Author Topic: Best Christmas Music (Read 9947 times)

PaulF · « **on:** 18 December, 2010, 07:51:24 pm »

As the antidote to MattC's thread.

Acceptable Christmas music.

I nominate Low's Christmas EP

jogler · « **Reply #1 on:** 18 December, 2010, 07:59:33 pm »

Carole's such as
Silent Night sung by a good choir

Biggsy · « **Reply #2 on:** 18 December, 2010, 08:02:03 pm »

Quote from: PaulF on 18 December, 2010, 07:51:24 pm

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

epa611 · « **Reply #3 on:** 18 December, 2010, 08:04:00 pm »

Fairytale of New York

border-rider · « **Reply #4 on:** 18 December, 2010, 08:06:09 pm »

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

Biggsy · « **Reply #5 on:** 18 December, 2010, 08:06:45 pm »

MV, you beat me to that by two seconds. I was just finding it on YouTube.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEztz6nY9Q

Chris S · « **Reply #6 on:** 18 December, 2010, 08:07:40 pm »

Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble create some brilliant soundscapes to wrap a Christmas around.

border-rider · « **Reply #7 on:** 18 December, 2010, 08:10:44 pm »

Quote from: Biggsy on 18 December, 2010, 08:06:45 pm

MV, you beat me to that by two seconds. I was just finding it on YouTube.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEztz6nY9Q

sorry

Our broadband is too slow to even think about youtube...

Great song tho

Woofage · « **Reply #8 on:** 18 December, 2010, 08:13:11 pm »

Quote from: Mal Volio on 18 December, 2010, 08:06:09 pm

Waitresses: Christmas Rapping

This.

And Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas".

toekneep · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 December, 2010, 08:16:31 pm »

Quote from: epa611 on 18 December, 2010, 08:04:00 pm

Fairytale of New York

Gets me every time.

nicknack · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 December, 2010, 08:18:14 pm »

I will probably listening to John Coltrane.

Rhys W · « **Reply #11 on:** 18 December, 2010, 08:35:00 pm »

Quote from: PaulF on 18 December, 2010, 07:51:24 pm

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.

Steve Kish · « **Reply #12 on:** 18 December, 2010, 09:23:19 pm »

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?'

PaulF · « **Reply #13 on:** 18 December, 2010, 09:45:43 pm »

Quote from: Chris S on 18 December, 2010, 08:07:40 pm

Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble create some brilliant soundscapes to wrap a Christmas around.

Good call just put on Officium

Clandy · « **Reply #14 on:** 18 December, 2010, 09:49:55 pm »

I don't have a particular favourite, there are so many fantastic christmas tunes, but

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/2n3D9uz872Y&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/2n3D9uz872Y&rel=1</a> always puts me in the chrimbly mood.

RW · « **Reply #15 on:** 18 December, 2010, 10:17:02 pm »

It's got to be The Torero Band 100% Cheese

Regulator · « **Reply #16 on:** 18 December, 2010, 10:37:36 pm »

Annie Lennox's new album...

Classic Christmas music with a twist. Absolutely fecking fantastic!

clarion · « **Reply #17 on:** 19 December, 2010, 10:41:01 am »

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.

Regulator · « **Reply #18 on:** 19 December, 2010, 11:50:34 am »

Quote from: clarion on 19 December, 2010, 10:41:01 am

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...

Quisling · « **Reply #19 on:** 19 December, 2010, 12:03:18 pm »

It has to be Christmas Time by The Darkness. Any band who can get a childrens' choir singing "Bells End" repeatedly gets my vote

Woofage · « **Reply #20 on:** 19 December, 2010, 01:22:45 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 19 December, 2010, 10:41:01 am

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?"

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #21 on:** 19 December, 2010, 02:16:19 pm »

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.

clarion · « **Reply #22 on:** 19 December, 2010, 02:29:43 pm »

Quote from: Kirst on 19 December, 2010, 02:16:19 pm

...I just wish Take That had a Christmas song.
...

Don't worry,

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/SAyw_Eo4oPw&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/SAyw_Eo4oPw&rel=1</a>

*runs. Fast*

Regulator · « **Reply #23 on:** 19 December, 2010, 03:01:18 pm »

Quote from: Woofage on 19 December, 2010, 01:22:45 pm

Quote from: clarion on 19 December, 2010, 10:41:01 am
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.

Arch · « **Reply #24 on:** 19 December, 2010, 03:36:48 pm »

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.

Author Topic: Best Christmas Music (Read 9947 times)

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