wonderland
Jimmy Smith - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
X Ray Pop - Fuzzy Christmas
The Everly Brothers - Christmas Eve Can Kill You
Mista E - Mista E Says Merr(e) Xmas And A Happ(e) New Year

http://www.mixcloud.com/ialadnaes/christmas-2013/

ilxor mackro alerted me to wprb, playing 25 straight hours of christmas punk rock and hiphop and weirdness. in hour 6 or 7 right now