Christmas Songs - S&D!!!!

i just put on soul christmas and the guaraldi peanuts stuff and that does me just fine

true, I put on Christmas in the Heart :-)

If you like Christmas music, I have a thing for you:

http://everynoise.com/xmas.html

There's a monitoring graph showing Christmas-music listening on Spotify by day by country, and links to daily-updating charts of emerging Christmas music by country, and giant playlists of the distinctive Christmas music people listened to last Christmas in particular countries and cities.

neat!

wow! Hey when I try to pull up last year's playlists by city/country, it doesn't go anywhere?

It's a damn shame that Tracey Thorn only appears on the Sweden list. Her Christmas album is great.

what's with the abnormally high rate for christmas music in the philippines?

am I alone in finding Freddie Mercury's dramatic style a bit... inappropriate in "Thank God It's Christmas"?

Nope...kind of feel the same way about the Prince Christmas tune too.

the Carly Rae version of Last Christmas is kind of a disappointment.

OMG it is not!

haha I was hoping she would turn it into a more upbeat synth-ed out ham.
I should clarify on Queen, I don't mind an over the top Christmas song (I love that Lady Gaga x-rated x-mas tune), but 'Thank God It's Christmas' is just a dud.

I have a playlist that I've ''''curated'''' and fashioned over the past years. It's bloody amazing. It's not only Christmas songs, soundtrack stuff, but also things that were xmas number ones or popular around Christmas time like Girls Aloud 'promise' or anything else I decide just sounds Christmassy. My OH added about 20 versions of 'last christmas' to it but I had to cull most of them.

2010- Bigg Robb "I Want a Big Woman for Christmas" southern soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7zWxgTUzvk

I have a playlist that I've ''''curated'''' and fashioned over the past years. It's bloody amazing.
can you post or link it?

preach, Big Robb

Any good jazz xmas albums out there apart from Vince Guaraldi (my fave)?

this is quite nice

http://eil.com/images/main/Ramsey+Lewis+Sound+Of+Christmas+479333.jpg

this too
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ccOv7TRyL.jpg

Loving this Lewis, thanks campreverb!

I have a thing for Chet Baker's quite maudlin Silent Nights album, it is way underrated imo.

Don't forget

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71wkh%2BQqxML._SL1200_.jpg

http://funky16corners.com/pictures/sschristmas.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Srk4HBY5R48/UM-FZHsirmI/AAAAAAAAAMY/BETfVwFiORk/s640/xmas.jpg

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/533c2608e4b0a32be0b5e65d/533db24de4b0f0bdc6e14819/543c3aa4e4b0f23a04309ca2/1413233325388/songpoemxmas_mini147.jpg

^^^ now playing

OK the last one and Zorn have piqued my interest in a way I didn't expect this thread!

the two American Song-Poem Christmas song I've heard live in a sweet grey area between outsider art and major label pulp, pretty cool

good stuff itt!

sinatra's "the christmas song" just came on the radio - it's amazing, what a voice

is there a good sinatra christmas album?

Grab any old Rhino Christmas compilation you see, and you will find something to love on it.

cool, thx! googling that led me to this decent overview http://hipchristmasmusic.com/lists/albums.php

Sharon Jones + Dap-Kings Christmas album is a bit disappointing tbh, though "Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects" is still a classic.

^^^ my son played me this as we were trimming the tree over the weekend. I liked the whole thing, but yeah I thought "Chimneys" was the standout. Even The Eagles haven't ruined "Please Come Home For Christmas" for me; Charles Brown original is my favorite holiday tune.

you might get a contact high listening to the Cassie Ramone.

Christmas With Chet Atkins has been my favorite for a while -- any suggestions for similar albums?

this is probably my country favorite:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dKmNarZNL.jpg

The Eagles get the words wrong, so screw 'em.

i am quite proud of my xmas spotify playlist, fwiw (despite the fact that it can't have XTC's "Countdown to Christmas Party Time" on it

The Dandy Warhols - Little Drummer Boy
Cristina - Things Fall Apart
Cocteau Twins - Frosty The Snowman
Low - Just Like Christmas
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York
Saint Etienne - I Was Born on Christmas Day
TLC - Sleigh Ride
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
The Sonics - Santa Claus
The Raveonettes - Come On Santa
Fear - Fuck Christmas
The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
Lisi - My Silent Night
Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin'
Alan Vega - No More Christmas Blue
Sky Ferreira - Omanko
Carly Rae Jepsen - Last Christmas

excellent
although they do have the ronan keating version of fairytale of new york

My favorite Christmas album is this budget-label knockoff of The Tijuana Brass. I bought it as a gift for my dad with my allowance money when I was a kid, and it got played every year. I rebought a copy for myself in a thrift bin. Childhood memories...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZjQDK7Ysr8

you might get a contact high listening to the Cassie Ramone.

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Playing this right now, pretty into it.

I tried listening to the Cassie Ramone record this morning and nothing really stuck out to me :( I was disappointed, I had high hopes!

Is there a standard version of "Jingle Bells" without any 'interpretation'? Maybe just sung by kids but not on a modern cloying kids album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM38kN4AOys

if you don't rock Dylan's Xmas album during the season you are dead to me

it's weird because it seems like a novelty record and one that you kind of like for the fun of it, but then you put it on and it's just GREAT

I love The Ventures proto-indie version of "Silver Bells"

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

I like the "I Feel Fine" intro to rudolf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTFw8CyMzz4

I'd kind of been afraid to check out the Dylan album, but based on the rec above I just checked it out.
Overall, pretty fun! Obviously he sounds a bit Tom Waits in places, which some may consider an asset-it certainly is on 'Must Be Santa'.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus