Holiday mixed tape.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremiah Shine on October 12, 2008 at 1:33am

I read your post and started thinking of Christmas music:. Johnny Mathis, and some clay-mation sing alongs come to mind. Bing Crosby is always good...Believe it or not,, Yanni on the Clarinet! (Crowd pleasers)

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Permalink Reply by Jeb Banner on October 12, 2008 at 8:31am

here's a great track from the MFT archive by The Winechuggers
Face Down At Christmas Again
Also, The Mysteries Of Life have some good winter tunes under the album Misc Recordings 1996
http://www.musicalfamilytree.org/band/mysteries_of_life
I'm sure there's more if I thought about it some more

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Permalink Reply by Loralie on October 12, 2008 at 12:09pm

How sentimental! Here are some from a CD I made:

The Flaming Lips - A Change At Christmas (Say It Isn't So)
Rufus Wainwright - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
Ray Charles & Betty Carter - Baby, It's Cold Outside
Death Cab For Cutie - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Nat King Cole and The Starlighters - All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick
Louis Armstrong with Benny Carter and His Orchestra - Christmas Night in Harlem
Ella Fitzgerald - Sleigh Ride
A Girl Called Eddy - The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
Rufus Wainwright - Spotlight On Christmas
Bing Crosby - Let It Snow
Charles Brown - Please Come Home For Christmas
B.B. King - Christmas Celebration
Dean Martin - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

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Permalink Reply by Ian Brewer on October 12, 2008 at 12:46pm

You can't leave this one off your list. Best Christmas song ever!

The Kinks "Father Christmas"

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Permalink Reply by Loralie on October 12, 2008 at 12:54pm

Has immediately been added to my list!

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Permalink Reply by Jbarge on October 12, 2008 at 2:26pm

The Beatles Christmas Fan Club Recordins
A Christmas Gift For You produced by Phil Spector
Merry Christmas, Baby (I Don't Want to Fight) The Ramones
Little Drummer Boy Bing Crosby
White Christmas Dean Martin (Irving Berlin said he did it better than Bing)
Santa Got Drunk the John Barge Society
Merry Christtmas, Baby Elvis Presley
Little Saint Nick the Beach Boys
Run, Rudolph, Run Keith Richards
Of the above, the best by far is the Phil Spector album.

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Permalink Reply by Jimmy on October 12, 2008 at 10:49pm

Thanks for the suggestions so far, everyone!

That Kinks song is my new favorite jam.

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Permalink Reply by Jeb Banner on October 13, 2008 at 8:33am

Yeah, that Kinks tune is awesome, I'm totally ashamed to say I only remember it from childhood and don't even have the album, looks like it's time for me to buy the 80s and 90s Kinks albums!

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Permalink Reply by Sean O'Neil on October 14, 2008 at 12:16pm

Low: Just Like Christmas
Descendents: Christmas Vacation
Galaxie 500: Listen, the Snow is Falling
Death Cab: The New Year
Palace: Christmastime in the Mountains
Husker Du: Flexible Flyer
Neil Young: Winterlong
O Holy Night: traditional

Some of these are more seasonal than Christmasy.

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Permalink Reply by Jimmy on October 14, 2008 at 11:48pm

Thanks, Sean. A lot of my picks are kind of just seasonal too. Thanks for the suggestion. I don't know that Neil Young song for some reason. Maybe I'm just strange, but even "Sugar Mountain" sort of reminds me of the winter. Even though he's singing about a fair. Haha.

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Permalink Reply by Jbarge on October 15, 2008 at 7:50am

If you're going seasonal, I will toss out "Happy Hardcore New Year" by the Walking Ruins.

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Permalink Reply by Sean O'Neil on October 15, 2008 at 10:39am

Jimmy:

You can find Young's "Winterlong" on Decade, his epic compilation from 1977. I don't believe it's on any other record. Sugar Mountain, which is also on there, reminds me of autumn, like right now, for some reason. Though, I have a feeling it's a summer song. Weird how that works. Some summer songs make me think of winter. Like Husker Du's "Celebrated Summer," has the lyrics:

"Then the sun disintegrates between a wall of clouds
I summer where I winter at, and no one is allowed there

Do you remember when the first snowfall fell
When summer barely had a snowball's chance in Hell?"

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