― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link
D: McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas Time" and that George Michael monstrosity.
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Nate (Nate), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
"There Ain't No Sanity Clause" by the Damned.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:04 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:35 (twenty years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
the one by mariah carey. gorgeous song. love "last christmas" by wham as well.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:43 (twenty years ago) link
I think Kindercore released a Christmas cd a few years ago--original songs by K-core artists...
― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:08 (twenty years ago) link
D: 'novelty' Christmas songs, Mr Blobby, etc
― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:12 (twenty years ago) link
Also S: The cover of Mud's "Lonely This Christmas" my mate Feedle did. It's truly beautiful!
― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 03:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 29 November 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link
― brian, Saturday, 29 November 2003 04:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:31 (twenty years ago) link
― cis (cis), Saturday, 29 November 2003 10:06 (twenty years ago) link
and the rest of their christmas album.
― brian badword (badwords), Saturday, 29 November 2003 10:11 (twenty years ago) link
Mr. Noodles -- "Christmas Wrapping" OTM.
Destroy: quickie holiday records by big artists recorded solely so that they'll have some new product in the shops during the December shopping season (way too many to list)
― d.w., Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:43 (twenty years ago) link
1. "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"2. "Frosty the Snowman"3. "Jingle Fuckin' Bells"
I especially loathe scat-splattered jazzy renderings of Christmas songs as well. Makes me want to shave my head, speak nothing but backwards Latin, become a full thelemite and go live in Bolskine House on Loch Ness.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:51 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 12:05 (twenty years ago) link
― weather!ngda1eson, Saturday, 29 November 2003 12:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 29 November 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
I'd love to hear the Kinks' "Father Christmas" and Mud's "Lonely This Christmas", yet I don't believe I ever have.
For me: Vince Guaraldi's "Christmas Time Is Here"... evokes childhood's christmases; beautifully melancholic. Piano playing of levity and gravitas; a spare production... very moving. Love the choral version.
Lew Stone produced 1946 version of "Let It Snow". A less obvious choice than "White Christmas" certainly, though that too inevitably has its place; it was always *there*...
Flaming Lips' "Christmas at the Zoo" is reasonably good I suppose, yeah.
Ashamed to say that Wham's "Last Christmas" has its place in my yuletide affections... I always seem to associate childhood christmases with things like Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley's "Thank You Very Much" from the 1971 film musical "Scrooge", starring Albert Finney. This always got shown on TV around the xmas period; I strongly recall watching it at junior school near the holiday and soon after it being on TV. ;-) Really loved the film, and this song in particular brings back so many memories...
― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 30 November 2003 13:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Sunday, 30 November 2003 22:44 (twenty years ago) link
― largehearted boy (largeheartedboy), Sunday, 30 November 2003 23:15 (twenty years ago) link
Here's a Gone Daddy Finch version. 'Sokay. (Scroll down a bit.)
http://www.gonedaddyfinch.com/gonedaddyfinch/mp3page.html
― weather!ngda1eson, Monday, 1 December 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 1 December 2003 00:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 1 December 2003 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
S: Jona Lewie - "Stop The Cavalry", The Pretenders - "2000 Miles" (which Coldplay have apparently covered, for shame), Shane'n'Kirsty obv, "Last Christmas" oh yeah, Dandy Warhols - "Little Drummer Boy"
D: Cliff urgh. Most Christmas songs are aces tho, just cos it's Christmas innit.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:41 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:52 (twenty years ago) link
― harveyw (harveyw), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 1 December 2003 14:47 (twenty years ago) link
― d.w., Monday, 1 December 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is such a weird song when sung by Frankie Valli.
Oh, what a laugh it would have beenIf Daddy had only seenMommy kissing Santa Claus last night
As sung by the Four Seasons this comes across like really surreal, mordant humor. Father walking in on his wife smooching a four-hundred pound mythical figure, and little Frankie sitting in the corner thinking it's all really quite an amusing scene.
― Cunga, Friday, 25 December 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Chris Rea - Driving Home For Xmas (The Revenge Re-rub)
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Friday, 25 December 2009 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
hearing the Jackson 5 sing it is weird too because I doubt irl the kids would have ratted their mom out to their abusive dad if they had caught her cheating, especially with a guy like Santa who would have made a pretty awesome stepdad
― musically, Friday, 25 December 2009 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah whenever I hear Michael say "I'm gonna tell my dad!" I just picture Joe Jackson losing his shit.
― Cunga, Friday, 25 December 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I just picture Joe Jackson losing his shit.
I was thinking the same thing hearing this song earlier today.
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 December 2009 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link
That's really funny that we all have the same comic-horror reaction to this JAckson Five song.
as a side story: my mom went to HS for a year with the Jackson Five, and she told me that one time she and her girlfriend puts wigs on and they went up to Jermaine and one of the other brothers and they sang "ABC" to them as a teasing joke -- my mom says that the Jackson Five weren't considered cool, like, say, Blind Faith (actual example) or whatever -- and that Jermaine took the joke in stride and thought it was funny but that everybody laughed when they did it.
Well since posting on ILM I inevitably link that story with the notion of baby boomer rockism, and vice versa.
― Cunga, Friday, 25 December 2009 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Last night I spent another lonely ChristmasDarling, darling, U should've been thereCuz all the ones I dream aboutU are the one that makes my love shoutU see, U are the only one I care 4
Remember the time we swam naked in your father's poolBoy, he was upset that nightBut boy, was that ever coolRemember that night we played poker 4 moneyAnd U robbed me blindRemember how U used 2 scream so loud cuz U...U hated that number 9Hey, I saw your sister skatin' on the lake this afternoonGood heaven, how she's grownShe swoons the boy skaters cuz she's so tallBut of all your father's childrenAll your father's children, babyU know U are the finest of them allU are brighter than the northern star and I...
Last night I spent another lonely ChristmasDarling, darling, U, U should've been thereCuz U see, of all the ones I dream aboutU are the one that makes my love shoutU see, U are the only one I care 4, yeah
My mama used 2 say always trust your loverBut now I guess that only applies 2 herCuz baby, U promised meBaby, U promised me U'd never leaveThen U died on the 25th day of December
Oh baby, last night, oh, I spent another lonely, lonely ChristmasDarling, baby, U, U should've been thereCuz all the ones I dream aboutU are the one that makes my love shoutU see, U are the only one I care 4, yeah
Your father said it was pneumoniaYour mother said it was stressBut the doctor said U were dead and I...I say it's senselessEvery Christmas night 4 7 years nowI drink banana daiquiris till I'm blindAs long as I can hear U smiling, babyU won't hear my tearsAnother lonely Christmas is mine, yeah, mine, yeahAnother lonely Christmas is mine
Last night, yeah, I spent another lonely, lonely ChristmasDarling, darling, U should've been there, yeahCuz all the ones I dream aboutU are the one that make my love shoutU see, U are the only one I care 4
Another lonely...
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 25 December 2009 06:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Ramones - Merry ChristmasDer Bingle - White Christmas(at one point was the best selling song, period)the drifters - white christmas (killer version)George Strait - White Christmas (ditto)Shonen Knife - Space Christmas
second the request of where to find Can - Silent Night
― pobrecito (outdoor_miner), Friday, 25 December 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Annual post of my favourite-Christmas-songs playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1c1STHtL9vh4ZDHgvwYNoc
― timber euros (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVYXGoH_peg
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 17 December 2020 06:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPm0o04lGE
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 17 December 2020 06:34 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry7PcYtKPhA
Discovered a Johnny Horton christmas song & it is a goddamn treathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZVHlRYhbCo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 December 2020 07:07 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHRINgBk3YA
― groovypanda, Thursday, 17 December 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQRKxJyHvQmary margret o hara - silent nightalways pull this e.p. up, this time of year, happy xmas, everyone
― Swanswans, Saturday, 19 December 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE3185A180A218F2Dcount your blessings - a selection of seasonal songs with ace vocalists including mary margret o hara
― Swanswans, Saturday, 19 December 2020 13:37 (three years ago) link
S: James Brown - “let’s make Christmas mean something this year”
― brimstead, Saturday, 19 December 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
I have that album! beat to shit with some skips on side 1 but it's hard to find
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
I've just put out a mix / compilation of very old Xmas recordingshttps://centuriesofsound.com/2020/12/21/centuries-of-sound-presents-deep-magic-christmas-recordings-1902-1924/
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 21 December 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbL9Vsobx8I
― cajunsunday, Monday, 21 December 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link
not xmas per se, but extremely seasonal and guaranteed to lift the spirits of all:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdJ0FcjMGD8Samthing Soweto ft. Mzansi Youth Choir • The Danko! Medley
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Monday, 21 December 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link
Here's a playlist of new xmas songs from this year that I enjoyed. Only 4 out of 47 are "Last Christmas" covers.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6g0NuGUoyTyqXmIHnKM2D6?si=U-v86VgdQry3pWs7zY8Gpg
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 21 December 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
My all-time favorite Xmas song. Cary Grant's "Here's to You" - the smooth "a votre santé", the sincere "shalom, sha - lom!", the rushed "kung hee fat choy" - is the gift that has kept on giving to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGPKnVHL1yY
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 21 December 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
Here's my heavy 2020 list-https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6s88CJdMQ9Wbudqe5DcY5iBelated discovery of the year-I'd been aware of the Arbor Records Christmas comps (https://www.npr.org/2016/12/20/506152779/songs-we-love-the-classic-brown-christmas-sweaters) but had never really dug in before. Man was I missing out. Great original Christmas albums are pretty rare, but this one sure made 2020 a little more tolerable.https://theclassicbrown.bandcamp.com/
― campreverb, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
I've been enjoying The Angry Snowmans this year. Christmas punk parodies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ji9K3sz56A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdWAuqXvaQ
They even did a Nomeansno parody this year.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6YjlTMg-Vk
Only so many gifts can be slung with eight deer, one sleigh, on one run.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
Oh, I posted this in another thread but I guess this is the one that is popping
Thom Gill has a gift for us all:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJEXDhqgtcw/?igshid=1po3b1tjo8nt7
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
For me it's the Eurythmics' version of "Winter Wonderland" as one of the most iconic Christmas songs.
I remember it being huge as a kid on the radio, in department stores (seemed like everyone had that "A Very Special Christmas" album), so I was shocked to see how low its play counts were in the digital world these days. None of the multiple decade-old uploads on Youtube have yet to crack a million; it has about 3.5 million plays on Spotify (roughly the same as some of the tracks on the Sufjan Stevens Christmas album). Apparently only made the Billboard Holiday chart at #41 in 2011 and not since then... Both the Phil Spector/Darlene Love & Tony Bennett versions have charted from airplay and streaming in more recent years.
― gregorianpants, Thursday, 24 December 2020 06:13 (three years ago) link
I never forget to come back to the Mountain Goats' rendition of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5I7y4xvPoU
Through the years we all will be together...
In the grave. That's where we'll all actually be together is in the grave.
...if the fates allow
― peace, man, Thursday, 24 December 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
I bought the Soulful Strings’ ‘Magical Christmas’ album (recommended itt) & it is delightful. Love!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 December 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
^yep, one of the very best
Here is my Spotify Christmas playlist for this year. The usual mix of new and not so new. At 45 songs, it’s a bit longer than usual. There seem to be a LOT more new seasonal recordings this year compared with the norm. Also, there were quite a few finds from the People’s Pop polls on Twitter (just finished) that I had to squeeze in.
Link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4054OsQgPWQejHoBtxJsOa?si=JwfloeTsSLWWjSXItV2MzQ
― Jeff W, Thursday, 24 December 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
Mi Burrito Sabanero - originally from Venezuela - is very popular in latinamerican countries and has the plus of being a christmas song that you can dance to.
Get to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B36074Q1G7U
Also if you’d rather dance to it “banda” style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKNQudGnLuo
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 24 December 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Thanks, that one's new to me! I haven't really dug into Spanish-language Christmas apart from all the Fania Christmas albums and some Celia Cruz.
I see Calexico cover Mi Burrito Sabanero on their new Christmas album/I see Calexico have a new Christmas album/it's kind of boring
― timber euros (seandalai), Friday, 25 December 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link
Speaking of Spanish language Christmas, just came to say ¡Feliz Vanidad!
― And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
Or even ¡Felisa me muero!
― And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jueRg0H1_Jo
― timber euros (seandalai), Friday, 25 December 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KvWwJ6sh5s
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 January 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
this is the onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncgtgDE253s
― Spottie, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
The Specials - a message to you rudy
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
are you confusing that with Do Nothing? (check the jumpers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhGDdXg1o-Q
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
hmm....different context same name. it's Rudy 24/7, especially on christmas.
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
I heard this lovely little song on this year's holiday episode of Sound Opinions. The artist is Allan Hull, who was in 70s folk-rock band called Lindisfarne that I'd never heard of, though this song was from a posthumous 1996 solo album (Hull died in '95).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOSQEMmWh9E
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Saturday, 18 December 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
S: François-Auguste Gevaert harmonisation of "Les anges dans nos campagnes"/"Angels We Have Heard on High"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hGYcz5oSFQ
― treat the gelignite tenderly for me (Sund4r), Thursday, 23 December 2021 13:35 (two years ago) link
There are a couple of the Starbucks Christmas comps that get a lot of play in our house this time of year. Some of the more enjoyable tracks:
Louis Armstrong with Benny Carter and his Orchestra - Christmas Night in HarlemThe Roches - Good King WenceslasCyndi Lauper & Norah Jones - Home for the Holidays
― o. nate, Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
Christmas songs are terrible dreck for the most part.I did make a Spotify Playlist of Christmas Songs that Don't Suck that highlights the exceptions.
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― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 23 December 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
Yikes, thank didn't work!
This should: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11F05Gtve6aUtyRlczdA1v?si=a46f84052874454c
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 23 December 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
Nice one two punch at the beginning!
― Circle Sky Pilot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 December 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
Smithsonian Folkways playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YG4eIRIiZRrzhMA0fZq6j?si=03ba7c4aad6a49b0&nd=1
― djh, Friday, 24 December 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
:D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 December 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
Does anyone have a link to, I guess, a “blues/jazz” playlist… like what I would hear growing up on the radio in Washington DC? The kind of thing when you hear five great versions of “Merry Christmas Baby” in the course of a few hours, interspersed with jazz Xmas tunes, etc.
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Friday, 24 December 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Ry_YaXss4
Big Christmas in chimney and in rest of house
― saer, Friday, 24 December 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
This sounded good tonight:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012rgj
Late Junction-y - Claire M Singer, Laura Cannell, Nils Frahm etc ...
― djh, Friday, 24 December 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link
Smithsonian Folkways playlist:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YG4eIRIiZRrzhMA0fZq6j?si=03ba7c4aad6a49b0&nd=1🕸
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Saturday, 25 December 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
My Xmas 2021 playlist. Very late this year (too busy ensuring we could all get together this year, Covid-free, to give this much attention). So, rather hastily thrown together last night, then road tested at lunchtime, then tweaked a bit. I think it passes muster now.
Usual mix of old and brand new, with the emphasis on songs/versions that are new to me. Season's greetings to all ILXers.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1bKrVlYDJERlJzNWoRvNF3?si=0445d2bf46bf4045
― Jeff W, Saturday, 25 December 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link