C/D: Christmas music

^^^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.

Off thread topic, but his Dynamic Duo lp with Wes Montgomery is also essential.

Actually it contains the seasonal Baby, Its Cold Outside so sort of on topic

I bought the Air Supply christmas album for $3. Yet to find out if I overpaid

this thread has reminded me of my own posting re the xmas album by the boy least likely to.
had totally forgotten about it.
off to go a digging.
the tim wheeler/emmy the great xmas album is a lot of fun aswell.
that said, my fave, is still the girls aloud mini-lp that came with early editions of 'chemistry'.
love that way more than all the over exposed classics.

that beach boys song seandalai posted last christmas is fab.

not really into the festive tune spirit yet tho, usually i'm already itching to put together an all-christmas playlist by mid-november :'(

2015 Mix.
Take It Russ Clark Griswold
What Christmas Means to Me CeeLo Green
Merry Christmas, Baby Beach Boys
Dear Santa Mr. Little Jeans
I Was Born On Christmas Day Saint Etienne
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town Lou Rawls
Run Run Rudolph Dwight Yoakam
Must Be Santa Bob Dylan
Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus George Jones & Tammy Wynette
Countdown to Christmas Anchovy
Silver Bells Raul Malo
Only You (with James Corden) Kylie Minogue
Silent Night Nick Lowe
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Darlene Love
Mistletoe Justin Bieber
It's ChristmasTime Yo La Tengo
Sleigh Ride The Soulful Strings
Winter Night Eydie Gormé
Christmas Time's A Coming Emmylou Harris
Lonely Pup (In a Christmas Shop) Adam Faith
Christmas Wrapping The Waitresses
Christmas Blues Charles Brown with Bill Doggett
Hang a String of Lights Great Lake Swimmers
Only Dust Behind Allo Darlin'
Children Go Where I Send You Nina Simone
Christmas Eve Firefox AK & Tiger Lou

Los Straitjackets pretty reliably kill it on Christmas tunes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CFsaNKRTIs

thanks to Stevie D for the XTC 'Countdown To Christmas' recommendation (7 years ago lol) it's amazing.

haven't started on this yet

all the talk about the free folk scene a little bit back got me listening to richard youngs' "festival of carols" from '92. pretty good!

see also: https://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Glasgow-Wassail/release/1158092

Any "classical" Christmas recommendations?

Annual plug for my big playlist of classic (not classical) but underloved Christmas songs: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/1c1STHtL9vh4ZDHgvwYNoc

Rostam has a pretty nice version of 'Fairytale of New York' on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/album/2mMLPgz8Z83RQ4aDSDHxdN
Love to know who is singing with him.

here's this year's rotation. Starting to realize I have a lot of xmas music!

Beatles - Christmas singles
Vince Guaraldi - Charlie Brown Christmas
V/A - Ultra Lounge: Christmas Cocktails
Enya - Christmas EP
V/A - Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records
Carpenters - Christmas Portrait
Carpenters - An Old Fashioned Christmas
V/A - Christmas with the Rat Pack
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite (Karajan, Berlin)
Lawrence Welk - Jingle Bells
Lawrence Welk - Merry Christmas
Jackie Gleason Orchestra - Merry Christmas
Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters - A Merry Christmas With
Beach Boys - Christmas Album
Elvis Presley - various Christmas songs
and several random xmas singles (Wham, Queen, Prince, James Brown, Mariah Carey, etc)

god I can't wait until I don't have to write anything else and can start listening to my Christmas music