Yuletide Carols: Christmas Music!

[sleepy]

duskwolf said:

Yeah, and my favorite version of "O Holy Night" is by Tracy Chapman. No glory notes, nope. Just wonderful. I haven't heard it yet this year, but can't wait.

Heck, I do not like Christmas music and even I think "O Holy Night" is a beautiful song. I haven't heard the Chapman version, but I heard it with a very stripped-down, basic guitar accompaniment, and I thought it was gorgeous. And I'm not even Christian.

[sobe]

I just heard Nick and Jessica's version of "Baby It's Cold Outside". What Jessucka did to that song was criminal. Completely butchered it. Once upon a time, she could sing, even if she did go overboard almost everytime. But now she has this breathy, out-of-the-back-of-her-throat voice. What the hell is that?

Way to ruin Christmas, Sucka.

[WitchyPoo]

The song that is killing me right now is a child's version of "Little Drummer Boy". Horrid song sung by a child that can't sing. It's one of those cutesy kid voices. It plays on a loop at work so I end up hearing it at least two or three times in a day.

Jessica Simpson's version is still my least favorite. She does that weird breathy groany thing. It sounds so dirty.

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Here it is,the Best rendition of Silent Night EVAH![/color].

[dnt]

The song that's killing ME is called "Sure Don't Feel Like Christmas" and it's by a twelve year old named Tiffany Giardina. It's about a kid whose father is in the military and away for the holiday. Unfortunately, she's the niece of one of the DJs on KTU, so they play it quite often.

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When I was in the Navy, stationed in Bremerton, WA, they played recorded bells in the downtown area around Christmas time. What did they play? Volare. Over and over. With bells. Bells bells bells bells bells bells bells. Now, any time I hear any version of Volare I want to go up a tower with a hunting rifle and start picking people off.

[goggle]

Remember upthread where I said I liked two Christmas songs? Scratch that. I like three. I completely forgot "Meri Kuri" by BoA. Sure, I can't understand the words (it's in Japanese) but it's a lovely song and she has a lovely voice.

[proper stranger]

Limey, that Chewie "Silent Night" is cracking me up.

John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together

PIGGY: "Piggy pudding?"
SCOOTER: "Not PIGGY pudding. FIGGY pudding. It's made with figs...and bacon."

Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song album is my favorite. I must listen to it every Christmas morning. His version of "O Holy Night" is so beautiful--not full of screeching and vocal histrionics, just simple and moving. And "I Saw Three Ships" makes me so darned happy for some reason.

Dwanollah, on my favorite Christmas song:

when J. sings “we’ll have to muddle through somehow,” you believe in your soul that it’s going to take every ounce of emotional strength she possesses… not that it’s some little icky problem with, like, running out of scotch tape that’s standing in the way of a happy holiday.

It's so true. The "muddle through" line is the best part--all versions that change it to that "shinging star upon the highest bough" crap suck ass. Excuse me, I have to cue this up my Meet Me in St. Louis soundtrack now.

[lpatrice]

I love both Celine Dions' and Mariah Careys' Christmas CDs. I break them out right after Halloween and listen to them obsessively through the new year. Hell it doesn't even have to be the Holiday season for me to pull those suckers out. I love Celine's version of AVA MARIA, brings tears to me eyes all the time.

I also love the Barenaked Ladies/Sarah MacLaughlin version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and Sarah's version of Song for Winters' Night, just beautiful I tell you.

[venusdiva429]

I highly recommend "Ceremony of Carols" by Benjamin Britten; it's an a capella arrangement of 6 or 7 early period carols...listen to the all-female one, it's absolutely breathtaking (and that's the way it was orginally written, anyway)! I sung it all through HS, into college. Soloed, too. Hee!

The BNL and S. Mac "God Rest Ye" is terrific! It's up there with Adam Sandler's "Hanukkah Song" in my list of faves.

Now, maybe y'all talented folk can help me...

I'm looking for a recording that I've heard in the mall. It's a piano arrangement of "The First Noel". Doesn't start out that way; it begins with a lovely melody, then goes into it after about two min. It's completely instrumental, and sounds like it may be something from a jazz pianist or something. Seriously, it's on EVERY mall holiday recording for EVERY store, but it's so lovely that I never tire of hearing it! I really want to find out what it is!