Christmas Songs - S&D!!!!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyk-Qu7sv1E

xps there's some good jingle bells covers done by dogs and cats on spotify iirc

so far, the break-out hit at our house this year is "The Christmas Tree Angel" by the Andrews Sisters

more Christmas jazz

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/784/MI0002784088.jpg

"What You Want For Christmas" by Quad City DJ's is officially the #1 Christmas song of all time

That Bley/Swallow one is awesome, but I've had more positive reaction from chamber music fans I've played it to than from jazz heads.

I just heard the xmas version of Want You to Want Me!! I had no idea it existed! It was ... weird

ok I had no idea that existed

so weird

"I'm begging you for Christmas"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it's dreadful ;_;

I didn't sell that Chet Baker christmas album properly when describing it as maudlin upthread, it is actually quite jaunty in places and I was overstating the amount of depresso variations on the album, which is only a few of the tracks really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj90PQmVhPQ

I really like the version of Amazing Grace on the Chet Baker.
Every year it seems like there's one old Christmas record I'm super excited to find, only to discover it's a dud. Sadly this year it's the Gladys Night record.
On the other hand, holy crap that Dwight Yoakam Christmas record.

'Wonderful Christmas Time" is the best of the big pop hits.

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Important musical syncretism: http://merrykrishnas.bandcamp.com/album/we-wish-you-a-merry-krishna

this is excellent (via Dan):
http://red3blog.tumblr.com/post/135098280942/formeldeharv-i-put-all-i-want-for-christmas-is

yes indeed

This is still my favourite version of AIWFCIY though: https://soundcloud.com/bigloverecords/nite-jewel-all-i-want-for

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

― campreverb, Saturday, 5 December 2015 21:05 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

here ya go (NB some are not at all christmassy, but are now because they've been on this playlist for a few years, iyswim)

HOME ALONE SOUNDTRACK JOHN WILLIAMS
Call the Shots Girls Aloud
All I Want For Christmas Is You Mariah Carey
Wrap It Up Super Furry Animals
15 Minutes Johnny Boy
Almost Unreal Roxette
christmas reindeer The Knife
Last Christmas Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Fairytale of New York The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl
Stay Another Day East 17
Shoes Reparata & The Delrons
Floodlit World Ultrasound
Frosty the Snowman Cocteau Twins
Somewhere in My Memory John Williams
December Will Be Magic Again Kate Bush
I Wanna Be a King of Orient Aah Elastica
Help I'm Alive - Acoustic Metric
Walking In The Air Robin Allender
Maple Leaves Jens Lekman
I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You Saint Etienne
O Holy Night John Williams & Chorus
The Christmas Song - Weezer
Heartbeats (Originally Performed By The Knife) Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Gaudete Steeleye Span
It's A Sin (Pet Shop Boys Cover) JJ72
Santa's On His Way The Pipettes
All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey Cover) Heike Has The Giggles
I'll Still Be Loving You Kylie Minogue
Things Fall Apart Cristina
Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush Cover) The Sweptaways
You Only Live Twice Bjork
Into The Clouds The Sound Of Arrows
The Promise Girls Aloud
Christmas music - Home Alone Soundtrack
It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas Pet Shop Boys
Christmas Is Cancelled The Long Blondes
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Slow Club
All I Wonderful Christmas Is You Summer Camp
As The World Falls Down Girl In A Coma
Holding On For You Liberty X
Happy New Year Abba

ugh excuse lack of formatting

After listening to some of the recs here I feel my former opinion of "Solely Spector and Guaraldi" is the Xmas equivalent of "I love jazz! I own Kind of Blue."

Love that whole St Etienne Christmas record. Great list!

Xpost :
Speaking of which, where is the love for Bob Dorough's "Blue Xmas" feat. Miles Davis?

Rosie Thomas - Why Can't It Be Christmastime All Year

One of the great unrereleased Christmas albums is Hortense Ellis and Trinity's African Christmas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iRUitMxJPY

that settles the question whether they know it's christmas time at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiC2LHL_eZ4
I try to post this every Dec 21st

TS: Songs that mention Christmas but aren't really Christmassy (e.g. The Fall's John Quays, Tom Wait's Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis), vs. Songs that sound Christmassy but make no mention of it (e.g. lots of Brian Wilson)

My favorite Christmas/Hanukkah song of all time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV9tJ-YTnTQ

Hey I made a playlist of my 111 favourite Christmas songs that are on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/1c1STHtL9vh4ZDHgvwYNoc

Okay, "Jingle Bells" by Celia Cruz and La Sonora Matancera is great.

So in other words, recommending seandalai's playlist to the rest of you.

there is something downright disturbing about this union:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpY7rRBH2q0

My Xmas mix / spotify playlist for 2015. Turned out much more earnest and heartfelt than mine usually do. Must be the mood I'm in this year. But persevere and you'll get to Quad City DJs.

https://open.spotify.com/user/worrellj14/playlist/4AGJjiq2jhxdKtQjwLzFpS

Lisa Mychols's Christmas album is a pretty good Beach Boys/Spectorpop pastiche, with The Wondermints as her backing band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm0KDcdk6nU

Mercaptan's cover of Franklin Bruno's "Invisible Mistletoe" has a nice lo-fi Swedish reggae feel, & the New Zealand Christmas-y folk song Te Harinui has a p.sweet surf version done by Waikato band The Hollow Grinders.

Festive video - Hasselhoff Experiment's late-90s bogan classic "What's The Deal With The Man In Red?":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqTXF_0YUEc

I made a Spotify Playlist entitled Christmas Songs That Don't Suck.
I avoided covers of traditional songs for the most part.
If anyone plays it, I hope you like it.

https://open.spotify.com/user/nyc_native/playlist/11F05Gtve6aUtyRlczdA1v

TS: Songs that mention Christmas but aren't really Christmassy (e.g. The Fall's John Quays, Tom Wait's Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis), vs. Songs that sound Christmassy but make no mention of it (e.g. lots of Brian Wilson)

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 12:03 (3 days ago)

Randomly listening to the Abel Tasmans, and it turns out "Michael Fay" belongs to the former. For the latter, Steely Dan's "Charlie Freak" sure has a lot of bells in a Dickens-y fashion ...

Alternative Spotify Playlist title: "Fuck Grandma and the Reindeer Too"

Tracks on the playlist that are not mentioned in the thread above include:

King Diamond - No Presents For Christmas
AC/DC - Mistress For Christmas
Spinal Tap - Christmas With The Devil
GWAR - Stripper Christmas Summer Weekend
Tom Waits - Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
The Vandals - Oi To The World (though someone mentioned the No Doubt version)
The Sonics - Don't Believe In Christmas
Eazy-E - Merry Muthafuckin' Xmas
Julian Casablancas - Christmas Treat (technically a cover)
The Fall - (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas
Dragonette - Merry Xmas (Says Your Text Message)
Hanoi Rocks - Dead By Xmas
The Dirtbombs - My Last Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mER2fGuSqF8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk-QghlI97Y

The Moomins single I shared on the other Christmas songs thread is now on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0Vga3sw6B4C14Y6sydCdkH