Best Christmas Album
As the holiday season is coming, it's about time for us to dig out our Christmas album again. What are the best Christmas album that you keep play on and on? Mine are:
- Charlotte Church (the christmas album, one of the best female vocal - Church on her best)
- Ottmar Liebert, angels & poets (a very touching guitar rendetion)
- Josh Groban (agree with a review somewhere which said that the songs seem to be created for him)
What's yours?
- Charlotte Church (the christmas album, one of the best female vocal - Church on her best)
- Ottmar Liebert, angels & poets (a very touching guitar rendetion)
- Josh Groban (agree with a review somewhere which said that the songs seem to be created for him)
What's yours?
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albeit, a little after-the-fact, my favorite Christmas album is by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. it is entitled, "Christmas at the Brooklyn Tabernacle". this holiday collection is well-worth pursuit, year round --- simply beautiful and sweet music. you can find it here >>> http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=brooklyn+tabernacle+choir+christmas&ved=0CCYQzAMwAg&cid=8228241370906534313&sa=title#p |
The Dylan is Stereophile's Recording of the Month...maybe that's a joke as well. Not tryin to beat this into the bush or anything but all of John Fahey's Christmas albums are essential. My other favorites are Esquivel-Merry Xmas, Sufjan Stevens-Songs For Christmas, Booker T. & The MG's-In The Christmas Spirit, the Maybe This Christmas(includes The Raveonettes, Rilo Kiley, Flaming Lips, etc.), Jimmy Smith-Christmas '64 & the surprisingly not yet mentioned George Winston-December. |
ok now for something completely different. Kings College,"Oh Come all Ye Faithful". A compilation of their "Lessons and Carols" service that is broadcast every Christmas Eve on NPR. This recording is easily found on CD, however the vinyl version (of course)blows it away.There are several cuts where the organ 32ft. pedal note can shake the room. These guys are one of the best choirs in the world,and this recording is just one of the many they have made. Happy Christmas e |
Really going into the past, there is always Bing Crosby. His Christmas recordings from "White Christmas" to Silent Night" were huge sellers in the thirties, forties and fifties. Crosby was the voice of America for a generation. For those of who went through the depression and the World War, Crosby's voice on records and the radio was what we needed. |
Here's a link to the John Fahey album where you can hear samples. |
Bare Naked Ladies have a very fun Christmas album which includes my favorite Christmas song ever - a collaboration of the Bare Naked Ladies and Sarah McLoughlin. Chris Isaac has a nice Christmas Album. Holly Cole has a Christmas album too which is awesome. Tori Amos apparently has one too, but I have not found it yet - anyone else heard it? |
Glad you asked. I have several dozen, and of course they range from Perry Como, Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams etc. plus lots of Orchestral and Choral and some rock (not much). With all of that, my 2 perennial favorites are the Carpenters Christmas Collection, and my number 1 favorite from many years ago now is Glenn Campbell's "That Christmas Feeling". The best Cristmas albums seem to have one thing in common, and that is that the artist has a genuine love and understanding for the songs and the season. |