Christmas Songs - S&D!!!!

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

Destroy: that dreadful Pentatonix cover of "Hallelujah" that my local holiday station has in aggressively high rotation.

Is that a Christmas song?

It is now.

uggggh i heard that the other night on the way home from work. noped right out after like 10 seconds. Bleuch.

yeah and how is it even a holiday song. piss off

You rang?
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lol

that Gregory Porter appearance on Marr earlier is still troubling my thoughts. He always had a touch of "Pebble Mill at One Bill Withers" about him, but his christmas album of Nat King Cole covers is absolute wank.

in good christmas music news, i got a copy of Daryl Hall & John Oates’ Home for Christmas album <3

i blame alexandra burke (really simon cowell) for "hallelujah" now being a holiday song

i made this last year and it features among others XTC, Alexander O Neal, Dragonette, Ariana Grande and The Marx Brothers

https://www.mixcloud.com/damienjohnstone/

shld we poll an americana christmas?

i love old 79's here it is christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm0xHpqjvq4

There's really very little past the 1960's that's not terrible. I think my entire idea of what Christmas should sound like is cemented as either Nat King Cole or the Vince Guaraldi Trio, and everything else is a terrible scourage designed to soundtrack your shopping.