Good Christmas Music

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For some reason this year I decided to stock up on Xmas albums, even though I've always considered Xmas music anathema, probably because my dentist appointments are in December and I have to listen to a soft rock station on a Christmas playlist the entire time. Bad associations. Anyway, I decided to beat the rush and buy lots of Xmas LPs in May and June. Don't let the temporal constraints get you down!

-- Jim M, September 14th, 2006.

I recently got a job at a radio station and found out this week that the week of christmas will be all christmas tunes. Thankfully, I'm allowed to deviate from the norm and play almost any sort of christmas music I want, but I still need to come up with at least 20 hours of christmas music. I figure that's going to take some time.

But hey, you can list summer jams and halloween tracks if you really want to. Make it a seasonal music thread or something.

umm, that's it.

bah humbug.

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The tracks:Heather Noel: Santa Came On A Nuclear Missile
Bobbie Boyle with The Singers: Santa Claus Goes Modern
Norris The Troubador, Seaboard Coastliners: Christmas Time Philosophy
Dick Kent with The Lancelots: A New Year's Dawning
The Sisterhood: The Rocking Disco Santa Claus 2.1mb
Stan Beard & The Swinging Strings: Snobows
Bobbie Boyle with The MSR Singers: Randy, The Lil Elf
Rodd Rogers: Maury, The Christmas Mouse
Randall Reed with The Forerunners: The Peppermint Stick Man
The Sisterhood: Christmas Treat, Peppermint
Kay Brown: Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?
Rodd & The Librettos: How Do They Spend Christmas in Heaven
The Sisterhood: Ole Year Christmas
Gene Marshall: Evelyn Christmas
Rodd & Nita: Jolly, Jolly Santa Claus
Sonny Cash: Merry Christmas Polka
Rodd & Judy: Santa Fix My Toys For Christmas
The Sisterhood: Baby, It's A Cold Night In December
Rod Rogers & The Librettos: Santa Claus Goes Modern
Cara Stewart with Lee Hudson Orchestra: The New Year Song 3.1mb
Teri Summers & The Librettos: Season's Greetings

Ole Year Christmas and the Peppermint Stick Man need to be heard to be believed.

thank you to whoever suggested it to me on ILM last xmas. it's lovely.

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Concerto 8.

...in a carved wooden case as well!

I'll jump in with Margo Guryan's I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You.

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And some folky songs - wassail mania!

Shirley Collins - The Gower Wassail
Andrew King - The Taunton Wassail
The Watersons - The Apple Wassail/The Somerset Wassail
Magpie Lane - Here We Coe A Wassailing
The Young Tradition - The Boar's Head Carol
Steeleye Span - The Cutty Wren (traditional Boxing Day pastime... probably lost on those in the USA!)
Albion Band, Murckram Wakes etc - Poor Old Horse (part of a traditional Christmas Eve play)

this another fave:
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anita kerr singers, spend this holiday with me. has a couple of the saddest xmas tuens ever. and some hilarious silly moments.

Er, how do people bump them, eh? You do know there's a search function, which A Lingbert helpfully accessed for you a whole five posts before that?

Madchen OTM about the YSI thread.

Also, yeah, Phil Spector, Girls Aloud, the Cocteau Twins EP with Winter Wonderland/Frosty the Snowman. And Fairytale of New York.

I know it's not really Christmas music, but I bet Jesus would still dig it if you played it for Him.

More officially Christmas: Walkmen - "The Christmas Party"

the xmas ysi thread from last year was banished to the Idiot Thread Repository ;_____;

But how do people know you've added a post to a 3-yr old thread? I'm not moaning ... just think it's OK to use a new thread to bring an old one back to life.

Yes we did. It's been mentioned at least twice on this thread too.

But how do people know you've added a post to a 3-yr old thread?

It appears on New Answers when there's a new answer. http://ilx.wh3rd.net/newanswers.php?board=2

Ailsa, I feel really stupid now. I've been posting here for years, and have never noticed that. I just have 'new questions' bookmarked, and use the search facility from time to time.

Sorry folks

Jez

https://omnigardens.bandcamp.com/album/christmas

Ambient xmas album might save my sanity at my in-law's.

I've put up a page with my first five Xmas mixes, taking us up to the 60s

https://centuriesofsound.com/centuries-of-christmas/

Mid 60s mix will be out in about a week I think

Kenny Rogers, Christmas (1981)

Here you go then

https://www.patreon.com/posts/146374822

https://www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of_sound/a-christmas-gift-for-you-from-centuries-of-sound-christmas-records-1962-1968/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXkYWFZbUg

That's a good one. I've been enjoying Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols" this winter. Also one that's not really Christmas music but functions well as such, if you want: John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things".

I have discovered this year Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit which is the mass text set to french folk music and it’s delightful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy9NLSTaMG0

John Denver and the Muppets is the only album in my edition of the Great Music Discography to get 0 out of 10.
― Space Gourmand (Haberdager)

sacrilege!

yeah that’s unconscionable. i played the shit out of that record Xmas 1980