― tigerclawskank, Friday, 6 December 2002 14:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 6 December 2002 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 6 December 2002 16:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 December 2002 16:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ned's right, too. As are most of you. (Someone must've mentioned Wham's "Last Christmas" up in there, yes?)
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 6 December 2002 18:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 6 December 2002 19:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Monday, 9 December 2002 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 9 December 2002 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Monday, 9 December 2002 04:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 9 December 2002 05:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 9 December 2002 06:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Miss Donahue died on December 9, 1996 after a year-long battle withlung cancer. She was 40. If you are ever in the Cleveland area andwould like to visit her grave site, she is buried in Holy CrossCemetery, Section 13, Lot 782."
― J. Vincent (JtheV), Friday, 23 December 2005 05:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Christmas 'portable' CD80 GO!
1. Vince Guaraldi Trio - O Tannenbaum
2. Bing Crosby - White Christmas
3. Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song
4. Frank Sinatra - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
5. Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock
6. Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
7. Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad
8. The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
9. John Denver & The Muppets - Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
10. Burl Ives - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
11. Gene Autry - Here Comes Santa Claus
12. Burl Ives - Holly Jolly Christmas
13. Dean Martin - Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
14. Earth Kitt - Santa Baby
15. Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
16. The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
17. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
18. Belle & Sebastian - O Come O Come Emmanuel
19. Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy
20. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
21. Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite Opus 71a: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
22. Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time is Here
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 24 December 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
ze xmas is rockin my world right now y'know
― I know, right?, Monday, 24 December 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
"Christmas is Now Drawing Near" on Coil's "Winter Solstice" EP and the cover of "Old Toy Trains" that Sonic Boom posted on his website a couple of years ago are both lovely.
― novaheat, Monday, 24 December 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh. I should've checked to see if the MP3 was even still posted. It's not. Sorry. You'll just have to take my word for it.
― novaheat, Monday, 24 December 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Check out "Frohes Fest" by Unheilig. German carols in the style of Laibach or Rammstein, done totally straight and beautifully produced. If that sounds good, you need to download it now! "Kling, Glockchen, Klingelingeling!"
― Soukesian, Monday, 24 December 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
the best Christmas song =
Tom Waits, "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis"
― stephen, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Soukesian, Monday, December 24, 2007 9:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
thanx 4 the tip
― Lingbert, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
My Christmas present to yall is this song Red Red Meat - Welcome Christmas
― CaptainLorax, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, I like the Yes singer's version of "The Holly and the Ivy" the best. (Jon Anderson)
― CaptainLorax, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
HMHB own this thread.
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 04:22 (sixteen years ago) link
― uosdwis r ɹәwoh (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 29 November 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I've started listening to Christmas music. Have you? What are the Christmas releases you're looking forward to this year?
Concord has reissued Christmas with Sinatra and Friends and Ray Charles: The Spirit Of Christmas.
A Fine Frenzy (who?) "will be releasing the six-song EP Oh Blue Christmas, available exclusively at Target, Target.com and the Target area on iTunes."
What else?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 24 October 2009 05:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Wintersong by Sarah McLachlan is a gorgeous collection of Christmas songs.
― anagram, Saturday, 24 October 2009 07:05 (fourteen years ago) link
PlaylistSufjan Stevens - Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas EverydayPaul McCartney- Wonderful Christmas TimeMariah Carey- All I Want for Christmas Is YouSlade - Merry Xmas EveryboySufjan Stevens - Put the Lights on the TreeElton John - Step Into ChristmasJohn Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over)The Raveonettes - The Christmas SongRon Sexsmith - Maybe This ChristmaThe Pogues - Fairytale of New YorkChris Rea - Driving Home for ChristmasShakin Stevens - Merry Christmas EveryoneJona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry
Eels - Christmas is Going to the DogsDean Martin - Let it Snow! x3Sufjan Stevens - Amazing GraceBright Eyes - Away in a MangerMike Oldfield -In Dulee JubiloBob Dylan - Little Drummer BoyDiana Krall -Winter WonderlandFrank Sinatra - The First NoelSufjan Stevens - O Come O Come EmmanuelBright Eyes - Blue ChristmasFrank Sinatra - Hard! The Herald Angles SingSufjan Stevens - The First NoelMud - Lonely This Christmas
― Josh L, Saturday, 24 October 2009 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbMYyU3lPi8
― abcfsk, Saturday, 24 October 2009 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
jeez leave it till December YOU'RE RUINING IT FOR EVERYONE.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 24 October 2009 12:19 (fourteen years ago) link
No mention of Kurtis Blow yet?
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 November 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Thread bumped because it was a long car ride home with half the radio stations now switched over to full-time Christmas music.
None of which played "Christmas Rappin"
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 November 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Josh L, mediafire your playlist pretty please with Xmas sugar on top.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 28 November 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Last couple Christmases, selections from Amahl and the Night Visitors was really doing it for me.
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 November 2009 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Could somebody maybe share with me the Sonic Boom "Old Toy Trains" cover and the ZE Records comp?
― Stevie D, Saturday, 28 November 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait, nevermind, I found the Sonic Boom track (which was released as Dean & Britta f/ Sonic Boom, apparently).
― Stevie D, Saturday, 28 November 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
You haven't lived until you've heard Cher and Rosie O'Donnell's "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" with Rosie's vocals autotuned or whatever that thing was on Cher's voice in "Believe":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhNs42nhkhA
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 3 December 2009 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
It's either Vince Guaraldi, Slade, the new Dylan for lols, or nuthin
― Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate, Thursday, 3 December 2009 08:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anybody ever heard the Rotary Connection Christmas album? I picked it up for a buck over the weekend, but haven't listened to it. (Just not in the mood yet.)
― henry s, Thursday, 3 December 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Lou Rawls
― black lightning light (herb albert), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://felt.planetaclix.pt/Related/images/denimaster.jpg
― E Poxy Thee Thule (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Low's Christmas album, right this second. It's starting to achieve Guaraldi stature for me after a decade's worth of playing it.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Recently got the 2-on-1 John Fahey's k-klassik Xmas alb's. the 1968 solo & the 1975 (mostly) duo's with Richard Ruskin. Waaaaay cool yule tunes.
― t**t, Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Ingo Star Cruiser's cover of Low's Just Like Christmas, more ramshackle and even christmassy than the original.
― poster x (ledge), Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Just made this, anyone want a copy?
01 The Dandy Warhols - Little Drummer Boy02 Cristina - Things Fall Apart03 Cocteau Twins - Frosty The Snowman04 Low - Just Like Christmas05 Dean & Britta with Sonic Boom - Old Toy Trains06 The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York07 Saint Etienne - I Was Born on Christmas Day08 XTC - Countdown to Christmas Party Time09 TLC - Sleigh Ride10 The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping11 Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis12 Sonics - Santa Clause13 The Raveonettes - Come On Santa14 Six By Seven - I Believe In Father Christmas15 Teenage Fanclub - Christmas Eve16 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You17 Fear - Fuck Christmas18 The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)19 The Vandals - Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies.20 Lisi - My Silent Night21 Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin'22 Alan Vega - No More Christmas Blue23 Prince - Another Lonely Christmas
― Udon Nomi (Stevie D), Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Um, yes! You know where to find me.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes please. Does anyone have the playlist for the one spencer chow did a few years back, I still have all the tunes but not the order.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
*ssssshhhh!!! http://www.sendspace.com/file/10legh *
― Udon Nomi (Stevie D), Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
'Last Christmas' has been owning me pretty hard
― 囧 (dyao), Friday, 4 December 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
No love for the Carpenters' Christmas Portrait? Maybe it's just because I grew up on it, but it's the warmest and homey-est feeling Christmas album I know of. If, y'know, that's your thing.
― Pooping And Crying (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 4 December 2009 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Usually can't stand Bob Dylan, but video and song here is pretty cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVs6X9yIM_k
― Cosmic Ugg (S-), Friday, 4 December 2009 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link
This is the worst Christmas song I've heard in a long while. I heard it in a store and almost had to drop everything and get out of there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSzYapIhhI
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 20 December 2018 08:11 (five years ago) link
This, on the other hand, is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JpKiqublLQ
― groovypanda, Thursday, 20 December 2018 08:31 (five years ago) link
I wish “a Minor Threat Christmas” was a thing
― calstars, Sunday, 23 December 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
skronk Christmas in an Albert Ayler style: https://marswilliams.bandcamp.com/album/mars-williams-presents-an-ayler-xmas-vol-2
― seandalai, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
yeah, was blasting out 16 minute xmas medley off that this morning - very good.
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
Probably not a popular opinion around here, but I picked up Diana Krall’s Christmas Songs in a charity shop, and maybe I’m just a sucker for a contralto voice but I’ve listened to it daily for the last couple weeks.
― Hakuna Mutato (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
A Christmas Gift to You from Phil SpectorThe New Possibility by John FaheyA Charlie Brown ChristmasMerry Christmas Everybody - SladeChristmas in Hollis - Run DMC
― Ae$op Rocky (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 02:44 (five years ago) link
Bleak AF.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQgsiSth0Rk
― I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 02:59 (five years ago) link
Probably not a popular opinion around here, but I picked up Diana Krall’s /Christmas Songs/ in a charity shop, and maybe I’m just a sucker for a contralto voice but I’ve listened to it daily for the last couple weeks.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 02:59 (five years ago) link
Seems like I've heard a couple different covers of William Bell's "Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday" on Holiday Muzaks so far this year, and I am so here for it getting added to the Great Xmas Songbook.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
At a crafts & arts store: an album of acappella + beatboxing songs, featuring a rendition of Cohen's Hallelujah.
― Pataphysician, Thursday, 12 December 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
highly recommend Amanda Shires’ ‘For Christmas’ albummostly original songs ~about~ Christmas that are really good & vibey - and produced without the usual christmassy instruments but still gives a christmas feel warm sound, gorgeous piano in a big roomand a couple xmas standards anyway i love italso Aimee Mann’s ‘Another Drifter In The Snow’ had been a yearly favorite for many years now
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 04:00 (three months ago) link
Didn't know the Aimee Mann one so listened to it this morning and it is indeed very nice so thanks for that
I still prefer Sarah McLachlan's Wintersong though which has something of the same vibe
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 08:40 (three months ago) link
Alela Diane made a really nice one this year-https://open.spotify.com/album/0f65HaoVulkki85T2gTGeJ
― campreverb, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 18:39 (three months ago) link
My winter/Xmas playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1m444tcGkY42aZ2y8Fadmm
(Hood, mum, Stina Nordenstam etc)
― djh, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:32 (three months ago) link
My poll of 50 of my yearly favorites is still active for another few days:Holiday Playlist Favorites!
― Chris L, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:37 (three months ago) link
In a moment of extreme geekiness, I made a playlist that (originally) contained every song mentioned in a Twitter thread in which BBC Radio 3's Elizabeth Alker had asked about people's favourite Xmas/seasonal music. I had the idea that I'd bung everything on Spotify and delete anything I didn't want to hear again ... but, as with many of these things, I ran out of enthusiasm. Here's what's left:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/16lHO2Lh2D6tbFPE1k5IFC
― djh, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:48 (three months ago) link
I intended to immerse myself in Christmas music this year, but have failed so far. The Christmas songs that I like have a tendency to clash against one another, like so many mismatched, tacky ornaments. How do I fit the Ramones next to Neil Diamond next to Alexander O'Neal? I've been struggling through trying to build a playlist for years. I can never seem to make it a listenable journey. How many versions of Have Yourself a Merry Little do I have to sit through before I find the right one? The right one is a Mountain Goats version that JD sang for the Onion AV Club 12 years ago that barely exists online anymore and is definitely not on Spotify - what kind of pale substitute is fucking Frank Sinatra, anyway?
Just call me Scrooge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zELoHtKDp5I
One of my favorite modern Christmas songs is Why Can't It Be Christmastime All Year by Rosie Thomas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYtR-a356Mg
― peace, man, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 20:16 (three months ago) link
there are some great jamaican christmas music mixes around, but I couldn’t find one that was kind of focused on a vintage ‘60s rocksteady sound. so i made this one. threw some ska and mento in for good measure ;)
https://www.mixcloud.com/abschied/christmas-in-jamaica/
― budo jeru, Saturday, 23 December 2023 22:37 (three months ago) link
Two new-to-me Christmas delicious chestnuts I’ve been gifted this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYaB3q_h0ZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orAVtA7mris
― blurbing about music in architecture magazines (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 23 December 2023 22:46 (three months ago) link
Also it has come to my attention that I love descant
What a spectacular compositional device. I wish they existed outside of carols and hymns, just a beautiful concept
― blurbing about music in architecture magazines (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 23 December 2023 22:47 (three months ago) link
mr veg got me the 1995 Luther Vandross christmas album <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 December 2023 23:01 (three months ago) link
Lawrence is an unlikely source of Christmas songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAD0Q2h6lkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbF5cDppz-4
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 December 2023 23:07 (three months ago) link
Indeed
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 December 2023 23:40 (three months ago) link
Prince's Another Lonely Christmas sounding like a sex jam instead of a carol is A+
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 24 December 2023 23:04 (three months ago) link
fyi we are 75 minutes into jon solomon's 35th annual 25-hour christmas marathon on WPRB princeton: https://marathon.christmas
i worked in retail for much too long, so this is literally the only xmas music i now listen to
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 December 2023 23:18 (three months ago) link
Holiday Rarities: Bing still chasing that White Christmas lightning, ditto Ella, Dinah, Louis Prima, Jo Stafford, June Christy, Julie London, Lambert Henricks & Ross (Jl and LHR my faves so far). Some of this is Seasonal, not strictly Xmas, which helps, as does lack of familiarity.https://indianapublicmedia.org/afterglow/holiday-rarities.php
― dow, Sunday, 24 December 2023 23:27 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gy6WyZQBtI
― mookieproof, Monday, 25 December 2023 00:34 (three months ago) link
The WPRB marathon is the best! I submitted my Mortal Khristmas track last year and he played it <3
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 25 December 2023 01:02 (three months ago) link
(this track)https://soundcloud.com/found-river/lords-of-yuletide-reindeer-syndrome-mortal-khristmas
nice!
― mookieproof, Monday, 25 December 2023 01:21 (three months ago) link
Strolled candy cane lane 2nite listening to Duke Pearson's classic xmas album on Blue Note, Merry Ole Soul.
― omar little, Monday, 25 December 2023 03:05 (three months ago) link
Every year, the night before Christmas, at peak manic-children sugar rush, I terrorize the family with "Santa's Coming Over" by Low.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 25 December 2023 04:04 (three months ago) link
2 EPs/mini-albums that I formed attachments to over consecutive pandemic xmases that was way of propition to their real but slight merits - last year I was played them both constantly as chill out music in between the EPs/albums/mixes/whatever from bree runway, raye and shygirl (all nov 2020 and all still miraculous pieces of work, among the best UK pop of the millennium) so I definitely overrated them by association but they're still among the more bearable xmas music I've heard (towards the R&B side of "Traditional")now I have covid again so I'm bringing it all back
tinashe's comfort & joy EP - it's fine, often good, the arrangement I'm not sure the trap beat always works but I'll take it over sleigh bells and she sounds great as usual
kadhja bonet's california holiday EP - this is a very nice continuous vibe and in the right set and setting it would be a cool moodsetter. it gets a little wispy towards the end but it never sounds unpleasant even when she's covering my least favourite xmas hit (cutting the sleigh bells and making the synth calm down a little make a world of difference)
in conclusion these EPs are fine and even good a lot of the time but you don't need them
― Left, Monday, 25 December 2023 04:07 (three months ago) link
Last year's best new-to-me Christmas song discovery was "Maybe Next Christmas" by Ron Sexsmith, one of those artists I've long heard good things about but never really checked out, something I need to do if "Next Christmas" is indicative of his work, as that's a great song. This year I heard Tyler Shaw's cover of it on the radio, and see Tracey Thorn and a few others have covered it too. Are there any Christmas songs from the 21st century that are undisputed holiday standards yet? This may become amongst the first.
― Lee626, Monday, 25 December 2023 09:10 (three months ago) link
Guru Guru, "Dagobert Duck's 100th Birthday"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMWWbDIcfR0
(Dagobert Duck is the German name for Scrooge McDuck - though Scrooge is actually mentioned in the lyric)
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Monday, 25 December 2023 11:05 (three months ago) link
I had never heard "December" before, it hasn't been covered much. I'm also not really familiar with Kay Starr and I'm now kinda fascinated with her voice, so win/win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCOHYBPl12k
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:06 (three months ago) link