What Holiday Music Are You Playing This Season?

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I know, I know - everybody always grumps about the overplaying of Christmas/Holiday music. Believe me - I’m no fan of the barking dogs or ‘Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer’. Or at least the overplaying of them.

But tonight it’s windy out, it’s less than a week to Christmas, and I have my laptop up with iTunes. I filtered on Holiday, and other than a couple random songs by Weezer, Madonna, Sex Pistols, and Green Day, I’ve got some music to get me in the mood while I wrap gifts.

So, for my Holiday albums, I’ve got:[ul]
[li]Candlelight Processional - This is the soundtrack to a wonderful show they do at Epcot for the holidays. It’s the first time I heard one of my favorite songs - Rejoice with Exceeding Great Joy[/li][li]A Charlie Brown Christmas[/li][li]Christmas of Hope[/li][li]A Classic Cartoon Christmas, Too[/li][li]Merry Christmas - Mariah Carey[/li][li]Merry, Merry Christmas - New Kids on the Block - Ah - back to my teen years.[/li][li]Rudolph, Frosty, and Friends: Favorite Christmas Songs[/li][li]A Very Special Christmas[/li][/ul]

Plus Bruce Springsteen doing Santa Claus is Coming to Town. And I really have to set a tag on some of the Nightmare Before Christmas songs, and a couple Weird Al songs.

So, what songs do you LIKE around this time of year?

Susan

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My CD of Bach’s *Christmas Oratorio * has been getting a good run.

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I’m really enjoying the Sufjan Stevens Songs for Christmas box set. The songbook also has lyrics and chords for sing-along and autoharp-along fun.

It’s a good mix - there’s lovely folk-pop arrangements of traditional carols, ancient half-forgotten hymns and silly, silly Sufjan songs.

I’m also going to the big Carols by Candlelight concert in Melbourne on Christmas Eve, despite their usual predilection for modern Christmas songs and kiddie Santa stuff.

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And I’m back to say now I’ve got John Denver & The Muppets going. Now that’s a Christmas memory maker. I associate it with my sister - it was her favorite Christmas album.

Susan
(BA-DUMP-BUMP-BUMP)

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Handel’s Messiah. It’s pompous and grandiose, but I luffs it anyway.

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We did our fourth performance of Messiah on Saturday night. At this point I never want to hear it again!*

  • Although I’m sure I’ll have changed my mind by December 2008.
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Cool Cunctator! :cool: Best wishes for your recovery of love for Handel, though.

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra is on my iPod and some CDs from old TV specials.