Little Drummer Boy has always been my favorite Carol. I love the message very much and find the song very soothing.

Do any of you live near a Pier 1? I honest to god have to AVOID that store (all locations) from mid-Nov to the new year. Their holiday music is the absolute most annoying, loud, intrusive "Christmas' music that ever tortured shoppers anywhere. I even called their customer service last year after I was trying to spend a gift certificate and couldn't stand the horrible crap over the speakers and simply left the store. It's ALL auto-tuned shit sung by American Idol rejects.

It's ALL auto-tuned shit sung by American Idol rejects.

Feh.

I'm just listening to a gorgeous mandolin version of "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella" by Chris Thile.

Do you want a copy of my Trad Xmas mix? All bluegrass and folk and pretty melodies. "In the Bleak Midwinter," "Ring the Bells at Midnight," "Children Go Where I Send Thee," "Coventry Carol," "The Holly and the Ivy"...

Oh thanks, but I've got a great collection of carols built over the years (we probably overlap on a lot of it because much of it is folk/bluegrass and traditional). I just have to stay out of Pier 1.

It's just that in the DINAO version of Little Drummer Boy vs. Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer, I would choose the latter.

Srsly?? I would so go Drummer Boy over Grandma.

I'm saying, THAT'S how much I dislike Drummer Boy. It's all the pa-rum-pa-pums. Seriously. Nonsense words (even if they're meant to be onomatopoeic) bother me. (Similarly, I can't stand "We Go Together," or whatever it's called, from Grease. SPEAK ENGLISH.)

(Similarly, I can't stand "We Go Together," or whatever it's called, from Grease. SPEAK ENGLISH.)

Maybe it's their way of acknowledging that their various relationships are going to survive graduation by four months tops. "We go together like a stream of nonsensical gibberish! Seriously, we have no idea what we're doing here!"

I am profoundly indifferent to the Little Drummer Boy, save from the point of view of its breathtakingly revisionist approach to the Synoptic gospels. I may have to track down the Gurus' version, though, because it could only be improved by the addition of the percussive stylings of "Like Wow - Wipeout".

I also hate LDB. Kind of over Silent Night, too, I gotta say. My favorite Holiday songs are probably Carol of The Bells, First Noel, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear and, for slightly more modern pop: Christmas Wrapping, Christmas in Hollis and Leon Redbone's Xmas music.

I may have to track down the Gurus' version, though, because it could only be improved by the addition of the percussive stylings of "Like Wow - Wipeout".

I can send it to you. It's called "Little Drummer Boy (Up the Kyber)" done as an instrumental exotic surf guitar workout.

Leon Redbone's Xmas music.

I have a version of Frosty the Snowman, performed by Leon Redbone and Dr. John. It is fantastic.

I have a version of Frosty the Snowman, performed by Leon Redbone and Dr. John. It is fantastic.

That whole album is great.

I like "Oh Holy Night" done by a singer who's got the chops for it. I managed it once in my late teens when I had oratorio choir under my belt.