Listening to the Soulful Strings recommended way upthread, this is great! Hits the perfect spot for me between jazz and kitschy easy listening.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
i am going to get my hands on this, it sounds perfect
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:05 (three 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