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Do you hear what I hear?
As I drove into work this morning, I flipped through the dial, looking for a radio station that was playing actual music on a morning show. I came across WNIC, which has already begun playing non-stop Christmas music. I actually enjoyed it because they played this rock medley of Christmas songs that was harder than anything you would usually hear on the lovely Detroit adult contemporary station.
I don't know whether to be excited or disgusted by the "holiday season" beginning weeks before Thanksgiving. I generally like Christmas carols until I've heard the same one fifteen times in a row, seemingly following me from store to store as I slowly go insane anyway from the crowds and the impossible quest for gifts.
What are your favorite Christmas songs?
srah - Monday, 17 November 2003 - 10:24 AM
Tags: christmas, holidays, music
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Comments (19)
Sam Forsyth - November 17, 2003 - 12:16 PM - ℓ
o holy night isn't really the cool one. i just wanted to sound cool. but it really IS my favorite...that part was true.
mommy - November 17, 2003 - 12:19 PM - ℓ
My favorite is Silent Night. I like its simplicity and the story about its composition. I like the story that the Germans and the English and Americans sang it across the battlefield on a Christmas Eve during World War I. Silent Night has a lot of meaning for me.
Cheryl - November 17, 2003 - 1:24 PM - ℓ
O Holy Night is my favorite traditional song. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer is my favorite non-traditional. And Wonderful Christmas Time is one of the worst.
mommy - November 17, 2003 - 1:26 PM - ℓ
Grandma's is Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer, too.
Keith - November 17, 2003 - 2:27 PM - ℓ
Rock Around the Christmas tree is totally SWEET.
Also, you should check out the Trans Siberian Orchestra! They will change your perception of CHRISTMAS! (IT SHALL RAIN BLOOD!)
Mike - November 17, 2003 - 3:04 PM - ℓ
Carol of the Bells definately.
Hey though, have any of you UMich people seen State Street? Sunday morning they put up banners across the street that read "Season's Greetings". Its mid november!! I love Christmas, but its a little bit early for decorations, doncha think? Songs, alright. Decorations, not really.
Amy - November 17, 2003 - 4:26 PM - ℓ
"Santa Baby" by Eartha Kitt - "Adeste Fidelis" for the more traditional. This is the year I'm going to learn all the words in Latin. Really, I am . . .
Erica - November 17, 2003 - 10:41 PM - ℓ
As long as you haven't heard "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" on the radio yet, you're still okay.
Christmas songs make me think of... high school choir.
"O Holy Night" is also my favorite Christmas Song. I'm particularly enjoying the Josh Groban version this year. I also used to have a CD with a particularly enjoyable rendition of "O Tannenbaum" on it. There was a minor chord thingy in the arrangement which I've not heard anywhere else. But I lost that CD.
Justin - November 17, 2003 - 11:24 PM - ℓ
First off, let me say, I love Paul McCartney, but I really, really hate "Wonderful Christmas Time." I dunno what it is about that song, but I can't stand it. It's in the same category as "Age of Aquarius" from Hair and that damned "Horse with No Name" song by America. Seriously, these were popular?
Oh, and to answer the question, my favorite Christmas songs are "Oi to the World" by the Vandals (or No Doubt, take your pick) and "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" by...whatever little kid was singin' that song. (Note: Okay, it's Gayla Peevey according to Google.)
Also, that song by Weird Al about the nuclear Christmas -- that's a good 'un. Really gets you in the spirit.
justin - December 19, 2003 - 3:38 PM - ℓ
man i like it im graMA IS HOTT!!!
My favorite Christmas song is O Holy Night.
I liked O Holy Night WAY before it was the cool one to like...so...booYA posers!
-sam-