Favorite Christmas Music

[Samuari]

While out shopping this weekend, I’ve heard the worst Christmas music. I don’t know where they dug this stuff up, but I’ve heard better at grade school programs. It seems particularly a shame because there is so much good Christmas music available.

I especially like the Manhiem Steamroller albums, and Handel’s Messiah has to be some of the best choral music ever written. Bing Crosby’s White Christmas is a classic secular tune that still entertains us. What are your favorites? Do you go caroling?

 

[Cheyenne]

Hey, you beat me to it! I was going to start this exact thread yesterday after comments on an earlier thread about how Christmas music was being played too early. So, I already have my answers ready!

I love Christmas hymns. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, Angels We Have Heard On High, Joy to the World, and Silent Night. Amy Grant's first Christmas album has great versions of the first two songs listed and I sing them in my car with her from now until Christmas. I also love Mannheim Steamroller Christmas albums- I have all of them. Silent Night is a personal favorite because it is the last song we sing at church every Christmas Eve. The church starts out dark and is lightened as the song goes on. I had to memorize all of the verses for a Sunday school program at least 30 to 35 years ago and every year as we sing in the dark, it comes in handy to know those words by heart!

 

[Silverlily]

My father has one of those Time Life Christmas album collections that he has played every year since I was about five. My favorites (I have no idea who performed them) have always been Sleigh Ride, Silver Bells, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

 

[Juliangel]

My all time favorite Christmas song is Silver Bells. Two of my new favorites are Stuck up in the Chimney and I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.

I go caroling with my son's school around town.

 

[Silverlily]

LMAO Juliangel!

I have fond memories of navigating I-85 after an icestorm one Christmas Eve with my oldest in the backseat belting out I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas!

 

[Samuari]

Silent Night is a personal favorite because it is the last song we sing at church every Christmas Eve. The church starts out dark and is lightened as the song goes on. I had to memorize all of the verses for a Sunday school program at least 30 to 35 years ago and every year as we sing in the dark, it comes in handy to know those words by heart!

You do that too? It's a great tradition. I hate hearing Christmas music this early and we still have a week before Advent starts. There are some really good Advent carols (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel is one), that help to keep me sane as I work my way through the busy reatil season.

 

[Bobtoad777]

The Night Santa went Crazy

Down in the workshop all the elves were makin' toys
For the good Gentile girls and the good Gentile boys
When the boss busted in, nearly scared 'em half to death
Had a rifle in his hands and cheap whiskey on his breath
From his beard to his boots he was covered with ammo
Like a big fat drunk disgruntled Yuletide Rambo
And he smiled as he said with a twinkle in his eye,
"Merry Christmas to all... now you're all gonna die!"

The night Santa went crazy
The night St. Nick went insane
Realized he'd been gettin' a raw deal
Something finally must have snapped in his brain

Well, the workshop is gone now he decided to bomb it
Everywhere you'll find pieces of Cupid and Comet
And he tied up his helpers and he held the elves hostage
And he ground up poor Rudolph into reindeer sausage
He got Dancer and Prancer with an old German Luger
And he slashed up Dasher just like Freddie Krueger
And he picked up a flamethrower and he barbequed Blitzen
And he took a big bite and said, "It tastes just like chicken!"

The night Santa went crazy
The night Kris Kringle went nuts
Now you can hardly walk around the North Pole
Without steppin' in reindeer guts

There's the National Guard and the FBI
There's a van from the Eyewitness News
And helicopters circlin' 'round in the sky
And the bullets are flyin', the body count's risin'
And everyone's dyin' to know, oh Santa, why?
My my my my my my
You used to be such a jolly guy

[soft, pleasant, original version]

Yes, Virginia, now Santa's doing time
In a federal prison for his infamous crime
Hey, little friend, now don't you cry no more tears
He'll be out with good behavior in 700 more years
But now Vixen's in therapy, and Donner's still nervous
And the elves all got jobs working for the postal service
And they say Mrs. Claus, she's on the phone every night
With her lawyer negotiating the movie rights

[extra gory version]

Yes, Virginia, now Santa Claus is dead
Some guy from the SWAT team blew a hole through his head
Yes, little friend now, as his brain's on the floor
Guess they won't have the fat guy to kick around any more
But now there's no more presents for the children's enjoyment
And the elves gotta stand in line to file for unemployment
And they say Mrs. Claus, she's on the phone every night
With her lawyer negotiating the movie rights

They're talkin' 'bout - the night Santa went crazy
The night St. Nicholas flipped
Broke his back for some milk and cookies
Sounds to me like he was tired of gettin' gypped

Wo, the night Santa went crazy
The night St. Nick went insane
Realized he'd been gettin' a raw deal
Something finally must have snapped in his brain

Wo, something finally must have snapped in his brain
Tell ya, something finally must have snapped... in his brain

 

[Bobtoad777]

Christmas at Ground Zero

It's Christmas at Ground Zero
There's music in the air
The sleigh bells are ringin' and the carolers are singin'
While the air raid sirens blare

It's Christmas at Ground Zero
The button has been pressed
The radio just let us know
That this is not a test

Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin'
It's the end of all humanity
No more time for last minute shoppin'
It's time to face your final destiny

Well, it's Christmas at Ground Zero
There's panic in the crowd
We can dodge debris while we trim the tree
Underneath a mushroom cloud

(BRIDGE: music with air raid siren in the background)

You might hear some reindeer on your rooftop
Or Jack Frost on your windowsill
But if someone's climbin' down your chimney
You better load your gun and shoot to kill

Oh, it's Christmas at Ground Zero
And if the radiation level's okay
I'll go out with you and see the all new
Mutations on New Year's Day

It's Christmas at Ground Zero
Just secondsleft to go
I'll duck and cover with my yuletide lover
Underneath the mistletoe

It's Christmas at Ground Zero
Now the missiles are on their way
What a crazy fluke;
We're gonna get nuked
On this jolly holiday

What a crazy fluke;
We're gonna get nuked
On this jol-ly hol-i-dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

(FADE OUT with air raid siren blaring)

 

[Cheri]

I love Christmas carols too, though I grew up listening to my parents Andy Williams Christmas album. How embarrassing as that is! Right now my favorite Christmas albums are Jazz to the World and A Charlie Brown Christmas by the Vince Guaraldi Trio.

 

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[Samuari]

Re: Christmas at Ground Zero

Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin'
It's the end of all humanity
No more time for last minute shoppin'
It's time to face your final destiny

Bobtoad is this combining both advents?

 

[Samuari]

There's nothing like White Christmas! You have my vote on that one! I just absolutely love it!

It's a great movie, too.

 

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[Bobtoad777]

Re: Re: Christmas at Ground Zero

Bobtoad is this combining both advents? [/B]

Samuari, Could you explain what you mean by this so that I can more properly answer the question. I am affriad that I may be taking it differently than you meant for me to take the question.

 

[CreamyLady]

I have a CD of a Christmas mass by Monteverdi, and I love Loreena McKennit's To Drive The Cold Winter Away CD.

I had a great vinyl album, Chants a la Vierge, with some beautiful Christmas music. Alas, I no longer have a turntable. Darn it.

 

[Samuari]

Ok, Bob. I don't know where you are starting from so if I tell you something that you know, I not insulting you, I'm just going to start at the begining.


Churches that follow a liturgical calender keep a season of of expectant preparation lasting the four Sundays before Christmas, called Advent. This year the last sunday of Advent is December 24, so on that Sunday morning the church will still be pretty bare, and we will be singing O Come, O Come, Emanuel; by 22:00 The church will be decorated for Christmas and we will singing Christmas Carols, in getting ready for Midnight Mass. We are then recalling the First Advent, the Incarnation of Christ.

The second Advent of Christ will be the second coming, somtimes refered to as the end of time, which is one way of looking at a nuclear holocost.

All of which is to say that it was a joke, and if it took all this to explain it, most likly no very funny.

 

[Samuari]

I had a great vinyl album, Chants a la Vierge, with some beautiful Christmas music. Alas, I no longer have a turntable. Darn it.

I do. Stop by somtime.

 

[Skibum]

I like the traditional carols the best. About the only time I go to church any more is the Christmas Eve service for the music.

 

[Bobtoad777]

ok, I thought that was what you were getting at, though I don't adhere to the RC denomination I do fro the most part understand thier belief system.

I just had to be sure what you were getting at, with all the attacks on christianity on here letely I wasnt sure wether you were making the observation you stated or a pot shot.

My Apologies Samuari

 

[forgetunome]

Christmas music...

There's so many it's hard to make a choice!

I love all of the christmas songs sung by Bing Crosby!

I can't remember who leads the orchestra but, my mother has a video of Vienna Christmas...it's beautiful!

Handel’s Messiah
Silver Bells
O Holy Night
Silent Night
Joy to the World

etc. etc. etc.

I LOVE CHRISTMAS SONGS!

Nothing is better than christmas songs playing, big huge fluffy snowflakes falling, (I miss having a front porch) sitting on the front porch bundled up with a cup of hot chocolate, with your sweetie of course!

 

[Samuari]

ok, I thought that was what you were getting at, though I don't adhere to the RC denomination I do fro the most part understand thier belief system.

My Apologies Samuari

Not a problem, Bob. FYI I'm Episcopalian, and you will find that Lutherians, and several other deminations use a liturical calender; which is a way of reconizing the scanctity of time.

 

[Bobtoad777]

Thank you Samuari, I guess I have been out of the denom loop to long, I am more of a non-denomer myself. I am starting a site up for all denoms if your interestied in helping or visiting drop me a line. I could use some of your brain.

 

[Sonora]

The Carpenter's Christmas Album (Is there a better voice than Karen Carpenter?)
Amy Grant's Christmas Album (Especially "Tennessee Christmas")
Elmo and Patsy's Christmas Album ("Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer". "Percy, The Puny Poinsettia" and "Here's To The Lonely" being my favorites.)
SheDaisy's Christmas Album (it's ANYTHING but traditional--I love it!)

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[CW]

Manhiem Steamroller is playing here in the office/computer room now. That will be followed by Kenny G's Miracles cd.

Any Christmas song will do,,, though some are appreciated ONLY in small doses, such as those of the silly nonsenseical sort.

Christmas music will be on nearly fulltime from now until Christmas night.



And Forget,,, just WHICH sweetie are you sitting on that front porch with? Uhmmm?