Do compilations count? Rhino's Hipster's Holiday is very fun and listenable.
Also this. Any compil with Pearl Bailey singing "Five Pound Box of Money" deserves a place in the rotation. Jingle Bell Swing is also good.
River: You gave up everything you had. Simon: [Chinese] Everything I have is right here.
'Safe'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
megan walker - Oct 07, 2008 7:25:19 pm PDT #9495 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
msbelle - Oct 08, 2008 4:30:06 am PDT #9496 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
There is an old Firestone compilation that I love love love.
John Denver and the Muppets
Harry Connick Jr.
Roberta Flack
Starbucks Hi-Fidelity Christmas
lisah - Oct 08, 2008 4:54:24 am PDT #9497 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
The Chieftans one is a favorite of mine too. It was my main Christmas album until Mojo Magazine put out a Christmas mix a couple of years ago. Love that!
But the Chieftans one is what I listen to the most with my family. My mom and I like to sing Il Est Ne together. Which is funny because of how I speak no French.
Sue - Oct 08, 2008 5:06:47 am PDT #9498 of 10003
hip deep in pie
The only Xmas music I can tolerate is Charlie Brown Xmas. Frankly, during the Xmas season, there is so much Xmas music elsewhere I don't listen at home.
My family used to have a compilation album from the 1950's that had Les Paul and Mary Ford, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra that I used to like to listen to. (We still have it somewhere.) It was called Merry Christmas to You.
Sue - Oct 08, 2008 5:07:52 am PDT #9499 of 10003
hip deep in pie
My favourite carol is In the Deep Midwinter, which I had never heard until I went to an Anglican university.
Fred Pete - Oct 08, 2008 5:23:10 am PDT #9500 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
What's your favorite Christmas album?
I've really lost my taste for Christmas music over the past few years. But I remember an Andy Williams album very fondly from my childhood. Especially "My Favorite Things," which, okay, isn't a Christmas song, but I think of it as one because it's on that album.
lisah - Oct 08, 2008 5:50:34 am PDT #9501 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
My favourite carol is In the Deep Midwinter, which I had never heard until I went to an Anglican university.
In the Bleak Midwinter?
Ed Harcourt does that on the Mojo mix and it is now one of my favorite christmas songs too!
Sue - Oct 08, 2008 6:13:35 am PDT #9502 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Yeah, Bleak!
Jon B. - Oct 08, 2008 6:52:05 am PDT #9503 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Silkworm did a great version of "In the Bleak Midwinter" as well.
Jesse - Oct 08, 2008 7:06:15 am PDT #9504 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I love that song, too, as long as I don't think about it literally.