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post #51 of 63
11/27/09 at 3:21pm
Christmas Eve Sarajevo by Mannheim Steamroller. I hate this song but damn if it isn't catchy as all get out.
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post #52 of 63
11/27/09 at 3:28pm
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If you're including "Don't Pay the Ferryman" in there, then I would have words with thee.

And Lady in Red is pure sex you hear me! SEX!
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post #53 of 63
11/27/09 at 3:36pm
Another UK/USA thing is that The Transsiberian Orchestra are still fairly 'new' over here. That album seemed to get a bit of notice last year, but it's still nowhere near as overplayed as it seems to have been in the USA. Which is good because I really kind of like the Lost Christmas Eve.
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post #54 of 63
11/27/09 at 3:44pm
No mention of Aimee Mann's One More Drifter In the Snow? For shame.

Also, nothing says Christmas to me like a 45 of Alvin and the Chipmunks' "Christmas Don't Be Late" played at 33 1/3 rpm.
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post #55 of 63
11/27/09 at 4:10pm
On Chris Isaak's recent Christmas album (which I quite enjoy) he wrote "Brightest Star," the first overtly Christian Christmas song that I can recall being written by a mainstream rock artist in... well, maybe ever.

My wife and I have a Christmas music collection that is waaaay too large to be healthy, so I mostly listen to my own custom mixes, but for complete albums, my perennial faves include Leon Redbone's Christmas Island, Squirrel Nut Zippers' Christmas Caravan, Maddy Prior's A Tapestry of Carols, The Carol Album by Andrew Parrott and the Taverner Consort, and of course A Charlie Brown Christmas.

And, c'mon guys-- am I REALLY the only one that's enjoying Bob Dylan's Christmas in the Heart?
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post #56 of 63
11/28/09 at 5:10am
Fairytale is my favorite Christmas song of all time. "Christmas Baby Please Come Home" off Christmas Gift For You is a very close second.
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post #57 of 63
11/28/09 at 7:55am
I love "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home" but I kind of love 80% of A Christmas Gift For You. I've also started hearing some of Sufjan Stevens Christmas songs being played on the radio, which is awesome because I love those songs but it's bizarre because it's Sufjan Stevens being played on national radio.
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post #58 of 63
11/28/09 at 8:59am
Underrated

She Came Home For Christmas by Mew, such an epic and heartbreaking song that just sends shivers down the spine.

I Want An Alien for Christmas - Fountains of Wayne - Just good fun

Everything is going to be cool this Christmas - Eels - Again just a good fun jaunty track with the familiar dark edge from Mr E.

OVERRATED AND OVERPLAYED - STOP THE FUCKIN CAVALRY!!by I cant even remember possibly Satan.
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post #59 of 63
11/28/09 at 10:22am
Yeah, I love me some Pogues, but Fairytale DID make that leap from "underrated" to "overrated" real fast. 'Cause lol they're bitter and disaffected and slightly tipsy like us.
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post #60 of 63
11/29/09 at 12:26am
I'm a big fan of Chris Rea's Driving home for Christmas

I don't think much to Julian Casablancas's foray into the Christmas song with "I wish it was Christmas today". It's got a catchy beat and chorus and i can see it being popular when released but it's a bit poo.
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post #61 of 63
11/29/09 at 12:32am
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I don't think much to Julian Casablancas's foray into the Christmas song with "I wish it was Christmas today". It's got a catchy beat and chorus and i can see it being popular when released but it's a bit poo.
it's a cover of an SNL sketch. goddamn strokes are ripping off horatio sanz!

ETA- http://www.spike.com/video/snl-christmas-song/2783184

unless casablancas has dancing tracy morgan, this one is better.
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post #62 of 63
11/29/09 at 1:57am
In the last couple of years, people seem to have ironically latched onto that shitty WHAM song as a Christmas classic. OVERRATED.
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post #63 of 63
11/29/09 at 2:23am
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Christmas Don't be Late - Chipmunks.....probably nostalgia creeping in on me....i was a chipmunks fan as a kid...but I still like it.
I had that Chipmunks 45 and was tempted to mention it but I thought "Eh, probably just nostalgia. Lemme read what other people put." I loved those Chipmunks albums when I was a kid. Nostalgia or not, totally worth the mention.
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