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Post by spoon on Nov 24, 2022 19:00:50 GMT -5
For 80s songs, Wham's "Last Christmas," "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses, and "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" are all songs that I think are approaching classic status. But I don't know if my nephew cares about those, for instance. We'll see, I guess. "Last Christmas" and "Christmas Wrapping" are the first two I think of when trying to come up with Christmas songs from my lifetime. I didn't really "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" was so recent. I assumed it a 60s novelty song; it sounds like it's from the "Monster Mash"/ "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" era novelty song vintage. Looking it up, it's actually from 1979, but almost the 80s. "Christmas Canon" from Trans-Siberian Orchestra is from 1998, so that's fairly recent for Christmas song that get radio rotation. Granted it's not wholly original because it has elements from Pachelbel's Canon, but it's still its own thing. |
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Post by MDG on Nov 24, 2022 23:16:18 GMT -5
There's a lot of great Christmas music out there if you look around.
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Post by commond on Nov 25, 2022 7:29:48 GMT -5
I quite like this ditty from the Sonics:
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Post by commond on Nov 25, 2022 7:34:33 GMT -5
The 5,6,7,8's! This ought to be a modern classic.
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Post by commond on Nov 25, 2022 8:51:08 GMT -5
I'm getting way too into this.
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 25, 2022 12:44:34 GMT -5
Radio stations that think that "These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things" is a Christmas song make me want to do something despicable
There, I said it
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Post by commond on Nov 25, 2022 17:50:18 GMT -5
Early 80s gem.
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Post by commond on Nov 26, 2022 5:15:57 GMT -5
Hag.
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Post by commond on Nov 26, 2022 17:42:38 GMT -5
The great Freddie King.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 27, 2022 11:48:15 GMT -5
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Post by commond on Nov 27, 2022 17:36:11 GMT -5
Back Door Santa!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 27, 2022 17:42:37 GMT -5
I do like Robert Earl Keen's "Merry Christmas From the Family."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2022 18:06:11 GMT -5
Buster Poindexter (aka David Johansen of the New York Dolls) performing an old classic:
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Post by berkley on Nov 27, 2022 23:06:27 GMT -5
Lots of new-to-me stuff to explore here. I'll be making use of this thread when I feel more in the Christmas mood, which for me usually isn't until the week before Christmas Day itself. But then I tend to go on with it later - where I grew up, Jan. 6th was called Old Christmas Day and it pretty much went on till then.
I remembered another relatively recent one I like, though: Jethro Tull's Christmas album, which came out in 2003, according to wikipedia. I had a digital copy once that's probably still on one of my old hard drives somewhere if I can find it.
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Post by commond on Nov 28, 2022 3:28:59 GMT -5
Here's a fun one from The Strokes' Julian Casablancas.
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