Christmas Songs - S&D!!!!

Rosie Thomas - Why Can't It Be Christmastime All Year

One of the great unrereleased Christmas albums is Hortense Ellis and Trinity's African Christmas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iRUitMxJPY

that settles the question whether they know it's christmas time at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiC2LHL_eZ4
I try to post this every Dec 21st

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)

My favorite Christmas/Hanukkah song of all time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV9tJ-YTnTQ

Hey I made a playlist of my 111 favourite Christmas songs that are on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/1c1STHtL9vh4ZDHgvwYNoc

Okay, "Jingle Bells" by Celia Cruz and La Sonora Matancera is great.

So in other words, recommending seandalai's playlist to the rest of you.

there is something downright disturbing about this union:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpY7rRBH2q0

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

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

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

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

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 (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 ...

Alternative Spotify Playlist title: "Fuck Grandma and the Reindeer Too"

Tracks on the playlist that are not mentioned in the thread above include:

King Diamond - No Presents For Christmas
AC/DC - Mistress For Christmas
Spinal Tap - Christmas With The Devil
GWAR - Stripper Christmas Summer Weekend
Tom Waits - Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
The Vandals - Oi To The World (though someone mentioned the No Doubt version)
The Sonics - Don't Believe In Christmas
Eazy-E - Merry Muthafuckin' Xmas
Julian Casablancas - Christmas Treat (technically a cover)
The Fall - (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas
Dragonette - Merry Xmas (Says Your Text Message)
Hanoi Rocks - Dead By Xmas
The Dirtbombs - My Last Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mER2fGuSqF8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk-QghlI97Y

The Moomins single I shared on the other Christmas songs thread is now on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0Vga3sw6B4C14Y6sydCdkH

Search: 'Christmas Wrapping'
Destroy: 'Wonderful Christmastime'

search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0NoalRsk5w

destroy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxomWFi3qZc

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

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

yeah the song poem album is all-time

Excuse me, but where is Wizzard!?

^^^

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.

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?

"Step Into Christmas?"

Yeah, destroy that one too.

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.

destroy: "hallelujah" as a christmas song especially THIS YEAR

search: The Living Sisters - Harmony is Real: Songs for a Happy Holiday

A recent go-to along w/ the low Christmas album

Also destroy: 'Mistletoe and Wine'

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

Lhasa de Sela - Peces en el rio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmipW6tWP9s

Love that it's a Christmas song that sounds like Klezmer.

Did anything notable come out this year? I haven't been paying attention so much.

For Klezmer Christmas also check out the Klezmonauts' Oy To The World

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.

thank you seandalai checking it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ4kptfxlHo

Leslie Odom Jr's xmas album is SO good

simple arrangements & very pleasing nostalgic, old-school style, and his voice is gorgeous

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

Nice piece by Richard Williams on David Sigerson's 'It's a big country' https://thebluemoment.com/2016/12/23/a-christmas-no-1/

Um, Davitt. Damn autocorrect.

Merry shoegaze everyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79rS-sl9tSg

Official Christmas anthem of the seandalai household

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwMuHy8t_Vk