Holiday Jukebox

[bayonetbrant]

My all-time favorite contemporary Christmas song.

it's also the song that got me to actually like U2

[Staggerwing]

Up next:

[Arctic Blast]

They even kept their old video style!

And, continuing the story from that video...

[steve58]

...switching things up a bit.  I'm not a big Elvis fan, but I do like this one (minus the screaming teens)

[MetalDog]

Christmas ain't Christmas for me until I hear both of these songs:

[Staggerwing]

Another old favorite:

And one by a band that some of you may not be familiar with (primarily remembered for their version of 'Another Girl, another Planet'):

[BanzaiCat]

[mirth]

[JudgeDredd]

I'm going with old school

[Staggerwing]

This one always makes me cringe a little, but it is a christmas classic...

[BanzaiCat]

I have appreciation for all the old stuff. ESPECIALLY the old stuff. I cannot stand the so-called "artists"  of today murdering these songs in their sleep and the moronic Kardashian-and Real Housewives-watching crowds lapping it up. Ugh.

Adding sixteen-plus syllables to a one-syllable lyric does not a good song make.

[Barthheart]

I have appreciation for all the old stuff. ESPECIALLY the old stuff. I cannot stand the so-called "artists"  of today murdering these songs in their sleep and the moronic Kardashian-and Real Housewives-watching crowds lapping it up. Ugh.

Adding sixteen-plus syllables to a one-syllable lyric does not a good song make.

And git off ma lawn!

FTFY

[BanzaiCat]

[JudgeDredd]

I have appreciation for all the old stuff. ESPECIALLY the old stuff. I cannot stand the so-called "artists"  of today murdering these songs in their sleep and the moronic Kardashian-and Real Housewives-watching crowds lapping it up. Ugh.

Adding sixteen-plus syllables to a one-syllable lyric does not a good song make.

You mean like this

This girl squeezes lyrics into music like no-one else I know in the music industry!

[BanzaiCat]

Well...she's not really doing it. It's the Autotuning that's doing it for her. Computers can make anyone sound and look good, and they have to, because the crop of "talent" out there is mostly talent-free when it comes to singing. It's more about the presentation and the look to record companies than actual singing ability.

I was talking more along the lines of certain singers doing The Star-Spangled Banner and, for example, during the last line "home of the brave," turning "brave" into eighty-six syllables instead of one. BUhhhhhraaa AAAAA aaa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aAAAAAAAAAA-ayyyyy yayyy yayyy yaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy AAAAAAAAAaaaa aaaAAA aaaaa AAAA aaaaaaaavvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEeeeeEeEEEEEEeeeEeee...."

Etc.