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20 Dec 2008, 11:43 am

ok so I've been compiling some Christmas music for the big family dinner and so far all I could come up with is classics (Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra etc) and Tony Bennet's "Swingin Christmas", plus Sufjan Stevens "Songs For Christmas".

still though, I'd like some more variation. do you guys have anything you could recommend? no pop singers please, just classy stuff.

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20 Dec 2008, 12:06 pm

Trans Siberian Orchestra is kinda neat - it has a very unique sound to it.

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20 Dec 2008, 12:07 pm

The Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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20 Dec 2008, 12:09 pm

"Wonderful Christmas Time" by Paul McCartney. Nah, just kidding that song sucks. "Look, daddy got a new toy for Christmas! It's a synthesizer with a delay! Too bad he has no idea how to use the delay or how to play a keyboard instrument like it's not a piano."

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20 Dec 2008, 12:29 pm

messygeek wrote:

Trans Siberian Orchestra is kinda neat - it has a very unique sound to it.

Absolutely! An Evening in Sarejavo always makes me cry, beautiful but sad.

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20 Dec 2008, 2:27 pm

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20 Dec 2008, 2:29 pm

"What If Mozart Wrote 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'" - by the Hampton String Quartet

"We Three Kings" - by the Roches

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20 Dec 2008, 2:52 pm

Jingle Cats - Meowy Christmas! This is just cats meowing the tunes of Christmas Songs

Jingle Dogs - Christmas Unleashed! This is the same as the Jingle Cats, but the dogs are barking the tunes of Christmas songs.

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20 Dec 2008, 3:17 pm

^^I said non-lame :roll:

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20 Dec 2008, 8:16 pm

theres this bare naked ladies Xmas CD with this 1 hannukah song that makes me dance my ass off. My family got pissed when I insisted we listen 2 it again n again tho lol

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20 Dec 2008, 8:23 pm

Andrea Bocelli, Sacred Arias CD

Jessye Norman, Sweet Little Jesus Boy

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20 Dec 2008, 8:46 pm

Veni, Veni, Emmanuel: Carols from Cambridge by the Emmanuel College Chapel Choir, Timothy Prosser conducting

"Hark, How the Bells..." by the UCLA Madrigal Singers, directed by Don Weiss

Both of these are very good choirs singing a mixture of traditional carols and classical pieces, with enough upbeat numbers to keep you from falling asleep.

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20 Dec 2008, 9:04 pm

Belle and Sebastian have a couple of Christmas songs. Unfortunately, they're bootleg concert recordings so you'd have to go on Limewire.

South Park has some funny Christmas songs as well.

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20 Dec 2008, 9:24 pm

The best Aussie Christmas song is

Six White Boomers (by Rolf Harris)

and if you're not too sensitive then..
in our family, there's no such thing as a Christmas without ...

- Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo
- Merry F... ing Christmas

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20 Dec 2008, 10:59 pm

I'm quite fond of the Bob Rivers Christmas albums, especially White Trash Christmas - source of "Little Hooters Girl" and the classic "I Am Santa Claus":

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRW2poUfJ34[/youtube]

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21 Dec 2008, 11:35 am

In the world of alternative rock, there's some great Christmas songs. I'm not really sure about albums, but here's some classics:

The Kinks - Father Christmas (OK, they're not really "alternative", but this song does appear on alot of alternative radio station playlists around the holidays)

The Pogues - Fairytale of New York (oooh, but it does have a certain word beginning with "F" - no not that one, the other one - and Kristy MacColl's isn't singing about the common British slang for a cigarette either, but this is truly the Christmas classic of the alternative rock genre)

Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again (like all of Kate Bush's stuff, it's delightfully strange)

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