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.

I like The Bitter Withy for its portrayal of Jesus as a psychopath.

What? No God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen fans around here?

DH loves Good King Wenceslas. I think he's the first person I met whose favorite carol is Good King Wenceslas.

I cooked a pork roast in the crock pot last night. I think I over did the trimming of the fat because it was a little dry.

I like God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and Good King Wenceslas. Away in the Manager is another favorite, but that's more because Dad used to sing it to us at night to help us go to sleep.

I love Oh Holy Night, even sung not so great. Especially if a there's a lot of power on the "fall on your knees" part. Growing up in church it always made me want to react to it, guess go all charismatic. But you don't do that in a Southern Baptist church

Hec, I love the sound of your Trad Xmas mix. Could you send it to me?

I'm not a huge fan of LDB, but it doesn't make me want to rip my ears off or anything. I do have a fondness for Silent Night, as I tend to sing the first set of verses in German and it gives it, not a whole new meaning, but just enough of a difference that I have to think about the meaning and it always chokes me up a little despite the fact I don't even follow Christian beliefs.

Otherwise, I like a lot of the more modern pop-style carols: Blue Christmas, Silver and Gold, that kind of stuff. But no one can beat Bing singing White Christmas. I miss the Bing Crosby Christmas specials; I looked forward to those for months.

I like "In the Bleak Midwinter," probably because it so beautifully evokes a (totally inaccurate for the subject matter) winter landscape. "In the bleak midwinter/frosty wind made moan/Earth stood hard as iron/water like a stone/Snow had fallen, snow on snow/Snow on snow/In the bleak midwinter/long ago."

"Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella," "The Holly and the Ivy," "Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming," "People, Look East," "Silent Night," (a capella, non-fussy only) "It's In Every One Of Us" (any version, by anyone -- I even found Freddie Mercury singing it in concert three years before he died, and he's utterly splendid), Vince Guaraldi's reworking of "Little Drummer Boy," the vastly superior "My Little Drum," Guaraldi's "Skating," which sounds so exactly like how ice skating feels it's nigh miraculous, and, not a carol exactly but I still love it, Dido's "Christmas Day."

Any one of these will make me puddle up a bit, but a long solid block of all of them in a row will have me bawling (good cathartic happy tears, not sad ones).