Favorite Christmas Albums I need some suggestions: My favorite: The Carpenters Christmas (I'm not joking)
Favorite Christmas Albums Nat King Cole's Christmas Album. I don't know the name of it. Perhaps it's called "The Christmas Song," since that's the most famous number on it. You know, "Chesnuts roasting on an open fire..." TRIVIA QUESTION: Who wrote that song? In the guilty pleasures department, I've always liked Andy Williams' two Christmas albums, and Robert Goulet had a good one. Those are from the sixties. I'm sure they're around on CD somewhere. I've heard the previously mentioned Phil Spector one. It's good.
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" - Vince Guaraldi "A Scottish Christmas" - Bonnie Rideout (local DC fiddler) "Winter Solstice" - John McCutcheon And basically any of the $9.99 Christmas records you can find from Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Andy Williams, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, etc. I'm fairly catholic in my Christmas music tastes, with the very notable exception of "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues w/ Kirsty MacColl.
There's an amazing amount of info and reviews of holiday records here: http://www.christmasreviews.com/ My favorite recent holiday tune: Fountains Of Wayne "I Want An Alien For Christmas".
Right on. "You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy *#*#*#*#*#*#." It's not Christmas till I hear that lyric.
Elvis, "Memories of Christmas" Got no sleigh with reindeer No sack on my back You're going to see me coming In a big black Cadillac
If only it was just Jose Feliciano and his guitar and all the other instruments were stripped away, I would say Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad". I like this one if only for the Paul Frank album cover:
One of the best Xmas compilations is this tape my brother made a few years ago entitled "Bummer Christmas" -- with nothing but sad sack, "My baby left me on Christmas Eve," "Ain't no Joy This Year" kinda songs. I have to dig that out again. But more to Gringo's question: I'm going to lose all credibility I ever dreamed of pretending to have on this board, but I have to say that every year these chain-stores-that-have-nothing-to-with-music music compilations are getting better and better. You know: Pottery Barn, Starbucks, etc. You go in these stores and they're playing these great tunes and you realize their from "their own" CD compilation. And they **always** have holiday versions. And I have to admit that each year I notice they've unearthed and licensed yet a few more really groovy nuggets -- some that I've loved for ever and some I've never heard. I've never actually bought one, but I've been mighty tempted. If I thought about it for five minutes I could probably come up with several reasons why this is a dreadful and dangerous trend ( probably because property is theft, the workers united will never be divided and eventually we shall overcome ). Other than that, they sound pretty cool.
Okay, to wash that taste out of my mouth, here's a link to Rhino's seasonal section on their website. http://www.rhino.com/store/ArtistandCompilationList.lasso?Genre=holiday&Comp=yes http://www.rhino.com/store/topgenre_seasonal.lasso Everybody loves -- or should love -- Rhino Records. And their compilations are great. Here's some sample Holiday titles: Cajun Christmas Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits:1935-1954 Billboard's Greatest R&B Christmas Hits Mambo Santa Mambo: Christmas From The Latin Lounge Natty & Nice: A Reggae Christmas Punk Rock Xmas Doo Wop Xmas And looky here: Bummed Out Christmas -- this apparently made up about half of my brother's tape. Who knew?
James Brown's Funky Christmas When you want to groove and are sick of all the typical Christmas rehashes of the timeless classics.
"You're a bum you're a punk you're an ole' whore on junk" "Happy Christmas me arse I'd rather be dead"
CHRISTMAS RAP Tracklisting: A1 Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis TIIIIGHT! A2 Sweet Tee - Let The Jingle Bells Rock A3 Dana Dane - Dana Dane Is Coming To Town A4 Spyder-D - Guetto Santa A5 King Sun-D Moet - Christmas in The City B1 Derek B - Chillin' With Santa B2 Disco Four (DUPLICATE) - He's Santa Claus B3 The Showboys - That's What I Want For Christmas B4 Surf MC's - A Surf M.C. New Year
Christmas music Seems appropriate since it's only four weeks away. I turned on the Harry Connick Christmas special just now, and man, can that dude singe. He's a little of himself, but he has amazing talent. I love Christmas music.
It's Christmastime, there's no need to be afraid At Christmastime, we let in light and we banish shade And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy Throw your arms around the world at Christmastime But say a prayer, pray for the other ones At Christmastime it's hard, but when you're having fun There's a world outside your window, and it's a world of dread and fear Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime The greatest gift they'll get this year is life(Oooh) Where nothing ever grows No rain or rivers flow Do they know it's Christmastime at all? Here's to you raise a glass for everyone Here's to them underneath that burning sun Do they know it's Christmastime at all? Feed the world Feed the world Feed the world Let them know it's Christmastime again Feed the world Let them know it's Christmastime again
Re: Christmas music Indeed. I bust out my first Christmas album of the season the other day. Christmas hymns in Arabic
I hate christmas music for teh most part. Every year I try to make a compilation of songs that are to my liking, and usually I don't get past "Fairytale of NY" and "Merry Xmas (I don't want to fight tonight)"
Sod all that, buy the Bo' Selecta Christmas songs. It's a bad invisible turkey roasting Monthafuka. Cha'mone !.