Non-Christmas music that is tied to the Christmas season for you personally...

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My parents were always real cool about trying to find me music that I actually wanted for Christmas, rather than copping out and just getting some junk that was supposed to be popular. In the late '80's I was into the Fall, and due to the many releases they had, and the clarity of their name, for a few years I could always look forward to some Fall under the tree.

Now I consider Bend Sinister, I am Kurious Oranj, The Frenz Experiment, and Extricate...kind of Christmasy. Unlike Christmas music, I can listen to them all year round, but they are so tied to Christmas that it's kind of special to throw them on this time of year.

Anyone else have a Christmas relationship with "normal" music?

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Saturday, 25 December 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I received Majical Mystery Tour as a present at Christmas, 1967. Still have it, but it's totally worn out. I need to update this, and perhaps now's the time.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 25 December 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought the Phil Spector box set on Boxing Day, so it's carried a Xmas association for me ever since. Of course, the Spector Xmas album is part of that set, so there's a Xmas music AND a non-Xmas music element to this.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 25 December 2004 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

For contrast, I listen to a lot of warm world music during Christmas time. Particular favorites are Mr Bongo's Brazilian Beats comps, Taj Mahal's "The Calypsonians" and the Ekova's remix album.

― sibsi (sibsi), Sunday, 26 December 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Bruce Cockburn - High Winds White Sky
Rickie lee Jones - Traffic from Paradise
Joni Mitchell - Travelogue
Mojave 3 - Spoon and Rafter

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to associate the Monkees's "Day Dream Believer" with eating home-made pecan butter ball cookies (and indirectly with Christmas, since that's the main time my mom would have baked those), since I have an old memory of listening to it while eating those cookies, but that's kind of faded.

― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason, I find the Smiths rather incongruously Christmassy (and I'm sure this would make Morrissey spit up his own pancreas).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(Uh, hi there! I think I'll post something to this forum for a change.)

Classic MTV Class of 1983 was the first CD release I ever got, after getting an actual CD player for my big Christmas 1994 present. Some of the songs I got a chance to hear for the first time on that compilation and ended up playing again and again and again, consequently, remind me of Christmas. The Members' "Working Girl", Planet P's "Why Me?", Sparks' and Jane Wiedlin's "Cool Places", The Call's "The Walls Came Down", The Flirts' "Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)" -- all of these songs are connected with Christmas in my mind.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Marc Anthony's "Celos" (which is actually a pretty good song, incidentally, even if it's on a lackluster album) reminds me of Christmas, particularly maybe of Salvation Army street musicians, becasue of the horn part in the beginning. Also, that's from an album that came out late in the year. In fact, it disappoints me that it's not about Christmas.

― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

anything from "chart hits 81":

http://www.ktelclassics.com/charthits1.html
http://www.ktelclassics.com/charthits2.html

i got them for christmas that year: first records i ever owned. i was only six and couldn't reach the record player: i had to ask my dad to put them on. tracks 9,10 and 11 on volume two pretty much shaped my entire musical tastes for ever.

looking at it again: my GOD there's a lot of crap on there, isn' t there? what the hell was "panic" by the scoop? and the qwaka song ... a *cover* of the birdie song ... wow.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Every year between 1988 and 1991 I got one of the first four kylie albums on cassette for each respective christmas; I generally try to make people get me something Of The Year in question so I can get all wintry and festive and twinkly every time I play it. Endtroducing is xmas 96 for me and Fanmail is 99 and lots of others that I can't recall offhand, but, yes.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Pete Townshend's song "Face Dances Part II" is a Christmas tree in the dark to me, forever.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 4 February 2005 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

sixteen years pass...

New Order’s All Day Long makes me think of Christmas for some reason.

― Derek and Clive Get the Horn Street (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 September 2021 13:35 (four years ago)

Air - Playground Love (Vibraphone Version)

...played this continuously over a very silent & cozy Christmas weekend some 15y ago.

― meisenfek, Thursday, 2 September 2021 13:57 (four years ago)

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