Holiday Song Salsa (Red & Green)

Posted 15 Dec 2004 by blvdgirl (Fixture)

Like it or loath it, it's that time of year...

I like Christmas music in general. As soon as it's available on the radio after Thanksgiving, I tune in. Some of it makes me happy and glowing inside and I sing along; unfortunately, there are some very popular Christmas songs that I abhor. So, here's my question: which holiday songs do you like and which do you loath? You can be general (aka Christmas Song) or specific by listing an artist.

To get things rolling, one that I CAN'T STAND is Last Christmas. (Man, now it's running through my head...)

antlers, posted 15 Dec 2004 by inkblot » (Fixture)

i am currently wearing a pair of musical lighted antlers (i am at work). they play, in medley form, the following songs in glorious monotonic robosound....

a good one, posted 15 Dec 2004 by lukas » (Fixture)

The Waitresses: Christmas Wrapping

favorites, posted 16 Dec 2004 by lieutenant » (Fixture)

God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen

Anything from Vince Guaraldi's CBC soundtrack, especially O Tannenbaum.

a really good one, posted 16 Dec 2004 by lukas » (Fixture)

Bruce Cockburn: Christmas

a really bad one, posted 16 Dec 2004 by lukas » (Fixture)

the Kenny G christmas album my cubcile neighbor is listening to.

Pop idols, posted 16 Dec 2004 by ConeyIsland81 » (Fixture)

I have a soft spot for the following:

Hall and Oates - Jingle Bell Rock
Elton John - Step into Christmas
Paul McCartney - Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas time
Billy Squier - Christmas is the time to say I love you

sitting up in my paw paw tree, posted 17 Dec 2004 by sneakums » (Fixture)

I'm really really sick of Fairytale Of New York. December 1st every year: BAM! heavy rotation.

I love Low's Just Like Christmas and Jona Lewie's Stop The Cavalry though.

UGH!, posted 17 Dec 2004 by stan » (Fixture)

last night was the annual "let's parade the kids, keep them up past their bedtime, and oh, look how cute they are" Christmas concert at their Catholic (keep this in mind) school. I wrote a letter after last year's concert when only 4 of the 20 songs the kids sang made any reference to the Incarnation. They improved the program much in that regard this year with 11 out of 18 Christian songs....however, one of the secular songs, which was sung by the 6th graders was "This Christmas." if you are not familiar with this song here are the lyrics....

THIS CHRISTMAS Hang all the mistletoe I'm gonna get to know you better This Christmas And as we trim the tree How much fun it's gonna be together This Christmas

The fireside is blazing bright We're caroling through the night And this Christmas will be A very special Christmas for me, yeah

Presents and cards are here My world is filled with cheer and you This Christmas Lights twinkle all around But your eyes outshine the town They do, this Christmas

The fireside is blazing bright We're caroling through the night And this Christmas will be A very special Christmas for me, yeah This Christmas will be A very special Christmas for me, yeah

The fireside is blazing bright We're caroling through the night Yeah, this Christmas

Hang all the mistletoe I'm gonna get to know you better This Christmas This Christmas Yeah, this Christmas will be A very special Christmas for me This Christmas Hang all the mistletoe I'm gonna get to know you better This Christmas This Christmas Yeah this Christmas Yeah, we're gonna be together

Does this outrage anyone else?!?! I cannot believe that any Christian school would allow this at all much less in church before Christ Himself!

this christmas, posted 17 Dec 2004 by inkblot » (Fixture)

i wouldn't call it an outrage, but i do think it's not right.

yeah, , posted 17 Dec 2004 by pedro » (Staff)

definitely not cool.

well.., posted 17 Dec 2004 by stan » (Fixture)

perhaps it's my parental eyes, being sick for almost 2 weeks, loathing these sort of events to begin with and having to have "THE" talk with my almost 10 year old son recently that makes me more sensitive to this sort of thing right now.....not to mention being completely blown off by the principal when I tried to address the situation with him today....fixed his wagon though and went straight to the big guy himself.

big guy?, posted 18 Dec 2004 by baggins » (Fixture)

as in, the Big Guy? or just somebody directly over the principal?

yeah. i think it's inappropriate for kids to have to sing that in a Catholic school. i also think it's dumb to have those kinds of programs. but, we get called 'Scrooge' any time we mention anything negative towards christmas.

i hate most christmas music. i like, however:

Trans-Siberian Orchestra's christmas stuff (i bought their one album the other day). Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown stuff The Nutcracker stuff Geroge Winston Amy Grant's original christmas album. this one is just a sentimental thing for me. i always thought it was a little cheesy (it still is), but it was played in our house every year growing up at christmas time. and my family knows the album so well, its kinda sick. anyway, one year i didn't get to hear it because somebody lost the CD. raskol found it for me on our trek out to LA and played it for me so I could feel like it was christmas. I will always remember that. anyway... now I have it on vinyl (i found it in a thrift store a while ago).

it just makes me feel like, posted 18 Dec 2004 by pedro » (Staff)

the people didn't really listen to the words, or that they thought that would be "cute" or something. and that, to me, seems the most greivous -- that they just didn't really consider the age appropriateness.

yeah, posted 19 Dec 2004 by baggins » (Fixture)

I mean, who really thought it woudl be a good idea? I always say in issues like that, it is better to err on the side of caution. it's not like the song has any compelling reason to make a bunch of kids sing it in front of their parents.

Call me scrooge..., posted 20 Dec 2004 by smax » (Fixture)

Tom Waits - Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis lyrics


 hey charlie i'm pregnant
and living on the 9th street
right above a dirty bookstore
of euclid avenue
and i stopped takin dope
and i quit drinkin whiskey
and my old man plays the trombone
and works out at the track
more...

I find Chipmunk Christmas carols to be one of the more offensive bits of noise ever created by man. Give me nails on a chalkboard any day. My favorite Christmas time song is Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen. Not a Christmas song, but it fits the time of year.

my favorite christmas song, posted 31 Dec 2004 by pedro » (Staff)

is low's 'if you were born today'. Of course, it is listed as a 'jimmy eat world' song, but I'll just leave that little irony intact.

They're back!, posted 28 Nov 2005 by blvdgirl » (Fixture)

[big grin]

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