Christmas Songs - S&D!!!!

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.

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.

― campreverb, Wednesday, December 20, 2017 7:29 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

Jingle cats videos will come in handy when were stoned sunday night

I might amend Yesca's point to say that there are very few Christmas albums worth hearing after the 60s.

Off the top of my head these are excellent single-artist albums from the 70s and later:

Klezmonauts - Oy to the World
John Zorn - A Dreamers Christmas
Hortens Ellis and Trinity - African Christmas
The Mistletoe Disco Band - Christmas
Willie Colon - Asalto Navideño

And that's before we get to canonical compilations like the Ze Christmas album/Christmas Rap/Funky Christmas. The joy of Christmas music isn't really in albums though.

Cyndi Lauper's Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life is delightful.

it’s the greatest!!

Love this one today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H_-ia2M2M4

yeah it's definitely a singles affair. that St Etienne christmas album is an exception, it's so great.
https://saintetienne.greedbag.com/buy/a-glimpse-of-stocking-vinyl-lp/

^although that was a compilation of fan club singles with a few new songs added!

Good (not by various artists) Christmas albums since 1970 that haven't already been mentioned:

Bobby Sherman - Christmas Album
Jackson 5 - Christmas Album
Red Simpson - Truckers' Christmas
Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Once Upon A Christmas
Hilary Duff - Santa Clause Lane
Götz Alsmann und die WDR Big Band - Winterwunderwelt

*Claus

Red Simpson - Truckers' Christmas

classic for sure!

My Christmas (and New Year) 2017 Spotify playlist. As ever, nods to the new recordings for this year, mixed in with old-but-new-to-me favourites and a few classics. Featuring: Leadbelly, Mariah, Prince, Gwen Stefani, Cheap Trick, Deerful, First Aid Kit, Patti Page, Ariel Pink, Girl Ray, Loona, Lawrence Welk and more. Happy holidays everyone.

https://open.spotify.com/user/worrellj14/playlist/6VVjGF3BTT9dGqQuvzEZNW

earl nash's "floyd not floyd" thread had me on a steve miller kick. here's steve on the king biscuit flower hour doing god rest ye merry gentlemen -> fly like an eagle. (i tend to like christmas songs best when they're just interpolated into non-christmasy songs. like there's a song on "the electric lucifer" that's like that.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKS29ZP2_SI

Heard Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" in a public setting (restaurant) for the first time ever last week. Probably a commonplace occurrence in Britain--not here.

Repost of the 2015 Christmas concert w Gaby Moreno's soulful, shivery, yet no-frills delivery, mostly with a guitar or two (generally electric), a drum, mostly in Spanish, but you'll recognize the tunes (Gina Chavez and her uke or mando show up too):
https://www.npr.org/sections/altlatino/2015/12/04/458352429/festivo-alt-latino-gaby-moreno-in-concert

Actually I don't recognize all the tunes, but all good.

In 3 a.m. sleeplessness the other night I started mashing up Jefferson Airplane lyrics with "Sleigh Ride."

Horror grips us as we WATCH-- you die
All we can do is echo your ANG-- uished cry
It'll nearly be like a picture print
By Currier and Ives
These wonderful things are the things
We remember all through our lives

S: ...The Pretenders - "2000 Miles"...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, December 1, 2003 4:41 AM (fourteen years ago)

It's a weird Xmas/not-Xmas song but the way her phrasing is laid out upon the waltz is amazing and gorgeous. I love Chrissie.

search: The Living Sisters - Harmony is Real: Songs for a Happy Holiday

heard that for the first time this week. "christmas in california" is fantastic.

Just discovered this one this year. It's a new year's song rather than Christmas, but it's lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WsVBAc3Hc4

it'd be cool if we can get a compilation of more christmas related songs this year

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.

― campreverb, Wednesday, December 20, 2017 7:29 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess i never replied to this but i liked these two tracks:

all our exes live in texas - how to make gravy
the yawpers - christmas in oblivion

The new John Legend xmas album is quite good

is it...

legendary?

YES IN FACT IT IS

St Etienne's Christmas album is only 10 GBP right now, which is a steal considering the cd would cost you 5 times that much on the 2nd hand market. Get one for you and a friend, with only 2000 pressed, i'm surprised they've lasted this long. https://saintetienne.greedbag.com/buy/a-glimpse-of-stocking-vinyl-lp/