Christmas Songs - S&D!!!!

http://www.mute.biz/can/silentnight.html

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.

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."

thank you Curt1s! s'nice!!

I put together a top ten for my blog. http://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/my-top-ten-christmas-songs/

Bloody hell, has anyone still got that Can version of Silent Night?!

I have it on vinyl somewhere.

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.

I'm like you Nick: halfway through January and I STILL don't feel Christmassy.

I'll send it to you this evening - my reply upthread was a bit pointless, sorry. Any punctuation in your gmail address?

Nope, just the dot before the com.

Thank you!

Bizarrely it was Rio Ferdinand who inspired me to seek out obscure Xmas songs again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPqH-U_Rhe4

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!

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!

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

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_HgubLA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3uXTPV_X5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCsa2-WP-iA

Wonder what effect the upcoming Cee Lo Green Xmas record will have on the thread...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCY2JhrwxVs

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*?

think you should take the "s" out of "https"

thanks anagram!

i think this is worth reposting for ease of reference, i can't believe no one's put it up yet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCY2JhrwxVs

also this is pretty sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e25McLH-I04

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.

None of these are really "about" Christmas:

Trinity - Santa Claus Comes Once a Year
Caetano Veloso - In the Hot Sun of a Christmas Day
August Darnell - Christmas on Riverside Drive

never too early for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODjDz_6SWik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ4ApY9YbYw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-i8S-1MzKI

https://soundcloud.com/localactionrecords/dj-q-all-i-want-for-xmas-is-q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtbkcVd0ODM

the Carly Rae version of Last Christmas is kind of a disappointment.

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

i just put on soul christmas and the guaraldi peanuts stuff and that does me just fine

true, I put on Christmas in the Heart :-)

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.

neat!

wow! Hey when I try to pull up last year's playlists by city/country, it doesn't go anywhere?

It's a damn shame that Tracey Thorn only appears on the Sweden list. Her Christmas album is great.

what's with the abnormally high rate for christmas music in the philippines?

am I alone in finding Freddie Mercury's dramatic style a bit... inappropriate in "Thank God It's Christmas"?

Nope...kind of feel the same way about the Prince Christmas tune too.

the Carly Rae version of Last Christmas is kind of a disappointment.

OMG it is not!

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.

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.

2010- Bigg Robb "I Want a Big Woman for Christmas" southern soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7zWxgTUzvk

I have a playlist that I've ''''curated'''' and fashioned over the past years. It's bloody amazing.
can you post or link it?

preach, Big Robb

Any good jazz xmas albums out there apart from Vince Guaraldi (my fave)?

this is quite nice

http://eil.com/images/main/Ramsey+Lewis+Sound+Of+Christmas+479333.jpg

this too
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ccOv7TRyL.jpg