I'm not really a christmas guy. I dont particularly like the overcommercialization, the hecticness or the tunes that bombard you every year starting around Thanksgiving. So over and over I stay away but it always seems that eventually one song strikes me every year that breaks through and gets me "in the spirit", of the season. Its different every year. always unexpected and impossible to predict what it will be.
Once it happens it never really works again.Its the unexpectedness of it that makes it work for me
One year it was an acoustic guitar version of O Holy Night by Ed Gerhardt. One year it was a song by folk singer Anais Mitchell called Christmas in The East Bank, another year a choral piece, another year a song a childrens school pageant.
Last year I was surprised by this little exchange in a movie (Joyeux Noel) about the WWI 1914 Christmas Eve Truce,a true story that started with singing carols across the battlelines
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Mark Clarke
I heard the bells on Christmas day<BR>
Their old familiar carols play<BR>
And wild and sweet the words repeat<BR>
Of peace on earth<BR>
Peace on earth<BR>
<BR>
I thought how as the day had come<BR>
The belfries of all Christendom<BR>
Had rolled along the unbroken song<BR>
Of peace on earth<BR>
Peace on earth<BR>
Peace on earth, good will to men<BR>
<BR>
And in despair I bowed my head<BR>
"There is no peace on earth," I said<BR>
"For hate is strong and mocks the song<BR>
Of peace on earth<BR>
Peace on earth<BR>
<BR>
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep<BR>
"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep<BR>
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail<BR>
With peace on earth<BR>
Peace on earth, good will to men"<BR>
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One of my favorite Christmas songs, done in the style of Queen (with a little Beethoven thrown in as well):<BR>
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WordWolf
It's not Christmas without "a Charlie Brown Christmas" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
for me either.
Songs outside those who speak of the season-to me- include "Snoopy's Christmas".
As fanciful as it is, it reminds me of the "Christmas Truce" of World War I
(which I expect it was meant to.)
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/truce.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPQ8cXzBZw
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Normally, I don't seek out Christmas songs of various kinds,
but the thing that bugs me especially is hearing a song with more than one stanza-
sung as if it is only ONE stanza, sung over and over.
Like "Silent Night"-with the first verse sung twice and the song ending.
Where's the shepherds quaking at the sight?
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waysider
It's never really Christmas until someone plays BACKDOOR SANTA.
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Waysider
I had never heard of that song before?lol :lol: Thanks I love the Blues!
Here is some fun christmas music.
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kimberly
Oh yeh, and it is heartwarming hearing Burl Ives sing in Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. It reminds me of my childhood.
John Denver's, Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas, reminds me of childhood, also.
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waysider
The Christians and the Pagans
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kimberly
Tonight, I heard Karen Carpenter's, Merry Christmas Darling. I think that is the name of the song.
Must admit I got a little twingle in the heart...what a voice and how sad that voice ended so young.
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pawtucket
You guys are getting way too serious.
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And for you Black Sabbath fans.
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pawtucket
And if you haven't seen these guys yet, you are missing a treat. They have two Christmas albums out, wonderful stuff.
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Ron G.
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Cynic
MStar,
Nice clip! I liked it so much that I bought and downloaded the film. Thanks for posting this! (It’s nice to see you’re good for something.)
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