Author Topic: Your Christmas Music (Read 10958 times)

Flying_Monkey · « **Reply #25 on:** 14 December, 2009, 11:47:35 pm »

Sufjan Stevens's Christmas box set, Phil Spector, Elvis Christmas album and Mariah Carey (yep, you heard it right - it's ace).

groucho · « **Reply #26 on:** 15 December, 2009, 08:49:33 am »

Thea Gilmore's Strange Communion featuring St Stephen's Day Murders, that has just been released, Johnny Dowd's Jingle Bells from The Pawnbroker's Wife.

.......and the 80's cheesey stuff!

Wascally Weasel · « **Reply #27 on:** 15 December, 2009, 09:45:58 am »

2000 miles by the Pretenders gets my vote.

Kevin Bloody Wilson always gets me in the mood for Christmas:

      YouTube
            - Hey Santa Claus you xxx


NSFW link

Edit - aargh, can't change the URL to something less sweary - mods feel free to edit/move if required. It is at least cycle related (tenuously)

numbnuts · « **Reply #28 on:** 15 December, 2009, 09:53:38 am »

I love Gaudete, but any carols will do
ps and the little drumer boy

Charlotte · « **Reply #29 on:** 15 December, 2009, 10:05:30 am »

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/yRfvSOuwM_4&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/yRfvSOuwM_4&rel=1</a>

jellied · « **Reply #30 on:** 15 December, 2009, 10:08:22 am »

Quote from: Chocolatebike on 14 December, 2009, 09:39:25 am

Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.
As soon as I here that in a shop or on the radio, Christmas is officially on the way IMO.
YMMV

amen to that.

Spinners · « **Reply #31 on:** 15 December, 2009, 06:43:38 pm »

Quote from: Chocolatebike on 14 December, 2009, 09:39:25 am

Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.

Oh yes! So underrated it's a classic.

Very sad about Patty Donahue though...

Patty Donahue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

mattc · « **Reply #32 on:** 15 December, 2009, 06:55:22 pm »

Eek! I just saw this on the front page:

[Arts and Entertainment] Re: Your Christmas Music by The Spinners

Please don't do that to me.

oncemore · « **Reply #33 on:** 16 December, 2009, 10:13:44 am »

"The Phil Spector - Christmas Album" Ah yes, for wallowing in nostalgia and indeed tearfulness for the days when life was fun....or at least the days when I was YOUNG.

For my depressed present, "A Christmas Message From A Hooker In Minneapolis" will do.

spesh · « **Reply #34 on:** 16 December, 2009, 04:21:28 pm »

As always, I bow to the Bard of Harvard:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/DtZR3lJobjw&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/DtZR3lJobjw&rel=1</a>

And not forgetting Bob Rivers (you might need to hit play after the song's loaded and buffered in the site's player)

Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire
Walking Round In Women's Underwear
White Trash Christmas
Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow!

Definitely "not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste."

Legs · « **Reply #35 on:** 17 December, 2009, 02:39:47 pm »

I've been getting odd looks in the office this morning because I've got Lobachevsky as an earworm...

Back OT, pretty much all Christmas music is dreadful.

Quote from: spesh on 16 December, 2009, 04:21:28 pm

As always, I bow to the Bard of Harvard:

And not forgetting Bob Rivers (you might need to hit play after the song's loaded and buffered in the site's player)

Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire
Walking Round In Women's Underwear
White Trash Christmas
Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow!

Definitely "not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste."

dasmoth · « **Reply #36 on:** 17 December, 2009, 02:47:37 pm »

Chiron Beta Prime has a certain something...

And Loreena McKennitt singing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is good enough that I can sometimes forget it should probably be counted as christmas music.

spesh · « **Reply #37 on:** 17 December, 2009, 05:32:03 pm »

Quote from: Legs on 17 December, 2009, 02:39:47 pm

I've been getting odd looks in the office this morning because I've got Lobachevsky as an earworm...

PaulF · « **Reply #38 on:** 19 December, 2009, 07:07:08 pm »

Quote from: Regulator (a.k.a. DUG) on 13 December, 2009, 07:59:27 pm

I love the Steeleye Span version, but I think you can't beat a male choir singing it in a cathedral or church. The acoustics really add to the music.

Seconded, the choir at St Paul's today were superb with Gaudete this afternoon.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #39 on:** 19 December, 2009, 07:18:56 pm »

Something modal played/crooned as background music in the Indian restaurant.

simonp · « **Reply #40 on:** 19 December, 2009, 07:20:49 pm »

I don't "do" Christmas music.

So I will be listening to the same stuff as all year:

1. The Raconteurs
2. Franz Ferdinand
3. David Gilmour
4. The White Stripes
5= Gotan Project
5= KT Tunstall
7. Pink Floyd
8. La Roux
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. Jem

But with extra 16. Rage Against The Machine

Oaky · « **Reply #41 on:** 19 December, 2009, 07:27:02 pm »

Quote from: PaulF on 19 December, 2009, 07:07:08 pm

Quote from: Regulator (a.k.a. DUG) on 13 December, 2009, 07:59:27 pm

I love the Steeleye Span version, but I think you can't beat a male choir singing it in a cathedral or church. The acoustics really add to the music.

Seconded, the choir at St Paul's today were superb with Gaudete this afternoon.

I prefer the Kipper Family "version" though.

Charlotte · « **Reply #42 on:** 19 December, 2009, 07:29:21 pm »

We're listening to Diana Krall's Christmas Songs as I type.

It's surprisingly lovely

mattc · « **Reply #43 on:** 24 December, 2009, 11:40:56 am »

Probably the best of this year's crop:

Watch: Julian Casablancas Performs I Wish It Was Christmas Today

StuAff · « **Reply #44 on:** 24 December, 2009, 08:55:23 pm »

Quote from: spesh on 16 December, 2009, 04:21:28 pm

As always, I bow to the Bard of Harvard:

Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol

+1. Man's a genius.
Mine: Slayer. I like to put the 'Anti-' into Christmas....

MSeries · « **Reply #45 on:** 24 December, 2009, 09:05:32 pm »

Quote from: Ja ded on 13 December, 2009, 12:07:52 pm

Kirsty McColl and Pogues.

That does it for me. But also as I've said elsehere I've been gripped by The Waitresses and Girls Aloud (You give me something that I'd never get from Santa Clause)

clarion · « **Reply #46 on:** 24 December, 2009, 10:14:14 pm »

I love

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/DrQRS40OKNE&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/DrQRS40OKNE&rel=1</a> by Fleet Foxes.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #47 on:** 24 December, 2009, 10:15:43 pm »

We are going through Mozart's symphonies in reverse order. I don't suppose we'll get beyond no. 40 tonight.

Butterfly · « **Reply #48 on:** 24 December, 2009, 10:30:11 pm »

Quote from: spesh on 16 December, 2009, 04:21:28 pm

As always, I bow to the Bard of Harvard:

+1 here too.

And Allan Sherman

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kOjpS-25C_Y&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/kOjpS-25C_Y&rel=1</a>
They were the 2 Christmas songs played at home when I was growing up

geoff · « **Reply #49 on:** 25 December, 2009, 12:22:14 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 24 December, 2009, 10:14:14 pm

I love White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes.

ah yes thanks that's quite fun

reminds me somewhat of this

Author Topic: Your Christmas Music (Read 10958 times)

Flying_Monkey

Spinners

Legs

simonp