The Swamp's Favorite Christmas Song

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 12:38 pm

This is the correct answer.

I'm somewhat ashamed to admit it, but I really like Mariah's "All I want for Christmas" as well.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 12:50 pm

https://open.spotify.com/user/pitchfork ... qDr4MLJIfg

This playlist from Pitchfork is pretty good.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 4:14 pm

govmentchedda wrote:This is the correct answer.

I'm somewhat ashamed to admit it, but I really like Mariah's "All I want for Christmas" as well.

It’s certainly ubiquitous. And on right now at this brewery.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 8:19 pm

Who or what is Parson Brown and why would you pretend that’s who/what your snowman is?

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Nov 28, 2018 7:23 pm

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:29 pm

A_B wrote: Wed Dec 02, 2015 3:28 pm
rass wrote:Also...

I'm double-crying over here!

I wore this sweatshirt yesterday!

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:18 pm

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:36 pm

sancarlos wrote: Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:29 pm Hat tip to DaveinSeattle for posting it on Facebook. Super awesome!

Speaking of, we got a video from my youngest's daycare where they were playing some Thanksgiving turkey rap and it was a perfect reenactment of this scene minus the twins. All the kids were dancing, but none the same and none really together.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:12 am

A_B wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2017 11:37 am
Jerloma wrote:I head the trippiest version of We Wish You a Merry Christmas on the radio this morning. In the middle of the song, it starts going...

Now bring us some figgy pudding
Now bring us some figgy pudding
Now bring us some figgy pudding
And bring it right here.

We won't go until we get some
We won't go until we get some
We won't go until we get some
So bring it right here.
How have you not heard that? That's one of my favorites. I break it out all the time.

UPDATE: I made figgy pudding this weekend. It was good.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:20 am

You must have used Gonzo's recipe.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:24 am

You could have just quoted yourself from earlier in the thread.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:41 am

We have a fig tree. My wife makes fig jam (with grand marnier!). Is that the same as figgy pudding?

Figs are delicious!

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:43 am

A_B wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:24 am You could have just quoted yourself from earlier in the thread.

Ha. Just rass being rass. Classic rass.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 11:18 am

sancarlos wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:41 am We have a fig tree. My wife makes fig jam (with grand marnier!). Is that the same as figgy pudding?

Figs are delicious!

No, figgy pudding is like a bread pudding. Basically a super moist cake.

This was my recipe. Figs, dates, and chocolate.

Although if you were to use that recipe, halve the sauce recipe. We have sauce for days.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 11:26 am

Earned a new sig line.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:44 pm

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 9:58 am

Look, I think with some prodding I would know who Al Martino was as an actor because of that one role. But I swear to fucking god none of his Christmas songs have ever made an impression on me and all of a sudden they’re all over SXM’s main traditional holiday music station this year. AND…

They’ve been playing some sort of “best male vocalist who sings Christmas songs” countdown and I only caught a bit over the weekend but it had Wayne Newton at 4 and then Martino at 3 which means at least one of Sinatra/Bing/Cole was behind Al Martino? Al Martino???

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:08 am

All crooners sound the same and they all suck.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:09 am

I hope like ljam has a shit day and gets to come home and just unload on that take

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:10 am

My dad introduced me to someone who I think was Al Martino on the beach in Atlantic City in front of the then-Playboy Casino about 40 years ago.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:11 am

mister d wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:08 am All crooners sound the same and they all suck.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, back the fuck up.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:33 am

A_B wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 11:18 am
sancarlos wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:41 am We have a fig tree. My wife makes fig jam (with grand marnier!). Is that the same as figgy pudding?

Figs are delicious!
No, figgy pudding is like a bread pudding. Basically a super moist cake.

This was my recipe. Figs, dates, and chocolate.

Although if you were to use that recipe, halve the sauce recipe. We have sauce for days.

I have a fig tree. Will try that jam. Planted during covid and it's pretty huge already. Unfortunately no figs yet. Someone said all southerners need a muscadine vine, a pecan tree and a fig tree. They are absolutely correct.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:37 am

L-Jam3 wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:11 am
mister d wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:08 am All crooners sound the same and they all suck.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, back the fuck up.

All bad. All sound like perverts.

HaulCitgo wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:33 amI have a fig tree. Will try that jam. Planted during covid and it's pretty huge already. Unfortunately no figs yet. Someone said all southerners need a muscadine vine, a pecan tree and a fig tree. They are absolutely correct.

This is why southern food is infinitely better than the rest of US regional food. Figs and pecans are top tier.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 12:54 pm

My mother constantly plays the Sinatra channel on SXM, which of course is 95% crooners. Not my thing at all, but, damn those guys have perfect pitch and always stay on key. So, even though I'd never play that station of my own choice, I certainly appreciate their talent.

Funny thing - my mother seems to know the words to all the songs. I would never have guessed this and didn't know it until last year. She never seemed like much of a music fan as I was growing up, but of course her music wasn't on our radio stations very much. She sings along all the time. Amazing. (She has a decent voice for an 83 year-old.) This station is a godsend for her.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:01 pm

My mom says she knows all the songs from the 30/40s (she's 88) because her mom would put on the radio (while she sewed) after my mom and her siblings had gone to bed.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:41 pm

My Mom is tone deaf and it would be a challenge to change the station before she realized it was Garth Brooks "The Dance".

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 7:35 pm

I’ve never heard a bad version of “This Christmas”.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 8:47 pm

L-Jam3 wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 7:35 pm I’ve never heard a bad version of “This Christmas”.

Same cannot be said for Last Christmas unfortunately.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 9:23 pm

Jerloma wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 8:47 pm
L-Jam3 wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 7:35 pm I’ve never heard a bad version of “This Christmas”.
Same cannot be said for Last Christmas unfortunately.

I think because “Last Christmas” is still rightly associated with Wham! and not yet a regular rotation, while “This Christmas” has become one. I mean sure, there might be a cover by Pentatonix or some shit, but you can’t hold that against the song.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 9:57 pm

I know what you mean but it kind of is that now though. It's weird because we were teenagers when it came out but we're like 50 now. That's like people then being teenagers when White Christmas was recorded (probably). Everyone's recording it lately though. Young Millennials and Zoomers love it because it doesn't remind them of how old they are I think.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:59 pm

Of all of the things that I like in this world that I get irrationally angry over other people not liking the thing, and there are so many...this is probably the top of the list.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Dec 07, 2022 10:26 pm

Also Olivia Rodrigo.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Wed Dec 07, 2022 10:56 pm

Here's a new one:

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 7:11 pm

The girls are too old for me to play this and too young for me to play this. I love it.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Nov 30, 2023 8:54 am

Getting to the point where Mariah Carey will not only have the last great original Christmas song but will also be the only living artist responsible for a great original Christmas song.

(I like the Kelly Clarkson song but still)

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:38 am

I like the Clarkson one and the Katy Perry one.

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Thu Nov 30, 2023 10:40 am

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:09 am

rass wrote: Thu Nov 30, 2023 8:54 am Getting to the point where Mariah Carey will not only have the last great original Christmas song but will also be the only living artist responsible for a great original Christmas song.

(I like the Kelly Clarkson song but still)

That Undertaker behind you meme but with Taylor Swift

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:25 am

A tie or maybe 1a with Fairytale and 1b the Bing/Bowie mashup. Don't know why that one gets me in the feels, but can't deny it does.