Ok, my first poll here! What Christmas music do you love?

[Archae]

What's your favorite Christmas music?

[Goldmund]

1. You forgot "None"

[DODI]

2. Had to think a bit, but went with R&R -- The Kinks, Waitresses

I love those R&R songs!

[stanwyck]

8. Listened to

both the Kinks and The Watiresses just today on a Christmas CD. Gets me in the spirit.

[CelticWinter]

3. A Winter's Solstice

collection by A Windham Hill Sampler

[Archae]

5. I have that one, also.

GREAT music.

[LSparkle]

4. Handel's "Messiah"

Brings back childhood memories ...

[SarahB]

17. Me too.

I can still do those "King of Kings" and "Lord of Lords" highnotes for the soprano part too. :D

[baba]

6. I kind of like the cheesy stuff.

Traditional, I guess-like Elvis and Bing and that sort of thing. :)

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

7. anything without lyrics

they bug me. and none of that "Jingle Bell Rock" crap. otherwise, any kind of instrumental, from simple piano solos to Mannheim Steamroller/Narada/Trans-Siberian Orchestra is fine by me.

[Archae]

15. Same here.

n/t

[Blue in a Red State]

9. Jimmy Buffett: "Christmas Island"

Good cheesy fun.

[flamingyouth]

10. The Phil Spector album

I admit to liking that a lot. And of course the Sonics' Christmas stuff. So I guess my favorite is the '60s era music.

[Sanity Claws]

11. Religious

I remember the religious carols I was taught as a child. So many of them are truly beautiful.

[NightTrain]

12. Other: R&B and Soul.

Examples:

Ray Charles, THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS
James Brown, THE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION

Not to mention my homemade two-volume CD set, THE SOUL OF CHRISTMAS, which features the likes of Otis Redding, Ike & Tina Turner, Isaac Hayes, the Blue Notes, Charles Brown, Rufus Thomas, Clarence Carter, William Bell, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Jimmy McCracklin, Carla Thomas, Brook Benton, the Impressions, Gladys Knight & The Pips, the Staple Singers, Nat "King" Cole, the Supremes, and the Temptations!

[meganmonkey]

13. Dave Matthew's Christmas Song

The only Christmas sing I hear on purpose...I won't bore you with all the lyrics

When Jesus Christ was nailed to the his tree
Said "oh, Daddy-o I can see how it all soon will be
I came to shed a little light on this darkening scene
Instead I fear I spill the blood of my children all around"

Father up above, why in all this anger have you fill
Me up with love
Fill me love love love
Love love love
Love love
And the blood of our children all around

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. Medieval/Renaissance/Baroque and all the Lessons and Carols repertoire

In fact, my choir is doing two Lessons and Carols services modeled on the King's College services, next weekend.

:-)

[RebelOne]

16. Non-religious, stuff like Jingle Bells,

Frosty the Snowman, Jingle Bell Rock, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, etc.

[da_chimperor]

18. That mannheim steamroller stuff is the WORST!!!

I don't like Christmas chiefly because my mom would play the same few CD's of that crap OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER! It bugged the shit out of me and more. I hate that music with a passion. :grr:

end rant

Edit: a message to parents with teenage sons. When they tell you to give the christmas music a rest for a day or so, listen to them. It will be best for both of you.

[democracy eh]

19. The Ventures

original 60's Christmas Album

wicked electric guitar melodies, especially 'Blue Christmas'