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Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: PaulF on 18 December, 2010, 07:51:24 pm
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As the antidote to MattC's thread.
Acceptable Christmas music.
I nominate Low's Christmas EP
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Carole's such as
Silent Night sung by a good choir
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As the antidote to MattC's thread.
Acceptable Christmas music.
I nominate Low's Christmas EP
Seconded. Nice to hear it on prime time TV trails. Ah, distorted noise coupled with a pretty melody :thumbsup:
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Fairytale of New York :thumbsup:
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Waitresses: Christmas Rapping
once-a-year slightly cheesy guilty pleasure. But a classic pop song
I also have somewhere Phil Spector's Christmas Album, which works well in association with a surfeit of egg nog and some mistletoe
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MV, you beat me to that by two seconds. I was just finding it on YouTube.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEztz6nY9Q (http://The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping)
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Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble create some brilliant soundscapes to wrap a Christmas around.
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MV, you beat me to that by two seconds. I was just finding it on YouTube.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEztz6nY9Q (http://The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping)
sorry ;)
Our broadband is too slow to even think about youtube...
Great song tho :thumbsup:
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Waitresses: Christmas Rapping
This.
And Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas".
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Fairytale of New York :thumbsup:
Gets me every time.
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I will probably listening to John Coltrane.
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I nominate Low's Christmas EP
But as I mentioned on another thread - high street shops now routinely slip "Just Like Christmas" in between Slade and Wham. That was our song! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!
I only ever liked that song though, I found the rest of that e.p. a bit too, er, Christian.
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I've got a nice dinner jazz-type sax album of all the Xmas hits done in a 'music for elevators' kinda way that we may listen to.
Failing that, the 1960s Phil Spector Xmas Album still gets an occasional dusting-off.
... and of course, Kevin Wilson's 'Hey Santa Claus, you c***, where's my f****** bike?'
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Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble create some brilliant soundscapes to wrap a Christmas around.
Good call just put on Officium
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I don't have a particular favourite, there are so many fantastic christmas tunes, but The Carol of the Bells (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n3D9uz872Y) always puts me in the chrimbly mood.
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It's got to be The Torero Band (http://"http://www.jeffco.ca/christmas/covers/html/tijuana2.php") 100% Cheese
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Annie Lennox's new album... (http://www.annielennox.com/)
Classic Christmas music with a twist. Absolutely fecking fantastic!
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I have to dissent from that view. They've played a lot of it on Radio 2. It is, by a large margin, the worst thing she has ever done.
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I have to dissent from that view. They've played a lot of it on Radio 2. It is, by a large margin, the worst thing she has ever done.
Yebbut your head's addled - so we can give your opinions their due weight... :demon: :P
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It has to be Christmas Time by The Darkness. Any band who can get a childrens' choir singing "Bells End" repeatedly gets my vote
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I have to dissent from that view. They've played a lot of it on Radio 2. It is, by a large margin, the worst thing she has ever done.
I saw the ad for it on C4 and thought to myself "that looks like Annie Lennox but surely she wouldn't do anything so awful?"
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I like it all. Phil Spector's Christmas album, Slade, Wizzard, Wham!, everything on my vinyl Now That' s What I Call Christmas, all of it. I just wish Take That had a Christmas song.
Mind you, I love Eurovision too.
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...I just wish Take That had a Christmas song.
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Don't worry, East 17 did one... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAyw_Eo4oPw)
*runs. Fast*
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I have to dissent from that view. They've played a lot of it on Radio 2. It is, by a large margin, the worst thing she has ever done.
I saw the ad for it on C4 and thought to myself "that looks like Annie Lennox but surely she wouldn't do anything so awful?"
I must encourage you to listen to it.
Her voice has detoriated a bit since she had the problem with her vocal chords - but it has given her a slightlier huskier voice. And that suits the versions of the carols she is singing on this album.
It was funny, I was listening to some Joan Baez - and the similarity between the later Baez and Lennox voices is quite striking.
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Anything played by a Salvation Army band. I can listen to most of it ok, but once they get to In the Bleak Mid Winter, I well up...
I love a brass band anyway, but how is the the Sally Army manage a timbre all of their own? Or is it just the association with charity in my mind.
And in guilty pleasures, I'm a sucker for A Spaceman Came Travelling. There, I've said it.
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Sinead O'Conner singing Silent Night. just beautiful
YouTube
- Silent night - Sinead O'Connor
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87q5dmW6zDg&feature=related)
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Sinead O'Conner singing Silent Night. just beautiful
YouTube
- Silent night - Sinead O'Connor
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87q5dmW6zDg&feature=related)
I'll top that with Enya singing 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel..." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPHh3nMMu-I)
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I love a brass band anyway, but how is the the Sally Army manage a timbre all of their own? Or is it just the association with charity in my mind.
If by "timbre" you mean the Bavarian oompa quality of some Sally Army outfits, then get yourself down to the Oracle Shopping Centre (or is it now Center?) in Reading where there is a good Sally Army band. I turned out all my spare change for them at Friday lunchtime. Real people, real music, real charity; keep music live and all that. Much better than the Lions or Rotarians with their Santa floats and overly loud music, pointing buckets in your face (sorry I seem to have strayed into rant/bah humbug terry-torry.
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I nominate Low's Christmas EP
But as I mentioned on another thread - high street shops now routinely slip "Just Like Christmas" in between Slade and Wham. That was our song! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!
I must have missed that. Mind you, I shop with little patience and much purpose, so I don't linger, especially at this time of year. It'd make a pleasant addition to the usual canon.
Low's "Last Snowstorm of the Year" has a very seasonal feel to it as well, even if it doesn't overtly mention the C-word.
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I love a brass band anyway, but how is the the Sally Army manage a timbre all of their own? Or is it just the association with charity in my mind.
If by "timbre" you mean the Bavarian oompa quality of some Sally Army outfits, then get yourself down to the Oracle Shopping Centre (or is it now Center?) in Reading where there is a good Sally Army band. I turned out all my spare change for them at Friday lunchtime. Real people, real music, real charity; keep music live and all that. Much better than the Lions or Rotarians with their Santa floats and overly loud music, pointing buckets in your face (sorry I seem to have strayed into rant/bah humbug terry-torry.
No, I don't think it's that. It's a depth of sound that gets to my very soul. In the same way that a nice tenor church bell does.
I've always wondered. Why is it that British bells, (and British brass bands), have such an utterly different sound quality to European ones? I don't mean the whole changeringing/carrillion difference, I mean the actual quality of the sound. There's no way you'd confuse a single tolling British bell, for one tolling in Italy, or France.
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I love a brass band anyway, but how is the the Sally Army manage a timbre all of their own? Or is it just the association with charity in my mind.
If by "timbre" you mean the Bavarian oompa quality of some Sally Army outfits, then get yourself down to the Oracle Shopping Centre (or is it now Center?) in Reading where there is a good Sally Army band. I turned out all my spare change for them at Friday lunchtime. Real people, real music, real charity; keep music live and all that. Much better than the Lions or Rotarians with their Santa floats and overly loud music, pointing buckets in your face (sorry I seem to have strayed into rant/bah humbug terry-torry.
No, I don't think it's that. It's a depth of sound that gets to my very soul. In the same way that a nice tenor church bell does.
I've always wondered. Why is it that British bells, (and British brass bands), have such an utterly different sound quality to European ones? I don't mean the whole changeringing/carrillion difference, I mean the actual quality of the sound. There's no way you'd confuse a single tolling British bell, for one tolling in Italy, or France.
As far as bells go, it is probably because we have excellent bell makers, such as the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which has been making bells for 500 years.
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Am I alone in finding Wounded John Scott Cree's version of Rudolph the Red Nosed reindeer (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=johnscottcree#p/a/u/0/u5HGNkq56iU) a laugh ?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N17V9Uu3qVc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N17V9Uu3qVc)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7xjjlUbpJ4&feature=share (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7xjjlUbpJ4&feature=share)
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I love a brass band anyway, but how is the the Sally Army manage a timbre all of their own? Or is it just the association with charity in my mind.
If by "timbre" you mean the Bavarian oompa quality of some Sally Army outfits, then get yourself down to the Oracle Shopping Centre (or is it now Center?) in Reading where there is a good Sally Army band. I turned out all my spare change for them at Friday lunchtime. Real people, real music, real charity; keep music live and all that. Much better than the Lions or Rotarians with their Santa floats and overly loud music, pointing buckets in your face (sorry I seem to have strayed into rant/bah humbug terry-torry.
No, I don't think it's that. It's a depth of sound that gets to my very soul. In the same way that a nice tenor church bell does.
I've always wondered. Why is it that British bells, (and British brass bands), have such an utterly different sound quality to European ones? I don't mean the whole changeringing/carrillion difference, I mean the actual quality of the sound. There's no way you'd confuse a single tolling British bell, for one tolling in Italy, or France.
As far as bells go, it is probably because we have excellent bell makers, such as the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which has been making bells for 500 years.
Slightly belated response...
Partly what Clandy said, but there are traditions in methods of tuning bells which are peculiarly English, in both the shape of the bell itself and also any post casting tuning. Also the fact that its pretty well only us Brits who do full circle ringing, with the bell describing a full circle, rather than just waving about a bit like the continentals do. The interaction of bell and clapper during the full circle is a rather complex issue. Videoing bells in action is a rather dangerous activity but I have done it in the process of analysing a problem with a particular bell. You need bloody good ear defenders if you don't want permanent hearing loss within a minute or so!
William, now retired from the Winchester and Portsmouth diocesan guild belfry stewardship committee.
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There is only one to listen to this.
This:
http://www.putumayo.com/content/christmas_around_world_1
From that CD, one especially for Uncle Peter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LDffzvz_9c
And another, "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" Played on steel drums :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajHGuHY14bM
What's not to like?
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For the first time in about 15-20 years I'm getting into the spirit of Christmas ( Not the shopaholic part)
and have listned to Christmas songs; I found two I really like :
This is my runner up :
http://youtu.be/mxVo5mjK4eg
And my absolute favorite I haven't heard for 20 years. :
http://youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8
:D :smug: :D
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I've always had a bit of a soft spot for this : -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5HGNkq56iU
If you can't see that, this is the linky bit after the http bit.
youtube.com/watch?v=u5HGNkq56iU
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Guys, you need to use the YouTube share feature and get a *.be link for them to reliably show up on all browsers.
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Guys, you need to use the YouTube share feature and get a *.be link for them to reliably show up on all browsers.
Thanks, Rogerzilla links have been changed..
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Guys, you need to use the YouTube share feature and get a *.be link for them to reliably show up on all browsers.
Sorry, I've got no idea what that means.
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I've always had a bit of a soft spot for this : -
http://youtu.be/u5HGNkq56iU
push "share" button and a new link appears .. Then it looks like above.
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I love the Tom Waits one, first heard it oooh a quarter of a century ago!!!!!!!! but never realised it was anything to do with Christmas. hmmmmmmmm
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I've always had a bit of a soft spot for this : -
http://youtu.be/u5HGNkq56iU
push "share" button and a new link appears .. Then it looks like above.
Aha ! Thank you. Like this : -
http://youtu.be/u5HGNkq56iU
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Greg Lake, although it's a miserablilist attack on the usual Christmas stuff:
http://youtu.be/JPm6CheT6rs
and I have a soft spot for Johnny Mathis CHEESE ALERT
http://youtu.be/RGMky4tVN7c
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Ah Christmas ! Time to get your old Jethro Tull albums out and dust them off a bit.
Ring out those solstice bells , etc.
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Isn't Best Christmas song a tautology? Except for Fairytale of New York.
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It's like asking "who is the cleverest McDonalds employee?" or "most likeable Tory?"
I used to like Low's "Just Like Christmas" which is not actually anything to do with Christmas but has ironic sleigh bell sounds on the intro... until I heard it played as part of a terrible Slade/Wizzard/Mariah Carey/Wham playlist in a shop. Not allowed!
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It's like asking "who is the cleverest McDonalds employee?" or "most likeable Tory?"
I used to like Low's "Just Like Christmas" which is not actually anything to do with Christmas but has ironic sleigh bell sounds on the intro... until I heard it played as part of a terrible Slade/Wizzard/Mariah Carey/Wham playlist in a shop. Not allowed!
Psurely that's just the 'Best Christmas Album Ever' unedited, innit?
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What about In the Ghetto.
http://youtu.be/6am8V5KNJ4A
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Greg Lake, although it's a miserablilist attack on the usual Christmas stuff:
http://youtu.be/JPm6CheT6rs
Ah Christmas ! Time to get your old Jethro Tull albums out and dust them off a bil.
Ring out those solstice bells , etc.
Combining the above two, I found this gem from a couple of years ago:
http://youtu.be/U6-PAKOt7sM
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I never thought we'd get into starting our very own quaint family traditions, but we have!
My kids love this one on the hi-fi as they sit by the tree opening their presents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuVBPwzstM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Combining the above two, I found this gem from a couple of years ago:
http://youtu.be/U6-PAKOt7sM
Nice one !
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I never thought we'd get into starting our very own quaint family traditions, but we have!
My kids love this one on the hi-fi as they sit by the tree opening their presents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuVBPwzstM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Using the word 'hi-fi' is quaint all in itself. :thumbsup:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWmJCI8LY4E
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I thought you said "Christmas snog".
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For all of the peole that live on their own at Christmas
http://youtu.be/NL6jptOQ84A
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A Winter's Tale - David Essex
December Will Be Magic Again - Kate Bush
Solstice Bells - Jethro Tull
I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake
Cashing In On Christmas - Bad News
Mistletoe & Wine - Cliff Richard
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It's like asking "who is the cleverest McDonalds employee?" or "most likeable Tory?"
I used to like Low's "Just Like Christmas" which is not actually anything to do with Christmas but has ironic sleigh bell sounds on the intro... until I heard it played as part of a terrible Slade/Wizzard/Mariah Carey/Wham playlist in a shop. Not allowed!
I'd also choose something Low. Either Silent Night or Little Drummer Boy
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I Wish It Could Be A Wombling Merry Christmas Every Day by Roy Wood and the Wombles.
What? It's a thing!
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Every December the first I get my Christmas music out of the loft. It ranges from Oxford Book of Carols tunes (Mediaeval and modern) through Bach to Crosby and Jona Lewi. I particularly like "My Christmas Song For You" by The Mills Brothers (tune Hoagy Carmichael). But this is the reording that renders me immobile, every time. It's not strictly a Christmas tune, though I first heard it on a Christmas programme. This performance is actually mimed, though the recording of the voice is genuine. Those of you who know it will, I hope, enjoy it, while I think those coming to it for the first time will be as astonished as I was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZpTWmwOHw0
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What about In the Ghetto.
http://youtu.be/6am8V5KNJ4A
As it's Christmas I prefer to sing "In the Gateau".
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Either of Kate Rusby's Christmas albums.
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http://youtu.be/IippcraBPKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IippcraBPKA
or http://youtu.be/mDtOByWXSzg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDtOByWXSzg
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Either of Kate Rusby's Christmas albums.
Kate Rusby could sing a Service Level Agreement and it would be fabulous!
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I never thought we'd get into starting our very own quaint family traditions, but we have!
My kids love this one on the hi-fi as they sit by the tree opening their presents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuVBPwzstM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The final chord of this is superb. The rest ain't bad either, but that deep chord... fine.
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This is my pick - a classic 60s French pop song featuring a couple of Christmas-themed characters, though it's not really about Christmas, it's about shagging. I first heard it when I lived in France in the mid-90s, and I'd never heard of Le Père Fouettard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Fouettard) before then either...
http://youtu.be/BV54SjDQ79w
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I never thought we'd get into starting our very own quaint family traditions, but we have!
My kids love this one on the hi-fi as they sit by the tree opening their presents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuVBPwzstM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I wish you were my dad.
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ISTR this was done last year (or maybe the year before...)
My answers are still the same:
Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight) - The Ramones
I'll be Hating You for Christmas - Everclear
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http://youtu.be/mDtOByWXSzg
Thanks. Not heard that before.
My #1 is I Believe In Father Christmas by Greg Lake, but a worthy #2 goes to Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.
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Woofage is right. I need to amend:
A Winter's Tale - David Essex
December Will Be Magic Again - Kate Bush
Solstice Bells - Jethro Tull
I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake
Cashing In On Christmas - Bad News
Mistletoe & Wine - Cliff Richard
Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie
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This one is just beautiful...
http://youtu.be/cxqQtUQErhQ
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Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie
How could I forget that one? Probably pushes The Waitresses into 3rd position.
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Santa Baby - The original Eartha Kitt version not dreadful covers by Madonna or Kylie.
http://youtu.be/jFMyF9fDKzE
Though surprisingly Shakira pulls off a good version using the Eartha Kitt arrangement:
http://youtu.be/9_jsHj3853U
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David Essex? That awful record? Mods pls delete n ban, thanks.
Spine-chilling:
http://youtu.be/p0vO4LDImrc
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this is the reording that renders me immobile, every time. It's not strictly a Christmas tune, though I first heard it on a Christmas programme. This performance is actually mimed, though the recording of the voice is genuine. Those of you who know it will, I hope, enjoy it, while I think those coming to it for the first time will be as astonished as I was.
Has quite a range, doesn't he?
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White Wine in the Sun would be my suggestion. By the ridiculously talented Tim Minchin.
http://youtu.be/fCNvZqpa-7Q
http://youtu.be/fCNvZqpa-7Q (http://youtu.be/fCNvZqpa-7Q)
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Yeah. That's a good 'un.
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a worthy #2 goes to Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.
Right, Christmas has started. First hearing of this song this year (on RadMac).
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Christmas Wrapping is a great song, not just a great Christmas song. But I've heard it too many times in my life. It's lost its novelty and it's ear worm material.
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Straight in at number one...
This could well be my new favourite Christmas song:
http://youtu.be/oiSf083QM_U
[Christmas At The Airport by Nick Lowe, from his new Christmas album, entitled Quality Street]
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a worthy #2 goes to Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.
Right, Christmas has started. First hearing of this song this year (on RadMac).
I heard it in a shop on Friday. Forgot how superb the bass line is.
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I am unable to see/ hear any of the link only replies on this thread so they are wasted on me :P
My faves, in no particular order-
I believe in Father Christmas, Greg Lake
Little Drummer Boy, Bing and Dave
2000 Miles, Pretenders
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I never thought we'd get into starting our very own quaint family traditions, but we have!
My kids love this one on the hi-fi as they sit by the tree opening their presents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuVBPwzstM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The branch of Woolies reflecting in the shop window is the one that used to be opposite Victoria station.
Just sayin' like...
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'Driving Home for Christmas', by Chris Rea. It's the sentiment not the song. In the mid 80s getting back to the North at Christmas was an epic journey. We found ourselves pushed onto the A15 in 1986, as every other route was gridlocked. This video of it is from a German request show. The request is from Uwe in Cottbus, which is the former DDR, so probably working in the West, and subject to the same Christmas journey.
The song always make me think of those working away from home, and making their way back for the festivities. It's every bit as bad now as it was in the 80s, especially for those in building trades.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THcbQyFtCqg
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Played today by Lauren Laverne, wonderful reminder: Shonen Knife, Space Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H_-ia2M2M4
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River by Joni Mitchell.
Oh, my.
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The Band Aid record (by Bono and some less hated artistes) was not a great Christmas song. But it did the job, and was a pretty good song, despite what siome diots think on this thread:
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=78887.msg1615316#msg1615316
So there :thumbsup:
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A Christmas Carol, by Tom Lehrer:
http://youtu.be/DtZR3lJobjw
The various offerings from the Bob Rivers show, Corey Taylor and King Diamond are up there for the LuLz as well. :demon: ;D :demon:
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I Believe in Father Christmas, as part of a religious service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-PAKOt7sM
The Christmas we get, we deserve.
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https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=78438.0
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=41841.0
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I Believe in Father Christmas, as part of a religious service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-PAKOt7sM
The Christmas we get, we deserve.
Well, tonight thank God, it's them instead of you!
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I'm sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrG4JnrN5GA
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I'm sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrG4JnrN5GA
Don't apologise, just showed that to my (16y) son. He asked where I found that, to which I replied "where you'll find all the best stuff, YACF". His comment then was "for a cycling forum there's not much cycling on it!". Maybe it's just the boards that I frequent?
Anyway, my offering as a Christmas song,
http://youtu.be/cBGkhPx529g
Paul Brady's "Arthur McBride"
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Here you go, a whole album of fantastic Xmas songs, not a bad one among them!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5840C50D6CF5A42A
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Reminded of the marvellous Arrogant Worms by that mcshroom, I am currently enjoying 'Santa's Gonna Kick Your Ass'. Very good.
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and at a rather different point in the spectrum, I'm going for this one: -
http://youtu.be/zU-mzlUW45U
Philip Stopford's Lully, Lulla, Lullay
I've spent most of the Day listening to Kate Rusby's Sweet Bells Album which has some excellent ones as well :)
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A John Denver classic...
http://youtu.be/Li8GrxE1jfg
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I'm going for this -
http://youtu.be/1s6WMCSGUlQ
ba-humbug
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Bonfire. About 2 hours of unadulterated AC/DC. Merry fucking Christmas.
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About 2 hours of unadulterated AC/DC.
Blimey, have you offended someone??
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About 2 hours of unadulterated AC/DC.
Blimey, have you offended someone??
Yes - my kids, who had to put up with it! Not a trace of Cliff, Chris de Burgh, Nat King Cole, Mel and Kim, Slade, Boney M, the King's College Choir or Mike Oldfield for 2 hours. It was great!
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If that's the sort of stuff your bins listen to year-round, Tim, I'm mildly surprised they're not five fathoms down in an Essex landfill :demon:
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My bins? Is that an auto-correct of kids? No, their music is ok. Well, some of it is. It was just that I needed a break from the incessant Xmas Musak that infiltrates everything at this time of year. AC/DC, Metallica and Nickelback provided a suitable antidote!
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Managed to sneak Low's Christmas EP into the playlist yesterday, unplanned benefit was my 'helpers' left the kitchen when it came on ;D
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Bin lids Tim - keep up!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Otaka5oIQ
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R3 have just broadcast a programme about the film music of Ennio Morricone, evoking particularly Leone's Spaghetti Westerns - almost as Christmassy as Bond James Bond, The Great Escape or the first two "Die Hard" films.
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On the 25th, I managed to sneak It's Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas and All I Want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit onto my sisters smart TV on YouTube. I told the onlookers that it was TOTP2 until the penny dropped and the remote was removed from my vicinity pronto. A song about cricketer Fred Titmus flashed on screen, but even I couldn't be that naughty.