Lonely without you (this christmas)
Wonderful sad song. I listen to it every christmas since
Alfie's release.

Yes listen to some, I just lay the table for our morning breakfast

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Yes,listening to a local radio station play 24 hours of Christmas music.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

we always play elvis christmas songs at my moms! i like it alot...

***** i'm a cold italian pizza *****

Heard Blue Christmas tonight for about the fifth time this season. Which makes it official.

Yes, but the good vintage stuff. Not the newer crap like Celine & Mariah. Vince Guaraldi rules! Merry Christmas all.

Well if my Grandson singing Xmas songs counts then I've been listening all day!

Are you listening to christmas music?

NO! it creeps me out^^

the exception was Bob Dylan, doing "Must be Santa" ha, yeah! - turn it up and dance!

No not in the Christmas spirit at all my Mom and dad both are not with us anymore.

Makes me sad and depressed.

Have a Merry Christmas friends,

drummer_dude

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drummer_dude
No not in the Christmas spirit at all my Mom and dad both are not with us anymore.

Makes me sad and depressed.

Have a Merry Christmas friends,

drummer_dude

Yeah I hear you DD. I'm in the same boat. Never easy,but I try to make the best of it. That's why I'm listening to a local radio station play rock & roll christmas music. As a music fan it's fun to listen to without getting to sentimental about the whole process.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

Merry Christmas all! Hope next year is better than this past year...for eveyone!

yes (almost)

Actually no , I am not when I awoke today "Don't Stop " was running in my brains jukebox . So needless to say now it's playing on my PC !

Merry Christmas all !

Paul McCartney's good Evening New York city

Yes....Dylan's Christmas album - didn't dare to listen to it before now; but I find it to be pretty good.....!

yes, all day long!!!

Of course... I am listening the Rolling Stones 1969 tour!

Combination of old-timey gospel Christmas carols, Appalachian carols, string quartet carols, and Rat Pack xmas.

As turnabout from when us kids used to wake up our parents at dawn on xmas morning, today my father got lonely or something -- and way too early started blasting abominable Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops -- waking up the whole household. OK, it was 8am, but for some of us that's too early Graciously, he did make the coffee.

Since Thanksgiving, all the time!

This year's heavy rotation Christmas albums have been by the dBs and Friends, Oscar Peterson, a just- reissued Mantovani album, 2 by Buck Owens, and Bob's new album. (I love the package--the very odd Currier & Ives winter image on the front, the wise men following the star on the back, and then the [SPOILER ALERT!] painting of Bette Page in a Santa hat on the back of insert book...from traditional/nostalgic to original/religious to modern/irreverent. Three angles on Christmas, which he captures on the disc very well....and I like the singin' too )

A year ago I bought the Mitch Miller Christmas album as joke for friends. This year I've played it for myself a couple of times. Reminds me of being a kid, very comforting. Go figure.

Last year I also got a Gladys Knight and the Pips album with a disco-fied "Jingle Bells" that seemed unlistenable. Playing it again last week, I found something compelling...it had it's own brash beauty that was almost life-affirming.

The Smithereens Christmas album is a solid rockin' set well worth having. (Great liner notes by the drummer who talks about those old Christmas compilation records sold by Grants Department stores, which my family had, and like me, he speaks of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" on one of those being the first Johnny Cash record he ever owned.

There are pop Christmas evergreens, like the (Original, Atlantic ) Soul Christmas, Phil Spector (of course--which has Darlene Love's "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home" which I confess has on occasion not just made me tear up, but actually weep because it's so beautiful...and speaking of tear up, John & Yoko's "Happy Xmas--War Is Over" gets me almost every time. It's really Phil's sequel to the album, a record which defines the modern pop Christmas song. ) Another great Christmas album is one by the Booker T and the MGs, which is put to great use on the This American Life radio show as background music on their holiday segments. Ben Keith's Seven Gates-aka Christmas At the Ranch and Marah's joyful holiday-show concept cd, A Christmas Kind of Town are two more personal faves that I recommend to anyone.

For a long time, Bing Crosby was Mr.Christmas in this country. Had he known that his pairing with David Bowie from his annual--and last TV Christmas Special--would be the recording that the next couple of generations would hear him most often, he probably would have made it in a recording studio so we wouldn't be stuck with the dodgy sound off the videotape. "White Christmas" was the biggest-selling record of all time for many years, but the one I like from Der Bingle the best was on one of those Grants--or maybe Good Year--compilations: "What Child Is This/The Holly and the Ivy." Now that's Christmas!

What's great about Christmas music is the many forms a song can take. There's a real elegance to the Ramsey Lewis Trio's version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" that is, like the Vince Guaraldi Peanuts soundtrack, great music for those late-night quiet moments.

And it's totally unlike the whacked-out beauty and anarchy of the version by Joseph Spence.

That one was in my head this morning, so I found it to share with you:






Enjoy.

Merry Christmas everyone....



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2009-12-25 19:21 by loog droog.

Holy night,

under the boardwalk---down by the sea

Ray Charles - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Voluntarily listening to only Run Rudolph Run by Keith and the new Dylan cd. Involuntarily listening to what shows up on the television or the neighbors aprtments' stereos.

.........I Heard Mommie Kissing Santa Claus.....

Happy X'mas (War is Over If You Want it)
Run Rudolf Run!

Driving home for Christmas is on now

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The best X-mas album, Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas! Turn it up!

24 hr Christmas music on the radio. Dean Martin, Nat Cole, Frank Sinatra, Andrea Bocelli on cd.

Yes and no.

Yes, a little. My current favourite Christmas albums are

"Rock N Roll X-mas" by The Refreshments (a Swedish Rock N Roll group who are very obvious fans of Chuck Berry and Dave Edmunds's Rockpile)

"I Wanna Be Santa Claus" by Ringo Starr

and the rather recent Christmas album by Brian Wilson that includes the wonderful "On Christmas Day".

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loog droog
Since Thanksgiving, all the time!

This year's heavy rotation Christmas albums have been by the dBs and Friends, Oscar Peterson, a just- reissued Mantovani album, 2 by Buck Owens, and Bob's new album. (I love the package--the very odd Currier & Ives winter image on the front, the wise men following the star on the back, and then the [SPOILER ALERT!] painting of Bette Page in a Santa hat on the back of insert book...from traditional/nostalgic to original/religious to modern/irreverent. Three angles on Christmas, which he captures on the disc very well....and I like the singin' too )

A year ago I bought the Mitch Miller Christmas album as joke for friends. This year I've played it for myself a couple of times. Reminds me of being a kid, very comforting. Go figure.

Last year I also got a Gladys Knight and the Pips album with a disco-fied "Jingle Bells" that seemed unlistenable. Playing it again last week, I found something compelling...it had it's own brash beauty that was almost life-affirming.

The Smithereens Christmas album is a solid rockin' set well worth having. (Great liner notes by the drummer who talks about those old Christmas compilation records sold by Grants Department stores, which my family had, and like me, he speaks of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" on one of those being the first Johnny Cash record he ever owned.

There are pop Christmas evergreens, like the (Original, Atlantic ) Soul Christmas, Phil Spector (of course--which has Darlene Love's "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home" which I confess has on occasion not just made me tear up, but actually weep because it's so beautiful...and speaking of tear up, John & Yoko's "Happy Xmas--War Is Over" gets me almost every time. It's really Phil's sequel to the album, a record which defines the modern pop Christmas song. ) Another great Christmas album is one by the Booker T and the MGs, which is put to great use on the This American Life radio show as background music on their holiday segments. Ben Keith's Seven Gates-aka Christmas At the Ranch and Marah's joyful holiday-show concept cd, A Christmas Kind of Town are two more personal faves that I recommend to anyone.

For a long time, Bing Crosby was Mr.Christmas in this country. Had he known that his pairing with David Bowie from his annual--and last TV Christmas Special--would be the recording that the next couple of generations would hear him most often, he probably would have made it in a recording studio so we wouldn't be stuck with the dodgy sound off the videotape. "White Christmas" was the biggest-selling record of all time for many years, but the one I like from Der Bingle the best was on one of those Grants--or maybe Good Year--compilations: "What Child Is This/The Holly and the Ivy." Now that's Christmas!

What's great about Christmas music is the many forms a song can take. There's a real elegance to the Ramsey Lewis Trio's version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" that is, like the Vince Guaraldi Peanuts soundtrack, great music for those late-night quiet moments.

And it's totally unlike the whacked-out beauty and anarchy of the version by Joseph Spence.

That one was in my head this morning, so I found it to share with you:






Enjoy.

Merry Christmas everyone....

Wow loog droog -- thanks for the great reviews! and for Joseph Spence -- sounds a bit like a singing Bahamanian Popeye!

Merry Christmas!
swiss