Christmas music survey

[mangalavara]

How do you feel about Christmas music?

I like some and dislike some. Really, the only Christmas music that I like is the joyful or reverent kind that's instrumental and used in the background of a television show or film.

Many people cannot stand Christmas music. You know what would make the music worse? If it were performed by Joy Division.

 

[viole]

How do you feel about Christmas music?

I love it as much as Christmas.

Ciao

- viole

 

[Sedim Haba]

How do you feel about Christmas music?

love those last 3 choices.

I hate being barraged by them in stores. Seems so commercialized. Oh, BTW:

11 Iconic Christmas Songs That Were Written By Jews – Kveller

 

[Jedster]

@Shaul

The only song I like is by the Four Seasons and for some reason I don't know anyone else who likes it. They say is sounds like a screaming mess. I Can't imagine why

 

[exchemist]

How do you feel about Christmas music?

This question is too loose to be answered properly. If by Christmas music you mean traditional carols, or works such as Bach's Christmas Oratorio or Britten's Ceremony of Carols, then I love them and look forward eagerly to the season each year to hear (and sing) them once again.

Here is Britten's This Little Babe:

If you mean the schmalzy crap blasted out of supermarket speaker systems to get people's shopping glands working, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Jingle Bells, or I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas, then I hate them with an all-consuming passion and can't get out of the shop fast enough.

 

[exchemist]

love those last 3 choices.

I hate being barraged by them in stores. Seems so commercialized. Oh, BTW:

11 Iconic Christmas Songs That Were Written By Jews – Kveller

This list leaves out the most obviously iconic of all, which is also the best by a country mile: Hark the Herald Angels Sing, by Mendelssohn:

This performance includes the now traditional descant added by David Willcox, in verse 3, at 02:20. This is one of the better, i.e. non-cheesy, descants, which I still have happy memories of singing, at St Margaret's Westminster, as a 13yr old treble.

This joyful and triumphant carol has been a fixture in almost every English carol service for the last century.

 

[exchemist]

Silent Night was my mom's favorite.

That one hovers on the edge of schmalz. Depends very much how it is sung.

 

[PureX]

How do you feel about Christmas music?

Some years I'm more into the Christmas spirit than others. This year, not so much.

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

I like the songs, pretty much all of them.

My favorite is this one. Great guitarring and vocals:

 

[Sand Dancer]

How do you feel about Christmas music?

I don't mind the ones that don't get over played on the radio. If I have to hear that George Michael song yet again, I may go postal.

 

[Sedim Haba]

This list leaves out the most obviously iconic of all, which is also the best by a country mile: Hark the Herald Angels Sing, by Mendelssohn

You do know that Mendelssohn was a very early version of Messianic Jew, right?

 

[exchemist]

You do know that Mendelssohn was a very early version of Messianic Jew, right?

Yes. Is that significant here?

 

[England my lionheart]

I love it mostly,you know it’s Xmas when the pogues fairy tale of New York plays on the radio,curiously I like Gregorian chants at Xmas ,no idea what they’re singing though :-/ but apart from Paul McCartney “simply having a wonderful Christmas time” I’ll go with the flow.

 

[Sedim Haba]

Yes. Is that significant here?

You're the one who replied to my list with "This list leaves out the most obviously iconic of all"

I simply pointed out that it would have been #12 on that list I linked, but since he was an MJ
the creator of that list left him out, assuming he wasn't a Jew. But he was. #12 verified.

 

[exchemist]

You're the one who replied to my list with "This list leaves out the most obviously iconic of all"

I simply pointed out that it would have been #12 on that list I linked, but since he was an MJ
the creator of that list left him out, assuming he wasn't a Jew. But he was. #12 verified.

Good, we're agreed then: an egregious omission by the compiler of that list.

 

[Twilight Hue]

How do you feel about Christmas music?

I don't like it anymore, seems like a natural progression as one grows up, but there are a few exceptions like Snoopy and the Red Baron, and a few musicals like Scrooge with Albert Finny.

 

[Twilight Hue]

It is not as bed as drummer boy

Sounds kinky. *grin*

 

[Audie]

Sounds kinky. *grin*

So! Making fun of a poor ESL student of protected- species gender and race!!
Sob, you unwoke meanie , I am traumatized

 

[pearl]

If you mean the schmalzy crap blasted out of supermarket speaker systems to get people's shopping glands working, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Jingle Bells, or I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas, then I hate them with an all-consuming passion and can't get out of the shop fast enough.

Absolutely! Its difficult to choose a single favorite, but this would be the one

Adeste fideles

 

[exchemist]

Absolutely! Its difficult to choose a single favorite, but this would be the one

Adeste fideles

Yes that one is quite good too - and also has a good descant, which I sang at the same carol service all those years ago. Though the English translation does not quite fit the music: "Ve-ery God be / gotten not created."