Your Holiday/Christmas Favorite Recordings

Christmas in Suburbia by Martin Newell
(from The Greatest Living Englishman)

Going home for Christmas in suburbia
Where the sodium lights are golden in the rain
On the plastic and the chrome of the people going home
They will jingle jangle by electric candlelight
Christmas time

I'll celebrate a shoestring saturnalia
With a cracker or two and some cheap old sherry wine
(sherry wine about a quid or two)
We'll have tofu (???)
You can let the turkey go
I'm not killing over Christmas in suburbia any time

Party round at my place after closing time
You can bring your own there's none at home
I drank it all
You might have known!

All the stars are shining in suburbia
As you wake up in a room that's not your own
There's an angel in your bed, and you wonder what you said
Then you realise its Christmas in suburbia
Christmas time

There's an angel in your bed, and you wonder what you said
Then you realise its Christmas
You realise its Christmas
You realise its Christmas in suburbia
Christmas time

Merry Christmas darling...

As a side note, you can see Martin Newell in action with Captain Sensible (of the Damned), performing their Punk Aid charitable single here. Windows media player clip..

Charles Brown-- Blue Christmas. Not to be confused with Charlie Brown.

"Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer".

Ho,ho,ho.

For classical music fans, here are some LP selections I've been listening to this week that regularly return to the turntable even outside the Christmas season:

In Dulci Jubilo, Christmas Music of the 15-18th Centuries, Jurgens/MonteverdiChHamburg, Telefunken SAWT 9419

Christmas Music from Medieval & Ren Europe, The Sixteen, Hyperion A66263

Gregorian Chants-Hungary Vol.1-Christmas, Schola Hungarica, Dobszay/Szendrei, Hungaraton SLPX 11477

On Christmas Night, Christmas Carols sung by the Choir of King's College, Willcocks/ChoirKingsColl/LSO, Preston -org, Argo ZRG 5333

Responsoria of Matins at Christmas, Estrada/Schola de Montserrat, Archiv 2533 158

Handel, Messiah, Davis/LSO, Philips 802 721/3 (this year's choice for enjoyment)

Christmas Hymns and Carols, Vol 1, Robert Shaw Chorale, RCA LSC 2139 (well, this one pretty much only shows up in December...)

And on CD:
Aquitania - Christmas Music from Aquitanian Monestaries, Sequentia, Harmonia Mundi 77383

Thys Yool - A Medieval Christmas, Martin Best Ensemble, Nimbus 5137

On Yoolis Night - Medieval Carols & Motets, Anonymous 4, Harmonia Mundi 907099

Best wishes of the season to all,

Three Ships by Jon Anderson. Good luck finding it though.