not individual songs, like i have time for that shit. i just want some nice albums i can have on in the background for the next couple days. instrumental much preferred, nearly required. so, is there anything as beyond reproach as a charlie brown christmas or john fahey's various christmas albums?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:08 (sixteen years ago)
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_rI46TcQsmNk/SUcz36TbH5I/AAAAAAAAIL8/60YgbDinuuU/s800/THE_JETHRO_TULL_CHRISTMAS_ALBUM.JPG
― NO™ (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:11 (sixteen years ago)
http://amthenfm.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/faheynewposslp.jpg
― America's Next Most Disabled Ballerina (WmC), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:16 (sixteen years ago)
yup--that is what i am playing right this very second
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3205/3096201461_f4a62f804a.jpg?v=0
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:20 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/v/ventures~~~_christmas_101b.jpg
― pobrecito (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:29 (sixteen years ago)
and this one is VERY iriehttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QXRm8WxqwVE/Rat7x4kVfjI/AAAAAAAAAZE/OErfuCNIH8c/s320/xmas2.jpg
― pobrecito (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:31 (sixteen years ago)
http://a0.vox.com/6a00b8ea06ece0dece00cd97045e804cd5-500pi
― andrew m., Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:31 (sixteen years ago)
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:snZbjojm3_e_6M:http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd160/mattflag/Phil20Spector-A20Christmas20Gift20F.jpg
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:33 (sixteen years ago)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ x 1000000
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:33 (sixteen years ago)
do i really need to explain why i love this so much :
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-587186-1260826592.jpeg
david axelrod + lou rawls.
tis all about good time christmas which has in the last 24 hours appeared on a lo-tech blog just around the corner.
sheer perfection.
― mark e, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:35 (sixteen years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oo0O0PqndDs/SSTNoM7tLWI/AAAAAAAAAME/-tuAFKZLt48/s400/AK+Spend+the+Holidays+-+Cover.JPG
― andrew m., Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:36 (sixteen years ago)
A perennial favorite:http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/t/the-roches/album-we-three-kings.jpg
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:38 (sixteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR07r0ZMFb8
― The Hood Won't Jump (Eazy), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:40 (sixteen years ago)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Gmg0cBzfziY/ST8gZQ1UN3I/AAAAAAAAAXo/rYyK3H26p5A/s320/chris_isaak_christmas_front.jpg
― The Hood Won't Jump (Eazy), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:42 (sixteen years ago)
Not instrumental, but has 3 stone cold Christmas classics.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GQtuh1Q_luQ/SN1hyd_O1CI/AAAAAAAADR0/5AAPczO-bz0/s400/VA+-+ZE+Xmas+-.jpg
― Bing Crosby, are you listening? (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 22:22 (sixteen years ago)
http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/xmaswynton.jpg
i make time for wynton
― lakerfuffle roffle (tremendoid), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 22:29 (sixteen years ago)
Bob Dylan Xmas album obviously
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 22:31 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.deplicque.net/fatcity/fatcity_img/KennyBurrellChristmas.jpg
― we come for space reasons (tremendoid), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 23:13 (sixteen years ago)
http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/61oVgT7Q2ML.jpg
his silver bells do it for me
― we come for space reasons (tremendoid), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 23:15 (sixteen years ago)
http://sister.co.jp/myspace/PettyBooka-bnr-400x240.gifhttp://prod-assets.mog.com/amg/pop/cov200/drg100/g100/g10063er0ap.jpgalltime favorite version of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 23:16 (sixteen years ago)
guys this is good--i'm gonna check someof these out.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2008/12/Charlie%20Brown%20Christmas.jpg
http://www16.plala.or.jp/christmas1956/02ch-pops03/2002-phil-spector.jpg
http://www16.plala.or.jp/christmas1956/03ch-soul03/2008-badd-santa.jpg
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 December 2009 04:54 (sixteen years ago)
I've only heard a few songs from this, but it seems good so far.. Today's indie fans years from now will likely consider it classic.
http://static.boomkat.com/images/169500/333.jpg
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 December 2009 04:59 (sixteen years ago)
Two all-time favorites:
http://www.great-songs-of-christmas.com/discountxmadiscount/thumbpic/wonderfulsongsxmas_simeone142.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uSi5uHbJL._SS500_.jpg
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 27 December 2009 07:49 (sixteen years ago)
aw man i just heard their 'carol of the bells' on christmas day, been soulseeking it since
― we come for space reasons (tremendoid), Sunday, 27 December 2009 21:10 (sixteen years ago)
I have these and am sad to put them away now:
http://z.about.com/d/rap/1/0/P/6/-/-/ChristmasRap.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qfj6el71ckQ/SUyySf_Z87I/AAAAAAAACr4/yH87pNWQfIg/s400/VA+-+Soul+Christmas+(Atco+1968).jpg
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 27 December 2009 21:15 (sixteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31QJCH0G9AL._SS500_.jpg
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 27 December 2009 22:38 (sixteen years ago)
Christmas Rappin' by the Grand Rap Masters
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 28 December 2009 00:33 (sixteen years ago)
bump.
i'm picking up a couple of last year's recs right now. super psyched for the kenny burrell album
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 02:40 (fifteen years ago)
Dylan's was so good.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 02:53 (fifteen years ago)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/66975266_23bc2ae060.jpg
― seandalai, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 02:53 (fifteen years ago)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/ekahob/stamey-xmas-2.jpg
http://www.thedurutticolumn.com/discography/images/ghosts_of_christmas_past_1_350.jpg
not instrumental, though.
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 02:57 (fifteen years ago)
"Ghosts of Christmas Past" is the least Christmassy Christmas album I have - my girlfriend always tells me to change the music within about five tracks.
― seandalai, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 03:09 (fifteen years ago)
Love this stuff. Old English carols. (There's a whole series of them, and the first one is my favorite, but all I see on Amazon is this compilation.)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61IxJkhO2UL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 03:11 (fifteen years ago)
"Ghosts of Christmas Past" is the least Christmassy Christmas album I have
that's why i like it!
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 03:17 (fifteen years ago)
Also in the "liable to make your girlfriend mad" category:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I8I0aoeC_eE/TPkLi2gfFVI/AAAAAAAAAJU/A0etaKZBFRI/s320/wassail%2Bback.jpg
― seandalai, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:15 (fifteen years ago)
Hmm...that's not so legible where I'm sitting. Read the tracklisting here: http://sonicoysterrecords.blogspot.com/2010/12/corner-of-season.html
― seandalai, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:16 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.rnbhaven.com/images/albums/destinys-child-8-days-of-christmas.jpg
best xmas album by a length out of a recent spate of downloads...
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 17 December 2010 06:28 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.thrillermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/nat.jpg
― Mark, Friday, 17 December 2010 07:12 (fifteen years ago)
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 9:53 PM (3 days ago)
I need to buy this. The video for his cover of "Must Be Santa" is totally classic.
― markers, Friday, 17 December 2010 07:14 (fifteen years ago)
I am more for the Christmas single than the Christmas album. Like to compile different acts doing their act on different Christmas songs, as many originals as possible but then also the occasional trad Christmas song thrown in here and there.
Of course Phil Spector has more or less defined the entire Christmas rock style, so his Christmas album is the one to namecheck if one wants one album from the same source.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 18 December 2010 03:39 (fifteen years ago)
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/a/andy-williams/album-andy-williams-christmas-album.jpghttp://i19.tinypic.com/6k02q8w.jpg
http://www.sergent.com.au/elvis/Elvis%20Christmas%20Album%20Camden%20LP.jpghttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61xkupO4sxL._SS500_.jpg
― suspecterrain, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 13:38 (fifteen years ago)
My dad was a huge Herb Alpert/TJB fan. One Christmas, when I was a kid on a limited budget, I bought him this budget soundalike. Playing it became such a family tradition that years later I bought my own:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZjQDK7Ysr8
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:22 (fifteen years ago)
This got played more than any other Xmas record in my house when I was growing up:
http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001385169/jinglebellrock_bobbyhelms097_answer_3_xlarge.jpeg
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:26 (fifteen years ago)
anyone jam anything good this christmas? the kenny burrell album cover image is gone but eternal thanks to whoever recommended that.
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:27 (thirteen years ago)
Lots of good stuff on the Christmas S/D thread. Not what you're asking for but I posted my Christmas mix online.
On topic, these albums all deserve to be here:
http://images.borders.com.au/images/bau/MI000018/MI0000187297/0/0/plain/holly-bears-the-crown.jpghttp://blog.balder.org/billeder-blog/Cartoon-Christmas-Hannukkah-Oy-To-The-World-Klezmer-Christmas.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lygyPzoGWn0/TRAxS4Z9HyI/AAAAAAAABKI/-sXM4maW_u8/s400/cover.JPGhttp://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/001/311/0000131128_500.jpg
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:12 (thirteen years ago)
Today's indie fans years from now will likely consider it classic.holy shit, i know i've written some dumb things on ILX, but got damn yo
― billstevejim, Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:34 (thirteen years ago)
calypso christmas looks p. chill
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Thursday, 27 December 2012 03:37 (thirteen years ago)
love getting this LP out every Christmas:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Nv2UeZNgOCk/Sx7kYbbaKfI/AAAAAAAAAWM/Kys6EHMxP-Y/s320/wintersong_1.jpg
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 27 December 2012 07:53 (thirteen years ago)
bump
up now: Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
too bad about missing images in this thread, I'd love to know what some of those were
― Brad C., Wednesday, 25 December 2019 01:16 (six years ago)
i was looking at this thread a week or two ago....me too :(
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 01:17 (six years ago)
Staple Singers - The Twenty-Fifth Day of December
― city worker, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 01:29 (six years ago)
Genuinely like the Jethro Tull Christmas album (playing now). Also Don Ross's, which might appeal to folk guitar brigade: https://donross.bandcamp.com/album/flake-wintertide-bundle. Vince Guaraldi and Bruce Cockburn other favourites around this time.
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 03:21 (six years ago)
Bad Religion's was better than I expected.
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 23:51 (six years ago)
that lou rawls album i posted a decade ago (bloody hell), still hits the spot.got an airing yesterday of course.
― mark e, Thursday, 26 December 2019 11:27 (six years ago)
I like the Lou Rawls record too. This one also gets a lot of play:
https://img.discogs.com/hRMKjhQo4jl1pr0fVwVim2Q2pSI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2400337-1286018075.jpeg.jpg
― daily growing, Thursday, 26 December 2019 11:54 (six years ago)