| Author | Message | ||
     Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 863 Registered: 05-2005 |
We should be able to make a list of songs suitably cool and maybe rockin' so that we don't have to hear another 4 weeks of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra or Nat King Cole like every Xmas. They can be as cheesey and dreadful as you like...just not the afore mentioned guys!!! I'll start with: Beach Boys Christmas album Beatles Christmas records (hard to find on c.d.) Cocteau's Xmas songs Macca's Xmas songs Uncle Bob's cash in Come on skulldisco, there MUST be a Fall Xmas cover surely. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 317 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tracey Thorne has just released one (Scritti Politti is credited on it). The one of Aimee Mann is also listenable. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 471 Registered: 03-2007 |
Shawn Colvin - Holiday Songs And Lullabies The Roches - We Three Kings | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 691 Registered: 10-2006 |
A profound melencholy tends to wash over me at the festive season, so the only stuff I usually listen to is Russian orthodox choral music and Berlioz's staggeringly beautiful L'enfance du Christ. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2074 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Xmas album by Low is still an excellent listen around about this time of year. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2265 Registered: 09-2006 |
Louis Armstrong & Friends (friends being Louis Jordan, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee, Lena Horne, etc.) - What a Wonderful Christmas Thompson Family Christmas Sufjan Stevens - Christmas EP set | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2266 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oops, sorry Geoff, didn't see your ruling on the usual Xmas subjects until I'd after I'd posted...though in my defense my first pick has no Bing, Frank or Nat. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 692 Registered: 10-2006 |
Has anyone heard Tracey's effort? I used to love her voice in the early days, it'd be nice to have something new by her.It seems very, er, tasteful. At least an excuse to squeeze the wife's bloody Buble off the record deck... | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 693 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ah, it's all up on You tube already. Yes, a little dull.The good thing about Frank was, like Lena Horne, that he could inject a bit of sex into anything he sang, even if the subject was Christmas. Lena could make The Surrey with the fringe on top sound like the meanest, dirtiest sex machine ever. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 694 Registered: 10-2006 |
Had to link this, Lena's magnificent live version of Bewitched, bothered and bewildered. Talk about owning a song. Don't skip the spoken intro, it's hilarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TotSnSmKm tg | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 526 Registered: 01-2007 |
My wife has the Tracy Thorn-Ok actually a couple of really good songs. One someone said was akin to Fairytale to NY. Can't say i picked up on that though. last year I downloaded the Xmas songs from 6 music from the Lauren Laverne show and that was interesting with a great verion of Driving HOme for Xmas. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 473 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Bitter Springs - A Christmas No. 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbI8ZB2Jz qk | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 709 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks Hugh! Officially my favourite "new" band. Excellent lyrics. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2110 Registered: 10-2008 |
Was in Sainsburys doing some shopping this morning, just before 8am. I was walking round the aisles in a sleep deprived haze blocking out the usual syrapy Xmas tunes that were being played over the store sound system. Then I heard something vaguely familiar. I thought, no, it can't be. It was. It was "Just Like Christmas" by Low. They dont even get played on the radio, but here they were blasting out to a bunch of early morning shoppers. Bizarre, wonder if anybody else recognised it? |