Red Mosquito

Jorge wrote:What's everyone's favorite old-timey Christmas "hymn" type song (less "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" more "O Come All Ye Faithful")

O Holy Night, closely followed by God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Ms Harmless wrote:

Jorge wrote:What's everyone's favorite old-timey Christmas "hymn" type song (less "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" more "O Come All Ye Faithful")

O Holy Night, closely followed by God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Would also be my pick

I don't like "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" because when it goes "oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy" that repetition of "comfort and joy" sounds so awkward, like it's stuffing too many syllables in there

i hate the part where Jesus is jewish but we are all supposed to pretend he is not

Jorge wrote:I don't like "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" because when it goes "oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy" that repetition of "comfort and joy" sounds so awkward, like it's stuffing too many syllables in there

yeah I hear you but there are far worse offenders in the canon and I think the minor medieval melancholy makes up for it, mmmmmm

96583UP wrote:i hate the part where Jesus is jewish but we are all supposed to pretend he is not

that's a really bad part

Ms Harmless wrote:

Jorge wrote:I don't like "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" because when it goes "oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy" that repetition of "comfort and joy" sounds so awkward, like it's stuffing too many syllables in there

yeah I hear you but there are far worse offenders in the canon and I think the minor medieval melancholy makes up for it, mmmmmm

also I like to call it "God Rest Ye Geri Mentalmen"

I now enjoy Xmas music enough to have a Xmassy playlist, but that's about as far as I go, once a year, whenever I feel like it.
I feel a ton of empathy for everyone working retail, it has got to be brutal working a complete shift with non-stop Xmas tunes.

Hahahaha

That’s great

I love everything about Low.

psychobain wrote:

Those subtitles make me feel far less concerned about AI taking over the world and killing us all.

I decorated right after T-Day but I’m in no hurry to play the music

Wendy's Mix time.

Happy Trees wrote:Wendy's Mix time.

Hmmmm....

Ms Harmless wrote:

96583UP wrote:i hate the part where Jesus is jewish but we are all supposed to pretend he is not

that's a really bad part

That's actually not true at all. Of course Jesus was Jewish and kind of the whole deal was him being the fulfillment of the Jewish longing for a Messiah but he came in such an unexpectedly non-martial/kingly way that people completely missed it. Without his Jewishness, Jesus is just a lunatic claiming to be God. Who's pretending any of this isn't true? I'll fight them. I blame Charles Dickens for everything.

Anyway, O Holy Night is a great Christmas hymn. Especially the 3rd verse, "chains shall he break for the slave is our brother". Didn't hear that verse growing up as a Southern Baptist so when I first heard it as an adult it really took me aback. It's probably my favorite now.

I can't believe I read somewhere further back that someone likes The Little Drummer Boy. If some punk kid brought a drum to see my brand new baby and woke him up, I'd be shoving some drumsticks up some nostrils.

And in closing, Julian Casablancas did a cover of an SNL Christmas song (the one with Horatio Sands, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Catan, and Tracy Morgan--wish it was christmas today). That's a fun recent addition to the Christmas canon in my house.

lvc wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

96583UP wrote:i hate the part where Jesus is jewish but we are all supposed to pretend he is not

that's a really bad part

That's actually not true at all. Of course Jesus was Jewish and kind of the whole deal was him being the fulfillment of the Jewish longing for a Messiah but he came in such an unexpectedly non-martial/kingly way that people completely missed it. Without his Jewishness, Jesus is just a lunatic claiming to be God. Who's pretending any of this isn't true? I'll fight them. I blame Charles Dickens for everything.

Anyway, O Holy Night is a great Christmas hymn. Especially the 3rd verse, "chains shall he break for the slave is our brother". Didn't hear that verse growing up as a Southern Baptist so when I first heard it as an adult it really took me aback. It's probably my favorite now.

I can't believe I read somewhere further back that someone likes The Little Drummer Boy. If some punk kid brought a drum to see my brand new baby and woke him up, I'd be shoving some drumsticks up some nostrils.

And in closing, Julian Casablancas did a cover of an SNL Christmas song (the one with Horatio Sands, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Catan, and Tracy Morgan--wish it was christmas today). That's a fun recent addition to the Christmas canon in my house.

No surprise, there. I grew up in that particular denomination, as well. You know how it got started, right?

Matters wrote:

I have been singing this for a week. It might have eclipsed Feliz Navidad as my favorite Christmas song.