holiday musics :)

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The really religious ones tend to irritate me. There are some of the religious ones that are okay, just not my thing.

I do like being able to hear Christmas music when shopping and when close to the actual date. Bloody hell I don't want to hear it before Thanksgiving.

It can get boring and repetitive, but in that case I will sometimes make up my own morbid lyrics.

One year at work, I kept a tally of how often the same Christmas songs were played over and over. (Different versions). During one shift, they played "Silver Bells" 14 times.

Now they mix it up. They'll play a few pop songs and then a couple Christmas songs and then more pop songs. In theory this is better, though the current pop they play is so utterly repellent to me that I'd rather hear anything else.

BTW, not Christmas related, but Electronics is next to my department and they have been playing the same handful of movie trailers on a loop for two years now .

being that my favorite xmas album [stereo edit of the phil spector xmas record "a christmas gift to you"] was recorded in the summer of '63, i often listen to it in the summertime.

A lot of it is too shallow, mainstream, hackneyed and cynically done for my taste, but this one doesn't annoy me. Hard to believe it's by a band that were originally more a business ploy than a real band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riG85oA6Wy4

^ Beautiful song. Origins in the Renaissance. ❤️

Yes.
A Sixteenth Century Spanish carol. Sung by of a people...

true story behind this recording, the master tape was quickly wiped and recorded over by a punk band. really. so what you hear here is off of a specimen 45 rpm record.

How so? It was a video recording, and the video portion is still clearly intact. I noticed 2 versions on YT - one had the studio version of the sound dubbed on, which had some reverb on it. The other was "dry" and I thought Davy Jones was rather louder in the mix.

That's interesting. I hadn't heard this one before.

I once heard an album of Monkees covers that opened with the first singer (I can't remember who it was) saying, "When I was young, I was aware that the Monkees musical group was 98% bull****, but I liked 'em anyway."

I always liked them. Michael Nesmith, who recently passed away, was a good songwriter himself.

What are you talking about?

Blabby was talking about the song HE posted. Not your song being done by the Monkees.

As an old dinosaur of a musician, I get tired is listening/performing works like Haendel’s Messiah every year. The one of the few works I have no problem listening or performing every Christmastide is Sir Ralph Vaughan Williams Hodie. Here’s the epilogue to that work.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ve1m1wKqeEY

Another modern composer of holiday music was German Composer Franz Biebl. Biebl was primarily a composer for education (think high school concert band and concert choir. Here’s his most famous composition, the Ave Maria.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rb8C8wBZ98

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I love Christmas music. I've always loved Christmas. It's my peaceful time of the year. I love the trees, giving gifts to others, the friends and families gathering and the magical joy.

I love this song and this version. The Monkees did a great job.

This is my favourite Christmas song. It has a Germanic feel to it.

Thanks for the clarification. Your first sentence was, however, not useful.