oh and this (I have the Have a Nice Day set, had no idea this existed!)
http://www.allmusic.com/album/have-a-nice-christmas-holiday-hits-of-the-70s-mw0000626272
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/505/MI0001505866.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 04:25 (nine years ago) link
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=4901
― djh, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
^ Saint Etienne presents: Songs for a London Winter.
― djh, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
I'm groaning at the effortless predictability of that compilation. Tracklist, title, cover, sleevenotes, ad copy et al. all apparently created by a St Etienne compilation app.
― everything, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I can see that. It was posted in more of a "I wonder if this is of interest?" kind of way than as an endorsement.
― djh, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
have a pretty low tolerance for Xmas pop, but enjoy hearing this
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
Dinah Washington's Ole Santa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UMwfdY_90s
― xelab, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
I love Chet Bakers' underrated as fuck Silent Nights. It is more like an album to commit suicide to, but still a wonderfully majestic shambles of a christmas album.
― xelab, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
^^^OTM!
― *tera, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
From the great Dust to Digital release, Where Will You Be Christmas Day?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBcJGIwy3Ns
― Jazzbo, Saturday, 22 November 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
some incredible advice in this
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11258606/Cool-party-playlist-how-to-compile-the-ultimate-one.html
― piscesx, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
has anyone seen the Edyie Gorme and Trios Los Panchos Christmas record anywhere?http://www.allmusic.com/album/navidad-means-christmas-mw0000264013
― campreverb, Thursday, 4 December 2014 02:21 (nine years ago) link
This year's mix.1 Hell's Threshold Clark Griswold2 My Girlfriend (Forgot Me This Christmas) The Click Five3 Holly Jolly Christmas Old 97's4 Santa Done Gone Hip The Marquees 5 Frosty the Snowman The Ronettes6 I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You Saint Etienne7 Winter Wonderland Peggy Lee8 Cool Yule Louis Armstrong9 Run Rudolph Run Keith Richards10 Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus George Jones & Tammy Wynette11 I Love The Holidays Office Romance12 Last Month Of The Year Chris Isaak13 2,000 Miles Mark Kozelek14 My Christmas Card To You The Partridge Family15 The Little Drummer Boy Kenny Burrell16 Christmas Wrapping The Waitresses17 Christmas Lights Billy Childish18 It's Christmas Time Yo La Tengo19 Linus and Lucy Vince Gueraldi Trio20 Christmas All Summer Long Deer Tick21 Please Come Home For Christmas The Insight 22 The Christmas Waltz She & Him23 No Lou This Xmas Tom Dyer24 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Vanessa Carlton25 A Christmas Duel The Hives & Cyndi Lauper26 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Cat Power
― campreverb, Friday, 19 December 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
man, only a week til coffee shops no longer require earplugs
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 December 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
would happily take most of that list over the crap you usually hear in coffeeshops
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 December 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
well yeah last night i got the recordings no one need ever hear again
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 December 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
could definitely do without most of the 40s/50s standards at this point. also kind of resent any song about snow since i live in the desert.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 December 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
Here's mine:
1. The Snaildartha 6 - A Snail Is Born2. The Salsoul Orchestra - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen3. Martin Mull ft. The Sondra Baskin Glee Club - Santafly4. Gilberto Santa Rosa - Medley De Navidad5. The Boss Jaguars! - O Come, O Come Emmanuel6. The Dukes Of Dixieland - Frosty The Snowman7. Fire Eyes - O Falling Snow8. Bob Seger & The Last Heard - Sock It To Me Santa9. The Goons - I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas10. Saturday's Children - Deck Five11. Gable Hall School Choir - Reggae Christmas12. Bindley B - Santa Looking For A Wife13. Vin Bruce - Christmas on the Bayou14. Booker T & The MGs - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town15. Sheb Wooley - Santa Claus Meets The Purple People Eater16. Debbie & The Darnels - Santa Teach Me To Dance17. Whistle - Santa Is A B-Boy18. Tav Bains - Dil Diya (Last Christmas)19. Owen Gray - Christmas Greetings20. Carollers From The Royal Hotel, Dungwort - Pentonville21. John Denver - Christmas For Cowboys22. Douglas Leedy - Joy To The World23. The Uniques - Merry Christmas Darling24. Machinefabriek - Silent Night
http://www.mixcloud.com/ialadnaes/christmas-2014/
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Friday, 19 December 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
OMG Christmas on the Moon with Tim Dinkins (i.e. this thing) has just been added to Spotify. No Christmas playlist complete without a track from it.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 20 December 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
you'd think that John Denver christmas album would be amazing, but it's not.
― campreverb, Monday, 22 December 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't think that, actually. :-)
Brave Combo did a live webcast from their studio last week that made me as happy as anything has this holiday season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PZzFlcGb2s
― The Thelonius Monk of nu-ki? (Dan Peterson), Monday, 22 December 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaRaZlYbwq0
this one you guys.
― how's life, Monday, 22 December 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
I find "Christmas for Cowboys" quite special but the Denver album as a whole isn't great. The Red Simpson Christmas album, on the other hand:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK5CZZpaQ4Q
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQfZj_QHspg
i kinda love this album.twee excess.crimbo excess.no shame.
― mark e, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
a bit more xmas glam in the groove ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMiTNe8gHIg
― mark e, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
and not one mention of the girls aloud xmas album !?
which i happen to think is rather bloody good.
― mark e, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
My 2014 Advent Calendar / mix
Bobby Sherman - Prologue01 The Bird and The Bee - A Christmas Compromise02 Earth, Wind and Fire - December03 Hot Chocolate - Brand New Christmas04 Frank Sidebottom - Christmas is Really Fantastic05 Kierra Sheard and Chrisette Michelle - Angels We Have Heard On High06 The Soulful Strings - Snowfall07 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree08 Celia Cruz - Jingle Bells09 Princess Superstar - Hope I Sell A Lot of Records at Christmas10 Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Santa Claus is Coming To Town11 Douglas Leedy - The Coventry Carol12 Far East Movement feat. MNEK - Christmas in Downtown LA13 Nina and Frederik - Christmas Time in London Town14 Roland Kirk - We Free Kings15 X Ray Pop - Fuzzy Christmas16 Christopher Lee - Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing17 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me18 Susan Kay (w/ Tim Dinkins) - I Won't Let You Lick My Candy Bar19 Raymond Scott - Siberian Sleighride20 Donny Hathaway - This Christmas21 Eric Winstone and His Band - Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?22 Man Or Astroman? - Frosty the Snowman23 William Shatner - Good King Wenceslas24 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Il Est Ne Le Divin EnfantBobby Sherman - Amen
Link to Spotify playlist - http://t.co/ehXNuIfcZf or http://spoti.fi/1wF8f64
Merry Chritsmas!
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T-3FtRFsxw
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
ctrl-f indicates a lack of John Prine in this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD2_gx9PrZc
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
15 X Ray Pop - Fuzzy Christmas
so good
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuTWA6SBupY
Departure Lounge - Christmas Downer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOgBcA_oWuI
― you've got no fans you've got no ground (anagram), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Feeling this right nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StpqrzdLTFM
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
Happy Holidays everyone.
(Just posted this on a thread for Nico at ILM, but maybe I should have posted it here?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5WlUKxLKT4
― am.curious.sometimes, Thursday, 25 December 2014 02:19 (nine years ago) link
oh hey I never heard that version before
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
real talk there is no better Christmas song than "Morning Christmas"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of72CQmBKvw
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:24 (nine years ago) link
Fantastic Everlasting Gobstopper - Schoolgirl Psychedelia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah9U5BHoiF4
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:35 (nine years ago) link
that Dennis Wilson song is amazing!
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
The Flirtations - Christmas Time Is Here Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wjchvZMDE
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
Kathy & Carol - Brightest and Best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzQz8nzWs2A
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
Chauntelle DuPree - Walking in the Air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQR0oVYJLPE
I've never even seen The Snowman, but this is beautiful
― yusef latifah (unregistered), Thursday, 25 December 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
I must be the only person I know who does not like Phil Spector's Christmas Album.
Give me Andy Williams and Johnny Mathis any day. They remind me of my grandfather's Oldsmobile and his Benson & Hadges.
― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Thursday, 25 December 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
It is mentioned a few times itt, but I just got Jimmy Smith's Christmas album and highly recommend it. Groovy.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 28 November 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
Off thread topic, but his Dynamic Duo lp with Wes Montgomery is also essential.
― xelab, Saturday, 28 November 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
Actually it contains the seasonal Baby, Its Cold Outside so sort of on topic
― xelab, Saturday, 28 November 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
I bought the Air Supply christmas album for $3. Yet to find out if I overpaid
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 November 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
this thread has reminded me of my own posting re the xmas album by the boy least likely to.had totally forgotten about it.off to go a digging.the tim wheeler/emmy the great xmas album is a lot of fun aswell.that said, my fave, is still the girls aloud mini-lp that came with early editions of 'chemistry'.love that way more than all the over exposed classics.
― mark e, Saturday, 28 November 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
that beach boys song seandalai posted last christmas is fab.
not really into the festive tune spirit yet tho, usually i'm already itching to put together an all-christmas playlist by mid-november :'(
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 10:11 (eight years ago) link
2015 Mix. Take It Russ Clark GriswoldWhat Christmas Means to Me CeeLo GreenMerry Christmas, Baby Beach BoysDear Santa Mr. Little JeansI Was Born On Christmas Day Saint EtienneSanta Claus Is Comin' to Town Lou RawlsRun Run Rudolph Dwight YoakamMust Be Santa Bob DylanMr. & Mrs. Santa Claus George Jones & Tammy WynetteCountdown to Christmas AnchovySilver Bells Raul MaloOnly You (with James Corden) Kylie MinogueSilent Night Nick LoweChristmas (Baby Please Come Home) Darlene LoveMistletoe Justin BieberIt's ChristmasTime Yo La TengoSleigh Ride The Soulful StringsWinter Night Eydie GorméChristmas Time's A Coming Emmylou HarrisLonely Pup (In a Christmas Shop) Adam FaithChristmas Wrapping The WaitressesChristmas Blues Charles Brown with Bill DoggettHang a String of Lights Great Lake SwimmersOnly Dust Behind Allo Darlin'Children Go Where I Send You Nina SimoneChristmas Eve Firefox AK & Tiger Lou
― campreverb, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:27 (eight years ago) link
Los Straitjackets pretty reliably kill it on Christmas tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CFsaNKRTIs
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 23:57 (eight years ago) link
thanks to Stevie D for the XTC 'Countdown To Christmas' recommendation (7 years ago lol) it's amazing.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 12:30 (seven years ago) link