Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 If you like Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride", you can't leave out his "A Christmas Festival." That is one amazing piece of music. The community band I'm in plays both.Same with the band I'm playing in (you're not in Michigan, are you? )! "A Christmas Festival" is definitely a wonderful medley. I first heard it on Williams' Joy to the World album with the Pops, which includes a chorus. It's nice to have Fiedler's instrumental-only version too though - I love the organ that comes in right at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Christmas is meaningless without Last Christmas by Wham! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings.Because they came out around Christmas in my early days of collecting, when I played new stuff back-to-back for a while.I always end up playing the LotR CRs during Christmas if I can.I must have missed that title, is that book #8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch 57 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Christmas is meaningless without Last Christmas by Wham!Or Chris Rea's "Driving home for Christmas" or Mario Lanza's Christmas Album or JS Bach's "Christmas Oratario" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings.Because they came out around Christmas in my early days of collecting, when I played new stuff back-to-back for a while.I always end up playing the LotR CRs during Christmas if I can.I must have missed that title, is that book #8.Hardiharhar.I did buy The Tales of Beedle the Bard today though. Might be a fun read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Ah, I forgot to add that to the Christmas list. Hope to hear your take on it...I assume you got the standard edition, rather than shelling out for the sweet-looking (but pricey) Collector's Edition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scissorhands 16 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 This is one of my favorite albums, which I got recently. It's a vigorous (if there's any word that describes best Rouse's music, that is it, although in this case taken from a purely tonal point of view) work that embodies and combines different musical Christmas traditions from all over the world. It's so well written for orchestra and chorus, and the movements are so full of energy that it's become one of my favorite Christmas CDs of all time.Karolju (by Christopher Rouse) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Nope, I'm from Pennsylvania, not Michigan. Which sets up the classic Santa Claus and His Old Lady:Cheech: Aw, man, you don't know who Santa Claus is, man!Chong: Yeah, well, I'm not from here, man. Like, I'm from Pittsburgh, man. I don't know too many local dudes.Cheech: Ohhh, I see. Well, hey, man, sit back and relax and I'll tell you da story about Santa Claus, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 I did buy The Tales of Beedle the Bard today though. Might be a fun read.I forgot about that, until now. I definetly want to get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Cheech: Aw, man, you don't know who Santa Claus is, man!Chong: Yeah, well, I'm not from here, man. Like, I'm from Pittsburgh, man. I don't know too many local dudes.Cheech: Ohhh, I see. Well, hey, man, sit back and relax and I'll tell you da story about Santa Claus, man. Classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Hardiharhar.I did buy The Tales of Beedle the Bard today though. Might be a fun read.I bought that for my daughter for Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuttersteps 1 Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Add to that The Polar Express and a little bit of Narnia, along with Christmas at Hogwarts.I love Christmas at Hogwarts. The little flourish at the beginning is fantastic but the ascending melody at 1:32 is pure magic. I've always felt this track could easily segue into a Home Alone cue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 This oozes Christmas for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendal_Ozzel 36 Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Upped for the season.And because Silvestri's A Christmas Carol deserves to be on this list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,552 Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Christmas is meaningless without Last Christmas by Wham!...as is this website without you, Stefan.I always play "Home Alone" over the Christmas period, and I play "Setting The Trap" very, VERY loud!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 I was watching Nightmare Before Christmas on TV last night for the first time in years and I never noticed how similar Elfman's music is to his score to Batman Returns.The Home Alone scores have been in constant rotation this holiday season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Can I please make a public service announcement and beg "artists" to not record Christmas music if they aren't going to sing it the way it was originally menat to be?My wife and I were out shopping this past weekend and I heard what could only be described as if Bjork tried to to do a Christmas album. My ears started bleeding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Does that invalidate this Christmas classic? I'm sure the original artist didn't intend for the camels to "get down" with this song.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87wGHfAi17Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,141 Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 One of my favorites is Leslie Bricusse's Scrooge, the musical version starring Albert Finney. It's very Christmassy sounding, and there are some segments that would fit very nicely with some of Williams' Home Alone tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 It isn't Christmas without Leroy Anderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxxie 1 Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Andy Williams! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I gotta have me some John Williams and Sleigh Ride, if just to hear the horse at the end.Does the BP version have the awesome brass arrangement as heard in old GAP commercial? Heard from 0:23. I wish I had that performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Nothing says Christmas to me more then "Last Christmas" by WHAM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendal_Ozzel 36 Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Christmas is meaningless without Last Christmas by Wham!Christmas is meaningless without Steef saying that nothing says Christmas like "Last Christmas" by WHAM!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 I gotta have me some John Williams and Sleigh Ride, if just to hear the horse at the end.Does the BP version have the awesome brass arrangement as heard in old GAP commercial? Heard from 0:23. I wish I had that performance.why yes it does, I have the BP/JW arrangement, and I have the Philidelphia Philharmonics version, both are brassy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 196 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 My favourite Christmastime CDs:- Home Alone- Home Alone 2- Catch Me If You Can- Diana Krall's Christmas album- Frank Sinatra's Christmas album- Jon Secada's Christmas album- a lot of classical music (e. g. John Rutter's Mass of the Children) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneBuckFilms 323 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 How The Grinch Stole Christmas (James Horner)Home Alone (John Williams)And I also like listening to the first Harry Potter score. For some reason, it suits Christmas for me.Oh, and The Lost Christmas Eve by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 196 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 And I also like listening to the first Harry Potter score. For some reason, it suits Christmas for me.Oh yeah, I've forgotten that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 And I also like listening to the first Harry Potter score. For some reason, it suits Christmas for me.That's because it sounds so much like Home Alone.Kidding, of course. Only parts of it do. The rest sounds like Hook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Hook and Home Alone are possibly the two most similar, unconnected scores in Williams' career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I would add "Exsultate Justi" from Empire of the Sun to Christmas music listening. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVs6X9yIM_k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,141 Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Just a heads up, there's a 1000 Edition release of Henry Mancini's Santa Claus the Movie up for preorder at SAE. Sadly, it is not expanded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I always listen to the Boston Pops. Joy to the World Christmas compilation. I think I'll add The Nativity Story to the playlist this year (esprcially the gorgeous second part).Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,141 Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Home Alone 2.It is far better than the original. I find the performances of HA1 to be a bit too heavy on the synth. HA2 sounds more lush in comparison. It's bigger, bolder, and more Christmassy than the first. "Christmas Star" is more listenable than "Star of Bethlehem". "Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas" = the musical definition of Joy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swordfish392 3 Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 "Mr. Hankeys Christmas Classics" is always a great CD!Merry fucking Christmas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent Hoyt 13 Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Anything by Trans-Siberian Orchestra and A Charlie Brown Christmas by The Vince Guaraldi Trio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex1272 0 Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Anything by Trans-Siberian Orchestra and A Charlie Brown Christmas by The Vince Guaraldi Trio.Herb Alpert as well as the Ray Conniff signers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artyjeffrey 20 Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Andy Williams! Every time I hear that I suddenly visualize little stop-motion dolls moving about with freckles and scarves. I don't know if that's good or not, it just happens.Just like whenever I see an Asian man crossing the street I hear a gong crash inside my head. Okay, back to Christmas music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 50 Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 I heard some of Ralph Vaughan-Williams' "Fantasia on Christmas Carols" on the radio yesterday. I really recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxxie 1 Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Andy Williams! Every time I hear that I suddenly visualize little stop-motion dolls moving about with freckles and scarves. I don't know if that's good or not, it just happens.Just like whenever I see an Asian man crossing the street I hear a gong crash inside my head. Okay, back to Christmas music.You are a strange one Jeffrey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 I heard some of Ralph Vaughan-Williams' "Fantasia on Christmas Carols" on the radio yesterday. I really recommend it.Funny, I was just looking at prices for Vaughan-Williams' London Symphony yesterday. Thanks for the recommendation.And regarding the topic, I just love Stan Kenton's Christmas album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Well, Halloween is over, so that means it's officially Christmas time in the States, and it's time to start playing carols nonstop on the radio. When do you usually start pulling out your Christmas/holiday albums to listen to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 In The Netherlands Christmas doesn't really kick of until after the Sinterklaas season. (which is upcoming, so expect the dreaded blackface avatar soon) Shops have started to try and sell us Christmas shit already though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozmo 13 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 JW's Home Alone and Harry Potter 1.Perry Como's Seasons Greetings.And Jerry Goldsmith's Gremlins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 so expect the dreaded blackface avatar soonNOOOOO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 And anyone who will use that to make ex-girlfriend jokes will die! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Shops have started to try and sell us Christmas shit already though.They start around late july in Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Vaughan Williams: Hodie, A Christmas CantataBach: Christmas OratorioHely-Hutchinson: Carol Symphony (containing the theme from "Box of Delights", a wonderful BBC Christmas fantasy miniseries from 1984)Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (full ballet)The Carpenters: Christmas PortraitThe Torero Band: Tijuana Christmas (STILL not available on CD! Grrrr)Bert Klaempfert: Christmas Wonderland CDAnd many others, too numerous to mention. I love Christmas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 John Williams has two terrific dedicated Christmas cds. Great stuff by the Pops. as C3PO says, WONDERFUL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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