Christmas Music- Page 6

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 7:04am

Loving Vanessa Williams - Star Bright.

[Kimmygonbefamous]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:23am

Has anyone heard Amy Grant's "Breath of Heaven"? I love that song...beautiful.

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:25am

Of course!
Love it.

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/3/05 at 7:04am

But Julie Andrews is the Christmas Queen.

[cturtle]

Posted: 12/3/05 at 11:32am

yes, i love it when julie sings "god rest ye merrell gentlemen"

[grizzabella]

Posted: 12/3/05 at 6:35pm

Had Christmas music on the car radio this afternoon. I forgot how much fun Eartha Kitt's "Santa, Baby" is!

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 7:49pm

As I sat on a sunny bank on Christmas Day on Christmas Day....

[Act0r721]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 7:52pm

I am listening to Broadway Cares' "Home For the Holidays" right now. I have Clay Aiken's Christmas CD in my car. I love the "A Very Special Christmas" CD series, too.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:03pm

Nancy La Motte or a bunch of CD's from Bing Crosby, Frank Siantra & Nat King Cole

We also like a song we found last year" Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer". Class all the way

Updated On: 12/6/05 at 08:03 PM

[mabel]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 8:54am

I'm not big on Christmas music, and I definitely have ZERO tolerance for it before the week of Christmas. I hate going to pick up take out and hear it, going shopping and hearing it everywhere. BUT, this year (and I swear, I'm just going to snap before the semester is over) I've got a guy out on the street that sells burned CDs (and usually it's the same rotation of FV and the Four Seasons "Let's Hang on to What We've Got," The Beach Boys' Kokomo, and a string of other equally annoying songs...Well, they've started playing horrible Christmas music. We're talking the bottom of the barrel/most cringeworthy, like "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth!" AAAAHHHHH!!! AWFUL!

Once I get home for the winter break, the week of Christmas we'll listen to The Chieftans' Bells of Christmas (or is it just Bells of Dublin?), the Barenaked Laides holiday CD that came out last year, and some Broadway Cares stuff. That's it! The radio is off limits.

And any of these stores and other public places that start playing Christmas music around Halloween need to be stopped. If you're into it, knock yourself out in the privacy of your own home. I don't need two or three months of Christmas, thank you very much. The week of is plenty as far as I'm concerned!

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 9:18am

Christmas music is amongst the most beautiful ever written. How can you limit yourself to just 1 week of such wonderful music?

Currently listening to the Carpenters singing DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?, which is definitive in its vocal and arrangement.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 9:21am

I tend to agree with Mabel...We need a LITTLE Christmas, not Christmas ad nauseam.

[mabel]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 11:10am

Christmas music is amongst the most beautiful ever written. How can you limit yourself to just 1 week of such wonderful music?

A little goes a long way for me, and I'd rather enjoy it for a week than be ready to scratch someone's eyes out by the time the 25th rolls around, after hearing the same damn songs for 3 months. It's doubly tiresome when people insist on playing it in October when we have a string of particularly nice weather. I'm sorry, but when we're lucky enough to get a sunny 65 degree day in the last week of October, I do not want to hear "Jingle Bells" or "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas." It's not beginning to look a lot like Christmas! It's over two months away, warm, and sunny out!

<----Currently listening to instrumental "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" from out on the street.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 11:13am

Currently listening to Handel's Messiah as I have a bunch of concerts next week and trying to learn the bass part. It's basically the only thing I've listened to so far this season.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 11:19am

I think that saying Christmas music is the most beautiful music ever written is perhaps a TAD of a stretch...

I find nothing beautiful about "Jingle Bells", "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", or "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Raindeer".

Bach's Christmas Oratorio? Sure. THAT is a gorgeous piece of music. Handel's Messiah? Overplayed to DEATH, but I'll buy it. Even a nice arrangement of "Silver Bells" or "O Holy Night" will do, but I would HARDLY call the vast majority of the bubbly/inane/child-pleasing boppy crap we're subjected to for two months at every store, restaurant, and streetcorner beautiful.

[mabel]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 11:22am

JailyardGuy, I think you might just be my new best friend!

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 11:24am

let's go beat up some carolers.

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 11:30am

Of course I didn't mean every single Christmas song, I meant the music, in general. There are lots of beautiful Christmas recordings, BITCH!

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 11:33am

You cannot know how it warms the barren tundra that is my soul when you say such lovely things to me :)

[mabel]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 12:02pm

OMG! It's almost an hour later and they're still playing the crappy "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" out on the street. It sounds like it's being played on the recorder or something! PLEASE take that off repeat Mr. Street Music Pirater Man!!! PLEEEAAAASSSSEEE!!!

ETA: This is like Chinese water torture or something!

Updated On: 12/7/05 at 12:02 PM

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 12:03pm

I actually thought of even lovelier things to say to you, but I didn't want to risk being banned from BWW.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 12:08pm

*wipes away a tear* You're the best. :)

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 8:26am

I only have the beautiful Christmas music on my Ipod and Powerbook, but do enjoy even the silly songs on the radio. I love it all in December. :)

[BT]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 8:32am

It goes without saying that Judy singing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas from Meet Me In St. Louis is tops on my christmas tune list. I also have a glorious Jessye Norman christmas album that does not dissapoint, and Dawn Upshaw and Kiri Te Kanawa singing with the King's Singers just make the season bright. I also smile when I hear a little Charlie Brown or the Roches doing "Adeste Fidelis". Other than the frightening Glen Close and Luciano Pavarotti duet CD someone gave me, I am a sucker for Christmas music.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 10:49am

Finally, the complete Nutcracker....