Year-round Yuletide oddities
New age indie spaciness from Amanda Rogers challenges you to be ready “When the Carolers Come.” Have snacks and your soul ready.
“Caroling on the Prairie Line” is AI from Rachid Boutaicha about partying down in a swinging hometown. That’s country swinging, sir.
“Caroling on the Range” by Rachid Boutaicha is a mess of cowboy country, kidsong pop, and homey traditions. Love it.
Let’s ask AI: Choralbeatpeople · Christmas Crooners · The Holiday Voices are credited with the whistling pop of “Together We’re Caroling.” Danceable, but does this sound like a high schooler’s story?
Almost too strange, “See the Carolers (In the Dark)” features Doreen Pinkerton on an old timey player pianer, caterwauling gospel-lite about seeing in the dark. Huh?
Finally, David M’s Ironic Acronym gets absurd with Carol “Caroling.” Aggressively pop folk, but brace yourself for the nasal lyrics. Wha-?
“My Caroling” is some searching soul by JayLloyd Garche. He fa la la la las but with a seductive twinkle in his eye.
Luke Langman phones in “Let’s Go Christmas Caroling” with fragmentary catch phrases beaten into pop country. Then there’s a fight about how much Jesus there isn’t in their songs. Look out.
Matt Borrello gets mopey when faced with “Caroling.” His singing career doesn’t seem to spark his joy, but there was that one time him and his Dad went out of doors in the winter…. Home grown folk.
Kaleb Hikele takes his folk pop seriously in “Carolers & Church Bells.” It’s not whining as much as cautioning. Pretty, though.
Scott Dilley’s “Carolers Prayer” is a message to God with laid back folk pop. It’s a bit Easter, a bit helpless.
Dan Adamini tries for a one-note parody with “Caroling Caroling (Liberals are Screaming).” All are welcome here, haters and baiters alike.
An easy-to-follow how-to, “Caroling with Friends” is Tiny Tunes and Tales smooshing pop into kidsong. Now you know.
The Cheeky Monkeys up the kidsong ante with “A Caroling We Go.” It’s an invitation as well as a song.
AI assists The Jingle Belles with the kidsong bebop of “Joyful Caroling.” Caffeinated, baby!
The traditional attributes of a carol may be celebrating a seasonal topic, alternating verses and chorus, and danceable music. But, in novelty, anything goes.
The Coats kick us off with a frightening a cappella march for “The Caroler.” It’s okay to thank them through the deadbolt, yeh?
Just Kids remind us you don’t need to be fluent in English to go “Christmas Caroling.” Energy and not freezing are all that really matter. Kidsong.
The Irish Rovers combine all their Celtic noises to, as they do, create a festive merry mood. “Christmas Caroling” is unavoidably joyful, especially if you like drinking.
No law says to the Christmas singers have to be dull as dirty snow. Let’s have fun with the choir.
Asking you to join the Christmas choir, Ester Brohus jacks gospel into the bluegrass “When It’s Christmas.” More interactive, more joyful.
More melodic, Patti Page makes a round out of her “Christmas Choir.” 1955 pop. More dizzy for me.
Seemingly unimpressed, Lennon and pj plonk their way through another indie observation of late December. Choirs are just another unavoidable incursion. Fun drinking game, every time they sing “Its christmas” take a drink–of milk! Look, i dunno if they’re horsing around here, but i dig this.
Sad and alone, Amelie Jat cheesies the pop of “Christmas Before.” None of that stuff matters now. When she hears the choir, she won’t look for you at her front door. I guess the opposite happened regularly or something the love police should look into.
Christmas choirs singing/But my heart feels cold tonight, complain Boogie, Beats’n BBQ (feat. Alice Menotti Monro). “The Ghost Of Us (Only You)” is AI country pop of whispering whimpering.
Also The Marijanovic mopes in sniffling, dramatic pop about missing his “Christmas Kiss.” The choirs will be happy, but he won’t. So there.
Lovelorn Jonathan Meur indie moans that the choirs are mere echoes when hanging out in Manhattan, during “December By The Isle Of You.” Fancy wordplay for a Frenchman.
Busted up, Jonny Phillips cries out how the choirs through Zoom don’t help. This is just “Another Kind Of Christmas.” Pandemic messed with this poor boy. Emotive pop.
Muy tragic, Nathan Samuel gasps out how The Christmas choirs/Ain’t singing “NOT this year.” This is pretty tragic missing you stuff. Kinda folk.
Angry agendas are hidden in “Wise Men from the East.” Timi Tamminen copies and mocks all the headlines from the 2020s, like Ayatollah Khamenei joins the Christmas choir. War time! Amusingly pedestrian punk pop.
Oddly impersonating ‘Wonderful World,’ Astrid Allegra’s “A Wonderful Time” notes all the fixtures of the holidays, including choirs natch. Pleasant parody.
The “Christmas Day Care Choir (Falala)” from The Crying Day Care Choir questions the validity of the Xmas icons. By whose Authority! Fun folk sing-along.
“Fairytale of New York” features a choir of NYPD cops serenading the drunk tank, and we’ve heard that before. BUT… have we heard it from Gregorian (the chant group)? Well, sadly, we’ve heard the rock background before. Wish they’d lose that.
On the other alto, “Christmas Without a Choir” is not like Christmas at all. Chris Avison carries on with the easy listening to posit his logic. It takes a while.
I guess you don’t have to alive to celebrate. The “Spectral Christmas Choir“–according to AI–or at least Girard, conjure carols from the grave. Now the zombies, take the pop chorus!
What delivers music? Singers deliver music! Noticing choirs is only natural when sensing the seasonal sensations.
The Oak Ridge Boys call and response with their country hokum in “Christmas is Painting the Town.” Everybody gather round and sing: la la la la.
Just the kids by themselves can still recognize that for the “Miracle Child” that angels AND other choirs were singing. That’s what you do when you’re The Starshine Singers.
Yes, kid songs can be just as unoriginal. Sing-a-Saurus cultivates “Magical Christmas” from stockings, cookies, choirs, etc with all the magic of a corporate bottom line.
“Christmas Time” as moaned about by Sharon Coutanche has singing and ringing and all the -ings. Redundant children’s pop.
Paul Anka knew, even back in 1960, that when bells were ringing, choirs were singing when “It’s Christmas Everywhere.” Symphonic pop. That’s a lot of strings!
In so many words, I’m Dan He’s Dave call out the “Symbols of Christmas.” It’s a laundry list, but the folk strumming is careless and the figurative language is acknowledged, so la de dah.
Ronnie Mislay, just as pointedly, points out that choirs are singing when “It’s Christmas.” Country pop, or at least the worst of both.
More mealy mouthed country from Aurosa, “Merry Christmas, hear the choir sing” sings what it says. Twangy times.
“I Remember” sings Barbra Streisand when she would watch choirs singing carols on TV. That was last year, right? Her usual easy listening diva-fest.
Also crooning the obvious, Ray Charles notes choirs singing “This Time of the Year.” It’s like you don’t even have to see them. Slow soul.
Rocking folk Jay Kaje proclaims Choirs burst ye forth in song when “It’s Our Christmas Time.” Slightly better standardization.
Yeah yeah yeah: ringing, singing, Doris Day…. 1950’s “Christmas Story” has all the old timey pop bells and whistlers. Take a picture, it won’t last as long.
More bells and choirs when Jordin Sparks belts out cool R+B explaining “Christmas Time to Me.” Okay, checks out on my list as well.
Kicking back, We Love Christmas watches “Evergreen” and listens to choirs like there’s not a pop song care in the world. Relaxing.
Frankie Avalon croons about this “Christmas Holiday,” but seems appreciative of all the trimmings, as with the choir boys singing. 1962 easy listening pop.
Swinging the basics, “Best Time of the Year” sends Sonic Tree Music (feat. Gary DeMichele) to the stratosphere of cozy fires and Christmas choirs. They make with a mouthful of hi-fi, daddio.
Christmas Choirs are singing/Christian songs;/Heathens are drinking/Promise poeticizes the Magic Epic in “The Christmas Express.” Haunting birthday indie.
Leaning into the cliche, Marshal Keep tells us what “Christmas Is“–and he oughta know, he’s a Christmas kind of guy. Fire and choir rhyme for the endless listing in this ironic pop. Funny.
A small group of the musically inclined could just be a band of brothers, but a roomful of instrument wielders needs organization.
In “The Miracle of Music” one is led out of the London weather into a secret performance. Minutes later, I found myself in a Christmas symphony/A magnificent orchestra playing from the balcony. R+B and rap from Lily Amis, Thir13een. And then I woke up.
AI “Jingle Bell Christmas Bell Ring” credits Faylin, Pasoed Saichaem for existing. In this menagerie of fanciful celebration Let the orchestra lead the festive march. A marching orchestra?? Silly pop.
In the indie “This is Christmas” we are met with an orchestra of children’s laughter, but I have to include it because of the band’s name: The Velvet Tomato.
“Snowfall” is more tinkly indie and William Hut’s falsetto and unleashed poetry places us Here in this orchestra, the city of strings. Evocative verisimilitude.
Much more orchestral, “Christmas Symphony” brought to us by Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (Thelma Gracen vocals) takes us back to 1950.
“Santa’s Crazy North Pole Orchestra” is about as swinging as you can get (tuxedoed penguins!). Dennis van Aarssen delivers.
Ramskyte a cappellas “The Christmas Band,” a rowdy Gregorian pop anthem that would make a lovely TV sitcom theme for something 1969.
The Annual Christmas Album Band takes its sweet time getting to the music of “Thank God for the Christmas Band.” But the bluegrass makes it worthwhile.
Bing Crosby fronts The Andrew Sisters celebrating the toys’ party for “Poppa Santa Claus.” Oh, what a fete, the toyland band played! Symphonic jump blues.
It’s Lizzy Hilliard who will play in the band, provided she’s answered “Is It Almost Christmas?” Soaring indie.
Jack White seems to promise a band, but only when “Christmas Time will Soon be Over.” Hillbilly folk, like bluegrass.
Handy, ‘cuz Lord Brooklyn is looking for “Bandz For Christmas.” BLUE ALERT rap with needs.
The “Christmas Freak,” Nisha Baksh, spends her time listening to the Christmas band. Rushed pop.
More oblivious, Balloon Planet is so in love that “Greatest Gift of All” might be accompanied by a Christmas band, or not. He only has ears for you. Jazz pop.
The Christmas band is only one curiosity during The Swing Pearl’s “Christmas Stroll.” Offputting big band cacophony.
Same with Ben Coleman “On Christmas Day.” Britpop synthiness.
“The Christmas Band” from Like There’s No Tomorrow seems to be all reindeer. Slow rock. They don’t really fly.
Perhaps an introduction is needed. When The Snow Angels present their “Xmas Is Here” they end their ditty with the declaration: Don’t you understand we’re your Christmas Band. Their odd rock/pop style might just be noise.