I love Christmas music. I know a lot of people hate it, but it's the only thing I look forward to in December. We carolers outside our theater singing and I stopped everytime to listen. I'm not fond of any of the new stuff. I like most of the classics sung by Martin, Sinatra, and Crosby.
Top 5 Favorite Christmas songs? Go!
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
Wait... should this have gone in the music forum?
Aw shucks.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
....
So is anyone going to move this?
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
As far as I'm aware, nothing beats this.
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
In no particular order
1. "Feliz Navidad" by Jose Feliciano
2. "Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives
3. "The Christmas Song" by Nat King Cole
4. "The Christmas Song" by Mel Torme
5. "Christmas Time Is Here" by Vince Guaraldi
Honorable Mentions:
"Yust Go Nuts At Christmas" by Stan Boreson
"Just Like Christmas" by Low
The album "Tis The Season For Los Straitjackets" by Los Straitjackets
Anything Christmas-related by Oscar Peterson
"S'No Balls" by Rudy Casoni
"Fairytale of New York" and "Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey" >>> all.
Yayayayay.Quoting Horbgorbler (view post)
Happy Christmas my arse.
I can't think of another song as simultaneously poignant and hilarious.Yayayayay.
Happy Christmas my arse.
Too bad they never play it 'round here. *grumbles*
John Lennon - "Christmas Time (War Is Over)
Uh, I need to hear some Christmas songs to job my memory, so I'll have a top 5 closer in another couple weeks.
I also enjoy watching one of the awkward duets ever December.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - The Carpenters
The Christmas Waltz - Frank Sinatra
Sleigh Ride (instrumental)
Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
O Holy Night - Andy Williams
I really love Sufjan Steven's Christmas albums.
In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo, 2021) - 6
Introduction (Hong Sang-soo, 2021) - 6
True Mothers (Naomi Kawase, 2020) - 8
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021) - 7
Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2020) - 7
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021) - 9
Don't Look Up - (Adam McKay, 2021) - 4
The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski, 2021) - 4.5
Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven, 2021) - 7
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The Charlie Brown Christmas album. We listen to it almost every day in December. I love it.
Word!
The three primary albums I listen to are those (I'm counting them as one), Bing Crosby's, and yes, Virginia, Vince Guaraldi's miraculous Charlie Brown Christmas.
I used to love Christmas music. Then I did four straight Christmases in retail.
I probably give you a run for your money as far as Christmas music love goes...
For Unto Us a Child is Born - whoever (I personally listen to the London Symphony)
Do You Hear What I Hear? - Mahalia Jackson
Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes
Ding Dong! Merrily on High - Charlotte Church
You Gotta Get Up (The Christmas Song) - Rich Mullins
And I still overwhelmingly prefer my Christmas music religious in nature...
Memories of the Future
"Criticism can be monumentally creative, of course, at times highly artistic, highly personal. But it rarely relates to the work of art being assessed. It is an expression of the critic's own subjectivity." -Joyce Carol Oates, Journals
Yeah. Despite the fact that I'm no longer a Christian, I much prefer my Jesus songs to my Santa songs.
Agreed. It's pretty awesome when someone with the ability to hit the high notes sings "O Holy Night". That song has a great build to an awesome payoff.
Amen!
Memories of the Future
"Criticism can be monumentally creative, of course, at times highly artistic, highly personal. But it rarely relates to the work of art being assessed. It is an expression of the critic's own subjectivity." -Joyce Carol Oates, Journals
All kinds of wrong.
Oh, but as soon as the orchestra starts up and the flutes are flitting about as she runs up and down the scales it's just impossible to resist. You'll see.
Memories of the Future
"Criticism can be monumentally creative, of course, at times highly artistic, highly personal. But it rarely relates to the work of art being assessed. It is an expression of the critic's own subjectivity." -Joyce Carol Oates, Journals
It's the only Christmas music I can say that I still enjoy listening to.
Off top of my head
The Christmas Song- Nat King Cole
Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas- Judy Garland
Carol of the Bells, if done right
Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano
You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch
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"Christmas Time is Here" from A Charlie Brown Christmas and "Silent Night" are both irresistibly melancholic. Carol of the Bells and The Christmas Song are good too.
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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Great list!! I especially love that you mention Carol of the Bells, if done RIGHT. That is my absolute favorite but I pretty much only love the Time Life Treasury of Christmas version. Every other one I hear stinks cause it's too fast or too slow or not haunting enough. I'm very picky about that song.
I don't like a lot of covers of christmas songs, but this is one I'm willing to say I prefer over the original. Kotaro Oshio is the man.
My Christmas music begins and ends with Ray Charles. For my money, there's nothing better.
I don't know if I've ever heard any of Ray Charles's Christmas stuff. This is something to investigate.
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