Opinion of Christmas Music

[Consuming is good, it's what we're made for]

I've only been able to selectively listen to it this season. I haven't even listened to August Burns Red's Christmas album yet, but I vow to do so before next Wednesday.

[Santander]

I don't mind when people call me alt-right.

[Kingpoleon]

There's Christmas music and then there's Christmas Music™. "In the bleak midwinter" and "The Christmas Song" are some of the most moving pieces of music ever recorded, "Good Christian men rejoice" and "Linus and Lucy" some of the most entertaining, "Tomorrow shall be my dancing day" and "All I Want for Christmas Is You" some of the most irritating, the stuff on A John Waters Christmas some of the most so-bad-it's-good.

“White Christmas” is the oldest....Christmas song

Sorry, I was referring to of the modern songs. No other Christmas songs from the 1940s are really still around.

I always hear White Christmas as a crypto-white-nationalist hymn. I'm sure it didn't sound as secretly racist bsck when it first came out. The Hwhite (lol) guy sings about how his town used to be white only and he didn't have to say "happy holidays" to brown people back in the days before immigration reached his community.

Funny, because Crosby was notoriously opposed to racism. He made sure Louis Armstrong got equal pay, and was best friends with Armstrong & Bob Hope.

But, yeah, I suppose I could see it becoming some American Neo-Nazi anthem with modified lyrics.

[Tokugawa Sexgod Ieyasu]

Funny, because Crosby was notoriously opposed to racism. He made sure Louis Armstrong got equal pay, and was best friends with Armstrong & Bob Hope.

But, yeah, I suppose I could see it becoming some American Neo-Nazi anthem with modified lyrics.

Crosby was also a fan and supporter of a lot of younger pop and rock artists late in his life, even though he stayed firmly in his traditional pop crooner lane himself. His Christmas duet with David Bowie is worth seeing. (The tune Bowie's singing was composed for the occasion because he hated "Little Drummer Boy".)

[Mr.Bakari-Sellers]

Not a fan of Xmas anymore, but Salvation Army does great work in bringing joy to homelessness here in SF or LA, rather than Chicago

[Orthogonian Society Treasurer]

The Great: Anything that was written in England or Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries (God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen, Good King Wenceslas, O Come All ye Faithful, The First Noel, O Holy Night, O Come, O Come Emmanuel etc.)

The Good: anything written in North America before 1950 (We Three Kings/O Little Town of Bethlehem)

The Bad: Mid-century American carols

The Ugly: anything and everything produced after 1989

[dead0man]

Horrible music! But that's mostly because there are very rarely any new songs that fit into that category. Seriously, all I can think of is that Mariah Carey song from like 25 years ago. What was the last new Christmas song to be introduced and enter the mainstream? WHAM's "Last Christmas" in the 1980's?

Not only that but I'm kind of a Grinch or Scrooge in general when it comes to Christmas. So the music doesn't even appeal to me in the first place. But if it had more variation maybe it wouldn't be so infuriating.

New music isn’t necessarily better music. “White Christmas” is the oldest and perhaps best Christmas song IMO.

oldest?

[Drop Billionaires, Not Bombs]

Depends.  I've never been a fan of most of the secular Christmas songs (Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer, Holly Jolly Christmas, Jingle Bell Rock, White Christmas, etc.)

The quasi-trad in me prefers the old school religious carols, with "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" being my most favorite.

[Kingpoleon]

Funny, because Crosby was notoriously opposed to racism. He made sure Louis Armstrong got equal pay, and was best friends with Armstrong & Bob Hope.

But, yeah, I suppose I could see it becoming some American Neo-Nazi anthem with modified lyrics.

Crosby was also a fan and supporter of a lot of younger pop and rock artists late in his life, even though he stayed firmly in his traditional pop crooner lane himself. His Christmas duet with David Bowie is worth seeing. (The tune Bowie's singing was composed for the occasion because he hated "Little Drummer Boy".)

Oh, you think that’s great? Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley sang a love song to each other. (Yeah, Sinatra famously despised Elvis.) Crosby’s a good example of something I like to say - Rarely does it reflect bad on a a man to speak highly of those he regards, but often, in speaking of the poor qualities of others, such qualities are attributed by the listener to the speaker.

[Mr. Smith]

Nothing quite matches Silent Night in it's original language.

But O Holy Night is probs my fave in English.

[538Electoral]

47% were not in the Christmas spirit this year it seems.

[brucejoel99]

Freedom Music

[100% pro-life no matter what]

I love it- and I very well may try to find the SiriusXM station still playing it this weekend on my long drive home this weekend (after listening to it on two separate 9 hour drives last week)!