DIFFERENT Christmas music

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Lynx

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Like, something besides Deck the Halls and Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and Silent Night.

Stuff like this:


What ya got? Anybody know some good Christmas music that is not the same old thing we hear 10,000 times every winter?





When I go looking through a stack of CDs at a used book store or pawn shop, I always get a thrill when I find a Christmas album... then I get a big let-down when I look on the back and it's just the same old songs I always hear, sung by some new group. But if it's actually songs THAT GROUP wrote about Christmas, oh how sweet it is!
 
Lynx

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Obligatory xkcd reference about the same old Christmas songs over and over:

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Anybody got any Christmas songs that are NOT in this list?
 
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Lynx said:
Like, something besides Deck the Halls and Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and Silent Night.

Stuff like this:


What ya got? Anybody know some good Christmas music that is not the same old thing we hear 10,000 times every winter?





When I go looking through a stack of CDs at a used book store or pawn shop, I always get a thrill when I find a Christmas album... then I get a big let-down when I look on the back and it's just the same old songs I always hear, sung by some new group. But if it's actually songs THAT GROUP wrote about Christmas, oh how sweet it is!
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Thanks for the thread Lynx.
After listening to the above songs, I pulled the rest up on youtube.
My little guy is jamming out to this one (while mama bear is enjoying the lyrics and inserted humor)


 
Pemican

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I love this version of two old Christmas songs. Very addictive, and uplifting.


 
Magenta

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I may have posted this one for you before... :unsure:


It is not new, though may be seldom heard commercially. It is a fave of mine :D

These are not new either, though not on your dreaded list ;)


That ^ is the first cut on Loreena McKennitt's CD, To Drive The Cold Winter Away.

Her music has the added bonus of being extremely Celtic flavored :)


^ Another fave of mine :D I recommend listening to the whole CD :)

George Winston's December is beautiful for Christmas or any time of year.

 
Roughsoul1991

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve And Other Stories (Full Album)
 
Lizzy

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Oh my gosh, years ago I found a CD set with Christmas instrumentals with OUTDOOR WINTER EFFECTS!! Songs open with a sleigh being pulled thru the snow. You can hear the crunching of the snow, horses breathing and snorting, owls etc. I think the CD is titled HEAVEN and NATURE SING. It became a favorite. Its so mellow and beautiful. I do love all the classics especially when the old croonies sing them, but I totally love Michael Buble too. I love Christmas music. I listen to a lot of Latin Reggaton and Cumbia music , but that's for dancing and I haven't heard a lot of Christmas music en espanol. I went to Catholic school and we had to learn to sing Christmas music in Latin. Not kidding. I can't believe that I can still sing those songs in Latin. Oh man, that stuff is still in my brain.
 
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Lizzy said:
Oh my gosh, years ago I found a CD set with Christmas instrumentals with OUTDOOR WINTER EFFECTS!! Songs open with a sleigh being pulled thru the snow. You can hear the crunching of the snow, horses breathing and snorting, owls etc. I think the CD is titled HEAVEN and NATURE SING. It became a favorite. Its so mellow and beautiful. I do love all the classics especially when the old croonies sing them, but I totally love Michael Buble too. I love Christmas music. I listen to a lot of Latin Reggaton and Cumbia music , but that's for dancing and I haven't heard a lot of Christmas music en espanol. I went to Catholic school and we had to learn to sing Christmas music in Latin. Not kidding. I can't believe that I can still sing those songs in Latin. Oh man, that stuff is still in my brain.
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Did you ever listem to Eydie Gorme’s Navidad album? :)
 
Magenta

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Lizzy said:
Oh my gosh, years ago I found a CD set with Christmas instrumentals with OUTDOOR WINTER EFFECTS!! Songs open with a sleigh being pulled thru the snow. You can hear the crunching of the snow, horses breathing and snorting, owls etc. I think the CD is titled HEAVEN and NATURE SING. It became a favorite. Its so mellow and beautiful. I do love all the classics especially when the old croonies sing them, but I totally love Michael Buble too. I love Christmas music. I listen to a lot of Latin Reggaton and Cumbia music , but that's for dancing and I haven't heard a lot of Christmas music en espanol. I went to Catholic school and we had to learn to sing Christmas music in Latin. Not kidding. I can't believe that I can still sing those songs in Latin. Oh man, that stuff is still in my brain.
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I like songs sung in Latin, also :D Have you ever heard the music of Hildegard von Bingen?

She was an amazing woman, born in the late 10 hundreds. She was tithed to the church as a child,
and became the Abbess of the monastery where she was brought up. She was a mystic, artist, and
musician. Many interpret her music in a very monotonal style, with perhaps an accompanying
droning instrument, and that may have been the way it was written, but Richard Souther gives
her music a complete makeover, and I love the result :)



This is an amazing piece also :) Originally composed by Ambrose of Milan,
this version is from the CD "State of Grace," titled, Veni Redemptor Gentium
(which means "Come Redeemer of the Earth"), revisioned by Paul Schwartz,
with Gavyn Wright on violin, David Theodore on oboe, Lisbeth Scott
performing vocals, and Paul Schwartz on piano :)


You may also like this. I do!


More Latin via Pilgrimage: 9 Songs of Ecstasy, a musical interpretation of the travels
of the medieval pilgrims who roamed northwestern Spain in the 13th century. :D

Composed/arranged/produced by Simon Cloquet and Eric Calvi, with Catherine
Bott performing the vocals. I can no longer find the full album to post...
 
Lizzy

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Magenta said:
I like songs sung in Latin, also :D Have you ever heard the music of Hildegard von Bingen?

She was an amazing woman, born in the late 10 hundreds. She was tithed to the church as a child,
and became the Abbess of the monastery where she was brought up. She was a mystic, artist, and
musician. Many interpret her music in a very monotonal style, with perhaps an accompanying
droning instrument, and that may have been the way it was written, but Richard Souther gives
her music a complete makeover, and I love the result :)



This is an amazing piece also :) Originally composed by Ambrose of Milan,
this version is from the CD "State of Grace," titled, Veni Redemptor Gentium
(which means "Come Redeemer of the Earth"), revisioned by Paul Schwartz,
with Gavyn Wright on violin, David Theodore on oboe, Lisbeth Scott
performing vocals, and Paul Schwartz on piano :)


You may also like this. I do!


More Latin via Pilgrimage: 9 Songs of Ecstasy, a musical interpretation of the travels
of the medieval pilgrims who roamed northwestern Spain in the 13th century. :D

Composed/arranged/produced by Simon Cloquet and Eric Calvi, with Catherine
Bott performing the vocals. I can no longer find the full album to post...
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I think it's interesting that I still have these songs stuck in my head. I guess I could speak them and people would think I'm fluent in Latin.
 
Magenta

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OFFICIUM DIVINUM. Parce mihi, Domine. Cantar Lontano, Gavino Murgia, Marco Mencoboni

This is a tribute to Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble performing Parce mihi, Domine by Cristòbal de Morales.

Hunt down the originals if you can ;):D (Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, Officium)


I think ^ this ^ is Italian? It is Paul Schwartz's treatment of Giuseppe Verdi’s aria PACE, PACE, MIO DIO.
The first 48 seconds are an older recording, and then Paul Schwartz's version breaks in and takes over :)


Moodswings from their Mood Food recording - Hairy Piano, performed by Liz Church :)
Christmas music it may not be, but it sure is peaceful, the way I like Christmas to be :D


The Prayer of St. Francis from Miten and Premal's "Trusting the Silence"

This song has three parts to it; the prayer part starts around 4:04 :)

 
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