Christmas Songs - S&D!!!!

just found out Shoes did a christmas tune. classic Shoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BE-iPVFUXU&fbclid=IwAR0getUcGdnrsWGf-VFnyskt9ldU-COP36R2IEKlOuXYmCBdVr4_qF3DLrQ

How have we gone a quarter century without a solid addition to the canon. How.

Is there a consensus on the worst Christmas song? 'Christmas Shoes'?

Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

How have we gone a quarter century without a solid addition to the canon. How.

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.

I've only listened to last christmas by wham! twice this year so far which is a disappointment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6TD1PX22c

Julie on her second tour reminiscing
Three Decembers in New York City
Selling fir trees
Pack a truck with 90 fir trees
Pack 'em tight

Julie on her second tour reminiscing
The cassette of Daydream Nation worn out
The Bernadette Peters autograph on my cast
The CBGB t-shirt I'm wearing

The drive down from St. John
Was almost always easy
The drive back
On Christmas Day was not

Happy BreXitMAS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Xgktqp-Zw

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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?

I presume Old Lunch meant since Mariah

A Rhode Island favorite. "No Frosty!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ekgDJou6G0

Yes, I meant since Mariah. There have been several additions to the xmas movie canon in that time, get with it musical artists.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4iWO73zPL4

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

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

Some quality songs that sound like holiday songs but are not necessarily, I don't think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjU-IQh8Txo
https://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!

donny hathaway, "this christmas"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q5O6WnBF6g

I will never ever grow tired of this.
david axelrod and lou rawls in their prime.

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"

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.

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

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

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

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?

my personal favourite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrVI9rgF3sY

https://authorsrecording.bandcamp.com/album/yuletide-bangerz

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.

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

Atlas Sound - Artificial Snow :*(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuBrMnQ0XmU

BLISSmas

https://soundcloud.com/bigloverecords/nite-jewel-all-i-want-for
https://soundcloud.com/mike-simonetti/pale-blue-just-like-christmas-1
https://banjoorfreakout.bandcamp.com/track/merry-christmas-baby

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

Also made a playlist (partly inspired by ilxor threads):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1m444tcGkY42aZ2y8Fadmm

More winter than Xmas.

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 gun
And spotlights the snowflakes like dust in the sun
It's Christmas in prison, there'll be music tonight
I'll prob'ly get homesick
I love you
Goodnight

Really feeling “Christmas Island” this year - Ernest Tubb & Leon Redbone versions.

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."

This seems quite Christmas-y to me ...

https://hamrahlidchoir.bandcamp.com/album/come-and-be-joyful

An actual xmas banger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTiWbbFFhGg
Johnny O. Bazz ‎– Xmas Eve

extremely festive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbeG1XrZPJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnGtRWa7Yk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMIa7A0boKo

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_8D048
Master KG ft. Nomcebo Zikode • Jerusalema

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL6NnhCUpNM

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

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

Johnny O. Bazz ‎– Xmas Eve

― kites aren't fun (NickB), Monday, 14 December 2020 20:58 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is great! Had never heard it before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVgRsWBb2l4

just heard the bad religion christmas album from 2013. I’m sure the novelty will wear thin fast but in my current fragile state its synthesis of superficially opposed nostalgias seems to reconcile some sort of deep seated turmoil in my psyche and it moves me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB2l6UESSyo

Here’s a new one

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— Blow Up Records (@BlowUpRecords) December 16, 2020

had slept on this: https://santasabbath.bandcamp.com/album/children-of-the-sleigh