Kevin's Watch

My perennial faves are Bing Crosby and George Winston. Somewhere I have a CD of Handel's Messiah... dang it.

I still need a copy of Joan Baez's Noel CD, which I grew up on and still haunts me.

It occurs to me that nothing there is less than 30 years old... is there anything out there newer than that? (If anyone mentions "The Christmas Shoes" I'm liable to start throwing things.)

I've been enjoying this one lately:

The Rocky Hora ~ The Shlomones
it does help if you are a Rocky Horror fan...

You should look into the Manhattan Transfer album. Nice jazz arrangments of old favorites and new ones too. One of our favorites. That and the Charlie Brown Christmas CD. And there is a David Benoit piano album for christmas that is really great too...

I like Bob Seger's version of Little Drummer Boy.

I watched Andrea Boccelli at Central Park two Sundays ago, he did a masterful rendition of Ave Maria (yes I count it as a Christmas song), so that was my first of the season!

I prefer not to since I am subjected to horrific renditions of traditional music done by unknown artists as well as badly written originals also done by unknown artists. It's all I can do to not run screaming from the building half the day. I'm often tempted to make fake copies just to try to drown out the soundtrack when the most annoying of the lot roll around on the two hour loop.

I don't really go out of my way to listen to christmas music. Over the years I've heard the popular christmas songs so often that they've lost any meaning or enjoyment for me. Particularly Slade and Wizzard and that kind of stuff that gets so overplayed every time.

God forbid we mention more recent failures like Cliff Richards' Millennium Prayer.

I can think of one perennially popular song that holds up year on year, and that's A Fairytale of New York, and it's because for once it was actually a good song to begin with.

I'm not really aware of a lot of holiday themed songs from recent years. There's one I find pretty catchy: The Killers' Don't Shoot Me Santa.

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Cameraman Jenn wrote:I prefer not to since I am subjected to horrific renditions of traditional music done by unknown artists as well as badly written originals also done by unknown artists. It's all I can do to not run screaming from the building half the day. I'm often tempted to make fake copies just to try to drown out the soundtrack when the most annoying of the lot roll around on the two hour loop.

This. A thousand times this. How these "artists" can sleep at night, I never know. I would really prefer just for the music to be available and than choose to listen to it or not... instead, every time I go out, crap is forced into my ears.

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Red Water (Christmas Mourning) by Type O Negative

Orlion wrote:

Cameraman Jenn wrote:I prefer not to since I am subjected to horrific renditions of traditional music done by unknown artists as well as badly written originals also done by unknown artists. It's all I can do to not run screaming from the building half the day. I'm often tempted to make fake copies just to try to drown out the soundtrack when the most annoying of the lot roll around on the two hour loop.

This. A thousand times this. How these "artists" can sleep at night, I never know. I would really prefer just for the music to be available and than choose to listen to it or not... instead, every time I go out, crap is forced into my ears.

Well, I guess that's what informs my choices of George Winston and stuff. I also find playing my guitar and singing the straight-up traditional carols works for me. But then, I don't hear much of the crappy stuff in Africa (although what I do hear is generally godawful). I admire your self-discipline, Jenn, I don't think I could stay in a job that imposed awful music on me on a daily basis.

Somehow, for me, all the crap has never completely spoiled the goose-bump chill feeling of carolers singing "Silent Night", "What Child Is This?" or "Hush My Babe Lie Still and Slumber".

You reminded me, though, of when I was a teen there was a restaurant in our town run by a guru cult (I say that justified, as the guru sexually abused his female followers including my high school best friend). At all times the only music permitted to be played over the sound system was this guru playing a one-stringed violin type Indian thing, or his followers singing about him. The food was good and the music bland, so the place stayed alive for a number of years. ANYWAY, I worked there sometimes as a closer as a second job and after the doors were closed and locked, we brought out the hidden Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' Bad Reputation and blasted the mofo while we cleaned up. It was the perfect antidote!

Love Winston's Winter-I've been listening to Ottmar Liebert's Christmas in Santa Fe.

Jane Siberry - Child. It contains at least one f-bomb, which is how I like my Christmas music.

Here's a more modern one I enjoy, with lyrics attempting to make one respect the season.

I believe in Father Chr-stmas ~ Greg Lake

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