C/D: Christmas music

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

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!

I am always excited about Christmas! There's a lot of good stuff in that list. What's the competition about?

Or rather, how does it work?

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/

went christmas music foraging at my used record store & found THIS awesome euro time-life compilation
(I'm not gonna lie, I totally bought it just for Wizzard)

http://hitparade.ch/cdimag/-time_life_the_rock_collection_-_rock_christmas_a.jpg

CD 1:
1. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
2. Elton John - Step Into Christmas
3. The Beach Boys - I'll Be Home For Christmas
4. Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again
5. David Essex - A Winter's Tale
6. Darts - White Christmas
7. Wham! - Last Christmas
8. The Pretenders - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
9. Laura Nyro - Christmas In My Soul
10. Mud - Lonely This Christmas
11. Boney M. - Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord
12. Gary Glitter - Another Rock 'n' Roll Christmas

CD 2:
1. The Jets [UK] - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
2. Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas
3. Squeeze - Christmas Day
4. Shakin' Stevens - Blue Christmas
5. New Kids On The Block - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
6. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
7. Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
8. The Weather Girls - Dear Santa (Bring Me A Man This Christmas)
9. Chris De Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling
10. Greedies - A Merry Jingle
11. Elvis Presley - Santa Claus Is Back In Town
12. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody

http://hitparade.ch/compilation/Time-Life:-The-Rock-Collection-Rock-Christmas-105894

oh and this (I have the Have a Nice Day set, had no idea this existed!)

http://www.allmusic.com/album/have-a-nice-christmas-holiday-hits-of-the-70s-mw0000626272

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/505/MI0001505866.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

http://www.cherryred.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=4901

^ Saint Etienne presents: Songs for a London Winter.

I'm groaning at the effortless predictability of that compilation. Tracklist, title, cover, sleevenotes, ad copy et al. all apparently created by a St Etienne compilation app.

Yeah, I can see that. It was posted in more of a "I wonder if this is of interest?" kind of way than as an endorsement.

Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas

have a pretty low tolerance for Xmas pop, but enjoy hearing this

Dinah Washington's Ole Santa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UMwfdY_90s

I love Chet Bakers' underrated as fuck Silent Nights. It is more like an album to commit suicide to, but still a wonderfully majestic shambles of a christmas album.

^^^OTM!

From the great Dust to Digital release, Where Will You Be Christmas Day?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBcJGIwy3Ns

some incredible advice in this

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11258606/Cool-party-playlist-how-to-compile-the-ultimate-one.html

has anyone seen the Edyie Gorme and Trios Los Panchos Christmas record anywhere?
http://www.allmusic.com/album/navidad-means-christmas-mw0000264013

This year's mix.
1 Hell's Threshold Clark Griswold
2 My Girlfriend (Forgot Me This Christmas) The Click Five
3 Holly Jolly Christmas Old 97's
4 Santa Done Gone Hip The Marquees
5 Frosty the Snowman The Ronettes
6 I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You Saint Etienne
7 Winter Wonderland Peggy Lee
8 Cool Yule Louis Armstrong
9 Run Rudolph Run Keith Richards
10 Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus George Jones & Tammy Wynette
11 I Love The Holidays Office Romance
12 Last Month Of The Year Chris Isaak
13 2,000 Miles Mark Kozelek
14 My Christmas Card To You The Partridge Family
15 The Little Drummer Boy Kenny Burrell
16 Christmas Wrapping The Waitresses
17 Christmas Lights Billy Childish
18 It's Christmas Time Yo La Tengo
19 Linus and Lucy Vince Gueraldi Trio
20 Christmas All Summer Long Deer Tick
21 Please Come Home For Christmas The Insight
22 The Christmas Waltz She & Him
23 No Lou This Xmas Tom Dyer
24 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Vanessa Carlton
25 A Christmas Duel The Hives & Cyndi Lauper
26 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Cat Power

man, only a week til coffee shops no longer require earplugs

would happily take most of that list over the crap you usually hear in coffeeshops

well yeah last night i got the recordings no one need ever hear again

could definitely do without most of the 40s/50s standards at this point. also kind of resent any song about snow since i live in the desert.

Here's mine:

1. The Snaildartha 6 - A Snail Is Born
2. The Salsoul Orchestra - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
3. Martin Mull ft. The Sondra Baskin Glee Club - Santafly
4. Gilberto Santa Rosa - Medley De Navidad
5. The Boss Jaguars! - O Come, O Come Emmanuel
6. The Dukes Of Dixieland - Frosty The Snowman
7. Fire Eyes - O Falling Snow
8. Bob Seger & The Last Heard - Sock It To Me Santa
9. The Goons - I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas
10. Saturday's Children - Deck Five
11. Gable Hall School Choir - Reggae Christmas
12. Bindley B - Santa Looking For A Wife
13. Vin Bruce - Christmas on the Bayou
14. Booker T & The MGs - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
15. Sheb Wooley - Santa Claus Meets The Purple People Eater
16. Debbie & The Darnels - Santa Teach Me To Dance
17. Whistle - Santa Is A B-Boy
18. Tav Bains - Dil Diya (Last Christmas)
19. Owen Gray - Christmas Greetings
20. Carollers From The Royal Hotel, Dungwort - Pentonville
21. John Denver - Christmas For Cowboys
22. Douglas Leedy - Joy To The World
23. The Uniques - Merry Christmas Darling
24. Machinefabriek - Silent Night

http://www.mixcloud.com/ialadnaes/christmas-2014/

OMG Christmas on the Moon with Tim Dinkins (i.e. this thing) has just been added to Spotify. No Christmas playlist complete without a track from it.

you'd think that John Denver christmas album would be amazing, but it's not.

I wouldn't think that, actually. :-)

Brave Combo did a live webcast from their studio last week that made me as happy as anything has this holiday season:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PZzFlcGb2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaRaZlYbwq0

this one you guys.

I find "Christmas for Cowboys" quite special but the Denver album as a whole isn't great. The Red Simpson Christmas album, on the other hand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK5CZZpaQ4Q

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

i kinda love this album.
twee excess.
crimbo excess.
no shame.

a bit more xmas glam in the groove ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMiTNe8gHIg

and not one mention of the girls aloud xmas album !?

which i happen to think is rather bloody good.

My 2014 Advent Calendar / mix

Bobby Sherman - Prologue
01 The Bird and The Bee - A Christmas Compromise
02 Earth, Wind and Fire - December
03 Hot Chocolate - Brand New Christmas
04 Frank Sidebottom - Christmas is Really Fantastic
05 Kierra Sheard and Chrisette Michelle - Angels We Have Heard On High
06 The Soulful Strings - Snowfall
07 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree
08 Celia Cruz - Jingle Bells
09 Princess Superstar - Hope I Sell A Lot of Records at Christmas
10 Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Santa Claus is Coming To Town
11 Douglas Leedy - The Coventry Carol
12 Far East Movement feat. MNEK - Christmas in Downtown LA
13 Nina and Frederik - Christmas Time in London Town
14 Roland Kirk - We Free Kings
15 X Ray Pop - Fuzzy Christmas
16 Christopher Lee - Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing
17 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me
18 Susan Kay (w/ Tim Dinkins) - I Won't Let You Lick My Candy Bar
19 Raymond Scott - Siberian Sleighride
20 Donny Hathaway - This Christmas
21 Eric Winstone and His Band - Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?
22 Man Or Astroman? - Frosty the Snowman
23 William Shatner - Good King Wenceslas
24 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant
Bobby Sherman - Amen

Link to Spotify playlist - http://t.co/ehXNuIfcZf or http://spoti.fi/1wF8f64

Merry Chritsmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T-3FtRFsxw

ctrl-f indicates a lack of John Prine in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD2_gx9PrZc

15 X Ray Pop - Fuzzy Christmas

so good

Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuTWA6SBupY

Departure Lounge - Christmas Downer

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

Feeling this right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StpqrzdLTFM

Happy Holidays everyone.

(Just posted this on a thread for Nico at ILM, but maybe I should have posted it here?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5WlUKxLKT4

oh hey I never heard that version before

real talk there is no better Christmas song than "Morning Christmas"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of72CQmBKvw

Fantastic Everlasting Gobstopper - Schoolgirl Psychedelia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah9U5BHoiF4

that Dennis Wilson song is amazing!

The Flirtations - Christmas Time Is Here Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wjchvZMDE

Kathy & Carol - Brightest and Best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzQz8nzWs2A

Chauntelle DuPree - Walking in the Air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQR0oVYJLPE

I've never even seen The Snowman, but this is beautiful

I must be the only person I know who does not like Phil Spector's Christmas Album.

Give me Andy Williams and Johnny Mathis any day. They remind me of my grandfather's Oldsmobile and his Benson & Hadges.

It is mentioned a few times itt, but I just got Jimmy Smith's Christmas album and highly recommend it. Groovy.