Holiday Music

TimmyB · 11-18-2002, 12:29 PM

The snow is falling outside, I just heard a "commercial" on Spinner for their holiday music channels, and it got me to wondering... if you're into this kind of thing... what is your favorite kind of holiday music?

KCBOOMER · 11-18-2002, 12:44 PM

Once it is Xmas season I really enjoy the Xmas music performed by the great pop singers.

b-ball-lunachik · 11-18-2002, 12:47 PM

I voted pop/rock but I also like the classics! I buy at least one Christmas CD a year -- usually more like 3!

I'm such a Christmas geek -- love everything about it and love having the music playing while I'm baking or wrapping gifts!

I bought a couple this year already -- one was a group of classics most of which I had on other CDs but most of the profits go to Toys for Tots and it was only $4.99.

Last year I bought the Jewel CD and it is awesome -- she really has a beautiful voice and it's one of my favorites.

TimmyB · 11-18-2002, 12:56 PM

Christmas Geeks, Unite!

I really, really, really like Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown CD, and the Chieftan's "Bells of Dublin" may be my top Christmas CD... like... ever.

But, as a whole, I pick "classic". I would never in a million years listen to Perry Como or Mitch Miller or Robert Goulet during the other 11 months of the year, but come Thanksgiving Day, I'm hopeless. I mean... Johnny Mathis -- my MOTHER listens to Johnny Mathis. The four CDs that make up the Time-Life sets (vol 1 and 2) pretty much rule my Christmas listening.

Add the 20+ other Christmas CDs and that's about the only music I hear for the next 5-6 weeks.

pwdennis · 11-18-2002, 01:02 PM

Classic - all the way (almost) - Bing, Frank, Nat, Ella, Perry, Johnny

I do have a fondness for Ernest Tubb's BLUE CHRISTMAS album

A few years ago Lorrie Morgan, a country singer, issued a nice "classic pop" Christmas album with the London Symphony Orchestra - probably my favorite Christmas album of the last 15 years

WiredTiger · 11-18-2002, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TimmyB

I really, really, really like Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown CD

The best Christmas album ever. Part of the reason I picked the Jazz category.

I do like the classics too.
Best Classic: Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
Worst Classic: It's baby's first Christmas.
Best Novelty Classic: I Want a Hippomatus for Christmas

TimmyB · 11-18-2002, 04:18 PM

My nod for Best Novelty Classic goes to "The Twelve Pains of Christmas"

Craig S. · 11-18-2002, 06:41 PM

I picked the classics, although I really enjoy certain pop albums, usually the compilations like "A Very Special Christmas."

JamesI · 11-18-2002, 06:48 PM

I'm a sucker for the classics (but not until after Thanksgiving. Still too early now)

satchel · 11-18-2002, 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by JamesI
(but not until after Thanksgiving. Still too early now)

Is it just me, or is the holiday hype starting a little earlier than usual this year? Maybe it's the sluggish economy - retailers are worried about folks opening up their checkbooks so they are starting the onslaught early this year.

As for the topic, I'm afraid I voted "none." Where holiday music is concerned, I have to admit I can't stand the stuff, and I pine longingly each winter awaiting the moment that the constant barrage of themed music and decoration finally ceases.

But I don't want to pee on anyone's party, so for the benefit of all you folks who do enjoy it (not that there's anything wrong with that

) I'll bow out of this thread.

hmrsf · 11-18-2002, 08:46 PM

I love all of it. My favoite is a tape my mother's church group did (it's really funny). I have all different kinds some with barking dogs and kids singing badly, some are classics and some are just plain strange. I just love them all.

It is almost time to bring down those boxes of holiday decorations. I swear they breed in the attic over the summer.

Ytown Tribe fan · 11-18-2002, 09:58 PM

I love the Celtic Christmas samplers from Windham Hill Records; Karen loves the classics and the kids like Alvin and the Chipmonks.

Gosfgiants · 11-18-2002, 10:40 PM

Bah humbug. I don't like Christmas music. This mainly due to the fact that I don't like Christmas. Every year I get overwhelmed by the whole vortex that is the holidays. Christmas music is just one more part of that the whole rigamorole. I wish I could fast forward from Thanksgiving to New Years.

pwdennis · 11-19-2002, 08:41 AM

For years my son-in-law would rag me that I should play my Boxcar Willie Christmas tape for him. While I have several vinyl LPs of Lecil "Boxcar Willie" Martin's music, I wasn't aware that there was such a tape. I searched the internet and found a privately distributed recording of Boxcar Willie Christmas favorites, which I purchased and gave to him about three years ago.

Now he feels obliged to play it at least once each Christmas !

Alas, Boxcar Willie has passed on to his reward

rcartman28 · 11-19-2002, 09:26 AM

Generally classic. Most "rock and roll" and "country" Christmas songs just make me laugh or wanna puke.

We have a station here in Minneapolis-St Paul that is going to play nothing but Christmas songs starting the day after Thanksgiving. They probably play more commercials than songs, and I'll probably be sick of a lot of the songs by Christmas, but it will be a nice change of pace.....

View Poll Results: What is your favorite type of Holiday Music?
Classic (Bing, Frank, Ella, Nat, Mitch, etc.)	10	47.62%
Classical (Bach, Beethoven, etc.)	0	0%
Country	0	0%
Jazz	2	9.52%
Novelty	0	0%
Pop/Rock	2	9.52%
R&B	0	0%
World	0	0%
Other	3	14.29%
None	4	19.05%
Voters: 21. You may not vote on this poll

11-18-2002, 12:29 PM	#1
TimmyB NetShrine's Magic 8-Ball Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Where the cops speak slow and the air is nice Posts: 2,591	Holiday Music The snow is falling outside, I just heard a "commercial" on Spinner for their holiday music channels, and it got me to wondering... if you're into this kind of thing... what is your favorite kind of holiday music?

11-18-2002, 12:44 PM	#2
KCBOOMER NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Home of the T-Bones Posts: 11,116	Once it is Xmas season I really enjoy the Xmas music performed by the great pop singers. __________________ KCBOOMER *Buck O'Neil: The Monarch of Baseball*

11-18-2002, 12:47 PM	#3
b-ball-lunachik Inducted Into The NetShrine Assembly of Fame Join Date: May 2001 Location: New Jersey Posts: 867	I voted pop/rock but I also like the classics! I buy at least one Christmas CD a year -- usually more like 3! I'm such a Christmas geek -- love everything about it and love having the music playing while I'm baking or wrapping gifts! I bought a couple this year already -- one was a group of classics most of which I had on other CDs but most of the profits go to Toys for Tots and it was only $4.99. Last year I bought the Jewel CD and it is awesome -- she really has a beautiful voice and it's one of my favorites. __________________ b-ball or luna...

11-18-2002, 01:02 PM	#5
pwdennis NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Winter Springs, FL Posts: 2,503	Classic - all the way (almost) - Bing, Frank, Nat, Ella, Perry, Johnny I do have a fondness for Ernest Tubb's BLUE CHRISTMAS album A few years ago Lorrie Morgan, a country singer, issued a nice "classic pop" Christmas album with the London Symphony Orchestra - probably my favorite Christmas album of the last 15 years __________________ "I would submit that if the world survives for a million years, perhaps its finest hour may be that in the last half of the 20th century, when the power to blow up the world rested in the hands of a few men in two very unsophisticated and suspicious countries, we didn't do it, and one American, Richard Nixon, moved the cold war away from permanent confrontation toward victory. How could any wrong that he did compare with that?" - John Sears

11-18-2002, 12:56 PM	#4
TimmyB NetShrine's Magic 8-Ball Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Where the cops speak slow and the air is nice Posts: 2,591	Christmas Geeks, Unite! I really, really, really like Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown CD, and the Chieftan's "Bells of Dublin" may be my top Christmas CD... like... ever. But, as a whole, I pick "classic". I would never in a million years listen to Perry Como or Mitch Miller or Robert Goulet during the other 11 months of the year, but come Thanksgiving Day, I'm hopeless. I mean... Johnny Mathis -- my MOTHER listens to Johnny Mathis. The four CDs that make up the Time-Life sets (vol 1 and 2) pretty much rule my Christmas listening. Add the 20+ other Christmas CDs and that's about the only music I hear for the next 5-6 weeks.

11-18-2002, 04:18 PM	#7
TimmyB NetShrine's Magic 8-Ball Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Where the cops speak slow and the air is nice Posts: 2,591	My nod for Best Novelty Classic goes to "The Twelve Pains of Christmas"

11-18-2002, 06:41 PM	#8
Craig S. Guest Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 6,330	I picked the classics, although I really enjoy certain pop albums, usually the compilations like "A Very Special Christmas."

11-18-2002, 06:48 PM	#9
JamesI Netshrine Vacuum Cleaner Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Potsdam, N.Y. Posts: 3,723	I'm a sucker for the classics (but not until after Thanksgiving. Still too early now)

11-18-2002, 08:46 PM	#11
hmrsf forum mom Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: relocation Posts: 4,298	I love all of it. My favoite is a tape my mother's church group did (it's really funny). I have all different kinds some with barking dogs and kids singing badly, some are classics and some are just plain strange. I just love them all. It is almost time to bring down those boxes of holiday decorations. I swear they breed in the attic over the summer. __________________ NDF who shares good karma! Get a coaster! My cup is not only 1/2 full it is brimming! We don't need no stinking Arods!

11-18-2002, 09:58 PM	#12
Ytown Tribe fan Guest Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Scrappers territory Posts: 2,515	I love the Celtic Christmas samplers from Windham Hill Records; Karen loves the classics and the kids like Alvin and the Chipmonks.

11-18-2002, 10:40 PM	#13
Gosfgiants NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 1,136	Bah humbug. I don't like Christmas music. This mainly due to the fact that I don't like Christmas. Every year I get overwhelmed by the whole vortex that is the holidays. Christmas music is just one more part of that the whole rigamorole. I wish I could fast forward from Thanksgiving to New Years. __________________ It'll always be Pacbell Park Beat LA!!!

11-19-2002, 08:41 AM	#14
pwdennis NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Winter Springs, FL Posts: 2,503	For years my son-in-law would rag me that I should play my Boxcar Willie Christmas tape for him. While I have several vinyl LPs of Lecil "Boxcar Willie" Martin's music, I wasn't aware that there was such a tape. I searched the internet and found a privately distributed recording of Boxcar Willie Christmas favorites, which I purchased and gave to him about three years ago. Now he feels obliged to play it at least once each Christmas ! Alas, Boxcar Willie has passed on to his reward __________________ "I would submit that if the world survives for a million years, perhaps its finest hour may be that in the last half of the 20th century, when the power to blow up the world rested in the hands of a few men in two very unsophisticated and suspicious countries, we didn't do it, and one American, Richard Nixon, moved the cold war away from permanent confrontation toward victory. How could any wrong that he did compare with that?" - John Sears

11-19-2002, 09:26 AM	#15
rcartman28 NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Hudson, WI Posts: 1,408	Generally classic. Most "rock and roll" and "country" Christmas songs just make me laugh or wanna puke. We have a station here in Minneapolis-St Paul that is going to play nothing but Christmas songs starting the day after Thanksgiving. They probably play more commercials than songs, and I'll probably be sick of a lot of the songs by Christmas, but it will be a nice change of pace..... __________________ I would have looked out for the water main. But that's just me..... Brett Favre

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