THE MORNING RANT: I’m Missing Classic Christmas Hymns at Church Christmas Concerts

One of the seasonal treats I have always enjoyed is Christmas performances put on by choirs and orchestras, be they schoolchildren singing at the mall, or a church’s big annual Christmas concert, or a highly trained college troupe. At the risk of sounding too “Bah, humbug,” my enthusiasm for attending these performances is waning. It’s not because I no longer like the traditional Christmas standards, it’s because I miss those old Christmas standards.

While I don’t mind that choir directors want to “challenge” the audience with some new or unfamiliar Christmas tunes, I am annoyed that some of the shows I’ve attended in recent years have been virtually devoid of any familiar tunes. Even worse, some of the unfamiliar music is truly awful.

The big, local, Protestant church in my town has a beautiful tradition of putting on a Christmas show that the whole community is welcome to attend. It features an orchestra and three choirs (adult, youth, and children.) It has been a source of civic pride for many years, and my wife and I never miss it. But I may skip it this year, because if I want to hear what I consider “Christmas music” I might do better streaming a Christmas channel at home.

I’m not even saying that the show should only be songs like “Joy to the World” or “The First Noel.” I’d be thrilled to occasionally hear “Once in Royal David’s City” or some such. And if the choir director wants to challenge the audience, perhaps instead of doing some awkward patois to a Christmas calypso, the choir could perform the “Coventry Carol” with an explanation of Herod’s wrath upon hearing of the newborn king.

Back a decade ago, the performance I’m referencing included about 20 songs, of which about ten were very well-known Christmas hymns (“O Come All Ye Faithful” “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,” etc), five lesser-known but recognizable songs (e.g. “Bring a Torch,” “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly” and five completely unknown songs, several of which deserved to become better known. That was a good mix, and I enjoyed being exposed to a few new-to-me songs.

But I’d guess that last year’s show included approximately 18 unknown songs, including several “folk songs” from developing countries. The only familiar tune before the finale was one sing-along medley of favorites such as “The First Noel.” The finale was a beautiful arrangement of the Hallelujah Chorus, which was much appreciated by the crowd hungering for a familiar melody.

Among the most awkward moments were the children’s choir singing a song no one in the building had ever heard before. If there was an actual melody, it was not discernible. All that needed to be done was to let the children sing “Away in a Manger” like thousands of other children’s choirs have done before. The kids would know the tune, as would everyone in the crowd, and the parents would beam with pride watching their kids singing that beloved song.

In that same show, the youth choir tried to phonetically sing in Latin to a song no one had ever heard before, which was also difficult to watch, and difficult to listen to. Please, just let them sing “Do You Hear What I Hear.” They’ll enjoy it more, and the audience will appreciate a simple song sung well.

There is so much beautiful Christmas music out there. Having that music performed live by talented singers and musicians is a gift from the performers to the audience. That is all that is expected.

I suppose it’s sort of like attending the touring show of a prominent band or musician. The audience loves the famous hits, performed the way they have always been played, and that is what the audience has shown up to see. Being introduced to some new stuff is expected and appreciated, but there is an obligation by the performer to play the greatest hits.

Let’s keep the great canon of Christmas music alive, and let’s hear those songs performed with the dignity and reverence they deserve!

On that note, here are a few old classics that I’d love to hear performed live by a choir and orchestra:

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 1st!

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

2 I'll cull the otters.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

3 Otter status: Culled.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

4 You'd like my church's traditional service in this regard.

Of course I may have swung Methodist, but I still love some of the old ways...

https://youtu.be/Qrct9jiWPVE?si=U84W9E98VwM5EgVM

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 11:03 AM (OUMaO)

5 I think a great question to ask would be "why were those songs chosen at the expense of traditional ones?"

I could hazard a guess.

Posted by: Rick C at December 05, 2025 11:03 AM (1zWbY)

6 Read the content, and agree!

Nothing worse than a 'jazzed up' version of a Christmas standard.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 05, 2025 11:03 AM (yghV0)

7 Speaking of which -

Kent State a cappella group bans white students from solo auditions

Link goes to Campus Reform:
https://tinyurl.com/mr3ane44

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 11:04 AM (Dv3i1)

8 I miss singing in a church choir. My former Presbyterian church always did a Christmas cantata and an Easter cantata. It was wonderful.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

9 Yay Buck.

Posted by: alpine_beer at December 05, 2025 11:04 AM (van9r)

10 My favorite carol sounds like more of a Jewish dirge: O Come, O Come Emmanuel.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

11 At least they're not singing George Michael.
Yet.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 11:05 AM (gKWVE)

12
"Jauchzet, frohlocket" from the Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach

https://youtu.be/MVewzMm1uts

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 11:05 AM (tgvbd)

13 Old and busted: Hallelujah Chorus

New and cool: Hate You Allya Chorus

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)

14 Good stuff, Buck.

I say the best Christmas hymn / sing is O Holy Night. It's the "How Great Thou Art" of Christmas songs

Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (3CwIS)

15 Good morning all!!

Posted by: jmel at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (RWHIh)

16 I must be spoiled, we pretty much just sing traditional Christmas hymns. I feel bad though, I just don't have the energy to add choir practices to my current schedule, so I'm not in any of church choirs this year. I miss it, but it is what it is. I will support them in the pews!

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (Eng1Z)

17 If I never hear Feliz Navidad again, it'll be too soon.

Posted by: alpine_beer at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (van9r)

18 As I get older, I tend to have all my Christmas playlists on Spotify as some variation of 'Mellow Instrumental Relaxing Christmas' music.

Of course, I still love me some old standards done by Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, etc.

Oh, and MoTab doing the Hallelujah Chorus and the Boston Pops doing their thing with 'Sleigh Ride'.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (Pw4Cm)

19 We're singing "Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus" this Sunday at church.

We don't only do the old carols and hymns, but they aren't forgotten.

I'd love a service with just the old carols, though.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (zjgNU)

20 To be honest there is not a Christmas song I ‘hate’. Maybe the lefty pop ones but just the words not the music.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (KDPiq)

21 There's no mopin' when you're in an open sleigh-Hey!

Posted by: Jingle Ballz at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (oftw2)

22 11 At least they're not singing George Michael.
Yet.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 11:05 AM (gKWVE)

Go to the store where I work and you will hear 100,000 covers of that song. Worse, they only use the chorus, 50 times per song.

I’m sorry your Boxing Day sucked but that doesn’t give you the right to torture the rest of us!

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (6KcYW)

23 Someone once posted in this slot the most powerful performance of O Holy Night I've ever heard. When they sang "Fall on your knees", you felt it deep inside.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (XFXIk)

24
There's an infinite supply of music of any possible style, type, genre, tempo, artist or flavor on demand anytime pretty much anywhere you can get to Al Gore's Amazing Internet available via a multitude of platforms for a mere pittance.

You're welcome.

Posted by: The Patriarchy at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (XQo4F)

25 To be honest there is not a Christmas song I ‘hate’. Maybe the lefty pop ones but just the words not the music.

Really? I Don't Want a Lot for Christmas?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

26 Deck the halls with gasoline
Strike a match and watch it gleam
Watch the schoolhouse burn to ashes
Aren’t you glad to play with matches?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (6KcYW)

27 Willowed news:

Netflix won the streaming wars. From Breitbart:

“Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO."

Got to beat the antitrust laws first. But I thought Paramount had it in the bag. (Paramount did too, they are TICKED.)

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (Eng1Z)

28
There's an infinite supply of music of any possible style, type, genre, tempo, artist or flavor on demand anytime pretty much anywhere you can get to Al Gore's Amazing Internet available via a multitude of platforms for a mere pittance.

____________

"Not if we can stop it." - EU bureaucrats and regulators

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (tgvbd)

29 To be honest there is not a Christmas song I ‘hate’. Maybe the lefty pop ones but just the words not the music.

Really? I Don't Want a Lot for Christmas?

Although I guess that might qualify as lefty pop music.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

30 I will not attend any church that has a bass player.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 05, 2025 11:09 AM (XvL8K)

31 17 If I never hear Feliz Navidad again, it'll be too soon.
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 05, 2025 11:06 AM (van9r)

“I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas-“

“THEN DO IT AND SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY!!!”

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:09 AM (6KcYW)

32 Worked at Kay-Bee Toy's Warehouse as a youth and through a few years of college when I came home for Christmas. It was a full size retail store, not the tiny ones you'd see in a mall. I have an entire Christmas Song Greatest Hits etched into my brain. Over and over and over again. And yes, Last Christmas was on that store Christmas music playlist.

Took me a while to figure out that Bruce Springsteen has TWO Christmas songs.

I lived through multiple Christmas toy sold out Armageddons. Furby, Tickle Me Elmo, PS2, Pokemon Game Boy games ....ooof.

Posted by: GigantorX at December 05, 2025 11:09 AM (Wkueo)

33 🎵
You will get a sentimental feelin'
When you hear
Voices singin', "Let's be jolly
Deck the halls with boughs of holly"

Rockin' around the Christmas tree, have a happy holiday
Everyone dancin' merrily in the new old-fashioned way 🎶

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (yhwo5)

34 I hope Paul McCartney does a year in purgatory for every time I've ever had to listen to the gawd-awful 'Wonderful Christmastime'.

Seriously, his crimes against music post-Beatles are too many to list.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (yghV0)

35 Dominic the Christmas Donkey Is the best traditional Christmas music! Along with Pepino the Italian Mouse.

Posted by: Lou Monte Trust, Inc. at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (oftw2)

36 Not directly Christmas as such but if your spirit is thirsty, I present Marion Williams, who will slake every pore:

https://is.gd/u2D0SA

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (RgYBC)

37 If I never hear Feliz Navidad again, it'll be too soon.

Or see that damn Corona ad with the palm trees lit up with lights.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

38 Speaking of music . . .

IMAX CEO excited for Netflix's Narnia film because it has "contemporary" music like Pink Floyd and The Doors 😭

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (L/fGl)

39 Do they sing "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" in churches anymore?

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (XFXIk)

40 Really? I Don't Want a Lot for Christmas?
Posted by: Archimedes

Depends on what kind of lot. Some overgrown vacant lot in inner-city Detroit? Hard pass.

But a sandlot where Swedish babes are playing bikini volleyball? Yes, please!

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

41

Christmas concerts should include the largest possible number of singers and instruments and should exclusively be O Fortuna in its full length...

Posted by: Elderly Git at December 05, 2025 11:11 AM (mNUMm)

42 27 Willowed news:

Netflix won the streaming wars. From Breitbart:

“Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO."

Got to beat the antitrust laws first. But I thought Paramount had it in the bag. (Paramount did too, they are TICKED.)
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (Eng1Z)

There was no way they were going to let the perceived "Trump Ally" company get it instead of the one opposed to him.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 11:11 AM (UnA8+)

43 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town is THE most creepy, Orwellian carol.

“He knows when you’ve been ungood or good so be doubleplusgood for goodness’ sake”

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:11 AM (6KcYW)

44 I remember when I was in elementary school the high school choir would come thru every year singing Christmas carols, religious and non-religious. Nobody worried about offending some imaginary politically correct grinch. Good, normal times.

I also remember some of the high school girls made me feel very funny.

Posted by: Ripley at December 05, 2025 11:11 AM (PTDkx)

45 I lived through multiple Christmas toy sold out Armageddons. Furby, Tickle Me Elmo, PS2, Pokemon Game Boy games ....ooof.

Posted by: GigantorX

Working retail during Christmas season turned me toxic on secular "Christmas" music for life. Now it's traditional or GTFO.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 11:11 AM (OUMaO)

46 I will not attend any church that has a bass player.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

What about an UPRIGHT bass player?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

47 39 Do they sing "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" in churches anymore?
Posted by: t-bird

Right after "Christmas Shoes."

Posted by: Make it stop! at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (XQo4F)

48
The Shepherds Farewell from L'enfance du Christ by Hector Berlioz

https://youtu.be/xI6VwhxIQ0Y

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (tgvbd)

49 Christmas concerts should include the largest possible number of singers and instruments and should exclusively be O Fortuna in its full length...

Are torchlights and swastikas included?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

50 I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (yhwo5)

51 To be honest there is not a Christmas song I ‘hate’. Maybe the lefty pop ones but just the words not the music.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:07 AM (KDPiq)

I can't STAND the whiny Christmas songs.

Yeah, great, make the greatest gift the world has ever received be all about your love life.

Who wants to hear these songs? (One disclaimer, Blue Christmas is acceptable, but mainly because I think it's funny.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (zjgNU)

52 Really? I Don't Want a Lot for Christmas?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

Who sings that? I don’t recognize the title.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:12 AM (KDPiq)

53 But I’d guess that last year’s show included approximately 18 unknown songs, including several “folk songs” from developing countries.

-------------

[From the Somali Pirate hip-hop artist "K'Naan":]

"Christmas Rapping"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (My0zW)

54 Ya see, that's where a lot of churches have gone totally whack. They put on these huge sparkling Christmas extravaganzas professionally set up and directed and people wonder why the simple celebration and music of Jesus' birth gets buried in the showbiz glitz.

Go to a small middle-of-the-country town church and you'll get the simple Christmas celebration you're missing.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (g8Ew8)

55 >>> Oh, and MoTab doing the Hallelujah Chorus and the Boston Pops doing their thing with 'Sleigh Ride'.

If you are learning Hallelujah Chorus, MoTab has BRILLIANT sing along practice vids that break out every part. Made them during the pandemic for a worldwide Hallelujah streaming concert they were doing. I would sing along to my part in the car when I was running my errands as practice.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (Eng1Z)

56 Just like your EV posts the old ways are the best

Posted by: doug at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (Hy+R4)

57 Unpopular opinion, pelt me with rotten tomatoes:

“Silent Night” is depressing. Hate it. And I sang it in school in English. AND the original German.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (6KcYW)

58 I will not attend any church that has a bass player.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

What about an UPRIGHT bass player?
Posted by: Bulg
________

Only if he twirls it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (XvL8K)

59 I am especially perturbed by that new song done in reggae style with lyrics in esperanto.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 11:13 AM (0U5gm)

60 If I never hear Feliz Navidad again, it'll be too soon.

"The Little Drummer Boy" has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

61 Blue Christmas

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (yhwo5)

62 Or see that damn Corona ad with the palm trees lit up with lights.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

LOL, the beginning whistles in that ad make my dog cock her head in the most adorable manner!

Give me Handel's Messiah. I love all of the old hymns (Hark the Herald Angels Sing brought me back to Christ after a long departure), but the Messiah really encapsulates the season for me.

I'd swear God was dictating to Handel when he wrote the Messiah.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (k9OZB)

63 Couple of friends went to see Paul McCartney a couple of weeks ago in Houston. They said it was fairly awesome and even when the band took a break he stayed on stage and performed three songs on his own. They thought for a guy pushing 80 he was pretty incredible.

Posted by: DanMan at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (8uzBS)

64 The Mormon Tabernacle Choir did one of my most favorite Christmas cds

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (sDNVV)

65 Or see that damn Corona ad with the palm trees lit up with lights.
Posted by: Archimedes

Christmas lights on palm trees.

https://is.gd/Gsa1BO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

66 Jingle Bell Rock

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (yhwo5)

67 There was no way they were going to let the perceived "Trump Ally" company get it instead of the one opposed to him.

Netflix is politically neutral, and is interested only in quality entertain...entertain...bwahahahahaha, I can't do it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

68 7
‘ Kent State a cappella group bans white students from solo auditions’

Fuckers. That should be an automatic civil rights case.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (jbnUc)

69 I am 95% a music guy and 5% Lyrics.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (KDPiq)

70 I attended an Advent concert at my niece's school last evening.

Small school, small choir... and there were some familiar Christmas songs in there that the audience was invited to sing along with.

Which I did. Felt really good.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (6qf1m)

71 Please Feed the Cat is my cat's favorite Christmas song.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (Wg6v7)

72 Christmas music has been a mess ever since Firestone stopped selling $1.99 Christmas albums and Santa stopped sledding on a Norelco razor.

Posted by: Old Fossil at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (oftw2)

73 “Silent Night” is depressing. Hate it.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Wow. That's a take.

How do you feel about Kate Upton?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)

74 I really dislike that new Christmas rap song, Santa and the Three Hos.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (0U5gm)

75 Really? I Don't Want a Lot for Christmas?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

Who sings that? I don’t recognize the title.

Mariah Carey, who, for some reason, still thinks she's a big star and relevant.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

76 The idea of keeping music "relevant" plagued the RCC in the 60s. New, utterly vapid folk songs, guitars (ok with the right music), rock-type music (a Who song in played in Church!), drove away many devout listeners. Or give me church services tailored for different generations.

.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (PSFnA)

77 I’ll be playing my “A Scary Little Solstice” CD. The carols reworked to songs about Lovecraftian characters.

Oh, and all true Dream Theater fans will awaken early on Christmas and play the Awake CD starting at exactly 05:59:15.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (6KcYW)

78 On the day after Thanksgiving Mom would play the Firestone Christmas classic albums- our favorite being the Julie Andrew’s ones. Re bought the album as they had it donated so many great albums when they moved ages ago.

Posted by: Paisley at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (7l8Bj)

79 Willowed...
360 Brian Cole is black and a leftist. . .Cole did not just happen to lean left. He worked for a bail bond operation run by his father that specialized in freeing illegal immigrants from ICE facilities and even sued Trump’s Department of Homeland Security over immigration policy. Weeks before he allegedly planted the pipe bombs, a court ruled against the family’s company in that lawsuit targeting the Trump administration.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:51 AM (9bIJg)

Interestingly, he also kept buying materials to make bombs AFTER the attempted bombing for a few weeks and then stopped. So, he obviously was pissed it wasn't getting noticed and wanted to try again...and then someone figured him out (dad? mom? feds?) and told him to stop...at least, how else do you describe someone committed to more who just...stops...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:01 AM (tOcjL)

So, someone made him Silent the Night...okay, it's under 100, so I had to connect...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (tOcjL)

80 Two Christmases working at Walmart were excruciating for me. Endless loop of absolutely awful Christmas tunes, none of it being traditional.

I minimize any shopping during the Christmas season because of that auditory butt-rape. Such garbage.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (PSEDc)

81 I suppose it’s sort of like attending the touring show of a prominent band or musician. ....but there is an obligation by the performer to play the greatest hits.

I may have told this story before. About a hundred years or so ago, I was at a show headlined by Merle Haggard. After waiting through about 2 hours of "up and coming" acts, Merle took the stage. After a few songs, he played the opening bars of one of his many hits. As soon as the audience recognized the song and applauded, he stopped abruptly and smirked. After 30 seconds or so of awkward silence, he would start another recognizable hit. Again, the audience applauded and he stopped. After the third or fourth time, I realized that he was basically mocking the audience for being fans. I still like a lot of his music but since that moment, I've considered him a sh*tbird personally.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (3nLb4)

82 More Willowed News:
Apple News ping: CDC has decided to end the recommendation that babies get Hep B shots within 24 hours of birth.

Normies: wait, babies were getting HEP B SHOTS?

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:16 AM (Eng1Z)

83 Think I read that Alvin and the Chipmunks are coming out with a new album this year.

Posted by: David Seville at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (oftw2)

84 The Mormon Tabernacle Choir did one of my most favorite Christmas cds
Posted by: Ben Had

Is that the one with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic? Because that is truly awesome.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

85 66 Jingle Bell Rock
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (yhwo5)

Jingle Bell Crock

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (6KcYW)

86 67 There was no way they were going to let the perceived "Trump Ally" company get it instead of the one opposed to him.

Netflix is politically neutral, and is interested only in quality entertain...entertain...bwahahahahaha, I can't do it.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

As I said in the morning thread, I want to see Netflix combine the WWE and CNN.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (uWKK8)

87 Cadillac Flash Christmas cd is a regular listen this time of year. Thank you Mr. Bass Man.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (sDNVV)

88 Listen, I know there is some hate out there for Feliz Navidad, but lemme tell you what...

Attending a Robert Earl Keen Christmas show where he ends it with 'Merry Christmas from the Fam-o-lee and then rips into Feliz Navidad to finish while the entire audience is on their feet singing and dancing along, man, that's the good stuff right there.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (yghV0)

89 Posted by: DanMan at December 05, 2025 11:14 AM (8uzBS)

He pushed by 80. He’s 83.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (KDPiq)

90 I am 95% a music guy and 5% Lyrics.

Posted by: the way I see it

Same here. I regularly dress up to go to the ballet to attend the Nutcracker, and sit there with my eyes closed. I'm just there for the music.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 11:17 AM (0U5gm)

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