Christmas Music

[zeb]

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

[LetMeSleep]

Hey Zeb, any chance of PM'ing me a link too, please?

[zeb]

I'll probably upload toward the end of this week. Will PM anyone who's interested.

[super nintendo chalmers]

[red calzolaio]

fucking haaate the music but love this time of year.

[zeb]

Sufjan's work in this field is pretty much unparalleled.

[Kalevi]

Sufjan's work in this field is pretty much unparalleled.

This. I just picked this up from the library(minus disc 2) and it is great.

[Kevin Davis]

Spoiler: show

I knew of two sisters whose name it was Christmas
And one was named Dawn of course, the other one was named Eve
I wonder if they grew up hating the season
Of the good will that lasts till the Feast of St. Stephen

For that is the time to eat, drink and be merry
'Til the beer is all spilled and the whiskey is flowed
And the whole family tree you neglected to bury
Are feeding their faces until they explode

There'll be laughter and tears over Tia Marias
Mixed up with that drink made from girders
And it's all we've got left as they draw their last breath
And it's nice for the kids as you finally get rid of them
In the St. Stephen's Day Murders

Uncle is garglin' a heart-breaking air
While the babe in his arms pulls out all that remains of his hair
And we're not drunk enough yet to dare criticize
The great big kipper tie he's about to baptize

His gin-flavoured whispers and kisses of sherry
His best crimble shirt slung out over the shop
While the lights from the Christmas tree blow up the telly
His face closes in like an old cold pork chop

And the carcass of the beast left over from the feast
May still be found haunting the kitchen
And there's life in it yet we may live to regret
When the ones that we poisoned stop twitchin'

There'll be laughter and tears over Tia Marias
Mixed up with that drink made from girders
And it's all we've got left as they draw their last breath
And it's nice for the kids as you finally get rid of them (rid of them!)
In the St. Stephen's Day Murders

[Kevin Davis]

Spoiler: show

When Jack Frost came for Christmas
With a brass monkey date
The rail-king and the scarecrow
Hopped a Florida freight
And they blew on their paper cups
And stared through the steam
Then they drank half a bottle
Of Ragpicker's Dream

Where the whiskey keeps following
Cold pitchers of beer
Me and my associate
Like the clientele here get
The onions and the 'taters
Rib-eyes on the grill
Toothpicks and luckies
And a coffee refill

As the rail-king lay rocking
He was leaving the ground
Then he was flying like Santa Claus
Over the town where
He came to the window
Of a house by a stream
It was a family Christmas
In the Ragpicker's Dream

There were kids at the table
All aglow in the light
Music in the wintertime
Sure carries at night there
Was turkey and gravy
Pie and ice cream
And gifts for each and everyone
In the Ragpicker's Dream

Where the red-eye keeps tumbling
In our glasses of beer
Me and my associate
Like the service in here there's
A ten for your trouble
You have beautiful hair
Make the last one two doubles
It's a cold one out there

Where the scarecrow and the rail-king
Have started to dance
But a nightstick and a billyclub
Won't give peace a chance here
I think they went thataways
Your song and dance team
Heading home for the holidays
With the Ragpicker's Dream

On his knees like a fighter
The rail-riding king
Like a sack of potatoes
Like a bull in the ring where
The scarecrow falls over
With a tear in the seam
Home for the rover
In the Ragpicker's Dream

Where the red-eye keeps tumbling
Like tears in our beer
Me and my associate
Like the ambience here where
They cornered two castaways
In a white flashlight beam
Merry Christmas and happy days
In the Ragpicker's Dream

[doone]

"O Holy Night" is one of those songs that is so perfect it almost feels like it is impossible for any human performer to do it justice.

And I've never found a version in which they did.

Me neither. Choir or bust.

Will listen. I just found this version, expected to hate it but I don't.

This is my favourite Christmas hymn too.
The Susan Boyle is good but I've always had a preference for this version, short and sweet, see what you think..


and for the classical version, you can't get any better than Pavarotti

[koopee27]

kp

[doone]

kp

I quite enjoyed that, thanks and Merry Christmas kp!

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has this thread really gone five pages without a louis armstrong mention

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[zeb]

[zeb]

OK, PM me for a Christmas mix.

[Malloy]

[koopee27]

kp

I quite enjoyed that, thanks and Merry Christmas kp!

kp

[super nintendo chalmers]

[Kevin Davis]

Good B-side to that one too--"Walking the Dog."