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12-23-2011, 10:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Ventura, California | | | Christmas songs that you actually like?
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Ok, I admit it... I hate 90% of the Christmas songs out there. My Grinch-iness and cynicism generally makes me loath their syrupy sweetness. Truth be told, I'm really just not a fan of Christmas anyway. I hate the gift-buying process so much that it really takes away from the good parts (family, friends, and, of course, the food).
However, I try to stay positive when "Holly, Jolly Christmas" comes on the the PA system in whatever Big Box store I happen to be at where I'm trying to blow my money on crap that no one really wants. I try to remember the good ones. Here's some of the ones that I genuinely do like:
- "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" - so simple but beautiful at the same time.
- "Little Town of Bethlehem" - same reason
- "Song for a Winter's Night" by Gordon Lightfoot (so long as you listen to any version then his - not a fan of the original)
- Also, I'm not sure how anyone could not like Bing Crosby's version of "White Christmas"
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12-23-2011, 10:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Twixt a rock and a hard place | | | I'll Be Home for Christmas and Good King Wenceslas are my favorites. I also like Carol of the Bells. If the Nutcracker Ballet counts, then almost anything from that is golden, IMO. |
12-23-2011, 10:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Colorado Springs | | | Anything off of Charlie Brown's Christmas. It's all amazing and the bass player is awesome! |
12-23-2011, 10:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Brooklyn and Hudson Valley | | | Christmas music as heard on the radio mostly just makes me want to go postal. There are some good jazz Christmas albums though, and as mentioned Nutcracker is pretty much awesome throughout. If I were going to play one, I think it would be God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, as it could be adapted for just about any style with a good bass part.
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12-23-2011, 10:15 PM
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12-23-2011, 10:25 PM
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12-23-2011, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by muljoe  Anything off of Charlie Brown's Christmas. It's all amazing and the bass player is awesome! | I'm thinking that was Fred Marshall or Monty Budwig, but can't say for sure. Great music that recalls great times in my own childhood and probably lots of other people's as well. Love Vince Guaraldi.
Also some soundtrack tunes to the specials:
There's Always Tomorrow from Rudolph
The Grinch Song
I Am Not Just A Misfit from Rudolph
And some regular tunes...
Merry Christmas Darling- The Carpenters. Really only the ending (after the pause)
This Christmas- Donny Hathaway
I Believe In Father Christmas- Greg Lake
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree- Brenda Lee
Merry Xmas (War Is Over)- John Lennon
Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime- Paul Mc
I can take or leave almost any classical music, but I absolutely enjoy the Christmas classical stuff this time of year. |
12-23-2011, 10:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Newfoundland | | | Christmas tunes drive me nuts for the most part, especially when performers get cute with them. Haven't heard a country or pop christmas tune that I could stomach, except for one or two that Cash did. Elvis did ok on a few. Have heard some good jazz versions, and prefer jazz xmas tunes to anything. When done right, 'Silent Night', 'Oh Holy Night', 'Good King Wenceslas', 'White Christmas' are good. I like to play Silent Night on electric guitar, one verse clean, the 2nd dirty as hell!
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12-23-2011, 11:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Virgin Islands | | Hey talkbass...I'm really happy for the songs you picked..and imma let you finish...but Nat King Cole had the best Christmas Song OF ALL TIME!! 
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12-23-2011, 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by muljoe Anything off of Charlie Brown's Christmas. It's all amazing and the bass player is awesome! | Ya the peanuts Christmas specials had good music ...
Pretty much all other Christmas music sucks.
I feel sorry for people who work retail and have to listen to that crap at their job. |
12-23-2011, 11:37 PM
| | | | i like the melodies of the baroque esque church hymn stuff. interesting tonality
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12-23-2011, 11:40 PM
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12-23-2011, 11:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sac Area | | | Winter Wonderland - Annie Lennox
2000 Miles - Chrissie Hynde
The entire A Dave Brubeck Christmas
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12-23-2011, 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Journey55 I like Carol Of The Bells (August Burns Red's version) | That's a good one. It has lots of nice tension
Just in the fact that it's a carol, that song reminds me of "Coventry Carol." When you get a good chamber or madrigal choir singing it, it's exquisitely beautiful. Here's a decent example: Hayley Westenra- The Coventry Carol - YouTube
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12-23-2011, 11:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Virgin Islands | | | but seriously though, Donny Hathaway's This Christmas, the Charlie Brown christmas album and Nat King Cole's christmas album are the usually the only ones I can tolerate without fail. Seems like everytime I walked into the supermarket this month they're playing a lame cover of "this christmas" and not the original...sigh
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12-23-2011, 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Epitaph04 | I seriously lol'd
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12-23-2011, 11:56 PM
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12-24-2011, 05:42 AM
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12-24-2011, 05:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: UK | | | Slade-So here it is...
Pogues and Kirsty McColl-Fairytale of New York.
With the latter, any song that starts 'It was Christmas Eve in the drunk tank' has got to be great... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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