Merry flipping Christmas, everyone. Bah, humbug.

hhh · 2019-12-23 04:08:51

I am Scrooge incarnate and The Grinch pre-heart enlargement. Oh come, let us exploit Him! Every day should be Christmas, presents and good food for all.

That said, Happy Winter Soltice to all!

My 3 saving graces at Christmas, in reverse order...

#3) How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966, directed by Chuck Jones of Warner Bros/Merry Melodies/Bugs Bunny fame)...

https://vimeo.com/channels/995772/147265890

#2) A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965). Quite subversive for its time, Lucy says some things...

https://vimeo.com/306731810

#1) Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

https://vimeo.com/167369690

-edit- In my opinion, Little Drummer Boy is one of the worst Christmas songs I can think of. Vince's version is pretty stunningly beautiful. And he follows it with Skating, which is pretty much a perfect mid-'60s jazz piano trio song.

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hhh · 2019-12-23 04:38:49

So, after casual thought and a flip decision with Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental), I've determined that the best thing Christmas has ever produced is, in fact, Christmas Is Coming by Vince Guaraldi Trio, from 1965...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06JieYBHP1s

Vince Guaraldi Trio - Blue Charlie Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-358CaFKeA

nore · 2019-12-23 04:57:44

Guaraldi is definately a must for the season.

Short and incomplete list:
Dean Martin: Let it snow (sorry M. Bubble, not you)
Jussi Björling: O Helga Natt
Händel: Messiah
Bach: Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248)
Antti Railio: Sylvian joululaulu
Any Christmas song performed by Harry Belafonte
John Lennon: So this is Christmas and also
Imagine (if I say it's xmassy then it is!)

Looks like it's the one time of year when an atheist can go all spiritual and a born cynic pessimist imagines a glittering, soft world.

hhh · 2019-12-23 05:08:59

Nice list. I'll take Pretenders/Hynde 2000 miles over a Lennon Christmas, but tough call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SkWIqQ3oLY

Nice shoutout to Handel. Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky was the straw on my camel's back for being a professional "classical" fiddler, but I'll gladly play Messiah every day until we all die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-358CaFKeA

Gah, just compare that to the dreck that is The Nutcracker. It starts off okay for a minute, I guess, and then goes to a boring dystopia somehow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ofysvpgv7o

-edit- Messiah on period instruments. This is a really great performance...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSv5TJHxAzA

Another interpretation, easily my favorite ATM due to minimal vocal and instrumental vibrato...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdlyoEpCV9k

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hhh · 2019-12-23 06:13:05

Leroy Anderson makes the list...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDRFmn_KqfA

Maybe Elvis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QipqXel5G4g

If anybody suggests Mariah Carey, I'll either get you banned or I'll just quit BL, that's where I draw the line. Number One on the Billboard charts this season after all these years, pulling her into second next to The Beatles for top hits, I believe. $60 million to Mariah to-date just in royalties. FUUUUU...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-mari … 41140.html

glittersloth · 2019-12-23 15:16:21

I like WHAM! I really do, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Their work, particular the "B-sides" is some of the chillest pop ever made (just search youtube for the song Blue).... yeah, anyway, I like WHAM!, except during X'mas time, because every public space I pass through plays that bloody Last Christmas song. Gaaaahhhh!!!

damo · 2019-12-23 15:41:14

The All Time #1 Xmas Fave in the UK is.............Slade's 'Merry Christmas Everybody'

Oh, and due to the Bah Humbug spirit alive and well in damoworld, I'll be doing nightshifts on Xmas Eve and Xmas Day (and enjoying the extra pay)!

plemil · 2019-12-23 16:55:29

I have not been posting for a long time but now it's time again.

Kim Wild enters the contest:
mel and kim rockin around the christmas tree
Kim Wilde, Lawnmower Deth - F U Kristmas!

Marry Christmas fellows, eller God Jul in Swedish.

lowrider · 2019-12-23 17:41:25

And here is my alltime favorit:

The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York

deleted0 · 2019-12-23 18:49:47

I ignore xmas 'till it goes away, and fortunately every year it does.

8bit

Döbbie03 · 2019-12-24 02:05:19

Well it is Xmas Eve here in not so sunny NZ. I am enjoying my (no-so)traditional Xmas Eve beer (normally a number of Guinness but tonight I thought I'd break tradition and run with Kilkenny) and listening to some most excellent Metal.

You guys rule, thanks for letting me be a part of this awesome forum and amazing distro. ArchLabs wouldn't be here without you.

Keep safe, catch you all around.

hhh · 2019-12-24 05:12:26

glittersloth wrote:

I like WHAM! I really do, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Their work, particular the "B-sides" is some of the chillest pop ever made (just search youtube for the song Blue).... yeah, anyway, I like WHAM!, except during X'mas time, because every public space I pass through plays that bloody Last Christmas song. Gaaaahhhh!!!

Dude, it took me awhile... but George Michael was a huge talent, and the competitors were Boy George with Culture Club and freaking Duran Duran. I became a so-called adult in the early eighties. I knew it was was awesome then, but compared to today... How did everything get so much worse? Never mind, I withdraw the question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf_Lwe6p-Cg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nXGPZaTKik

^ The short dub break near the end in that is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uxc9eFcZyM

Döbbie03 · 2019-12-24 05:13:51

As a Metalhead, I appreciate George Michael. He is no Michael Jackson but at least he has Michael in his name.

hhh · 2019-12-24 05:17:40

Dobbie03 wrote:

As a Metalhead, I appreciate George Michael. He is no Michael Jackson but at least he has Michael in his name.

Ha!

I love this song of his, but I could easily hate it if I had a different attitude...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTCJIrHiue4

clusterF · 2019-12-24 12:36:31

Merry fucking Xmass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14mPAZkJvd4

o9000 · 2019-12-24 20:26:52

Merry Christmas!

damo · 2019-12-25 00:01:15

And a Merry Xmas to our favourite developer

hhh · 2019-12-25 01:53:17

Right, so Jesus cursed the fig tree for no reason, but also somehow caused the passage of time itself to come into question.

Well. The Nutcracker seems slightly less horrendous now, though still an utter piece of crap. Merry flipping Christmas!

January 7th!!!??? Just, no. This is starting before Halloween already, enough!

DeepDayze · 2019-12-25 01:57:23

Merry Xmas to the great team of BL as well to all the loyal users

hhh · 2019-12-25 02:03:44

^ Hey, don't you bring good feelings into my Christmas rant thread!!!

Well... okay. Christmas hugs

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Merry flipping Christmas, everyone. Bah, humbug.

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