It's tradition for me to play the shit out of The Rat Pack Christmas every year starting on Dec. 1


Who else's xmas music do you listen to? I want to add to my catalogue.

right now I have james taylor's christmas album

dipset's "Christmas" half christmas song/half mixtape album

the isley brothers christmas album

11/28/2007 2:11:21 PM

i love "o holy night" sung by just about any choir. a lot of the r&b/crooner christmas renditions are really good too. but generally i get so inundated by christmas music just walking around anywhere in the months of november and december, i don't go out of my way to play any.

11/28/2007 2:14:58 PM

Quote :

"generally i get so inundated by christmas music just walking around anywhere in the months of november and december, i don't go out of my way to play any."

11/28/2007 2:16:17 PM

11/28/2007 2:17:38 PM

[Edited on November 28, 2007 at 2:19 PM. Reason : fdsf]

11/28/2007 2:18:48 PM

^^did he murder all those good people and give them as gifts?

11/28/2007 2:21:26 PM

No collection is complete without Vince Guaraldi's Peanut soundtrack.

11/28/2007 2:29:50 PM

charlie brown christmas never did it for me

i want some christmas music with SWAG

thats why i roll with frank, sammy and dean usually

11/28/2007 2:36:14 PM

Never get tired of John Denver and the Muppets Christmas album.

11/28/2007 2:40:08 PM

I don't care how many people Phil Spector killed...he's still a genius, and "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is fucking brilliant beyond belief, especially considering it was Phil's idea to take Ronnie off the lead vocal and bring in Darlene Love.

11/28/2007 2:46:09 PM

Regardless, Phil ruined "Let It Be" by simply not letting it be.

I'm partial to Mannheim Steamroller. back off, it was what I grew up on and its nostalgic. Been trying to find some more stuff though. Just got Frank Sinatra Christmas, but I definitely need to find that Rat Pack Christmas album.

11/28/2007 2:56:39 PM

My favorites:

Still, Still, Still
Charlie Brown album
Ray Charles "That Spirit of Christmas"
Carol of the Bells
DMB A Christmas Song

11/28/2007 3:03:02 PM

played it for the first time this year last night while hanging up some lights

fucking perfect

11/28/2007 3:04:51 PM

Built to Spill do a really good version of "Linus & Lucy."

Holy shit, I just realized that the writers' strike means there might not be a Darlene Love performance on Letterman this year.



[Edited on November 28, 2007 at 3:06 PM. Reason : it's christmas time in hollis, queens]

11/28/2007 3:06:21 PM

i love mannheim steamroller!!! perfect xmas music.

11/28/2007 3:10:42 PM

http://www.itsthemusic.com/emerymcknight.php

hillsborough fiddler's christmas cd

comes out dec 15

11/28/2007 3:19:43 PM

Quote :

"it's christmas time in hollis, queens"

my favorite christmas song, EVER.

11/28/2007 4:20:58 PM

harry connick jr.'s got some great stuff out

the Temptations, the Jackson 5, Aretha Franklin, and others have all had great songs come out.

I second the Darlene Love stuff, and the Ray Charles song...

11/28/2007 4:28:28 PM

Quote :

"No collection is complete without Vince Guaraldi's Peanut soundtrack"

11/28/2007 4:29:10 PM

Billy Corgan and Dennis DeYoung - We Three Kings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlsDljZfMzs

SP - christmas time
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LHA-DB4Pjz8

whats christmas time without some billy corgan??

ps the video in the second one is oddly funny

[Edited on November 28, 2007 at 4:38 PM. Reason : ]

11/28/2007 4:36:38 PM

A Charlie Brown Christmas is definatley tops in my book for xmas

also

Mannheim Steamroller - Our Jazz Band did their Good King Wenceslas
Canadian Brass - Noel
Harry Connick Jr - When My Heart Finds Christmas (yeah it's somewhat sappy, but my parents always played it so it's good memories)
Mel Torme - Christmas Songs
Tony Bennett - Snowfall

And Baroque Christmas music is good too

oh, and how can I forget...Christmas with the California Raisins

11/28/2007 4:50:47 PM

Springsteen's version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town rules.

11/28/2007 9:15:25 PM

Picked up this at FYE for $15.99.

Pretty good! A good duet in there and perfect song selection.

12/4/2007 2:02:24 PM

[Edited on December 4, 2007 at 2:18 PM. Reason : .]

12/4/2007 2:18:20 PM

This is the only Christmas album I will listen to, although it does seem a bit weird now (how's this for a Christmas gift: a gunshot wound in the face).

Anyway, a friend of mine pointed me to this page the other day. I have not heard the song in question (and do not want to), but just read through these reviews. Some of them are great. http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B00005QD8C/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=&showViewpoints=1&colid=&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

Quote :

"How many Lifetime/Hallmark Made-for-TV Christmas Movie clichés can you work into one song? Newsong managed to cram a cynical scrooge, a selfless innocent urchin child without enough money to make his purchase, a dying parent (cancer, no less), a random act of monetary generosity, Jesus, an sudden epiphany that transforms humbug into hosanna, and a knock at the commercialization of the holiday season, all into the most excruciatingly saccharine five minutes ever recorded. If they had somehow shoved in a lost puppy who found his way home and Santa Claus saving Christmas thanks to the goodwill of children, they would have hit every possible cheap Holiday emotional ploy. Good work, Newsong. Thanks to your efficiency, I never have to watch ABC Family again. "

Quote :

"This song is so sappy sweet that I had to call Wilford Brimley to buy some of his diabetes medication. ""

lol.

12/4/2007 2:21:36 PM