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    Posted: December 21 2023 at 15:58
To me, I've Seen All Good People is a Xmas song - I got the Yes Album as a Xmas gift waaaaay back and have since always associated All Good People with Xmas.  I guess its the jangly guitar, the jingly percussion, the choral harmonies, and the wintery woodwinds .....it may not technically be a Xmas song, but we've all got something that ain't all that Xmasy that we identify as Xmasy.  Plus, I get to pull out one of my favorite Yes albums once a year to highlight the holiday festivities.  
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Atavachron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2023 at 17:34
^ I disagree if it has good Christmas spirit, and of course good music. Some artists actually like Holiday music & albums associated with it.   Ever heard the Beatles 'Christmas Albums' they released to members of their fan club in the early 1960s ?   A lot of fun.
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Releasing a Christmas song has to be the laziest (and dare I say most cynical) way of selling music.

I am thinking in particular of "Last Christmas" by Wham. This song might just as well be called "Last Easter" or "Last New Year" for all the non-sensical lyrics have to actually do with Christmas.

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a.P.A.t.T. - ME​®​ry, F​∆​©​k​!​ng ChriStm​@​s (Explicit Mix) - ( They're on PA!):



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..and from the same album Sonja Kristina - O Come All Ye Faithful.




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Annie Haslam - the Twelve days of Christmas, from the curious VA album 'A Prog Rock Christmas' (2019).


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A bonus track on the new Strawbs album is a Christmas song titled Christmas Ghosts.  It doesn't appear to be on YouTube so I can post a link.

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One of the best ever is this 1970 groovin' Japanese carol. Asakawa Maki's "Zenkasha No Christmas" (originally 前科者のクリスマス) - about some criminal spending Christmas in prison I believe.


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^Neither link seems to work. Cry
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Nothing can last
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Never give a day away.
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http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U2XdkBkTTk


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Brian Setzer Orchestra - Jingle Bells


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2023 at 08:08

Nice and proggy Christmas suite by Collegium Musicum - and definitely better Christmas music than the one I posted last year Big smile :



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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band : There's no lights on the Christmas Tree Mother, they're burning Big Louis tonight

With lyrics à la James Ellroy
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Update.  I had never heard it before.
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Originally posted by Cosmiclawnmower Cosmiclawnmower wrote:

RIP Shane McGowan

I read in one of the other threads where someone said they hated this song because they had heard it way too many time.  I don't think that I have ever heard it before.  Embarrassed  Not sure if it is a UK song that hasn't been played in the US or if I just don't recognize the title.  I'll give it a listen shortly to see if it rings any bells.
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The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time...
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The Go Go's - "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek"

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