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
― liljon /bia/ bia (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
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
― les rallizes miserables (get bent), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
omg gb they are beautiful
could never get tired of that!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
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 Mountain3 Scala & Kolacny Brothers – Wintersong4 Sufjan Stevens – Sleigh Ride5 Kate Risby – The Holly and the Ivy6 The Roches – Good King Wenceslas7 Harvey Arlene Band – Lets Get It Together This Christmas8 Tracey Thorn – Maybe This Christmas9 The Temptations – Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer10 Calexico – Green Grows the Holly11 The Youngsters – Christmas in Jail12 Punch Brothers – O Come, O Come Emmanuel13 The Chesterfield Kings – Hey Santa Claus14 Scritti Politti – Snow in Sun15 Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler – Marshmallow World16 Jimmy Smith – Jingle Bells17 Saint Etienne – 21st Century Christmas18 Irma Thomas – May Every Day Be Christmas19 Ernest Tubb – Merry Texas Christmas You All20 Little Joey Farr – Rock’n’Roll Santa21 Pet Shop Boys – It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas22 Keith Richards – Run Rudolph Run23 Detroit Junior – Christmas Day24 Mariene Paul – I Wanna Spend Christmas With Elvis25 Andrew Bird – Auld Lang Syne26 Miss Frances – ’Twas the Night Before Christmas (Part Two)
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
5 Should be Kate Rusby
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
Ok, just finished brewing up this year's batch:
Oscar the Grouch - I Hate ChristmasCelia Cruz & La Sonora Matancera - Jingle BellsLou Rawls - Good Time ChristmasMistletoe Disco Band - Silver BellsJohn Zorn - Winter WonderlandMan or Astroman? - Frosty the SnowmanHuey 'Piano' Smith and the Clowns - White Christmas BluesMichigan and Smiley - Drummer BoyStormy Weather - Christmas Time is ComingLou Levy - Jingle Bell Rock/Deck the HallsCordell Jackson - Rock and Roll ChristmasBobbie Boyle - Santa Claus Goes ModernPee Pee Dynamite - A Groovy Christmas and a Happy New YearThe Galaxies - Christmas EveShonen Knife - Sweet ChristmasAl Hirt - Santa Claus is Coming to TownRed Simpson - Truckin' Trees for ChristmasNina - 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 ChristmasGruff Rhys - Post Apocalypse ChristmasMomoiro Clover Z - Santa SanThe National Jazz Orchestra of Scotland - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Monday, 3 December 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
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 ....
― mark e, Monday, 3 December 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
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?)
― Shane Richie Junior (Merdeyeux), Monday, 3 December 2012 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
Eh yeah it's the Bill Wells "trio", oops. They just put out a Christmas album!
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Monday, 3 December 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
today i introduced myself to Leontyne Price. so pretty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1memQ3H7Fc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
search: leontyne price doing "we three kings of orient are"
― les rallizes miserables (get bent), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
in fact, here it is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WhAQ1ckQEI
― les rallizes miserables (get bent), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
oh wow, beautiful
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
shameless self/friends promotion, this comp is great:
http://sartorialrecords.greedbag.com/buy/all-ready-for-the-25th/
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
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!
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!
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 December 2012 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― billstevejim, Monday, 17 December 2012 06:43 (eleven years ago) link
"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
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Friday, 21 December 2012 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Shane Richie Junior (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
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 ?
― mark e, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
Merry Christmas, folks!
I put my mix up on Mixcloud: http://www.mixcloud.com/ialadnaes/christmas-2012/
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
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
― gimme some reggae! (get bent), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
definitely too early to start with this, but it has happened.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 11 November 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
I had a blast of it the other week.
― famous for hits! (seandalai), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
i have been secretly listening to the christmas fm station
i know it's too early but :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 03:40 (ten years ago) link
Happened today for me, on the radio...I actually started, secretly, three weeks ago. Here and there. No playlists.
― *tera, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 03:51 (ten years ago) link
:)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 03:54 (ten years ago) link
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.
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link
Christmas music can kiss my ass
― paolo, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 10:34 (ten years ago) link
In a Bleak Hindquarter
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 12:59 (ten years ago) link
just the traffic passing by for this bloke...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHFdYYIaEIc
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
Christmas music is hard.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
Tom Lehrer not mentioned once in this thread
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
"Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" is more of an Easter song, really.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
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/504675http://www.discogs.com/Various-Santa-Claus-Comes-Oscars-X-Mas-Carols-1985/release/794802http://www.discogs.com/Various-Is-That-You-Santa-Claus-Oscars-X-Mas-Carols-Vol-3/release/793284
― famous for hits! (seandalai), Thursday, 28 November 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
yesssss minimal wave christmashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJvU0ub2fVg
― famous for hits! (seandalai), Thursday, 28 November 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
John Zorn's A Dreamers Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Mtoqt92Ek
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 28 November 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 December 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
the new xmas album by the polyphonic spree is just gorgeous.
― mark e, Monday, 23 December 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
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
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 03:13 (ten years ago) link
not so hot on the polyphonic spree album tbh
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 03:14 (ten years ago) link
This year's Christmas mix:
Batman - Christmas Carol CaperElectric Jungle - Funky Funky ChristmasBanda Jaripera - Otra Vez NavidadThe Klezmonauts - Joy To The WorldKay Martin and Her Body Guards - I Know What You Want For ChristmasJoe Gibbs - Let X-Mas Catch You In A Good MoodThe Trashmen - Dancin' With Santa ClausLittle Eva and Big Dee Erwin - I Wish You A Merry ChristmasLord Nelson - Party For Santa ClausPastor TL Barrett and The Youth For Christ Choir - Jingle Bells (Part 1)Bert Jansch - Mary and JosephMargo Guryan - I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without YouMarlene Paul - I Wanna Spend Christmas With ElvisColdcut - Coldcut's Christmas BreakLynne Richards - Christmas In IrelandThe Soulful Strings - Sleigh RideMagic In Threes - We Three KingsNazir Ali, Nahid Akhtar and Mehnaz - Happy ChrismisMargie Joseph - Christmas GiftChucho Avellanet - Winter WonderlandJimmy Smith - God Rest Ye Merry GentlemenX Ray Pop - Fuzzy ChristmasThe Everly Brothers - Christmas Eve Can Kill YouMista E - Mista E Says Merr(e) Xmas And A Happ(e) New Year
http://www.mixcloud.com/ialadnaes/christmas-2013/
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 23:46 (ten years ago) link
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
― anky, Wednesday, 25 December 2013 03:04 (ten years ago) link
ANYBODY ELSE GETTING EXCITED ABOUT CHRISTMAS YET? JUST ME? whereas normal people are probably thinking of how their 2014 Top 10's are looking (well, normal music nerds), I am busy beefing up my Christmas song collection. For one, I love Christmas music, and two, my local newspaper here in Texas has a Christmas playlist competition I am yet to win, despite my pandering with the odd terrible Fabulous Thunderbirds track. Anyway, I'm kind of treating this guy's WFMU playlists like the Stranded discography or something. http://thehoundblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/x-mas-part-one.html
This year I will win!
― campreverb, Thursday, 21 August 2014 13:08 (nine years ago) link
I am always excited about Christmas! There's a lot of good stuff in that list. What's the competition about?
― slip jig (seandalai), Thursday, 21 August 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Or rather, how does it work?
― slip jig (seandalai), Thursday, 21 August 2014 14:04 (nine years ago) link
the local newspaper here has a best Christmas playlist contest, judged by the staff on criteria like sequencing and originality. I guess.
here's the last one, they are a bit intermittent about it: http://www.austin360.com/news/entertainment/music/holiday-playlist-contest-2012-we-have-winners/nTXJg/
― campreverb, Thursday, 21 August 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link