# WHat is your favorite non-traditional Christmas CD **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058 "2003-11-24T22:58:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/1 "2003-11-24T22:58:16Z")
Time to share folks, not that i mean to segregate from others who don’t celebrate the holiday (hell I’m a Buddhist now, but I still have lots of memories tied up in the holiday) What are your favorite non-traditional christmas CD’s? Mine: Squirrel Nut Zippers - Christmas Caravan The Vandals - Oi to the World Los Straightjackets - 'tis the season for Los Straightjackets The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Christmas ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/2 "2003-11-24T23:02:50Z")
[Christmas With The Rat Pack](http://www2.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=281;-1;-1;-1&sku=536) ---
**Author:** ![eli\_the\_fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@eli\_the\_fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eli_the_fanatic)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/3 "2003-11-24T23:58:56Z")
I love the Vince Guaraldi soundtrack to the Peanuts Christmas Special. ---
**Author:** ![Forty-Six\_Two](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/919ad9/32.png) [@Forty-Six\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Forty-Six_Two)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/4 "2003-11-25T01:13:56Z")
Amen to Brian Setzer’s Boogie Woogie Christmas! But I also love the Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas CD. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eli\_the\_fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@eli\_the\_fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eli_the_fanatic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/5 "2003-11-25T01:36:42Z")
I looked all over town for Boogie Woogie Christmas last holiday season and couldn’t find it anywhere. But I see I can get it through iTunes. Sweet. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/6 "2003-11-25T01:37:44Z")
The Boney M Christmas Album. Greatest German calypso band ever! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/7 "2003-11-25T02:34:32Z")
The Roche’s _We Three Kings_. ---
**Author:** ![Call\_me\_Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/8 "2003-11-25T02:59:07Z")
I’m a fan of Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas CD…at least the songs I’ve heard from it. ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/9 "2003-11-25T03:25:03Z")
Manheim steamroller christmas 1,2&3 ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/10 "2003-11-25T05:21:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Call me Frank \* > \*\*I’m a fan of Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas CD…at least the songs I’ve heard from it. \*\* There are two, actually. The Christmas Attic, and Christmas Eve and Other Stories. I like both a lot, but really prefer the second one. I was very excited when I heard TSO was going to release a CD called “Beethoven’s Last Night” because I LOVE Beethoven… but it was surprisingly bad (and was more Mozart than Beethoven, go figure!) I’m hoping for another volume of Christmas songs next! ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/11 "2003-11-25T05:31:32Z")
[Excelsis, Vol. 2 ~ A Winter’s Song](http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?sku=PRO00092). ---
**Author:** ![swannguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@swannguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swannguy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/12 "2003-11-25T13:10:51Z")
Kiki & Herb - “Do you hear what we hear?” Hard to get but so worth it. Here are some track listing samples; - Opening Medley: Sleigh Ride/Make Yourself Comfortable/Creep/Dancing Queen/You Have Placed a Chill in my Heart/Oh Happy Day/We Wish You a Merry Christmas - People Die: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/Smells Like Teen Spirit/Suicide is Painless ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/13 "2003-11-25T14:13:52Z")
For YEARS I have loved the music from **Phil Spector** ’s Christmas Album. But I never owned a copy until last year I finally went ahead and bought the CD to listen to during the Holiday Season. Then right after I bought it HE GOES AHEAD AND SHOOTS SOMEBODY!!! Not exactly what you want to put yourself in the festive mood. Well, he didn’t do it until after the holidays so I _did_ get one good Season of listening in. I don’t know how much I’ll listen to it this year though. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to _boycot_ it or deny myself if I wish to listen to it. It’s just that it’s a little tainted now. P.S. Yes, I realize he’s never been a Saint. The whole Album has probably been “tainted” for Ronnie for years. It’s just that the murder thing is still “newish” and fresh in my mind whenever his name comes up. . ---
**Author:** ![todd33rpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@todd33rpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todd33rpm)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-non-traditional-christmas-cd/215058/14 "2003-11-25T14:25:39Z")
A various artists collection - _The Rounder Christmas Album: Must Be Santa_. The single most horrifying version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” by a guitarist from the Bahamas, and “Christmas At The Triple X Ranch” by Riders In The Sky, and the title track from the polka/punk hybrid band Brave Combo. Bruce Cockburn’s _Christmas_, especially “Mary Had A Baby.” Turtle Island String Quartet’s _By The Fireside_, especially for the reworking of the “Winter” section of Vivaldi’s _The Four Seasons_. The original pieces are awesome. The original first volume of Windham Hill’s _Celtic Christmas_ from 1995. None of these are what you’d call “typical” Christmas albums by any stretch. These are the albums I play for friends who really have no interest in Christmas music (too much for too long, basically).