christmas music

I was joking too Alea as you would be able to tell if my phone hadn't put two ii in

Oh kittyl it was not unkindly meant [tchsorry] emoticon.
Actually it gives me an idea for a thread. . . . .
But I can't think of any, I'll just leave it to the iPad's imagination

I bought a new (to me) Christmas music CD this year its Harry Christphers The Sixteen Music from Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe - lovely restful music beautifully sung.

That's not very kind Alea!! [griin]

Bloody knowitall phone! And I swear it changes things after I've checked! It's a bit like that Two Ronnies sketch where a man inside a petrol pump moves the cost on after you think you've stopped it at £10.

Eartha Kitt and Bleak Midwinter!!!!!!!

I love all the Christmas carols! In my kitchen there is always Handel's Messiah. I think my family get fed up of listening to it, but I love it, and sing all the soprano parts.

I know I promised to be nice but kitty that made me laugh, as they say, out loud

Predictive keyboard I assume?
Grace would have preferred Eartha Mutt mind you!!
And isn't the second last one a bit overtly political??

Fairy tale in New York
Baby it's cold outside sung by Dean Martin
Santa Baby by Eartha Mitt
In the Bleak Kissinger
O Little Town of Bethlehem

Carols (I'm going to get a CD as recommended by Galen, thanks)

The Messiah - never tire of it.

Fairytale in New York.

What finally switches my fairy lights on is a Salvation Army Brass Band playing any Christmas music whatsoever. Even in the seventh circle of Hades that is Milton Keynes shopping centre, they lift one right out of it to another sphere

Fairytale in New York fir me

I love the tinny, repetitive songs played in the supermarkets. I know Christmas has arrived. I do love Carols too though, especially 'In the bleak midwinter' and 'Away in a manger'.
Carols also make me think of easter as I will be looking for the first easter eggs after New Years Day. lol

Christmas even ! for those who can't bear to read anything with a spelling mistake

Anything from the Michael Buble Chritmas album. Pure bliss

Carols from Kings is superb. I also love Immanuel , written by Michael Card, it's a new one to me & I love it.

I like Carols sung properly not crooned or as played in shops on a repeat tape by groups of singers who sing with no change of tempo etc and sound bored stiff.

I like the Sussex Carol (On christmas night all christians sing)

In the bleak midwinter sung to this tune www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYAv8xvBK74

A good old "Hark the Herald Angels"

I don't like "When a child is born" too sentimental.

I dislike mixing "Carols" (as in songs telling a religious story) and singing totally secular Christmas songs. My small choir does that at what is supposed to be a carol service. "Jingle bells" seems all wrong in a service.

The Pogues are even worse singing about Domestic Abuse. I assume its supposed to be ironic, I wonder how many people see it that way.

Old favourite Christmas songs of mine are

Santa Baby (by Eartha Kit) if possible, it's just good (suggestive) fun.

Slade "Merry Christmas everyone".
"The Christmas song" (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.) Nat King Cole
White Christmas.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
(and others that escape me at this time of night.)

Agree with Galen it has to be Carols from Kings, my cd is almost worn out
Maybe Santa will bring me a new one.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WGIaiq_jP0

If you want something calm and relaxing

A critic wrote years ago that 'When a Child is Born' was mawkish
However, if he had heard it sung by a choir at a carol service in a cathedral as I did the other day I'm sure he'd change his mind!

Most carols, 'Do you hear what I hear' (Bing Crosby)

Just call me old-fashioned

With jings and the lovely Annie Lennox CD, I come over all folky at Christmas, The Albion Band, Maddy Prior and then some Kings and finishing off with some Gregorian Chant.

When a Child is Born, by Johnny Mathis, I always feel as if Christmas has arrived when I hear it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpsXNlarAk8

This of course is a classic!!!
Guaranteed to raise a smile

Holy Night is lovely, and tinies singing Away in a Manger has me in floods!

2,000 Miles - The Pretenders

We're doing Fairytale of New York in our choir - it's great fun.

I don't like the wall-to-wall, often tinny, Christmas music in shops though.

Perry Como's A Christmas Dream.........love it, but makes me sad. Memories of better times!

The Pogues for me and Kirsty McColl? I love all the crazy mixed up emotion of the music and lyrics - beats all the mushy stuff - although I do well up to Drummer Boy whoever sings it and, of course, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer! Takes me back to my childhood that one - happy days.