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