― 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
: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