From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1274 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, November 21 2014 Volume 16 : Number 1274 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Holiday Ecto Album Recommendations [Jason Gordon Subject: Re: Holiday Ecto Album Recommendations the only Xmas music I can tolerate are the two over the Rhine holiday themed albums and Susan McKeown and Lindsay hornera through the frost and snow (I think he name is something like that) /grinch on the rest of Xmas music makes me want to vomit /grinch off (of course Xmas isn't in the suite of holidays we celebrate so that has something to do with the distaste for schmaltzy Xmas music tormenting me after Halloween) - -Jason np MC8 On Thursday, November 20, 2014, Sue Trowbridge wrote: > Our 2006 "Xmas music that doesn't suck" thread still lives on the web: > http://www.smoe.org/lists/ecto/v12.n312 > http://www.smoe.org/lists/ecto/v12.n313 > http://www.smoe.org/lists/ecto/v12.n314 > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 4:32 PM, robert bristow-johnson < > rbj@audioimagination.com > wrote: > > > On 11/20/14 6:36 PM, Paul Jensen wrote: > > > >> What are some of your favorite winter/holiday/xmas albums, that might > >> appeal to other ecto-folk? > >> > >> > > these are 3 that i have suggested in the past. they're old, but i still > > like them: > > > > 1. Mannheim Steamroller: "Christmas" > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_%28Mannheim_ > > Steamroller_album%29 > > > > 2. Anne Hills, et. al.: "On This Day Earth Shall Ring" > > http://www.annehills.com/recordings/on-this-day/ > > > > 3. Anne Dudley: "Ancient & Modern" > > http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Modern-Anne-Dudley/dp/B00001IVKK > > > > it's important to me that no icky commercial xmas songs get in there. i > > wanna keep Christ in Christmas (sorry for being so old fashioned), and i > > don't like shitty music. i don't like *every* song on every CD, but out > of > > the three CDs, i cherry picked enough to fill up an 80-minute CD. lemme > > know if you want a copy, i *might* be able to find it and burn another > one. > > > > remember that "Christmas music that doesn't suck" thread from years ago? > > that's what i named my "mix" CD when i have burned it for a friend. > > > > > > -- > > > > r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com > > > > "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #1274 ****************************