-"2000 Miles" by the Pretenders counts as a Christmas song
-"My Favorite Things" from Sound of Music counts as a Christmas song, but only if it's performed by The Supremes
-Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" does not count as a Christmas song, ever, regardless of who's singing
That is all.
-"My Favorite Things" from Sound of Music counts as a Christmas song, but only if it's performed by The Supremes
-Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" does not count as a Christmas song, ever, regardless of who's singing
That is all.
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https://youtu.be/7KYaWSOCoNQ?si=ug_QN_N8EQFPPlN6
It took Cohen five painful years to write that song. And it is brilliant as is.
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
https://www.musicianwages.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-boots-of-chinese-plastic-by-pretenders/
https://americansongwriter.com/behind-the-lyric-chrissie-hynde-boots-of-chinese-plastic/
https://youtu.be/iYqIF2XkqKU?si=7W2LW6ZCCiWmobLh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfIcSb5oJY0&ab_channel=EnriqueMorente-Topic
not a Christmas song for me
never
not at all
never
no no no
#IMHO
#YRMV
Tier I: Celebrates the birth of Christ. “Yay, Jesus is here!”
Tier II: Celebrates the traditions or myths of the Christmas holiday. “Yay, Christmas/Santa is here!”
Tier III: Celebrates the winter season/snow.
Tier IV: Everything else that gets lumped in.
https://youtu.be/q3XqzOSmWTw?si=PpVMuRGttfGxu6UI
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Do people actually challenge its validity as a Christmas song?
https://youtu.be/MgNSyi2B5UA?si=warobQaT_isLPsZH
Sung by thousands of drunken Scots straight after Old Lang Syne on Hogmanay
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah”
Definitely Christmas vibes!
To add to your point, it's also decidedly Christmas themed in its lyrics and in its composition. The arrangement clearly quotes jingle bells.
Christmas songs!
I love the original vinyls, lately finding plenty of really good later songs I'd never heard. There's some trashy reviewers out there, 🙃 payback for Hynde's days writing at NME I suppose.
DIE HARD is a Christmas movie
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I ask for your support and solidarity to help us build a new life free from fear and suffering.🙏🏻
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yvBEoLsAL8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh1m3g_tFek
(A) "A Christmas Carol" (Charles Dickens)
(B) "It's a Wonderful Life" (Frank Capra)
(C) "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (Clement Moore)
(D) "Silent Night" (Gruber/Mohr)
(E) [other]
Best Christmas movie ever
Totally agree. I love that song!
Chrissy Hynde in the Snow!
In a Salvation Army Uniform!
https://youtu.be/AEyGZlBdkaA?si=cmHmOT2EucOy-Num
John Coltrane's take - beyond good.
JC's manager approaches him to consider doing some "covers" and he presents a R&H song made famous by a posh all-too-cheery and bright British singer featured in a huge Broadway musical and big-time family movie.
"So, Mary Poppins sang this?"...sure. Love the jazz chords!!
We are wise to his puerile games.
HA!!!
My Favorite Things should be done by Tori Amos in a minor key and ever more minor attitude
As an atheist, I think it's so cool LCs Halleluja is in rotation of Christmas Playlist. It goes so well with gun culture for Jesus. The dumpster fire of Christianity.
I’ll add What a Wonderful World by LeAnn Rimes
Then forget about it for 20 years.
If you are ever tempted to hear it again, reach for Michael Bolton's cover as an antidote.
I don't actually remember the jingle off by heart but "Brake and Muffler, Buuudget Brake and Muffler" has been a godsend for someone like me who has DJ freaking Earworm living in his head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcOQSk_cMO0
-before MTV epoch
Walking on Air
and
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach) l
-last 2 go back before radio.
Later, many musicians during the High Rock and roll period incorporated these rifts (Jimmy Page, Brian May, flutist Ian Anderson etc. )
Not a Christmas song per se. But very seasonal.
And I would fly five hundred more,
Just to be the man who flew 1000 miles,
to get gifts to your door
(Sung like:Da-da da da part)
I heard Coldplay's version of "2000 Miles" first & now it's the only Pretenders song I like
I really like "Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses
Hallelujah - a minor Cohen song -has got nothing to do Xmas.
That's my take
-Please Come home for Christmas
-Christmas Blues
-Christmas in Jail
-Pretty Paper
-I believe in Father Christmas
-Father Christmas
-Someday at Christmas
-Merry Christmas Darling
-Blue Christmas
-Nuttin' for Christmas
-Your're a mean one, Mr Grinch
-It doesn't have to be that way
Is “I Wish” by Stevie Wonder a Christmas song?
https://youtu.be/YZE11jcigUk?si=hcNwQWdclxEXSlHX
https://youtu.be/cBMMNGOJ2wA?si=NE_Yh41u8bQLGZu8
Everything by Norah Jones is a Christmas song.
Everything by Otis Redding is a Christmas song.