# Favorite Christmas albums? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2006, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708 "2006-11-01T08:08:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708/41 "2006-11-02T02:50:16Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] None. Xmas music is the lamest most boring music ever. [/QUOTE] Thanks for stopping by. :rolleyes: My family was big into Christmas stuff when I was little so I’ll always be more into the older style stuff like Bing Crosby and Johnny Mathis. ---
**Author:** ![daere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@daere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daere)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708/42 "2006-11-02T03:59:00Z")
OK, I’ll admit it… I like South Park’s _Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics_. Well, I can do without “Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo” and a couple of others, but I _love_ Cartman singing “O Holy Night” … “it is the night with the Christmas trees and pie” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708/43 "2006-11-02T13:44:53Z")
Every year I put in a plug for the [Broadway Cares: Carols for a Cure](http://broadwaycares.stores.yahoo.net/holiday-holidaycd.html) CDS. These are simply the best holiday music that you will ever hear. Broadway cast members combine the traditional with their own original holiday songs, and they are just so damn good. This year, they have put out a boxed set of the entire 8CD collection, It’s well worth the money, and it’s for a good cause, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708/44 "2006-11-02T17:10:36Z")
I don’t have any favorites, no family standards or anything. My parents never had any real interest in music, other than as background filler that you didn’t actually _hear_, and my wife and I haven’t gotten anything started with our own kids. But I think it’s something worth trying out. 🙂 I know we have a few bargain bin CD collections of Xmas tunes, classical-type and traditional, and also the Squirrel Nut Zippers Xmas album. We’ll see what happens this year. When I was a kid, like, kindergarten age and younger, I remember listening to a Jim Nabors Christmas album all the time, all year any time. I can still hear him singing “Do You Hear What I Hear” in my head. Man, did I just love that record! ---
**Author:** ![Canadiangirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Canadiangirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadiangirl)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708/45 "2006-11-02T17:14:34Z")
Christmas just isn’t Christmas without Trans Siberian Orchestra. Another favourite was one I had as a kid but apparently, over the years, got lost: Glen Campbells Christmas album with the song “Little Toy Trains”…now, if anyone happens to have a copy (because over the years I have not been able to find it through anywhere)…I would be prepared to make an offer/pay for a copy/… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708/46 "2006-11-02T18:01:52Z")
**The Messiah: A Soulful Celebration**. And I will admit to a recent-years affection for a couple of Amy Grant Christmas collections. ---
**Author:** ![kurilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea5d25/32.png) [@kurilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurilla)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708/47 "2006-11-02T20:42:20Z")
[QUOTE=adam yax] It is just one song and not an anal bum, [/QUOTE] Well, that’s a relief. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708/48 "2006-11-02T22:55:33Z")
Phil Spectors thirded ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708/49 "2006-11-03T02:11:47Z")
I love “Christmas is the Time” by Lou Rawls, plus others mentioned in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708/50 "2006-11-03T02:31:10Z")
I generally despise Christmas music, but my immediate close siblings and spouses have a sappy drunken gen-X sing-along every holiday season with the Pogues “Fairytale of New York.” And I like the Bowie/Bing Crosby version of the Drummer Boy. I like that song. It gets my Marxist feathers ruffled. “I am a poor boy, too.” Makes me tear up ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708/51 "2006-11-03T19:16:21Z")
[QUOTE=ethelbert] [We Three Kings](http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1516108&BAB=E) by the Roche sisters. [/QUOTE] Seconded. It’s a beautiful album. I grew up listening to [Merry Christmas](http://www.amazon.com/Merry-Christmas-Johnny-Mathis/dp/B0002S94HK/sr=1-5/qid=1162580983/ref=sr_1_5/104-0642233-3903951?ie=UTF8&s=music) by Johnny Mathis and it’s still not Christmas without it. And I love [Aaron Neville’s Soulful Christmas](http://www.amazon.com/Aaron-Nevilles-Soulful-Christmas-Neville/dp/B000002G1V/sr=1-1/qid=1162581070/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-0642233-3903951?ie=UTF8&s=music) My favorite modern Christmas **song** is Dar Williams’ “The Christians and the Pagans.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-christmas-albums/378708.md?page=2)