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Favorite Christmas Music
If you celebrate Christmas, what is your favorite Christmas music? Songs and Artists? Or your favorite album?
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My #1 favorite is O' Holy Night, by Mariah Carey or Kelly Clarkson.
(I have many runner ups!)
LOVE Christmas Shoes...I cry every time still....it's stupid what a sad sap I am....
I know it sounds crazy...but an older country band...SheDaisy has an AWESOME Christmas CD.
and TSO of course ANYTIME.
I absolutely LOVE Christmas music!!!
Mary, Did You Know? sung by pretty much anyone....this song gives me chills!
Oh Holy Night has always been one of my favorites, and I also love the version by Kelly Clarkson!
Also, I do really like All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey.
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Bing Crosby's Christmas album is my all time favorite.
I have a Mariah Carey one that is good too. Lars bought a Peanuts Christmas CD that is pretty cute.
A long time ago I had a Boyz II Men Christmas CD that was stellar.
There is a free one for download on Target.com!
I'm really digging the Glee Christmas Album and Straight No Chaser's Christmas albums.
Lea Michele's "Oh, Holy Night" gives me chills.
I also really like the Bing Crosby/David Bowie's "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" and Straight No Chaser's "Carol of the Bells."
Harry Connick Jr.'s Christmas album is my favorite. I also love Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops.
My husband's favorite is John Denver and the Muppets. It's goofy, but is growing on me.
Jason Mraz - Winter Wonderland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHTE_QQOct8
Barenaked Ladies - God Rest Ye Merry Genlemen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGVNzgUxE-g
Selah - Silent Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU1KZ7nEROk
Point of Grace - Breath of Heaven
Sufjan Stevens - Come Thy Fount of Every Blessing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1bSlS6OWTs
Actually most stuff by Sufjan Stevens. Lovely. :-)
I love Pandora for holiday stuff!
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Relient K - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0l_WZO9aZY
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I love this song as well, but all year round, not just for Christmas. I even walked down the aisle to an acoustic version of it at our wedding.
The classics - Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Sinatra - LOVE them! Harry Connick Jr is always great too as is Michael Buble' (sp?). I guess I ike the old fashioned crooners really do it for me.
As for favorite songs - "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "I'll be Home for Christmas" are my top secular favs. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" is probably my favorite religious song - but anything done well will give me chills.
Currently I'm really loving this piano version of "Carol of the Bells" by Dana Cunningham: http://www.jango.com/music/Dana+Cunningham?l=0 Different and hauntingly beautiful.
I also really enjoy Straigh No Chaser's version of the "The 12 Days of Christmas"- amazing (and fun!).
That's awesome!! It popped up on my Pandora holiday station and I fell in love with it!
A totally random one that I've come to love after singing it in choir for our holiday concerts coming up.
It's Sweden's equivalent to Silent Night called Jul, Jul, Stralande Jul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_JjFXgd9PI&hd=1
OMG, I forgot about this one....LOVE!
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I really love that!!
Isn't it great? The normal song alone is beautiful but his take on it is so amazing! It looks like he has an entire album of Christmas music (with cello!) but I can't get the Play links on his website to work. Boo!
I wonder if I played this for DH if he could do a guitar arrangement . . . just for me and my listening pleasure!
I love Andy Williams' Christmas albums. I also have the Peanuts/Charlie Brown Christmas album and Bing Crosby. As a kid, we had a Sesame Street record and the Muppets/John Denver album (that we'll still listen to at Christmas, even now). And, of course, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker.
If you want to be blown away, get Michael Crawford's Christmas album. He has the most AMAZING voice. His version of O Holy Night trumps any other version out there.
Do you mean this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XReoQadp4RA. Huh. It's interesting how perceptions of music differ because that version makes me want to rip off my ears and stomp on them. And I CANNOT STAND Christmas Shoes that previous posters love. I'm sure not everyone likes the songs I posted above either and that's totally cool.
I'm guessing though that most (if not all) people can agree that Feliz Navidad should never be played again?
eta: I gave it another chance and listened all the way through and I'm going to have to politely, yet very strongly, disagree with you that he has an amazing voice. :-) It's a smidge on the whiny side for me and his vowels aren't pure enough for that song (but that's me being a picky singer...and I really can't explain what I mean in typing, it has to be demonstrated out loud) I didn't cringe at his high A at the end though so I'll give him that.
Totally agree with the whiny observation. MC was great in Phantom of the Opera - because the Phantom was rather whiny . . . but in anything else. Bleh. Same with Sarah Brightman - she really doesn't have a strong voice and only became a superstar because she was married to ALW who begrudgingly gave her the lead (even he didn't think her voice was strong enough).
And although I think I've only heard "Christmas Shoes" once, if even, I think it is awful too - simply based on its premise. Seriously - most contemporary Christmas music is pure crap, IMHO, that is only put out there to exploit people's emotions and willingness to accept extreme sappiness this time of year. It is the equivalent to a cheap plastic stocking stuffer that you get at the dollar store because it is green and red and says "Ho Ho Ho" in sparkly letters. Christmas junk, pure and simple.
Any of Mannheim Steamroller's christmas cds. My dad played them every christmas before he passed away and I am still in love with them. Just listening to a few of the songs brings back so many memories from growing up with my dad playing them in the background of each and every christmas I was able to spend with him.
Josh Groban's Noel cd is also one of my recent favorites.
My mom owns practically every christmas cd under the sun, but those above are my favorites.
My absolute favorites:
"Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays" -NSYNC
"Where are you, Christmas?" -Faith Hill
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" -Hanson
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" -Carrie Underwood