Friday Morning Music Thread
by Jeff Sullivan on Dec 2, 2011 11:46 AM PST
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And now we have the unavoidable discussion about Christmas music and how polarizing it can be. Love it? Hate it? Are you the rare individual who can tolerate it without having an opinion either way? Do you prefer the classical stuff, or the more contemporary stuff, or what? Talk! Talk!
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Yay Givers!
Anyway, Christmas music: I like covers of classics by fun bands. Don’t like classics played like classics; don’t like Christmas-themed songs that the bands I like usually make each year.
Givers!
I saw them on accident at SXSW and they blew me away. Definitely one of my favorite albums of the year.
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by noeffortatall on Dec 2, 2011 12:58 PM PST up reply actions
I think in any future music discussion between now and Christmas
both Fairytale of New York and the “A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector” album should be put into some sort of pantheon and never discussed again, because they’re that good that they’d come up in every music discussion about holiday music.
I like the more contemporary stuff
if you define “contemporary” as meaning “in the last 50-60 years”.
Among other holiday gems, I love Slade.
I'm not a Christmas music guy...
but that Slade song is totally tolerable. The other xmas song I can get behind is DCFC’s cover of “Baby please come home”.
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by noeffortatall on Dec 2, 2011 1:01 PM PST up reply actions
I'm a classics kinda guy.
I don’t like the jazzercised, electrified, country versions old songs.
Side question: What is your favorite/least favorite Xmas song? Hands down, the worst ever for me is Little Drummer Boy.
I love Givers! Good choice :)
re: Christmas, check out this week’s free download on iTunes, The Civil Wars’ cover of O Come O Come Emmanuel. It’s really, really good.
I still miss Doug Fister :(
I love Christmas music.
I like classical versions as well as the crooner versions like Crosby and Sinatra. Not as into the over the top country or pop versions that come out today though.
Xmas music triggers uncontrollable depression in me
I go to great lengths to avoid it. No great childhood trauma involved or anything. Just an instinctive contradictory reaction to what feels like manipulative, over-the-top super schmaltz.
If you have not heard the aforementioned Fairytale of New York you should check it out
it is a Christmas song with a dark, bleak, cynical, drug-addled soul. It’s amazing.
by pdb on Dec 2, 2011 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
I love classic and contemporary Christmas music.
It seems like every band makes Christmas music these days, but I sort of miss the 90s, when it was tough tracking down artists’ Christmas efforts. All I Wanted Was A Skateboard by Super Deluxe, Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope by Sonic Youth, and Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas by Harvey Danger were among my favorites.
Oi To The World! by The Vandals..
About the only Christmas music I play. How can you not like upbeat classics like “A Gun for Christmas” and “My First Christmas as a Woman?”
I do try to be a little careful about C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S playing in certain company however.
Finally!
Soul Coughing – Suzy Snowflake
It solves the problem of many seasonal songs lacking laser sound effects and mumbling in what I think is French.
Anyway, I’d like to think of myself as immune to it, but my boss started playing the albums like a month ago (ack) and despite my misgivings over getting the music that early, I enjoyed the experience. That is until he put the Justin Bieber Christmas album on. Then it became silly.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
I object to Christmas music being played before my birthday (which is still a week away).
As history has yet to demonstrate that I am less culturally significant than Jesus (though I’ve already outlived the dude, so that’s a point for me), I don’t see why my celebration should be inundated with his music.
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by Llewdor on Dec 2, 2011 2:06 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Next time you turn a gallon of water into delicious wine I will happily write a song about you!
by pdb on Dec 2, 2011 2:09 PM PST up reply actions
Just add grapes and wait.
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Dec 2, 2011 2:26 PM PST up reply actions
Michael Buble sings amazing Christmas songs
like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfH_rfEe-F0
"You are the molders of their dreams." - Clark Mollenhoff
Cocteau Twins' rendition of Frosty the Snowman
Will contradict myself re: hatred of xmas music, for one exception I just thought of. Simply for the novelty of actually understanding Liz Fraser for once.
Oh yeah, the Cocteau Twins.
I’ve forgotten all about them for quite a while. But Christmas has some bad associations for me. When I worked in ER that was the worst night of the year. It’s a very stressful occasion for some.
I prefer not to understand Liz Fraser except for a stray syllable now and then.
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Fraser being comprehensible turned me off of the last couple Cocteau albums
I could listen to Blue Bell Knoll or Victorialand on a loop for days though. They actually put me into the sort of mood that some xmas music is supposed to put one into, come to think of it. And huge props for having worked in ER.
by Chris_FB on Dec 4, 2011 8:37 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
I like older, simpler recordings of the classics for the most part.
It’s probably the cynic in me, but when modern pop artists do them I usually think of them as shameless cash-ins. So Grinch of me.
Also, if you’re curious about this year’s pop Chirstmas tracks you should check out this write-up on ’em. (I am also so shameless.)
To hell with the classics.
In the Bleak Midwinter is the greatest Christmas song ever written. I just turn on 98.1 Classical King FM and listen to cool classical arrangements of the classics and non-classics.
For me, it has to be the orchestral rendition of "Sleigh Ride."
It’s just so much fun to play on baritone with all of its countermelody and its uptempo nature. It’s got to be more fun than a sleigh ride actually is.
I never had a problem with Christmas music until I worked a seasonal retail job.
The constant repetitiveness for hours on end tortured the very depths of my soul.
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by Fearless Frog on Dec 4, 2011 3:33 AM PST via mobile reply actions
I played in brass, concert and big bands for years.
I can’t deal with Christmas music anymore. After you’ve played them all solid for a month or more every year for years, well.
Yeah, no.
Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas record is the only Christmas music I need.
And really one of the only ones I can tolerate. It’s just so chilled out and unobtrusive. Love it.
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