I loooove Christmas music. My holiday CD collection (yes, I still own CDs) is on heavy rotation right after Thanksgiving and throughout the entire month of December. There’s nothing that takes me back to my childhood faster than Perry Como, Nat King Cole, or Bing Crosby crooning a holiday tune. But my collection includes more than just the classics. I adore the mournful notes of Loreena McKennitt’s Coventry Carol, the hope in religious Christmas music, the 80’s revisited in songs with RUN-DMC’s Christmas in Hollis and We Are The World, I even have a soft spot for South Park’s Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo.
Here are a few Holiday songs that you might want to add to your playlist:
Loreena McKennitt – Coventry Carol
The Magnetic Fields – All the World is One Big Christmas Tree
The Pogues – Fairytale of New York
Nordic Chamber Choir – Lauidsen’s O Magnum Mysterium
The Ramones – Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)
The Muppets – It Feels Like Christmas
Trans Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Cannon
Ella Fitzgerald – What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve
Metallica – Carol of the Bells
Bing Crosby – Mele Kalikimaka (Hawaiian Christmas Song)
Do you have any unusual Holiday songs that you enjoy? Please share them…who knows they may end up on one of my CDs!
I LOVE the Trans Siberian Orchestra. I am so glad it made it to your list…
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Yay for Mr. Hankey! I also love the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York,” with the brilliant Kirsty MacColl who died tragically in 2000. 😦 How about “Father Christmas” by the Kinks? “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” by John Lennon?
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I love the Amy Grant Christmas CD – old school, but classic.
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