Christmas Music

[Lament]

Oh man, Jingle Bell Rock is another one that puts me right in the backseat of my parents' car on freezing cold December nights when I was a kid. Great song.

I always loved Brenda Lee's Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, especially after it's inclusion in Home Alone...

[Whitey McTeeth]

So far I agree with this thread.

[Lament]

I was hoping you were gonna post the dogs who can bark Jingle Bells, Whitey.

[Kevin Davis]

Yeah, love that tune. I ordered this off Amazon a couple weeks ago, we've been playing it pretty much incessantly around the house:
http://www.amazon.com/Santas-Greatest-H ... B00000JQMI

[bart]

Wow, two pages in and nobody has mentioned Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Which is clearly the best.

[Lament]

That's a fantastic looking compilation. Ella Fitzgerald's Sleigh Ride is another great one. That one was so much fun to shout along to as a kid.

[Lament]

Wow, two pages in and nobody has mentioned Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Which is clearly the best.

Only if you mean the John Denver & the Muppets version.

[doug rr]

I'm not a big christmas music fan but I can go with Elvis doing Silver Bells

[Lament]

This whole damn album...

[Lament]

This one too...

[zeb]

Might even upload my 2013 mix for anyone who's interested.

[Lament]

I'd love to check out your mix. Maybe I'll upload my mix of favorites too. I think it's time to put it back into heavy rotation in my car.

[Blaine Ryan]

Here's something I was thinking about the other day: When is the last time a "new" Christmas song was absorbed into the larger, more widely recognizable repertoire of holiday music?

The best I could come up with was "All I Want For Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey.

Asterisked answer to this would be Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Christmas Eve, Sarajevo." It's based on the "Carol of the Bells," so it was sort of already in the canon, but yeah.

[Blaine Ryan]

Not exactly a standard, but I've always really dug this one:

[LetMeSleep]

Might even upload my 2013 mix for anyone who's interested.

Hope it's got some Mogwai.

[dsb1218]

This attained "new classic" status for me last year.

[BurtReynolds]

I hate Christmas music. I hate that the same tired music gets trotted out every year, music that I never liked in the first place. I hate that I had to hear this shit music on a loop at every mundane monkey job i ever had growing up. I hate the concept of music created for a certain date on a calender.

Hate.

[knee tunes]

My favorites:

O Holy Night
Little Drummer Boy
Silent Night

and this version of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHiUFapDyHE

[malice]

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