...Christmas."
Well not hardly here in Phoenix, it was 80* today. But I did wear a thin warm up jacket to work this morning when it was only 60*.
After listening to yesterday's ranting and raving on talk radio and my apparent penchant for 80's glam rock in my iTunes, I was pleasantly surprised to find when I drove home, that the local adult contemporary channel has gone to its annual Christmas format already.
That means 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, straight through January 2, nothing but Christmas music.
I actually love Christmas music. Its my favorite of all music. God knows there is lot of crap in the genre but hours of enjoyable and memorable music. I think of White Christmas by Bing Crosby, Hark the Hearld Angels Sing by Amy Grant, Blue Christmas by Elvis, Its Starting to look a lot like Christmas by Johnny Mathis, I'll be home for Christmas by just about anyone who sings it...ah my heart overflows.
What is your favorite Christmas Song? Which one would be a must on your personal playlist for holiday music. Be it from a childhood memory, a senitmental standpoint, a favorite holiday movie, something you can sing or know the words too.
Lets here it.
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O Holy Night makes me cry everytime I hear it. I can hold it in until the: "fall..... on your knees... o hear the angel voices..."
I am teary right now! I've been a Christian all my life, but I only really started to "get it" a couple years ago. But ever since I can remember, O Holy Night has made my cry. I guess He knew me long, long before I knew Him. ;-)
Jenny
Ummm, light jacket for 60F? I run without a shirt when it's that warm. Must be a Wisconsin thing.
And what's with your radio stations being so far behind. I was shocked to find our easy listening station had gone to all Christmas music the day after Halloween. Or maybe the shock was more from the fact that I was LISTENING to that station.
I'm a big fan of both Manheim Steamroller and Trans Siberian Orchestra Christmas stuff.
Adams Sandler - Hanukkah Song.
I am with Iron Pol - I love any Christmas music by MS and TSO.
The Little Drummer Boy by Bob Seger, brings a tear to my eye every single time, and anything by Manheim Steamroller!!!!
60 F????? It's positively freezing there :)
O Holy Night. I love being back in the snow for the holidays. I just couldn't accept Christmas in Hawaii on the beach...it wasn't right. The trees are being wrapped in christmas lights and the kids are loving it. Sure makes 12 degrees more worth it.
Jenny and Stronger...how stupid of me. Also one of my all time favorite songs.
Stronger- I spent a few Christmas in the south pacific and remember sitting by the pool getting a tan on Christmas Day and looking at the palm trees and the sweat on my glistening hard body as it bronzed itself, thinking- is this right?
Jeremy I throw a softball pitch and you took it yard. However for snarky- next time go with Feed the World by 50 washed up singers.
MS and TSO are great.
I like Silver Bells, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Silent Night, Oh Come All Ye Faithful...just to mention a few.
I love CHRISTMAS!!! (almost time to start hanging lights!!!)
Bing Crosby's White Christmas.
I am a bit partial to Joan Jett and the Blackheart's version of Little Drummer Boy. That really gets me in the spirit.
I wouldn't even know where to begin... although this year's compiling for the year's Christmas album has already begun. On the MS and TSO though? Blech, patooie! Shudder. Sorry, I've never been able to do it... there's cheesy and then there's bad... for me, those two deserve their own special circle of hell next to Bob Rivers' Twisted Christmas albums.
Not that the stuff I put on CD every year is listenable, but it's a different kind of unlistenable.
I am partial to the Christmas hymns myself, songs we sang in church: Hark the Herald Angels Sing; Joy to the World; The First Noel; but I also like Drummer Boy and other non-church-type songs--not the commercial stuff. It was my favorite time of the year to go to church. It has to be hard to think Christmas when it is 80 degrees.
Oh, I have so many favorites. Like Flatman, I love Christmas!
White Christmas (nobody does it like Bing), It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, Huron Carol (those last two I'll sing at the bus stop if I'm alone and it's snowing), In Excelsis Deo ... plus music from _How The Grinch Stole Christmas_. My list does go on!
PS I haven't experienced a 'white' Christmas yet - one day...
I don't get Christmas songs. Don't like any of them actually. And they were NEVER played at my folks place. Maybe because (like you said) y'all singing about snow & we are sitting outside in the shade in our cozzies (swimmers, trunks, whatever you call them there), eating seafood & prawns & complaining about how damn HOT it is !
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