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/
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
Search tool: http://everynoise.com/xmas_around_the_world.cgi
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
I just did a CTRL+F and couldn't find mention of Frightened Rabbit's It's Christmas So We'll Stop. It's beautiful.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/stars
this is wiaiwya's new (and second) xmas lp. features amelia's new band, darren hayman, bill from allo darlin, that kind of crowd. out on friday.
https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/christmastime-approximately
^ the previous one
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
I made it through all of Shatner Claus. I'd say about half of it works.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 1 December 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
An in-progress playlist of my faves: https://open.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/1DTUcvNiveCVZlV8uau5f2?si=M4DYU6FXQk-FE2YytnQVjQ
Fuzzy's "Christmas" and Aimee Mann & Michael Penn's "Christmastime" are annoyingly absent from Spotify.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 2 December 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
mentioned itt already but needs to be posted anywayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCY2JhrwxVs
― Celtoes Adidas (Spottie), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
Hip Christmas pointed out Rickie Lee Jones has some downloads on her site:https://rickieleejones.com/christmas.html
― campreverb, Monday, 17 December 2018 04:14 (five years ago) link
just found out Shoes did a christmas tune. classic Shoeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BE-iPVFUXU&fbclid=IwAR0getUcGdnrsWGf-VFnyskt9ldU-COP36R2IEKlOuXYmCBdVr4_qF3DLrQ
― form that slug-like grex (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
How have we gone a quarter century without a solid addition to the canon. How.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
Is there a consensus on the worst Christmas song? 'Christmas Shoes'?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
Because we realized that it's so much easier to just record covers of old songs than anything new. Or in Penatonix's case, covers of songs that have nothing to do with Christmas, but pass them off as Christmas songs.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
I've only listened to last christmas by wham! twice this year so far which is a disappointment
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6TD1PX22c
Julie on her second tour reminiscingThree Decembers in New York CitySelling fir treesPack a truck with 90 fir treesPack 'em tight
Julie on her second tour reminiscingThe cassette of Daydream Nation worn outThe Bernadette Peters autograph on my castThe CBGB t-shirt I'm wearing
The drive down from St. JohnWas almost always easyThe drive backOn Christmas Day was not
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 20 December 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
Happy BreXitMAS!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Xgktqp-Zw
― Jeff W, Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
xposts
Mariah’s “All I Want For Christmas is You” is surely part of the canon at this point and that was, what, 24 years ago?
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
I presume Old Lunch meant since Mariah
― Number None, Friday, 21 December 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link
A Rhode Island favorite. "No Frosty!"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ekgDJou6G0
― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 December 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
Yes, I meant since Mariah. There have been several additions to the xmas movie canon in that time, get with it musical artists.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Friday, 21 December 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
My favourite post-Mariah Xmas tracks (none of which I ever see ever becoming canonical):
Dar Williams, "The Christians and the Pagans" (1996)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_KiHRHwaAs
Fuzzy, "Christmas" (1996)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9gDz1VFyf0
Aimee Mann & Michael Penn, "Christmastime" (1996)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSkr6fr01M0
The Magnetic Fields, "Everything is One Big Christmas Tree" (2012)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PCeOrg2Tyc
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 21 December 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4iWO73zPL4
― koogs, Friday, 21 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
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.― kinder, Saturday, December 5, 2015 5:39 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― kinder, Saturday, December 5, 2015 5:39 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I never posted my playlist mainly because it's not a Spotify one but I'm on the lookout for lesser-known, GOOD, festive songs. It does have lots of the Home Alone soundtrack interspersed
― kinder, Friday, 21 December 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
Some quality songs that sound like holiday songs but are not necessarily, I don't think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjU-IQh8Txohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd1tNDpcbOs
And also 'Fjords of Winter' by Ladybug Transistor, which is apparently the only song in existence that isn't on YouTube but which is featured in this video at least:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml9H1INzqFc
I would love to see your playlist!
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
donny hathaway, "this christmas"
― andrew m., Friday, 21 December 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q5O6WnBF6g
I will never ever grow tired of this.david axelrod and lou rawls in their prime.
― mark e, Friday, 21 December 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
some of my favorites from dr. demento's xmas shows ca. '87-88:
bob rivers, "wreck the malls"yogi yorgesson, "i yust go nuts at christmas"cheech & chong, "santa claus and his old lady"bob & doug mckenzie, "the 12 days of christmas"
― andrew m., Friday, 21 December 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
that whole Lou Rawls album, my god.I suppose think it's lazy to say there has been nothing great since Carey. Low's "Just Like Christmas" is pretty much canon at this point, and there's great stuff every year, note the Khruangbin above.
― campreverb, Friday, 21 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
I *did* post my playlist after all!Christmas Songs - S&D!!!!
thank you for these Old Lunch et al! Love the Cymbals one.That Fuzzy one is going on the list
― kinder, Friday, 21 December 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
ah yes, love that cheech & chong track! i also love the barking dogs version of jingle bells from Dr Demento, cracks me up every time
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
Chris Molanphy's latest fits in with all this
https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/the-annual-contest-to-score-the-u-k-christmas-no-1.html
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 December 2018 00:39 (five years ago) link
FTR, I wasn't asserting that we've gone a quarter century with no good/great xmas music, just that nothing since Mariah has become a regular xmas rotation staple that you regularly hear on the radio or out shopping or whatevs. As someone else noted, anything 'new' I hear in those contexts is almost always a cover and rarely sticks around beyond the moment it was released. I'd even settle for a novelty single at this point. Where is the Jingle Cats of the 21st Century, I ask you?
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Saturday, 22 December 2018 04:18 (five years ago) link
my personal favourite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrVI9rgF3sY
― Number None, Saturday, 22 December 2018 06:32 (five years ago) link
https://authorsrecording.bandcamp.com/album/yuletide-bangerz
― errang (rushomancy), Saturday, 22 December 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
My Christmas 2018 Spotify playlist; the usual approach taken:https://open.spotify.com/user/worrellj14/playlist/34MKnVSxVRZC7iuIZsHBkR?si=vcMwerW-S4mNIgsvTE_coQ
Check out also the latest Project Moonbase playlist, 'Santa Claus's Tomb':https://open.spotify.com/user/projectmoonbase/playlist/0A4VrRUKNqMDtf1OEWU5ML?si=9TZTZIWnQrupSydGCI8mPg
Happy holidays, everyone.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 23 December 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
Only slightly updated since last year, but still all my fav Christmas songs (that are on Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/1c1STHtL9vh4ZDHgvwYNoc?si=hQyqRucDQCe6GIENNCp2rg
― seandalai, Monday, 24 December 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
Atlas Sound - Artificial Snow :*(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuBrMnQ0XmU
― J. Sam, Monday, 24 December 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
BLISSmas
https://soundcloud.com/bigloverecords/nite-jewel-all-i-want-forhttps://soundcloud.com/mike-simonetti/pale-blue-just-like-christmas-1https://banjoorfreakout.bandcamp.com/track/merry-christmas-baby
― seandalai, Monday, 24 December 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
My 2019 Spotify playlist. As ever, a mix of new or new to me, plus a few old favourites.https://open.spotify.com/playlist/472GsKvoB9YiBmaRTJttB2?si=uqithpceRcq21X_003kEIA
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
Also made a playlist (partly inspired by ilxor threads):
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1m444tcGkY42aZ2y8Fadmm
More winter than Xmas.
― djh, Thursday, 26 December 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
If there was ever a year to listen to John Prine's "Christmas in Prison" on repeat, it's this one.
The searchlight in the big yard swings round with the gunAnd spotlights the snowflakes like dust in the sunIt's Christmas in prison, there'll be music tonightI'll prob'ly get homesickI love youGoodnight
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 6 December 2020 02:55 (three years ago) link
Really feeling “Christmas Island” this year - Ernest Tubb & Leon Redbone versions.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 December 2020 04:08 (three years ago) link
Heard something interesting off the radio today, a special on Nat King Cole: he recorded "The Christmas Song" three times with three different arrangements, and you can tell the earliest one because he incorrectly pluralizes "reindeers."
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 December 2020 04:12 (three years ago) link
This seems quite Christmas-y to me ...
https://hamrahlidchoir.bandcamp.com/album/come-and-be-joyful
― djh, Sunday, 6 December 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
An actual xmas banger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTiWbbFFhGgJohnny O. Bazz – Xmas Eve
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Monday, 14 December 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
extremely festive!
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 December 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbeG1XrZPJs
― xzanfar, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnGtRWa7Yk
― xzanfar, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMIa7A0boKo
― xzanfar, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
this worked perfectly as my Xmas song Last Christmas, and will no doubt do so again this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZVL_8D048Master KG ft. Nomcebo Zikode • Jerusalema
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 December 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link