Originally Posted By: fenixguy
I love the old traditional Christmas Hymns. Silent Night, Oh Holy Night, etc... if done tastefully. I don't like them being over-produced and butchered beyond recognition.
I despise however, the same 10 songs that you hear all season long: Jingle Bell Rock, Have a Holly Jolly Christmas, All I Want for Christmas is You, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Feliz Navidad, etc... I've heard those enough to last me for the rest of my life.
I like Christmas though.
Agree. I like Christmas music after Thanksgiving... but since we can't offend anyone, holiday music ends up being the same ten songs and none of the classic songs actually about Christmas.
The worst is that one about meeting an old lover somewhere and going drinking to toast to whatever it was...
Probably the best Christmas songs made in recent times are the recent Jennifer Nettles rendition of o holy night, and th and bare naked ladies version of we three kings. I could pass on most anything else of the last 30ish years.
The Colonial Williamsburg Madrigal Singers doing classic songs is probably the best single album out there, imo.