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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 23, 2022 9:38:06 GMT -5
I try to avoid Christmas music until the first couple of weeks of December. I find it very tiresome week after week after week.
There’s two Christmas songs in particular that I really really hate.
First is José Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad.” It got played a lot in my house when I was a kid. He says “Feliz Navidad” over and over and it makes me nuts. However, it seems to be a holiday favorite and I hear it at least once or twice over the holiday season. If I can just get to December 7 or December 10 without hearing it. Please Lord.
But the one I really hate is Anne Murray’s Good King Wenceslas. Again, this got played a lot over the holidays in my childhood. Fortunately, it is not a fixture on the playlists that I am likely to hear as I hurry furtively from place to place over the holidays. But if I do hear it, I get so depressed. It saps my energy and makes me wish the holidays would get over with. At this point, it’s been at least three or four years since the last time I heard it. Hopefully I can go three or four more.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 23, 2022 9:47:39 GMT -5
... Cody's contribution puts me in mind of The Heat Miser and Cold Miser songs, which are two of the best. I like hearing Heat Miser and Cold Miser. The local 99-cents store has this on their christmas-music loop, and no holiday songs that I find more than mildly disagreeable. I consider it a safe place for groceries during the interminable christmas deluge.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 23, 2022 11:03:35 GMT -5
I agree with Slam.. I hate Christmas music. If forced, I have a couple Jazz CDs that are Christmas themed, but otherwise no. At their best they are inane pop songs which I cringe at... they get far worse.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 23, 2022 11:49:26 GMT -5
And I HATE Christmas music. This has to be one of the least surprising reveals ever.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 23, 2022 12:23:03 GMT -5
My great-grandmother hated “White Christmas.” I guess the Bing Crosby version was so popular, that it was everywhere, not just when it was first released but every Christmas for the next five or 10 years.
And my great-grandma got sick of it. Years later, my aunt quoted her as saying “If I hear that goddamned “White Christmas” one more time, I’m going to scream!”
I don’t really have a problem with “White Christmas” myself. “Holiday Inn” is one of my favorite X-Mas movies. I’m not so keen on the remake, which is titled “White Christmas,” but it doesn’t have anything to do with the song.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2022 18:00:11 GMT -5
I do like She & Him appropriating Madonna's "Holiday" into a Christmas song:
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Post by majestic on Nov 23, 2022 18:04:59 GMT -5
Tough question. Even though I listen to 70s & 80s rock the most I prefer the old Christmas songs by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, etc.
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Post by berkley on Nov 23, 2022 19:33:54 GMT -5
I like Elvis's Christmas album, the one with Blue Christmas and Why Can't Every day be Like Christmas, etc
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Post by badwolf on Nov 23, 2022 21:25:00 GMT -5
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Post by badwolf on Nov 23, 2022 21:28:41 GMT -5
As I've gotten older I've learnt to appreciate Christmas music a bit more. Not so much the pop songs, though.
I have Christmas CDs by:
Loreena McKennitt Enya George Winston Vince Guaraldi Trio
and some Projekt Records compilations
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Post by foxley on Nov 24, 2022 1:56:00 GMT -5
For those who might share my eclectic taste in music, one lesser known Christmas album I can recommend is The Christmas Album by operatic soprano Sumi Jo. Not your typical Christmas album, this is a collection of mostly lesser-known religious and secular holiday-themed pieces, including "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht" ("Silent Night" sung in the original German.) However, to me, the standout is the first track; the unaccompanied "I Wonder as I Wander," hauntingly adapted from a traditional Appalachian folk song. Gives me chills down my spine.
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Post by commond on Nov 24, 2022 9:03:01 GMT -5
My favorite Japanese children's Christmas song.
The Tatsuro Yamashita song that's played everywhere at Christmas. City Pop was trendy in the West for a second last year.
English version:
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 24, 2022 9:28:56 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 24, 2022 14:00:14 GMT -5
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Post by commond on Nov 24, 2022 18:46:50 GMT -5
Here's one that should be played in stores more often.
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