― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:04 (twenty years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:08 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
D: most "traditional" Christmas music
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link
D: McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas Time" and that George Michael monstrosity.
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Nate (Nate), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
"There Ain't No Sanity Clause" by the Damned.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:04 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:35 (twenty years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
the one by mariah carey. gorgeous song. love "last christmas" by wham as well.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:43 (twenty years ago) link
I think Kindercore released a Christmas cd a few years ago--original songs by K-core artists...
― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:08 (twenty years ago) link
D: 'novelty' Christmas songs, Mr Blobby, etc
― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:12 (twenty years ago) link
Also S: The cover of Mud's "Lonely This Christmas" my mate Feedle did. It's truly beautiful!
― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 03:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 29 November 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link
― brian, Saturday, 29 November 2003 04:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:31 (twenty years ago) link
― cis (cis), Saturday, 29 November 2003 10:06 (twenty years ago) link
and the rest of their christmas album.
― brian badword (badwords), Saturday, 29 November 2003 10:11 (twenty years ago) link
Mr. Noodles -- "Christmas Wrapping" OTM.
Destroy: quickie holiday records by big artists recorded solely so that they'll have some new product in the shops during the December shopping season (way too many to list)
― d.w., Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:43 (twenty years ago) link
1. "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"2. "Frosty the Snowman"3. "Jingle Fuckin' Bells"
I especially loathe scat-splattered jazzy renderings of Christmas songs as well. Makes me want to shave my head, speak nothing but backwards Latin, become a full thelemite and go live in Bolskine House on Loch Ness.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:51 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 12:05 (twenty years ago) link
― weather!ngda1eson, Saturday, 29 November 2003 12:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 29 November 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
I'd love to hear the Kinks' "Father Christmas" and Mud's "Lonely This Christmas", yet I don't believe I ever have.
For me: Vince Guaraldi's "Christmas Time Is Here"... evokes childhood's christmases; beautifully melancholic. Piano playing of levity and gravitas; a spare production... very moving. Love the choral version.
Lew Stone produced 1946 version of "Let It Snow". A less obvious choice than "White Christmas" certainly, though that too inevitably has its place; it was always *there*...
Flaming Lips' "Christmas at the Zoo" is reasonably good I suppose, yeah.
Ashamed to say that Wham's "Last Christmas" has its place in my yuletide affections... I always seem to associate childhood christmases with things like Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley's "Thank You Very Much" from the 1971 film musical "Scrooge", starring Albert Finney. This always got shown on TV around the xmas period; I strongly recall watching it at junior school near the holiday and soon after it being on TV. ;-) Really loved the film, and this song in particular brings back so many memories...
― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 30 November 2003 13:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Sunday, 30 November 2003 22:44 (twenty years ago) link
― largehearted boy (largeheartedboy), Sunday, 30 November 2003 23:15 (twenty years ago) link
Here's a Gone Daddy Finch version. 'Sokay. (Scroll down a bit.)
http://www.gonedaddyfinch.com/gonedaddyfinch/mp3page.html
― weather!ngda1eson, Monday, 1 December 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 1 December 2003 00:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 1 December 2003 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
S: Jona Lewie - "Stop The Cavalry", The Pretenders - "2000 Miles" (which Coldplay have apparently covered, for shame), Shane'n'Kirsty obv, "Last Christmas" oh yeah, Dandy Warhols - "Little Drummer Boy"
D: Cliff urgh. Most Christmas songs are aces tho, just cos it's Christmas innit.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:41 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:52 (twenty years ago) link
― harveyw (harveyw), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 1 December 2003 14:47 (twenty years ago) link
― d.w., Monday, 1 December 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is such a weird song when sung by Frankie Valli.
Oh, what a laugh it would have beenIf Daddy had only seenMommy kissing Santa Claus last night
As sung by the Four Seasons this comes across like really surreal, mordant humor. Father walking in on his wife smooching a four-hundred pound mythical figure, and little Frankie sitting in the corner thinking it's all really quite an amusing scene.
― Cunga, Friday, 25 December 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Chris Rea - Driving Home For Xmas (The Revenge Re-rub)
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Friday, 25 December 2009 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
hearing the Jackson 5 sing it is weird too because I doubt irl the kids would have ratted their mom out to their abusive dad if they had caught her cheating, especially with a guy like Santa who would have made a pretty awesome stepdad
― musically, Friday, 25 December 2009 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah whenever I hear Michael say "I'm gonna tell my dad!" I just picture Joe Jackson losing his shit.
― Cunga, Friday, 25 December 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I just picture Joe Jackson losing his shit.
I was thinking the same thing hearing this song earlier today.
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 December 2009 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link
That's really funny that we all have the same comic-horror reaction to this JAckson Five song.
as a side story: my mom went to HS for a year with the Jackson Five, and she told me that one time she and her girlfriend puts wigs on and they went up to Jermaine and one of the other brothers and they sang "ABC" to them as a teasing joke -- my mom says that the Jackson Five weren't considered cool, like, say, Blind Faith (actual example) or whatever -- and that Jermaine took the joke in stride and thought it was funny but that everybody laughed when they did it.
Well since posting on ILM I inevitably link that story with the notion of baby boomer rockism, and vice versa.
― Cunga, Friday, 25 December 2009 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Last night I spent another lonely ChristmasDarling, darling, U should've been thereCuz all the ones I dream aboutU are the one that makes my love shoutU see, U are the only one I care 4
Remember the time we swam naked in your father's poolBoy, he was upset that nightBut boy, was that ever coolRemember that night we played poker 4 moneyAnd U robbed me blindRemember how U used 2 scream so loud cuz U...U hated that number 9Hey, I saw your sister skatin' on the lake this afternoonGood heaven, how she's grownShe swoons the boy skaters cuz she's so tallBut of all your father's childrenAll your father's children, babyU know U are the finest of them allU are brighter than the northern star and I...
Last night I spent another lonely ChristmasDarling, darling, U, U should've been thereCuz U see, of all the ones I dream aboutU are the one that makes my love shoutU see, U are the only one I care 4, yeah
My mama used 2 say always trust your loverBut now I guess that only applies 2 herCuz baby, U promised meBaby, U promised me U'd never leaveThen U died on the 25th day of December
Oh baby, last night, oh, I spent another lonely, lonely ChristmasDarling, baby, U, U should've been thereCuz all the ones I dream aboutU are the one that makes my love shoutU see, U are the only one I care 4, yeah
Your father said it was pneumoniaYour mother said it was stressBut the doctor said U were dead and I...I say it's senselessEvery Christmas night 4 7 years nowI drink banana daiquiris till I'm blindAs long as I can hear U smiling, babyU won't hear my tearsAnother lonely Christmas is mine, yeah, mine, yeahAnother lonely Christmas is mine
Last night, yeah, I spent another lonely, lonely ChristmasDarling, darling, U should've been there, yeahCuz all the ones I dream aboutU are the one that make my love shoutU see, U are the only one I care 4
Another lonely...
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 25 December 2009 06:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Ramones - Merry ChristmasDer Bingle - White Christmas(at one point was the best selling song, period)the drifters - white christmas (killer version)George Strait - White Christmas (ditto)Shonen Knife - Space Christmas
second the request of where to find Can - Silent Night
― pobrecito (outdoor_miner), Friday, 25 December 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.mute.biz/can/silentnight.html
― livinginthesunlightlovinginthemoonlighthavingawonderfultime (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 25 December 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Apart from carols (Gaudete, Coventry Carol, and Carol of the Bells in particular), the Christmas song I've listened to most this festive season is Christmas in Jail by The Youngsters.
― DavidM, Friday, 25 December 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
We had a xmas music channel on this morning while we opened presents and a song came on that made me stop everything and listen, it was so awful -- Diana Ross' version of "My Favorite Things."
― America's Next Most Disabled Ballerina (WmC), Friday, 25 December 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
thank you Curt1s! s'nice!!
― pobrecito (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 26 December 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I put together a top ten for my blog. http://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/my-top-ten-christmas-songs/
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 December 2010 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Bloody hell, has anyone still got that Can version of Silent Night?!
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 December 2010 09:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I have it on vinyl somewhere.
― Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Friday, 31 December 2010 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Has anyone got an MP3 of CAN doing Silent Night that they could send me, please? sick mouthy at gmail dot com. Eternal gratitude in return.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm like you Nick: halfway through January and I STILL don't feel Christmassy.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll send it to you this evening - my reply upthread was a bit pointless, sorry. Any punctuation in your gmail address?
― Dance the Bot! (seandalai), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Nope, just the dot before the com.
Thank you!
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Bizarrely it was Rio Ferdinand who inspired me to seek out obscure Xmas songs again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPqH-U_Rhe4
― her hipster hair dude is making me pale ale (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 20 January 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Found a slightly remixed version of the Can version of Silent Night, here - http://bananamania.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/can-silent-night-t-keelers-extended-yuletime-treat/ - dude's has very simply and very appropriately doubled it in length, pretty much seamlessly. No more!
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 January 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I started listening to some Christmas music. Just a few tunes every few days. I realize that more than anything, the feelings I get from the music is this cozy, nostalgia about the 70's and early 80's, more than any sort of real holiday feelings. I don't feel like decorating a tree or a house or going Christmas shopping, just listening to a few songs in a dimly lit room with the volume real low.
It does begin with memories of Lawrence Welk and Andy Williams Christmas specials, the annual cheese ball my mom would make (heavy on the dry sherry) but then quickly turns into this montage of toys, tv shows, hit songs, things I wore, friends I had, the way cars looked, the way people looked, it's all getting further and further away from those times.
I watched an I Love Lucy episode today, one that aired 10.06.1952, and it dawned on me... that was 60 years ago. Sixty years ago used to be 1918!!! EEK!
― *tera, Sunday, 7 October 2012 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
i listened to these today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RC34N1TfCQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgGvL09QSSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_2tKCwu7Q
― sriracha bishop (get bent), Sunday, 7 October 2012 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
We're well into Christmas over here! Have a few festive projects coming up (including my first ever DJing-in-public) and I want to prepare in time for once.
Every year I think I've just about heard everything, and every year I'm wrong. Some favourite recent discoveries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIG9_HgubLAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3uXTPV_X5Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCsa2-WP-iA
― fish frosch (seandalai), Sunday, 7 October 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
Wonder what effect the upcoming Cee Lo Green Xmas record will have on the thread...
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Monday, 8 October 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCY2JhrwxVs
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 8 October 2012 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
arrrgh! "For YouTube embedded videos: Simply paste in the URL of the YouTube web page containing the video you wish to embed" why why why does this not work for *me*?
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 8 October 2012 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
think you should take the "s" out of "https"
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 8 October 2012 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
thanks anagram!
i think this is worth reposting for ease of reference, i can't believe no one's put it up yet!
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 11 October 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
also this is pretty sick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e25McLH-I04
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 11 October 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
Right, recommend songs which mention Christmas in the lyrics, or which feel Christmassy, but which aren't quite "Christmas Songs", per se.
In the former category, I Am An Ape by David Byrne and St. Vincent mentions Christmas Day in the lyrics, but has seemingly nothign else to do with Xmas.
In the latter (and former), Jona Lewie (sic?) always says Stop The Cavalry isn't a Xmas song, even though it emntions Xmas in the refrain, and has a Xmassy feel.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 29 October 2012 09:25 (eleven years ago) link
None of these are really "about" Christmas:
Trinity - Santa Claus Comes Once a YearCaetano Veloso - In the Hot Sun of a Christmas DayAugust Darnell - Christmas on Riverside Drive
― Well, ILE be damned! (seandalai), Monday, 29 October 2012 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
never too early for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODjDz_6SWik
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ4ApY9YbYw
― xelab, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-i8S-1MzKI
― Say Goodbye To That Blood (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/localactionrecords/dj-q-all-i-want-for-xmas-is-q
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtbkcVd0ODM
― dutch_justice, Monday, 23 November 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
the Carly Rae version of Last Christmas is kind of a disappointment.
― campreverb, Monday, 23 November 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
yes
how about a collaborative ilx christmas playlist without songs that will drive you insane when you hear them for the 15th time this year? MY OFFICE NEEDS ONE
no Slade!
1) Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas
― niels, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 08:58 (eight years ago) link
i just put on soul christmas and the guaraldi peanuts stuff and that does me just fine
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 09:14 (eight years ago) link
true, I put on Christmas in the Heart :-)
― niels, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
If you like Christmas music, I have a thing for you:
http://everynoise.com/xmas.html
There's a monitoring graph showing Christmas-music listening on Spotify by day by country, and links to daily-updating charts of emerging Christmas music by country, and giant playlists of the distinctive Christmas music people listened to last Christmas in particular countries and cities.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link
neat!
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
wow! Hey when I try to pull up last year's playlists by city/country, it doesn't go anywhere?
― campreverb, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
It's a damn shame that Tracey Thorn only appears on the Sweden list. Her Christmas album is great.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 23:21 (eight years ago) link
what's with the abnormally high rate for christmas music in the philippines?
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
am I alone in finding Freddie Mercury's dramatic style a bit... inappropriate in "Thank God It's Christmas"?
― niels, Saturday, 5 December 2015 10:27 (eight years ago) link
Nope...kind of feel the same way about the Prince Christmas tune too.
― campreverb, Saturday, 5 December 2015 14:17 (eight years ago) link
OMG it is not!
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 5 December 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
haha I was hoping she would turn it into a more upbeat synth-ed out ham.I should clarify on Queen, I don't mind an over the top Christmas song (I love that Lady Gaga x-rated x-mas tune), but 'Thank God It's Christmas' is just a dud.
― campreverb, Saturday, 5 December 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
I have a playlist that I've ''''curated'''' and fashioned over the past years. It's bloody amazing. It's not only Christmas songs, soundtrack stuff, but also things that were xmas number ones or popular around Christmas time like Girls Aloud 'promise' or anything else I decide just sounds Christmassy. My OH added about 20 versions of 'last christmas' to it but I had to cull most of them.
― kinder, Saturday, 5 December 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
2010- Bigg Robb "I Want a Big Woman for Christmas" southern soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7zWxgTUzvk
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 5 December 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
I have a playlist that I've ''''curated'''' and fashioned over the past years. It's bloody amazing. can you post or link it?
― campreverb, Saturday, 5 December 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
preach, Big Robb
― Sharkie, Sunday, 6 December 2015 01:42 (eight years ago) link
Any good jazz xmas albums out there apart from Vince Guaraldi (my fave)?
― Adam J Duncan, Sunday, 6 December 2015 06:18 (eight years ago) link
this is quite nice
http://eil.com/images/main/Ramsey+Lewis+Sound+Of+Christmas+479333.jpg
― Number None, Sunday, 6 December 2015 11:26 (eight years ago) link
this toohttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ccOv7TRyL.jpg
― campreverb, Sunday, 6 December 2015 13:53 (eight years ago) link
Loving this Lewis, thanks campreverb!
― Adam J Duncan, Sunday, 6 December 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
I have a thing for Chet Baker's quite maudlin Silent Nights album, it is way underrated imo.
― xelab, Sunday, 6 December 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
Don't forget
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71wkh%2BQqxML._SL1200_.jpg
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Sunday, 6 December 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
http://funky16corners.com/pictures/sschristmas.jpg
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Sunday, 6 December 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Srk4HBY5R48/UM-FZHsirmI/AAAAAAAAAMY/BETfVwFiORk/s640/xmas.jpg
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Sunday, 6 December 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/533c2608e4b0a32be0b5e65d/533db24de4b0f0bdc6e14819/543c3aa4e4b0f23a04309ca2/1413233325388/songpoemxmas_mini147.jpg
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Sunday, 6 December 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
^^^ now playing
OK the last one and Zorn have piqued my interest in a way I didn't expect this thread!
― Adam J Duncan, Sunday, 6 December 2015 23:29 (eight years ago) link
the two American Song-Poem Christmas song I've heard live in a sweet grey area between outsider art and major label pulp, pretty cool
― Sharkie, Sunday, 6 December 2015 23:44 (eight years ago) link
good stuff itt!
sinatra's "the christmas song" just came on the radio - it's amazing, what a voice
is there a good sinatra christmas album?
― niels, Monday, 7 December 2015 09:13 (eight years ago) link
Grab any old Rhino Christmas compilation you see, and you will find something to love on it.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 7 December 2015 09:16 (eight years ago) link
cool, thx! googling that led me to this decent overview http://hipchristmasmusic.com/lists/albums.php
― niels, Monday, 7 December 2015 10:08 (eight years ago) link
Sharon Jones + Dap-Kings Christmas album is a bit disappointing tbh, though "Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects" is still a classic.
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Monday, 7 December 2015 14:17 (eight years ago) link
^^^ my son played me this as we were trimming the tree over the weekend. I liked the whole thing, but yeah I thought "Chimneys" was the standout. Even The Eagles haven't ruined "Please Come Home For Christmas" for me; Charles Brown original is my favorite holiday tune.
― Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 December 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
you might get a contact high listening to the Cassie Ramone.
― campreverb, Monday, 7 December 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
Christmas With Chet Atkins has been my favorite for a while -- any suggestions for similar albums?
― early rejecter, Monday, 7 December 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
this is probably my country favorite:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dKmNarZNL.jpg
― campreverb, Monday, 7 December 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
The Eagles get the words wrong, so screw 'em.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 7 December 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
i am quite proud of my xmas spotify playlist, fwiw (despite the fact that it can't have XTC's "Countdown to Christmas Party Time" on it
The Dandy Warhols - Little Drummer BoyCristina - Things Fall ApartCocteau Twins - Frosty The SnowmanLow - Just Like ChristmasThe Pogues - Fairytale Of New YorkSaint Etienne - I Was Born on Christmas DayTLC - Sleigh RideThe Waitresses - Christmas WrappingRun DMC - Christmas in HollisThe Sonics - Santa ClausThe Raveonettes - Come On SantaFear - Fuck ChristmasThe Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)Lisi - My Silent NightKurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin'Alan Vega - No More Christmas BlueSky Ferreira - OmankoCarly Rae Jepsen - Last Christmas
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 7 December 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
excellentalthough they do have the ronan keating version of fairytale of new york
― nxd, Monday, 7 December 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
My favorite Christmas album is this budget-label knockoff of The Tijuana Brass. I bought it as a gift for my dad with my allowance money when I was a kid, and it got played every year. I rebought a copy for myself in a thrift bin. Childhood memories...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZjQDK7Ysr8
― Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 December 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
you might get a contact high listening to the Cassie Ramone.― campreverb, Monday, December 7, 2015 3:22 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― campreverb, Monday, December 7, 2015 3:22 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Playing this right now, pretty into it.
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Monday, 7 December 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
I tried listening to the Cassie Ramone record this morning and nothing really stuck out to me :( I was disappointed, I had high hopes!
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 7 December 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
Is there a standard version of "Jingle Bells" without any 'interpretation'? Maybe just sung by kids but not on a modern cloying kids album.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 7 December 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM38kN4AOys
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 December 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
if you don't rock Dylan's Xmas album during the season you are dead to me
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 December 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
it's weird because it seems like a novelty record and one that you kind of like for the fun of it, but then you put it on and it's just GREAT
― niels, Monday, 7 December 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
I love The Ventures proto-indie version of "Silver Bells"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJMBMIJJGok
― Number None, Monday, 7 December 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
I like the "I Feel Fine" intro to rudolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTFw8CyMzz4
― niels, Monday, 7 December 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
I'd kind of been afraid to check out the Dylan album, but based on the rec above I just checked it out.Overall, pretty fun! Obviously he sounds a bit Tom Waits in places, which some may consider an asset-it certainly is on 'Must Be Santa'.
― campreverb, Monday, 7 December 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOgBcA_oWuI
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Monday, 7 December 2015 20:44 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 December 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyk-Qu7sv1E
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 10:28 (eight years ago) link
xps there's some good jingle bells covers done by dogs and cats on spotify iirc
― nxd, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 10:34 (eight years ago) link
so far, the break-out hit at our house this year is "The Christmas Tree Angel" by the Andrews Sisters
― Dominique, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
more Christmas jazz
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/784/MI0002784088.jpg
― Number None, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
"What You Want For Christmas" by Quad City DJ's is officially the #1 Christmas song of all time
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 19:43 (eight years ago) link
That Bley/Swallow one is awesome, but I've had more positive reaction from chamber music fans I've played it to than from jazz heads.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
I just heard the xmas version of Want You to Want Me!! I had no idea it existed! It was ... weird
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
ok I had no idea that existed
so weird
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
"I'm begging you for Christmas"
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
it's dreadful ;_;
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
I didn't sell that Chet Baker christmas album properly when describing it as maudlin upthread, it is actually quite jaunty in places and I was overstating the amount of depresso variations on the album, which is only a few of the tracks really.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj90PQmVhPQ
― xelab, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
I really like the version of Amazing Grace on the Chet Baker.Every year it seems like there's one old Christmas record I'm super excited to find, only to discover it's a dud. Sadly this year it's the Gladys Night record. On the other hand, holy crap that Dwight Yoakam Christmas record.
― campreverb, Friday, 11 December 2015 14:24 (eight years ago) link
'Wonderful Christmas Time" is the best of the big pop hits.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Friday, 11 December 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
Remove Bookmark from this Thread
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Friday, 11 December 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Important musical syncretism: http://merrykrishnas.bandcamp.com/album/we-wish-you-a-merry-krishna
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link
this is excellent (via Dan):http://red3blog.tumblr.com/post/135098280942/formeldeharv-i-put-all-i-want-for-christmas-is
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 December 2015 00:40 (eight years ago) link
yes indeed
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Thursday, 17 December 2015 00:48 (eight years ago) link
This is still my favourite version of AIWFCIY though: https://soundcloud.com/bigloverecords/nite-jewel-all-i-want-for
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Thursday, 17 December 2015 00:49 (eight years ago) link
I have a playlist that I've ''''curated'''' and fashioned over the past years. It's bloody amazing.can you post or link it?― campreverb, Saturday, 5 December 2015 21:05 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― campreverb, Saturday, 5 December 2015 21:05 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
here ya go (NB some are not at all christmassy, but are now because they've been on this playlist for a few years, iyswim)
HOME ALONE SOUNDTRACK JOHN WILLIAMSCall the Shots Girls AloudAll I Want For Christmas Is You Mariah CareyWrap It Up Super Furry Animals15 Minutes Johnny BoyAlmost Unreal Roxettechristmas reindeer The KnifeLast Christmas Scala & Kolacny BrothersFairytale of New York The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacCollStay Another Day East 17Shoes Reparata & The DelronsFloodlit World UltrasoundFrosty the Snowman Cocteau TwinsSomewhere in My Memory John WilliamsDecember Will Be Magic Again Kate BushI Wanna Be a King of Orient Aah ElasticaHelp I'm Alive - Acoustic MetricWalking In The Air Robin AllenderMaple Leaves Jens LekmanI Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You Saint EtienneO Holy Night John Williams & ChorusThe Christmas Song - Weezer Heartbeats (Originally Performed By The Knife) Scala & Kolacny BrothersGaudete Steeleye SpanIt's A Sin (Pet Shop Boys Cover) JJ72Santa's On His Way The PipettesAll I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey Cover) Heike Has The Giggles I'll Still Be Loving You Kylie MinogueThings Fall Apart CristinaWuthering Heights (Kate Bush Cover) The SweptawaysYou Only Live Twice BjorkInto The Clouds The Sound Of ArrowsThe Promise Girls AloudChristmas music - Home Alone Soundtrack It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas Pet Shop BoysChristmas Is Cancelled The Long BlondesChristmas (Baby Please Come Home) Slow ClubAll I Wonderful Christmas Is You Summer CampAs The World Falls Down Girl In A ComaHolding On For You Liberty XHappy New Year Abba
― kinder, Saturday, 19 December 2015 23:11 (eight years ago) link
ugh excuse lack of formatting
After listening to some of the recs here I feel my former opinion of "Solely Spector and Guaraldi" is the Xmas equivalent of "I love jazz! I own Kind of Blue."
― Adam J Duncan, Sunday, 20 December 2015 04:09 (eight years ago) link
Love that whole St Etienne Christmas record. Great list!
― campreverb, Sunday, 20 December 2015 05:05 (eight years ago) link
Xpost : Speaking of which, where is the love for Bob Dorough's "Blue Xmas" feat. Miles Davis?
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 December 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
Rosie Thomas - Why Can't It Be Christmastime All Year
― how's life, Sunday, 20 December 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
One of the great unrereleased Christmas albums is Hortense Ellis and Trinity's African Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iRUitMxJPY
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Monday, 21 December 2015 01:46 (eight years ago) link
that settles the question whether they know it's christmas time at all
― Sharkie, Monday, 21 December 2015 11:07 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiC2LHL_eZ4I try to post this every Dec 21st
― The Once-ler, Monday, 21 December 2015 22:30 (eight years ago) link
TS: Songs that mention Christmas but aren't really Christmassy (e.g. The Fall's John Quays, Tom Wait's Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis), vs. Songs that sound Christmassy but make no mention of it (e.g. lots of Brian Wilson)
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 12:03 (eight years ago) link
My favorite Christmas/Hanukkah song of all time:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV9tJ-YTnTQ
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 24 December 2015 04:11 (eight years ago) link
Hey I made a playlist of my 111 favourite Christmas songs that are on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/1c1STHtL9vh4ZDHgvwYNoc
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Thursday, 24 December 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
Okay, "Jingle Bells" by Celia Cruz and La Sonora Matancera is great.
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
So in other words, recommending seandalai's playlist to the rest of you.
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
there is something downright disturbing about this union:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpY7rRBH2q0
― uhwelluh, Thursday, 24 December 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
My Xmas mix / spotify playlist for 2015. Turned out much more earnest and heartfelt than mine usually do. Must be the mood I'm in this year. But persevere and you'll get to Quad City DJs.
https://open.spotify.com/user/worrellj14/playlist/4AGJjiq2jhxdKtQjwLzFpS
― Jeff W, Thursday, 24 December 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
Lisa Mychols's Christmas album is a pretty good Beach Boys/Spectorpop pastiche, with The Wondermints as her backing band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm0KDcdk6nU
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Friday, 25 December 2015 02:49 (eight years ago) link
Mercaptan's cover of Franklin Bruno's "Invisible Mistletoe" has a nice lo-fi Swedish reggae feel, & the New Zealand Christmas-y folk song Te Harinui has a p.sweet surf version done by Waikato band The Hollow Grinders.
Festive video - Hasselhoff Experiment's late-90s bogan classic "What's The Deal With The Man In Red?":www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqTXF_0YUEc
― etc, Friday, 25 December 2015 03:19 (eight years ago) link
I made a Spotify Playlist entitled Christmas Songs That Don't Suck.I avoided covers of traditional songs for the most part.If anyone plays it, I hope you like it.
https://open.spotify.com/user/nyc_native/playlist/11F05Gtve6aUtyRlczdA1v
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 25 December 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 12:03 (3 days ago)
Randomly listening to the Abel Tasmans, and it turns out "Michael Fay" belongs to the former. For the latter, Steely Dan's "Charlie Freak" sure has a lot of bells in a Dickens-y fashion ...
― etc, Friday, 25 December 2015 13:50 (eight years ago) link
Alternative Spotify Playlist title: "Fuck Grandma and the Reindeer Too"
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 25 December 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
Tracks on the playlist that are not mentioned in the thread above include:
King Diamond - No Presents For ChristmasAC/DC - Mistress For ChristmasSpinal Tap - Christmas With The DevilGWAR - Stripper Christmas Summer WeekendTom Waits - Christmas Card From A Hooker In MinneapolisThe Vandals - Oi To The World (though someone mentioned the No Doubt version)The Sonics - Don't Believe In ChristmasEazy-E - Merry Muthafuckin' XmasJulian Casablancas - Christmas Treat (technically a cover)The Fall - (We Wish You) A Protein ChristmasDragonette - Merry Xmas (Says Your Text Message)Hanoi Rocks - Dead By XmasThe Dirtbombs - My Last Christmas
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 25 December 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mER2fGuSqF8
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 December 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk-QghlI97Y
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 17 December 2016 04:25 (seven years ago) link
The Moomins single I shared on the other Christmas songs thread is now on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/album/0Vga3sw6B4C14Y6sydCdkH
― Jeff W, Saturday, 17 December 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
Search: 'Christmas Wrapping'Destroy: 'Wonderful Christmastime'
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Saturday, 17 December 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link
search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0NoalRsk5w
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 17 December 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
destroy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxomWFi3qZc
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 17 December 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
the entire St. Etienne Christmas record is worth seeking out. Not on Spotify unfortunately:https://www.discogs.com/Saint-Etienne-A-Glimpse-Of-Stocking/release/2567730
― campreverb, Saturday, 17 December 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
this is my fav xmas album rn and it IS on spotify:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/05/movies/holiday-albums-american-song-poem-christmas-daddy-santa-really-six-foot-four.html
see also: both Rosie O'Donnell xmas albums, the RuPaul xmas album from like 1998, the Big Freedia xmas EP
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 19 December 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
yeah the song poem album is all-time
― don't take my kindness for wokeness (seandalai), Monday, 19 December 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
Excuse me, but where is Wizzard!?
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 19 December 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
^^^
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 December 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
I am so fucking sick of 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday' that there isn't even an accurate term for it. I like it, and I like the Slade track too, but I'm sick to death of it. It's always been played to death every Christmas, but I used to hear the Slade track far more. Now it seems to be the Wizzard track I hear more.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
Also, what's that Elton John one that sounds completely indistinguishable from his usual material, sounds totally non-Christmassy, isn't very good and sounds like it written during a Coke break?
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
"Step Into Christmas?"
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, destroy that one too.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
destroy: anybody who sings christmas songs as if they're VERY DRAMATIC modern pop ballads. christmas carols, by and large, neither require nor benefit from extensive melisma.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
destroy: "hallelujah" as a christmas song especially THIS YEAR
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link
search: The Living Sisters - Harmony is Real: Songs for a Happy Holiday
A recent go-to along w/ the low Christmas album
― nomar, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link
Also destroy: 'Mistletoe and Wine'
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link
why get so hung up on destroying things when you could be searching!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK7N47bQMdQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps6sHgbqQSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxpAlLzZpP0
― my hangover is a time machine (seandalai), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
Lhasa de Sela - Peces en el rio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmipW6tWP9s
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link
Love that it's a Christmas song that sounds like Klezmer.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
Did anything notable come out this year? I haven't been paying attention so much.
― my hangover is a time machine (seandalai), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
For Klezmer Christmas also check out the Klezmonauts' Oy To The World
― my hangover is a time machine (seandalai), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
there's a really nice christmas record i enjoy by bulgarian voices angelite. i think it's out official now but i first got it as a bootleg radio broadcast.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
thank you seandalai checking it out.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ4kptfxlHo
― calzino, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link
Leslie Odom Jr's xmas album is SO good
simple arrangements & very pleasing nostalgic, old-school style, and his voice is gorgeous
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link
Xmas 2016 Spotify playlist. Lots of new, but a fair bit of old too. Featuring Sun Ra, Kacey, Kylie, Count Basie, ABC, Loretta, Ariana, Low and Moomins.https://open.spotify.com/user/worrellj14/playlist/4AJf5XYj6kAgDXa6sytAtf
― Jeff W, Saturday, 24 December 2016 09:21 (seven years ago) link
Nice piece by Richard Williams on David Sigerson's 'It's a big country' https://thebluemoment.com/2016/12/23/a-christmas-no-1/
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 24 December 2016 09:39 (seven years ago) link
Um, Davitt. Damn autocorrect.
Merry shoegaze everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79rS-sl9tSg
― my hangover is a time machine (seandalai), Sunday, 25 December 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link
Official Christmas anthem of the seandalai household
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwMuHy8t_Vk
― my hangover is a time machine (seandalai), Sunday, 25 December 2016 00:08 (seven years ago) link
Destroy: that dreadful Pentatonix cover of "Hallelujah" that my local holiday station has in aggressively high rotation.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Sunday, 3 December 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
Is that a Christmas song?
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Sunday, 3 December 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link
It is now.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 3 December 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
uggggh i heard that the other night on the way home from work. noped right out after like 10 seconds. Bleuch.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 December 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
yeah and how is it even a holiday song. piss off
You rang?xpost
― Anne Git Yorgun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 December 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
that Gregory Porter appearance on Marr earlier is still troubling my thoughts. He always had a touch of "Pebble Mill at One Bill Withers" about him, but his christmas album of Nat King Cole covers is absolute wank.
― calzino, Sunday, 3 December 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
in good christmas music news, i got a copy of Daryl Hall & John Oates’ Home for Christmas album <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 December 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
i blame alexandra burke (really simon cowell) for "hallelujah" now being a holiday song
― dyl, Sunday, 3 December 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
i made this last year and it features among others XTC, Alexander O Neal, Dragonette, Ariana Grande and The Marx Brothers
https://www.mixcloud.com/damienjohnstone/
― piscesx, Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:01 (six years ago) link
shld we poll an americana christmas?
i love old 79's here it is christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm0xHpqjvq4
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 04:19 (six years ago) link
There's really very little past the 1960's that's not terrible. I think my entire idea of what Christmas should sound like is cemented as either Nat King Cole or the Vince Guaraldi Trio, and everything else is a terrible scourage designed to soundtrack your shopping.
― yesca, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link
I find your lack of regard for post-'60s xmas music ver 'scouraging.
― Ooey Gooey Fresh and Frothy (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 13:22 (six years ago) link
yeah that’s a nonsense position
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
Agreed. Most of the 50s and 60s Christmas music was intended to soundtrack your consumerism, too.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
Super Christmas music fan here. Infinity did you catch the new Bloodshot comp this year? https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/13-days-xmasI might amend Yesca's point to say that there are very few Christmas albums worth hearing after the 60s. Not really sure why that is, perhaps the labels had more power back then and could order a Phil Spector or Kenny Burrell to make one.
Below is my mix for 2017:Do You Hear What I Hear? SpiralingRudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Chris Isaak (Live With Stevie Nicks & Friends)Break Up Holiday Dude YorkWhite Christmas Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings FaLaLaLaLove Ya Nikki LaneThey Shined Up Rudolph's Nose Johnny HortonI Don't Intend to spend Christmas Without You Margo GuryanNoel Christmas Sugar & TigerPeppermint Delight FirebreatherShake Hands With Santa Claus Louis PrimaGonna Wrap My Heart In Ribbons Hank ThompsonLook Around You (It's Christmas Time) Bobby GoldsboroFelices Pascuas Eydie GormeUnderneath the Christmas Tree Bill LloydBy the Fireside Ellen and the EscapadesChristmas Day Detroit JuniorChristmas (Baby Please Come Home) Slow ClubFairytale of New York RostamYule Tide Me Over The Minus 5Here Comes Santa Claus Ramsey LewisHow to Make Gravy All Our Exes Live In TexasIt Was Jesus Johnny CashChristmas Wrapping The WaitressesSoulful Christmas James BrownThis Christmas Night Kaskade feat. Dia Frampton
― campreverb, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
can someone help me
there's this drive-thru light show in town where you tune your radio to a certain station and the lights sync up with the music
I know pretty much all the songs but there's one I don't know, it's like this bombastic Vangelis-style sequencer instrumental. in the last 15 seconds or so some vocals come in on the fade. it's bothering me b/c I should know what this is, but I don't.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
could be Mannheim Steamroller?
― Dominique, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
Been enjoying The Soulful Strings album "The Magic of Christmas"
― Heez, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
yes! "Good King Wenceslas" its called. god that was bothering me. had no idea Mannheim sounded like that.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
Infinity did you catch the new Bloodshot comp this year? https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/13-days-xmasI might amend Yesca's point to say that there are very few Christmas albums worth hearing after the 60s. Not really sure why that is, perhaps the labels had more power back then and could order a Phil Spector or Kenny Burrell to make one.
― campreverb, Wednesday, December 20, 2017 7:29 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i have not but cheers for the rec
sounds p cool
will have a listen
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1yZah5l6S0
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
The last few cycles, I've been all about John Williams' song from the sequel, which I prefer to the much more by-the-numbers song the first movie had:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Buv2eOXZ8
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
can't forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iClHpepBY1I
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Thursday, 21 December 2017 05:53 (six years ago) link
Jingle cats videos will come in handy when were stoned sunday night
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 21 December 2017 08:21 (six years ago) link
I might amend Yesca's point to say that there are very few Christmas albums worth hearing after the 60s.
Off the top of my head these are excellent single-artist albums from the 70s and later:
Klezmonauts - Oy to the WorldJohn Zorn - A Dreamers ChristmasHortens Ellis and Trinity - African ChristmasThe Mistletoe Disco Band - Christmas Willie Colon - Asalto Navideño
And that's before we get to canonical compilations like the Ze Christmas album/Christmas Rap/Funky Christmas. The joy of Christmas music isn't really in albums though.
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Thursday, 21 December 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
Cyndi Lauper's Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life is delightful.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
it’s the greatest!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 December 2017 02:09 (six years ago) link
Love this one todayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H_-ia2M2M4
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Sunday, 24 December 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
yeah it's definitely a singles affair. that St Etienne christmas album is an exception, it's so great.https://saintetienne.greedbag.com/buy/a-glimpse-of-stocking-vinyl-lp/
― campreverb, Sunday, 24 December 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
^although that was a compilation of fan club singles with a few new songs added!
Good (not by various artists) Christmas albums since 1970 that haven't already been mentioned:
Bobby Sherman - Christmas AlbumJackson 5 - Christmas AlbumRed Simpson - Truckers' ChristmasKenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Once Upon A ChristmasHilary Duff - Santa Clause LaneGötz Alsmann und die WDR Big Band - Winterwunderwelt
― Jeff W, Sunday, 24 December 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
*Claus
― Jeff W, Sunday, 24 December 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
Red Simpson - Truckers' Christmas
classic for sure!
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 25 December 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
My Christmas (and New Year) 2017 Spotify playlist. As ever, nods to the new recordings for this year, mixed in with old-but-new-to-me favourites and a few classics. Featuring: Leadbelly, Mariah, Prince, Gwen Stefani, Cheap Trick, Deerful, First Aid Kit, Patti Page, Ariel Pink, Girl Ray, Loona, Lawrence Welk and more. Happy holidays everyone.
https://open.spotify.com/user/worrellj14/playlist/6VVjGF3BTT9dGqQuvzEZNW
― Jeff W, Monday, 25 December 2017 00:40 (six years ago) link
earl nash's "floyd not floyd" thread had me on a steve miller kick. here's steve on the king biscuit flower hour doing god rest ye merry gentlemen -> fly like an eagle. (i tend to like christmas songs best when they're just interpolated into non-christmasy songs. like there's a song on "the electric lucifer" that's like that.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKS29ZP2_SI
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Monday, 25 December 2017 00:55 (six years ago) link
Heard Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" in a public setting (restaurant) for the first time ever last week. Probably a commonplace occurrence in Britain--not here.
― clemenza, Monday, 25 December 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
Repost of the 2015 Christmas concert w Gaby Moreno's soulful, shivery, yet no-frills delivery, mostly with a guitar or two (generally electric), a drum, mostly in Spanish, but you'll recognize the tunes (Gina Chavez and her uke or mando show up too):https://www.npr.org/sections/altlatino/2015/12/04/458352429/festivo-alt-latino-gaby-moreno-in-concert
― dow, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
Actually I don't recognize all the tunes, but all good.
― dow, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
In 3 a.m. sleeplessness the other night I started mashing up Jefferson Airplane lyrics with "Sleigh Ride."
Horror grips us as we WATCH-- you dieAll we can do is echo your ANG-- uished cryIt'll nearly be like a picture printBy Currier and IvesThese wonderful things are the thingsWe remember all through our lives
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 04:34 (six years ago) link
S: ...The Pretenders - "2000 Miles"...― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, December 1, 2003 4:41 AM (fourteen years ago)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, December 1, 2003 4:41 AM (fourteen years ago)
It's a weird Xmas/not-Xmas song but the way her phrasing is laid out upon the waltz is amazing and gorgeous. I love Chrissie.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
heard that for the first time this week. "christmas in california" is fantastic.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
Just discovered this one this year. It's a new year's song rather than Christmas, but it's lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WsVBAc3Hc4
― Buttery males (Dan Peterson), Friday, 29 December 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
it'd be cool if we can get a compilation of more christmas related songs this year
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
i guess i never replied to this but i liked these two tracks:
all our exes live in texas - how to make gravythe yawpers - christmas in oblivion
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
The new John Legend xmas album is quite good
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
is it...
legendary?
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
YES IN FACT IT IS
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
St Etienne's Christmas album is only 10 GBP right now, which is a steal considering the cd would cost you 5 times that much on the 2nd hand market. Get one for you and a friend, with only 2000 pressed, i'm surprised they've lasted this long. https://saintetienne.greedbag.com/buy/a-glimpse-of-stocking-vinyl-lp/
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
Search tool: http://everynoise.com/xmas_around_the_world.cgi
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
I just did a CTRL+F and couldn't find mention of Frightened Rabbit's It's Christmas So We'll Stop. It's beautiful.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/stars
this is wiaiwya's new (and second) xmas lp. features amelia's new band, darren hayman, bill from allo darlin, that kind of crowd. out on friday.
https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/christmastime-approximately
^ the previous one
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
I made it through all of Shatner Claus. I'd say about half of it works.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 1 December 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
An in-progress playlist of my faves: https://open.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/1DTUcvNiveCVZlV8uau5f2?si=M4DYU6FXQk-FE2YytnQVjQ
Fuzzy's "Christmas" and Aimee Mann & Michael Penn's "Christmastime" are annoyingly absent from Spotify.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 2 December 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
mentioned itt already but needs to be posted anywayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCY2JhrwxVs
― Celtoes Adidas (Spottie), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
Hip Christmas pointed out Rickie Lee Jones has some downloads on her site:https://rickieleejones.com/christmas.html
― campreverb, Monday, 17 December 2018 04:14 (five years ago) link
just found out Shoes did a christmas tune. classic Shoeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BE-iPVFUXU&fbclid=IwAR0getUcGdnrsWGf-VFnyskt9ldU-COP36R2IEKlOuXYmCBdVr4_qF3DLrQ
― form that slug-like grex (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
How have we gone a quarter century without a solid addition to the canon. How.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
Is there a consensus on the worst Christmas song? 'Christmas Shoes'?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
Because we realized that it's so much easier to just record covers of old songs than anything new. Or in Penatonix's case, covers of songs that have nothing to do with Christmas, but pass them off as Christmas songs.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
I've only listened to last christmas by wham! twice this year so far which is a disappointment
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6TD1PX22c
Julie on her second tour reminiscingThree Decembers in New York CitySelling fir treesPack a truck with 90 fir treesPack 'em tight
Julie on her second tour reminiscingThe cassette of Daydream Nation worn outThe Bernadette Peters autograph on my castThe CBGB t-shirt I'm wearing
The drive down from St. JohnWas almost always easyThe drive backOn Christmas Day was not
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 20 December 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
Happy BreXitMAS!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Xgktqp-Zw
― Jeff W, Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
xposts
Mariah’s “All I Want For Christmas is You” is surely part of the canon at this point and that was, what, 24 years ago?
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
I presume Old Lunch meant since Mariah
― Number None, Friday, 21 December 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link
A Rhode Island favorite. "No Frosty!"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ekgDJou6G0
― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 December 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
Yes, I meant since Mariah. There have been several additions to the xmas movie canon in that time, get with it musical artists.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Friday, 21 December 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
My favourite post-Mariah Xmas tracks (none of which I ever see ever becoming canonical):
Dar Williams, "The Christians and the Pagans" (1996)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_KiHRHwaAs
Fuzzy, "Christmas" (1996)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9gDz1VFyf0
Aimee Mann & Michael Penn, "Christmastime" (1996)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSkr6fr01M0
The Magnetic Fields, "Everything is One Big Christmas Tree" (2012)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PCeOrg2Tyc
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 21 December 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4iWO73zPL4
― koogs, Friday, 21 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
I have a playlist that I've ''''curated'''' and fashioned over the past years. It's bloody amazing. It's not only Christmas songs, soundtrack stuff, but also things that were xmas number ones or popular around Christmas time like Girls Aloud 'promise' or anything else I decide just sounds Christmassy. My OH added about 20 versions of 'last christmas' to it but I had to cull most of them.― kinder, Saturday, December 5, 2015 5:39 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― kinder, Saturday, December 5, 2015 5:39 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I never posted my playlist mainly because it's not a Spotify one but I'm on the lookout for lesser-known, GOOD, festive songs. It does have lots of the Home Alone soundtrack interspersed
― kinder, Friday, 21 December 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
Some quality songs that sound like holiday songs but are not necessarily, I don't think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjU-IQh8Txohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd1tNDpcbOs
And also 'Fjords of Winter' by Ladybug Transistor, which is apparently the only song in existence that isn't on YouTube but which is featured in this video at least:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml9H1INzqFc
I would love to see your playlist!
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
donny hathaway, "this christmas"
― andrew m., Friday, 21 December 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q5O6WnBF6g
I will never ever grow tired of this.david axelrod and lou rawls in their prime.
― mark e, Friday, 21 December 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
some of my favorites from dr. demento's xmas shows ca. '87-88:
bob rivers, "wreck the malls"yogi yorgesson, "i yust go nuts at christmas"cheech & chong, "santa claus and his old lady"bob & doug mckenzie, "the 12 days of christmas"
― andrew m., Friday, 21 December 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
that whole Lou Rawls album, my god.I suppose think it's lazy to say there has been nothing great since Carey. Low's "Just Like Christmas" is pretty much canon at this point, and there's great stuff every year, note the Khruangbin above.
― campreverb, Friday, 21 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
I *did* post my playlist after all!Christmas Songs - S&D!!!!
thank you for these Old Lunch et al! Love the Cymbals one.That Fuzzy one is going on the list
― kinder, Friday, 21 December 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
ah yes, love that cheech & chong track! i also love the barking dogs version of jingle bells from Dr Demento, cracks me up every time
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
Chris Molanphy's latest fits in with all this
https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/the-annual-contest-to-score-the-u-k-christmas-no-1.html
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 December 2018 00:39 (five years ago) link
FTR, I wasn't asserting that we've gone a quarter century with no good/great xmas music, just that nothing since Mariah has become a regular xmas rotation staple that you regularly hear on the radio or out shopping or whatevs. As someone else noted, anything 'new' I hear in those contexts is almost always a cover and rarely sticks around beyond the moment it was released. I'd even settle for a novelty single at this point. Where is the Jingle Cats of the 21st Century, I ask you?
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Saturday, 22 December 2018 04:18 (five years ago) link
my personal favourite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrVI9rgF3sY
― Number None, Saturday, 22 December 2018 06:32 (five years ago) link
https://authorsrecording.bandcamp.com/album/yuletide-bangerz
― errang (rushomancy), Saturday, 22 December 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
My Christmas 2018 Spotify playlist; the usual approach taken:https://open.spotify.com/user/worrellj14/playlist/34MKnVSxVRZC7iuIZsHBkR?si=vcMwerW-S4mNIgsvTE_coQ
Check out also the latest Project Moonbase playlist, 'Santa Claus's Tomb':https://open.spotify.com/user/projectmoonbase/playlist/0A4VrRUKNqMDtf1OEWU5ML?si=9TZTZIWnQrupSydGCI8mPg
Happy holidays, everyone.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 23 December 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
Only slightly updated since last year, but still all my fav Christmas songs (that are on Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/1c1STHtL9vh4ZDHgvwYNoc?si=hQyqRucDQCe6GIENNCp2rg
― seandalai, Monday, 24 December 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
Atlas Sound - Artificial Snow :*(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuBrMnQ0XmU
― J. Sam, Monday, 24 December 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
BLISSmas
https://soundcloud.com/bigloverecords/nite-jewel-all-i-want-forhttps://soundcloud.com/mike-simonetti/pale-blue-just-like-christmas-1https://banjoorfreakout.bandcamp.com/track/merry-christmas-baby
― seandalai, Monday, 24 December 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
My 2019 Spotify playlist. As ever, a mix of new or new to me, plus a few old favourites.https://open.spotify.com/playlist/472GsKvoB9YiBmaRTJttB2?si=uqithpceRcq21X_003kEIA
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
Also made a playlist (partly inspired by ilxor threads):
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1m444tcGkY42aZ2y8Fadmm
More winter than Xmas.
― djh, Thursday, 26 December 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
If there was ever a year to listen to John Prine's "Christmas in Prison" on repeat, it's this one.
The searchlight in the big yard swings round with the gunAnd spotlights the snowflakes like dust in the sunIt's Christmas in prison, there'll be music tonightI'll prob'ly get homesickI love youGoodnight
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 6 December 2020 02:55 (three years ago) link
Really feeling “Christmas Island” this year - Ernest Tubb & Leon Redbone versions.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 December 2020 04:08 (three years ago) link
Heard something interesting off the radio today, a special on Nat King Cole: he recorded "The Christmas Song" three times with three different arrangements, and you can tell the earliest one because he incorrectly pluralizes "reindeers."
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 December 2020 04:12 (three years ago) link
This seems quite Christmas-y to me ...
https://hamrahlidchoir.bandcamp.com/album/come-and-be-joyful
― djh, Sunday, 6 December 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
An actual xmas banger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTiWbbFFhGgJohnny O. Bazz – Xmas Eve
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Monday, 14 December 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
extremely festive!
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 December 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbeG1XrZPJs
― xzanfar, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnGtRWa7Yk
― xzanfar, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMIa7A0boKo
― xzanfar, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
this worked perfectly as my Xmas song Last Christmas, and will no doubt do so again this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZVL_8D048Master KG ft. Nomcebo Zikode • Jerusalema
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 December 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL6NnhCUpNM
― xzanfar, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xpcrBioETw
― xzanfar, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfbQCmafsQg
― xzanfar, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
Johnny O. Bazz – Xmas Eve― kites aren't fun (NickB), Monday, 14 December 2020 20:58 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Monday, 14 December 2020 20:58 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is great! Had never heard it before.
― timber euros (seandalai), Monday, 14 December 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVgRsWBb2l4
― timber euros (seandalai), Monday, 14 December 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
just heard the bad religion christmas album from 2013. I’m sure the novelty will wear thin fast but in my current fragile state its synthesis of superficially opposed nostalgias seems to reconcile some sort of deep seated turmoil in my psyche and it moves me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB2l6UESSyo
― Left, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
Here’s a new one
We are pleased to announce The Long Blondes 'Christmas Is Cancelled' will be released just in time for Christmas by @BlowUpRecords #thelongblondes #Christmas2020 #newmusic @NME @BBC6Music @marcrileydj @steve_lamacq@matteveritt https://t.co/Sn2mRKLuzA— Blow Up Records (@BlowUpRecords) December 16, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
had slept on this: https://santasabbath.bandcamp.com/album/children-of-the-sleigh
― timber euros (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
Listening to the Soulful Strings recommended way upthread, this is great! Hits the perfect spot for me between jazz and kitschy easy listening.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
i am going to get my hands on this, it sounds perfect
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
Annual post of my favourite-Christmas-songs playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1c1STHtL9vh4ZDHgvwYNoc
― timber euros (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVYXGoH_peg
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 17 December 2020 06:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPm0o04lGE
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 17 December 2020 06:34 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry7PcYtKPhA
Discovered a Johnny Horton christmas song & it is a goddamn treathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZVHlRYhbCo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 December 2020 07:07 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHRINgBk3YA
― groovypanda, Thursday, 17 December 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQRKxJyHvQmary margret o hara - silent nightalways pull this e.p. up, this time of year, happy xmas, everyone
― Swanswans, Saturday, 19 December 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE3185A180A218F2Dcount your blessings - a selection of seasonal songs with ace vocalists including mary margret o hara
― Swanswans, Saturday, 19 December 2020 13:37 (three years ago) link
S: James Brown - “let’s make Christmas mean something this year”
― brimstead, Saturday, 19 December 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
I have that album! beat to shit with some skips on side 1 but it's hard to find
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
I've just put out a mix / compilation of very old Xmas recordingshttps://centuriesofsound.com/2020/12/21/centuries-of-sound-presents-deep-magic-christmas-recordings-1902-1924/
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 21 December 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbL9Vsobx8I
― cajunsunday, Monday, 21 December 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link
not xmas per se, but extremely seasonal and guaranteed to lift the spirits of all:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdJ0FcjMGD8Samthing Soweto ft. Mzansi Youth Choir • The Danko! Medley
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Monday, 21 December 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link
Here's a playlist of new xmas songs from this year that I enjoyed. Only 4 out of 47 are "Last Christmas" covers.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6g0NuGUoyTyqXmIHnKM2D6?si=U-v86VgdQry3pWs7zY8Gpg
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 21 December 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
My all-time favorite Xmas song. Cary Grant's "Here's to You" - the smooth "a votre santé", the sincere "shalom, sha - lom!", the rushed "kung hee fat choy" - is the gift that has kept on giving to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGPKnVHL1yY
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 21 December 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
Here's my heavy 2020 list-https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6s88CJdMQ9Wbudqe5DcY5iBelated discovery of the year-I'd been aware of the Arbor Records Christmas comps (https://www.npr.org/2016/12/20/506152779/songs-we-love-the-classic-brown-christmas-sweaters) but had never really dug in before. Man was I missing out. Great original Christmas albums are pretty rare, but this one sure made 2020 a little more tolerable.https://theclassicbrown.bandcamp.com/
― campreverb, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
I've been enjoying The Angry Snowmans this year. Christmas punk parodies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ji9K3sz56A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdWAuqXvaQ
They even did a Nomeansno parody this year.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6YjlTMg-Vk
Only so many gifts can be slung with eight deer, one sleigh, on one run.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
Oh, I posted this in another thread but I guess this is the one that is popping
Thom Gill has a gift for us all:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJEXDhqgtcw/?igshid=1po3b1tjo8nt7
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
For me it's the Eurythmics' version of "Winter Wonderland" as one of the most iconic Christmas songs.
I remember it being huge as a kid on the radio, in department stores (seemed like everyone had that "A Very Special Christmas" album), so I was shocked to see how low its play counts were in the digital world these days. None of the multiple decade-old uploads on Youtube have yet to crack a million; it has about 3.5 million plays on Spotify (roughly the same as some of the tracks on the Sufjan Stevens Christmas album). Apparently only made the Billboard Holiday chart at #41 in 2011 and not since then... Both the Phil Spector/Darlene Love & Tony Bennett versions have charted from airplay and streaming in more recent years.
― gregorianpants, Thursday, 24 December 2020 06:13 (three years ago) link
I never forget to come back to the Mountain Goats' rendition of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5I7y4xvPoU
Through the years we all will be together...
In the grave. That's where we'll all actually be together is in the grave.
...if the fates allow
― peace, man, Thursday, 24 December 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
I bought the Soulful Strings’ ‘Magical Christmas’ album (recommended itt) & it is delightful. Love!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 December 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
^yep, one of the very best
Here is my Spotify Christmas playlist for this year. The usual mix of new and not so new. At 45 songs, it’s a bit longer than usual. There seem to be a LOT more new seasonal recordings this year compared with the norm. Also, there were quite a few finds from the People’s Pop polls on Twitter (just finished) that I had to squeeze in.
Link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4054OsQgPWQejHoBtxJsOa?si=JwfloeTsSLWWjSXItV2MzQ
― Jeff W, Thursday, 24 December 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
Mi Burrito Sabanero - originally from Venezuela - is very popular in latinamerican countries and has the plus of being a christmas song that you can dance to.
Get to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B36074Q1G7U
Also if you’d rather dance to it “banda” style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKNQudGnLuo
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 24 December 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Thanks, that one's new to me! I haven't really dug into Spanish-language Christmas apart from all the Fania Christmas albums and some Celia Cruz.
I see Calexico cover Mi Burrito Sabanero on their new Christmas album/I see Calexico have a new Christmas album/it's kind of boring
― timber euros (seandalai), Friday, 25 December 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link
Speaking of Spanish language Christmas, just came to say ¡Feliz Vanidad!
― And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
Or even ¡Felisa me muero!
― And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jueRg0H1_Jo
― timber euros (seandalai), Friday, 25 December 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KvWwJ6sh5s
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 January 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
this is the onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncgtgDE253s
― Spottie, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
The Specials - a message to you rudy
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
are you confusing that with Do Nothing? (check the jumpers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhGDdXg1o-Q
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
hmm....different context same name. it's Rudy 24/7, especially on christmas.
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
I heard this lovely little song on this year's holiday episode of Sound Opinions. The artist is Allan Hull, who was in 70s folk-rock band called Lindisfarne that I'd never heard of, though this song was from a posthumous 1996 solo album (Hull died in '95).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOSQEMmWh9E
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Saturday, 18 December 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
S: François-Auguste Gevaert harmonisation of "Les anges dans nos campagnes"/"Angels We Have Heard on High"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hGYcz5oSFQ
― treat the gelignite tenderly for me (Sund4r), Thursday, 23 December 2021 13:35 (two years ago) link
There are a couple of the Starbucks Christmas comps that get a lot of play in our house this time of year. Some of the more enjoyable tracks:
Louis Armstrong with Benny Carter and his Orchestra - Christmas Night in HarlemThe Roches - Good King WenceslasCyndi Lauper & Norah Jones - Home for the Holidays
― o. nate, Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
Christmas songs are terrible dreck for the most part.I did make a Spotify Playlist of Christmas Songs that Don't Suck that highlights the exceptions.
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― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 23 December 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
Yikes, thank didn't work!
This should: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11F05Gtve6aUtyRlczdA1v?si=a46f84052874454c
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 23 December 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
Nice one two punch at the beginning!
― Circle Sky Pilot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 December 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
Smithsonian Folkways playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YG4eIRIiZRrzhMA0fZq6j?si=03ba7c4aad6a49b0&nd=1
― djh, Friday, 24 December 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
:D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 December 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
Does anyone have a link to, I guess, a “blues/jazz” playlist… like what I would hear growing up on the radio in Washington DC? The kind of thing when you hear five great versions of “Merry Christmas Baby” in the course of a few hours, interspersed with jazz Xmas tunes, etc.
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Friday, 24 December 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Ry_YaXss4
Big Christmas in chimney and in rest of house
― saer, Friday, 24 December 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
This sounded good tonight:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012rgj
Late Junction-y - Claire M Singer, Laura Cannell, Nils Frahm etc ...
― djh, Friday, 24 December 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link
Smithsonian Folkways playlist:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YG4eIRIiZRrzhMA0fZq6j?si=03ba7c4aad6a49b0&nd=1🕸
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Saturday, 25 December 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
My Xmas 2021 playlist. Very late this year (too busy ensuring we could all get together this year, Covid-free, to give this much attention). So, rather hastily thrown together last night, then road tested at lunchtime, then tweaked a bit. I think it passes muster now.
Usual mix of old and brand new, with the emphasis on songs/versions that are new to me. Season's greetings to all ILXers.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1bKrVlYDJERlJzNWoRvNF3?si=0445d2bf46bf4045
― Jeff W, Saturday, 25 December 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link