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posted by Anne Stuart
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Monday, November 27, 2006
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So I'm an idiot. I'm still down in New Jersey, looking after my mother who just got out of rehab (no, not that kind of rehab. Most of my family goes to that kind of rehab, but my 92 year old mother goes to the bones and operations and accidents kind of rehab. She just got a new knee.)
And I've been runnign around so much I forgot it's my day to post.
OK, Christmas music. New ones this year -- the Sarah Maclachlan and the James Taylor one (though that apparently was out earlier). I have approximately 100 Christmas cds, so I try to keep it under control, but here are my favorites. I'll try for the more obscure ones.
First, the more obscure:
The McGarrigle Christmas Hour. (I'm in love with Rufus Wainwright)
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album (favorite -- Solstice Bells)
We Three Kings by the Roches
Christmas Songs (love the Stewart MacLean monologue but definitely skip The Cat's Carol unless you want to end up sobbing and driving off the road as you weep)
Loreena McKennitt -- A Winter Garden (the version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman inspired one of my historicals)
Medieval Babes
Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band -- Evening of Carols and Capers
Then of course there are the necessities: A Very Special Christmas (all of them), Mannheimer Steamroller, Windham Hill.
The J-rock (which are hard to find). B'z and "Itsuka no Merry Christmas" (Gackt and Ayumi sing it as well). TM Revolution and "Burning Xmas." Gackt and "December Love Song." Plus some even more obscure ones, like Chisato ("December Snow").
And the oldies but goodies: Phil Spector (pretend he died young), John Denver and the Muppets (the 12 Days of Christmas is a favorite), the soundtrack to "Scrooged", the Beach Boys and Elvis is you lean that way.
The other important thing is to sing, very loudly, with any of the songs you know. Singing brings air into your lungs and fills your body with energy, and it doesn't matter whether you're tone deaf or not. Maddy Prior has another cd of hymns called "Sing Lustily and with Good Measure."
I advice you all to do the same!
Anyone got great Christmas/holiday cds they can recommend? 100 Christmas cds are not enough.
And I've been runnign around so much I forgot it's my day to post.
OK, Christmas music. New ones this year -- the Sarah Maclachlan and the James Taylor one (though that apparently was out earlier). I have approximately 100 Christmas cds, so I try to keep it under control, but here are my favorites. I'll try for the more obscure ones.
First, the more obscure:
The McGarrigle Christmas Hour. (I'm in love with Rufus Wainwright)
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album (favorite -- Solstice Bells)
We Three Kings by the Roches
Christmas Songs (love the Stewart MacLean monologue but definitely skip The Cat's Carol unless you want to end up sobbing and driving off the road as you weep)
Loreena McKennitt -- A Winter Garden (the version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman inspired one of my historicals)
Medieval Babes
Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band -- Evening of Carols and Capers
Then of course there are the necessities: A Very Special Christmas (all of them), Mannheimer Steamroller, Windham Hill.
The J-rock (which are hard to find). B'z and "Itsuka no Merry Christmas" (Gackt and Ayumi sing it as well). TM Revolution and "Burning Xmas." Gackt and "December Love Song." Plus some even more obscure ones, like Chisato ("December Snow").
And the oldies but goodies: Phil Spector (pretend he died young), John Denver and the Muppets (the 12 Days of Christmas is a favorite), the soundtrack to "Scrooged", the Beach Boys and Elvis is you lean that way.
The other important thing is to sing, very loudly, with any of the songs you know. Singing brings air into your lungs and fills your body with energy, and it doesn't matter whether you're tone deaf or not. Maddy Prior has another cd of hymns called "Sing Lustily and with Good Measure."
I advice you all to do the same!
Anyone got great Christmas/holiday cds they can recommend? 100 Christmas cds are not enough.
Patricia Potter
Tara Taylor Quinn
Maggie Shayne
Anne Stuart
Suzanne Forster
Lynn Kerstan
5 Comments :
I don't think of a certain cd, certain songs stick out like: Little Drummer Boy sung by David Bowie and Bing Crosby and Do they Know It's Christmastime by Band Aid
Mannheim Steamroller's A Fresh Aire Christmas set...they do lovely work, also their CD Fresh Aire IV is very winter-ish. And I did not know Tull had a collection just for the holidays, though I have most of their CDs. Of course, you have the score to the Nutcracker?
Yasmine
I also go for the "Drummer Boy" by David Bowie and Bing Crosby.
Now to show my age try some of the older Elvis christmas songs.
I know that its hard to find but the first Christmas cd by Alyson Krose and Union Station
Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Christmas Eve/Sarajevo is a really cool tune, but my two must have Christmas Cds are John Berry's O Holy Night and Kathy Mattea's Good News. Both are country artists, but John was trained in opera. Both are awesome, imho.
Well I can relate since I live in NJ and just finished outpatient rehab after getting a total knee replacement. Must admit I was VERY happy to get home after staying at rehab.
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