Fifteen Days/Songs of Christmas Music Mixtape Draft - Links to final mixes in post #1 (2 Viewers)

[JZilla]

thousand ft krotch

 

[Eephus]

thousand ft krotch

You forgot the @ sign

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Now that I've done a little prep..

These mandatory songs are awful, what a brutal set of rolls.  Will have to pass up 3-4 great tracks for straight poo.  Away In a Manger ,S? 

On the plus side, being this handcuffed, maybe I can keep it all spotify after all

More #####ing later.  Guess I'll don my JML hat for this one.  Better watch out, indeed.

Draft scandanavian stuff? awesome synth stuff?

This draft is one im not touching with timschochets ****

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Mmmmm **** is not filtered now?

 

[simey]

I'm not big on traditional religious music (although Oh, Holy Night is a gorgeous melody). 

O Holy Night is my fav. It can be drafted as a traditional/religious carol written before 1900.  According to the rules we can pick one.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Who is up?  I want to make my pick.

 

[Tom Servo]

Who is up?  I want to make my pick.

At this rate it'll be Christmas before we're done.

 

[Eephus]

Mmmmm **** is not filtered now?

Jolly Old St. ****

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

So I can say **** Trickle?

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Holy cow.

 

[Tom Servo]

So I can say **** Trickle?

Apparently you can say **** Trickle.

 

[Northern Voice]

Looks like we could add Jingle Bells and Blue Christmas to the existing choices.  

Not really that big a deal, just hit home as I was arranging things, just how many I dig that I'll have to pass up.  I'll still do a zip on the end, of things I like that aren't streaming.

I'd be cool with adding the fourth choice.. kinda up to those who've picked already.  Speaking selfishly, these are not my faves.. and particularly Silent Night and White Christmas are about as dullsville as it gets, in all forms

Silent Night and Away in a Manger are too dull so add Blue Christmas

 

[Northern Voice]

Mmmmm **** 

 

[Eephus]

Silent Night and Away in a Manger are too dull so add Blue Christmas

Jingle Bells and Blue Christmas finished fourth in their respective categories in the original dice rolls.

Jingle Bells would provide an up tempo option for the traditional carols and I think it would open up the category.  I love Blue Christmas but it's one of those songs with one definitive version.

 

[Eephus]

Apparently you can say **** Trickle.

Christmas is coming,
The goose is getting fat,
Please put a nickel
In the old man's hat.
If you haven't got a nickel,
A half nickel will do, 
But if you have a #### Trickle
Then God bless you.

 

[JZilla]

Bag of #####

 

[Eephus]

Bag of #####

Toys only has four letters

 

[JZilla]

Sleigh Ride. That would be a good add

Your draft, your rules. It's all good, nothing better to do so I'm #####ing

Away In A Manger is for kindergarteners at the pageant 

 

[Eephus]

Sleigh Ride does have an all-time top ten clapper solo

 

[JZilla]

Rigged

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

 **** Trickle.

It's not a going problem, it's a growing problem. 

 

[Eephus]

It's not a going problem, it's a growing problem. 

If you have a pick, go ahead and post.  We'll move ilov80s down the draft order.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

White Christmas -  Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters

 

[Ilov80s]

Going to need to keep me on auto skip. Work will be a pita this week. 

 

[JZilla]

Well I don't know if this will count as one of the mandatory carols, if not I'll probably use it for Novelty or anything really, it's that transcendent 

This is the OG - I know the rest of you will be clamoring for the other "Dogs Singing" choices out there but they're nothing, total nobodys, they're fat and they have gd cats with them too.  Also this has a hot ### guitar solo.

The Singing Dogs - Jingle Bells (1955)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBhQCCyhTo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Dogs

2,3,5,4,1

 

[Ilov80s]

1.6 Andy Williams- Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Pop Standard 1900-1963

I feel like Scrooge for holding this thing up.

 

[JZilla]

no sweat, it's still November and I got to ##### all day

@Doug B OTC

 

[simey]

Jingle Bells and Blue Christmas finished fourth in their respective categories in the original dice rolls.

Jingle Bells would provide an up tempo option for the traditional carols and I think it would open up the category.  I love Blue Christmas but it's one of those songs with one definitive version.

Any changes you want to make is fine with me.

 

[cosjobs]

Pretty obvious that simey and zilla are my competition here

 

[Eephus]

White Christmas -  Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters

On my verry merry short list

 

[Eephus]

Well I don't know if this will count as one of the mandatory carols, if not I'll probably use it for Novelty or anything really, it's that transcendent 

This is the OG - I know the rest of you will be clamoring for the other "Dogs Singing" choices out there but they're nothing, total nobodys, they're fat and they have gd cats with them too.  Also this has a hot ### guitar solo.

The Singing Dogs - Jingle Bells (1955)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBhQCCyhTo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Dogs

2,3,5,4,1

One of the dogs is named #####.  Who knew?

 

[cosjobs]

White Christmas -  Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters

Nice link

 

[Eephus]

Rule change.  Jingle Bells has been added as a fourth traditional carol.  JZilla's selection of the Barking Dogs version may be used either as a novelty song or traditional carol.

Current rules updated in post #3 and below

Mix requirements

Core versions of most covered 25 songs randomly selected from fivethirtyeight.com's list of the 25 most covered songs
(2) picks from the following traditional carols:  Away in a Manger, Silent Night, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Jingle Bells
(2) picks from the following pop standards:  White Christmas, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Other songs from the traditional and standards category (excluding the 6 7 mandatory songs)
(1) traditional/religious carols (written before 1900)
(1) pop standards (written between 1900 and 1963)

(3) Rock-era originals (written in 1964 or later)

Miscellaneous categories (relatively open to your interpretation except the 6 7 mandatory songs are verboten except for Jzilla's Jingle Bells)

(1) Instrumental - any song, any era

(2) Wild card songs - any song, any era and including Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter, December, New Year's etc.

(1) Sad/depressing/wistful/anti Christmas song

(1) Child's Christmas - A song by, for or about kids.

(1) Novelty song - JZilla's pick of the Barking Dogs version of "Jingle Bells" is grandfathered in.

 

[JZilla]

Cool, I'll switch it to the traditional carol

 

[cosjobs]

NO SWTICHIES

 

[cosjobs]

jk. don't  care

 

[Short Corner]

Mmmmm **** is not filtered now?

Apparently tim's isn't

 

[JZilla]

jk. don't  care

It's what I said first, there just hadn't been a definitive call on Jingle Bells carol status yet

 

[John Bender]

Which is fine because it gives me time to re-read the rules for the 15th time and try to figure out what I can and can't draft. 

 

[Doug B]

Love a lot of Xmas instrumentals, but I've got only one gotta-have:

1.09: "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" - Savatage

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Love a lot of Xmas instrumentals, but I've got only one gotta-have:

1.09: "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" - Savatage

Very nice.

 

[Eephus]

Love a lot of Xmas instrumentals, but I've got only one gotta-have:

1.09: "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" - Savatage

Just to clarify rules on instrumentals.

You can draft instrumental versions of songs for other categories as well.  If you want to have fifteen instrumentals, go for it.  But you need at least one to fill this category.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Eephus, I think you're up.

 

[Eephus]

1.10---eephus---Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)---Darlene Love---Pop Standard (1900-1963)

Deep category but a great track.

ETA:  @Tom Servo

 

[Doug B]

1.10---eephus---Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)---Darlene Love---Pop Standard (1900-1963)

I only learned very recently that Darlene Love was Danny Glover's wife in the Lethal Weapon movies. Was that common knowledge?

 

[Tom Servo]

In the Child's Christmas category, I select:

Kacey Musgraves - I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

 

[Eephus]

In the Child's Christmas category, I select:

Kacey Musgraves - I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

I always try to skim through the new releases and may have missed a few but this is the best of a weak crop of 2016 holiday albums.

 

[Tom Servo]

I always try to skim through the new releases and may have missed a few but this is the best of a weak crop of 2016 holiday albums.

I think @Mrs. Rannous is up

 

[Eephus]

I only learned very recently that Darlene Love was Danny Glover's wife in the Lethal Weapon movies. Was that common knowledge?

Yeah but Mrs Eephus has an encyclopedic knowledge of Black actresses.

@Mrs. Rannous up

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

1.12 You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Anti Christmas song

Writen by Dr. Seuss with music by Albert Hague, who played Mr. Shorofsky on the TV show Fame.  Sung by Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice of Tony the Tiger.

It's just good and grumpy.