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Beth

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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2007, 11:47:39 PM »
Fairy tale of New York is the best Christmas song ever. That song always warms my heart.

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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2007, 06:33:34 AM »
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by Darlene Love from the Spector LP is a good one. Or, if you're more punk rock and less R&B inclined, there's a version by the New Bomb Turks.
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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2007, 07:41:02 AM »
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Fairy tale of New York is the best Christmas song ever. That song always warms my heart.

Yes, I agree.   It's also one of those songs with a weird association for me: whenever I hear the line "The Cops of the NYPD Choir are Singing Galway Bay" I flash on the police blotter photos in Luc Sante's "Low Life."  But then a freshly-mowed lawn reminds me of the Beatles' Revolver, so maybe it's not so weird.

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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2007, 07:57:52 AM »

The Muzak in my building is Christmas-related from Thanksgiving to New Years. 

"... everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag."



Is this a Velvet Underground Christmas song, buffcoat?  Pretty potent Christmas gift.

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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2007, 10:28:54 AM »

The Muzak in my building is Christmas-related from Thanksgiving to New Years. 

"... everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag."



Is this a Velvet Underground Christmas song, buffcoat?  Pretty potent Christmas gift.

Damn, Janey, you're right.  Lou Reed Does the Holidays would be awesome.

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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2007, 11:52:25 AM »
Lou Reed Does the Holidays would be awesome.

European Son (Sleighbell Version)
Venus in (Red) Furs
Holly Jolly Heroin
White Light, White Heat, White Christmas
Run, Run, Run Rudolph
The Black Angel's Hanukkah Song
The Gift [song and 'zine]
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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2007, 01:55:48 PM »
I hate most Christmas music, but I had to make a playlist for a holiday party at work this year and I bought some pretty good stuff off of iTunes, including Jimi Hendrix doing the Little Drummer Boy and the McKenzie Brothers' Twelve Days of Christmas (which I didn't play at the party).  That War is Over jam is pretty good, I think.  Woody Guthrie does a good Hanukkah song.  There's also some song that gets a lot of download action and remixing called Ocho Kandelikas that's a chahannukkkkkkkah song in spanish.  There's Beck's Hanukay rap song The Little Drum Machine Boy and that's kinda cool if you wanna pretend it's still 1994, which I like to do sometimes.  There's also this reggae song called "Irie Christmas" which I like.  Eek-A-Mouse doing a musical version of "The Night Before Christmas" leaves something to be desired, but I bought it anyway. 

Non-professionals singing Christmas Carols live is almost always sound punishment.

kenny

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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2007, 02:41:37 PM »
 'naughty old santa" e.p. by philthy animal taylor and fast eddie clark of motorhead. they do all the oldschool classics like 'away in a manger' and 'spitfire.' righteous  :)

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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2007, 09:31:34 PM »
i have 2 breakcore/noise/IDM xmas comps... one from the System Corrupt folks and 1 put together by people from the Cock Rock Disco and Planet ยต boards. those get at least a few spins every december...

besides that...

SALLY SHAPIRO: ANORAK CHRISTMAS
Tarquin Records All Star Holiday Extravaganza (i can't let xmas go by without hearing James Kochalka Superstar's "Beautiful Christmas Lights"
the Of Montreal xmas songs ("why rent when you can have your own washer and dryer for just $225 a month? put it on your sears card!")
the Cocteau Twins xmas songs
the Saturday Looks Good To Me xmas songs
James Brown's Funky Christmas
Motown Christmas
Phil Spector: A Christmas Gift To You
Philly Boy Roy: 12 Days Of Christmas, Philly Style

and last but not least, the greatest christmas song ever made by anyone ever, forever....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra8Mfto1Ar8[/youtube]

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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2007, 09:59:46 PM »
This is the best Christmas song from the greatest Christmas TV special of all time.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=87wGHfAi17Q[/youtube]

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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #25 on: December 15, 2007, 03:50:52 AM »
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by Darlene Love from the Spector LP is a good one.

That whole Phil Spector Christmas album rules.



Other favorites of mine:







And The Dogmatics' "X'mas Time (It Sure Don't Feel Like It)" from this comp:



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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #26 on: December 15, 2007, 10:43:50 AM »
Fairy tale of New York is the best Christmas song ever. That song always warms my heart.

My favorite part of that song is, "You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot / Happy Christmas your arse / I pray God it's our last." No, seriously.

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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #27 on: December 15, 2007, 12:34:20 PM »
There's always "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy."

And the parody follow-up "Mommy Looks Too Much Like Santa".

Bruce Cockburn's christmas album is pretty neato, if you can take his brand of folk/world/rock.

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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #28 on: December 15, 2007, 01:58:57 PM »
So I guess this is the part where I come out and say "thanks for reminding me what Christmas is really about!"

I still don't like having it shoved down my throat for a month before, but I did find myself humming "Have yourself a merry little Christmas" today. Damn you, Claus! You've won again!

Great selections.

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Re: Christmas Carols: Blessed noise or sound punishment?
« Reply #29 on: December 16, 2007, 11:52:29 AM »
Listen to 2000 Years of Christmas by the FOT's resident Father Christmas... So Cow...

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It's very funny.
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