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

This playlist from Pitchfork is pretty good.
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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.


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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.
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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.
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You could have just quoted yourself from earlier in the thread.
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We have a fig tree. My wife makes fig jam (with grand marnier!). Is that the same as figgy pudding?

Figs are delicious!
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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.
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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.
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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???
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All crooners sound the same and they all suck.
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I hope like ljam has a shit day and gets to come home and just unload on that take
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My Mom is tone deaf and it would be a challenge to change the station before she realized it was Garth Brooks "The Dance".
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I’ve never heard a bad version of “This Christmas”.
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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.

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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.
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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.
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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.

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Also Olivia Rodrigo.
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Here's a new one:

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

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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)
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I like the Clarkson one and the Katy Perry one.
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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)
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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.
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