Red Mosquito

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...

So far I agree with this thread.

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

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

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

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.

bart wrote: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.

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

This whole damn album...

This one too...

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

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.

Kevin Davis wrote: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.

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

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

Hope it's got some Mogwai.

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

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.

My favorites:

O Holy Night
Little Drummer Boy
Silent Night

and this version of this:

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