Christmas Songs - S&D!!!!

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

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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.

I find your lack of regard for post-'60s xmas music ver 'scouraging.

yeah that’s a nonsense position

Agreed. Most of the 50s and 60s Christmas music was intended to soundtrack your consumerism, too.

Super Christmas music fan here. Infinity did you catch the new Bloodshot comp this year? https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/13-days-xmas
I might amend Yesca's point to say that there are very few Christmas albums worth hearing after the 60s. Not really sure why that is, perhaps the labels had more power back then and could order a Phil Spector or Kenny Burrell to make one.

Below is my mix for 2017:
Do You Hear What I Hear? Spiraling
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Chris Isaak (Live With Stevie Nicks & Friends)
Break Up Holiday Dude York
White Christmas Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
FaLaLaLaLove Ya Nikki Lane
They Shined Up Rudolph's Nose Johnny Horton
I Don't Intend to spend Christmas Without You Margo Guryan
Noel Christmas Sugar & Tiger
Peppermint Delight Firebreather
Shake Hands With Santa Claus Louis Prima
Gonna Wrap My Heart In Ribbons Hank Thompson
Look Around You (It's Christmas Time) Bobby Goldsboro
Felices Pascuas Eydie Gorme
Underneath the Christmas Tree Bill Lloyd
By the Fireside Ellen and the Escapades
Christmas Day Detroit Junior
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Slow Club
Fairytale of New York Rostam
Yule Tide Me Over The Minus 5
Here Comes Santa Claus Ramsey Lewis
How to Make Gravy All Our Exes Live In Texas
It Was Jesus Johnny Cash
Christmas Wrapping The Waitresses
Soulful Christmas James Brown
This Christmas Night Kaskade feat. Dia Frampton

can someone help me

there's this drive-thru light show in town where you tune your radio to a certain station and the lights sync up with the music

I know pretty much all the songs but there's one I don't know, it's like this bombastic Vangelis-style sequencer instrumental. in the last 15 seconds or so some vocals come in on the fade. it's bothering me b/c I should know what this is, but I don't.

could be Mannheim Steamroller?

Been enjoying The Soulful Strings album "The Magic of Christmas"

yes! "Good King Wenceslas" its called. god that was bothering me. had no idea Mannheim sounded like that.

Infinity did you catch the new Bloodshot comp this year? https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/13-days-xmas
I might amend Yesca's point to say that there are very few Christmas albums worth hearing after the 60s. Not really sure why that is, perhaps the labels had more power back then and could order a Phil Spector or Kenny Burrell to make one.

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i have not but cheers for the rec

sounds p cool

will have a listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1yZah5l6S0

The last few cycles, I've been all about John Williams' song from the sequel, which I prefer to the much more by-the-numbers song the first movie had:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Buv2eOXZ8

can't forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iClHpepBY1I