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🎶 It's the most wonderful time of the year... 🎶 That's right y'all, we're doing Christmas music! 🎅🤶 So, get suited up in your most festive sweater, grab your gifts, and prepare to be merry. We're about to deck the halls with some Christmas tunes! And while I say Christmas, it's totally cool for folks to drop songs for your holiday of choice. Y'all ready to jingle bell rock?!
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So, let's hear y'all's favorite Christmas tunes! Note: you can embed a link to your song using the following syntax {% embed https://... %}. This should work for most common platforms!
I look forward to listening to y'all's suggestions! 🎶
Latest comments (25)
Very nice
Did you check out my latest Christmas Cannon?
dev.to/jon_snow789/codepen-designs...
I love it!! 🙌
Gotta love this oddball Christmas special with Bing Crosby and David Bowie:
And the hilariously awesome tribute version from Will Ferrel and John C. Reilly:
I got a few that I rotate through around the holidays:
I am a one piece fan so i am listening to one piece xmas song
why I am not thinking about this too
Tyler the Creator's Grinch song, "The Grinch" - it's pretty dope
Gotta give it up for Chuck Berry of course... He gave us one helluva gift in rock'n'roll!
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Hahaha!
Beautiful. 🥲 Just beautiful.
I love sad songs and am not big on traditional Christmas music, so I've been partial to this track lately:
It's a cover of this 2000 song by The Handsome Family:
And it was also covered, beautifully, by Phoebe Bridgers and Andrew Bird:
😮 how did you do those awesome Spotify cards?
All our embeds essentially use the same syntax:
{% embed https://... %}So, this Spotify card:
... is written like so:
{% embed https://open.spotify.com/track/7ve4Gzms1u0wW0EhMi6CXu?si=ab2c79ad436941da %}Which is the same as how it works for embedding YouTube videos. For instance,
{% embed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aur9gLzsXQU %}creates:OOooo I had never heard this one, but it's nice. I really like the Phoebe Bridgers version!
My favorite sad Christmas song is probably Blue Christmas. Here's a cool live version of it from Elvis's `68 Comeback Special:
Classic! "The Year Without a Santa Claus" is one of my favorite childhood Christmas movies, and this song always reminds me of the movie! Although they didn't use the Elvis version, hahah
Pentatonix. All of their various Christmas albums.
Jackie Evancho's various Christmas albums.
Lindsey Stirling's album Warmer in the Winter.
All great suggestions! 🙌
I really dig the Pentatonix's version of Carol of the Bells here:
I think my 2 favorite Pentatonix Christmas songs are Carol of the Bells, and Mary Did You Know:
A mashup of classics. There's an hour long version in the youtube comments.
Imperial March by John Williams
Carol of the Bells by Mykola Leontovych
Arranged & Orchestrated by Samuel Kim
YESS!!! I gotta say, Disney has successfully woven Star Wars into Christmas for me. They released a lotta the new movies and shows during the Christmas season + always drop so much amazing merch around the holidays. I'm loving the mashups!