discussion 19

[bats]

Welcome to DISCUSSION!

Hi, everyone! Once a week, I'm going to give you a topic. All players need to do is give their opinions/stories/comments on said topic. There's nothing really formal about this, but you'll get cards for answering regardless. There's no requirement about how big or detailed of an answer you give, but try to avoid one word answers! (This is about talking, after all)

This week's topic is HOLIDAY MUSIC.

A question you could answer (but are not limited/required to) is Do you have a favourite Christmas song? (Though of course, other holidays are also welcome!)

You'll get 2 regular cards and 1 puzzle card for commenting. Prizes will be distributed throughout the week and this game ends on Tuesday, December 23rd.

Comments

[lesbians]

yes absolutely, mariah carey's "all i want for christmas is you"

a friend of mine passed down the tradition of blasting it during the holidays though the past year it was replaced with "let it go" from frozen but now i'm back to mariah carey

i also like "you're a mean one mr. grinch" because i was on TV once singing it so it's a good memory (speaking of singing christmas songs i like christmas caroling too and used to do it when i was a girl scout)

[bats]

omg that is such a good song... and what a cute memory LMFAO

[prayers]

TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY

mfw theres so much of this stuff its hard to pick one silver bells might be my favorite.

[bats]

the only words to that i know are... well, SILVER BEEEEELLS..... SILVER BEEEEELLS...

[eat]

all my favorite christmas songs are parodies..... like almost every song from that community episode mocking glee and this one song from key & peele. WAIT i also like jingle bell rock because well, duh.

ironically i also like the songs they make fun of... so "santa baby" and "baby, it's cold outside" (edits so i can link the jgl version). but i also really love winter wonderland by peggy lee and last christmas by wham!

[bats]

oh my god THOSE ARE GREAT LMFAO GOD

i'm going to be listening to the jgl one for awhile gdi

[beezebeora]

I do not, I don't listen to holiday music. In general of anything else lol so cant really say I like any holiday music.

[bats]

[needles]

♪ I love Valentine's Day, and the Fourth of July,
I'm a little bit sad when Halloween has gone by
I'm thankful Thanksgiving comes around in the fall,
But I've always loved Christmas the best of them all! ♪

I don't think 8 lines at the beginning of my favorite Christmas movie counts as a song, but it might as well. That mini-song makes me think of Christmastime at my house.

Christmas, Bah, Bug and Hum! is another great one. God, I love Olive the Other Reindeer...

[bats]

awww that's so cute though!!!

[princessnine]

i really like modern covers of old christmas songs, like the songs you hear at the mall during the holidays. i never know who sings them bc they all sound the same but damn i love 'em. my favorite is carol of the bells.

chanukah starts at sundown today (the 16th) so happy chanukah! there's a fun song about how mrs. maccabeus' latkes saved the day but i can't find it on youtube so here are the lyrics (it's sung to the tune of oh chanukah oh chanukah): http://scheinerman.net/judaism/chanukah/sill-songs.html

[bats]

oh whoa that's super cool! I LOVE SONGS LIKE THIS...

[fateslaying]

i'm not a huge fan of christmas songs in particular. it's not that i dislike them or anything, but i care more about the mood they set rather than the song itself haha. they're perfect for getting into the christmas-y mood, but aside from that i don't pay attention to them... the one exception is carol of the bells, although i don't like versions with actual singing in them LMAO. this is probably my favorite version of it. it's a fun piece to play, but this guy blows it out of the park.

[bats]

that's a good way to put it omg

[ririsnow]

No. I hate Christmas music. Because it is EVERYWHERE. Over and over and over and over and OVER again.

Can't stand it. ^^; Guess I'm a bit of a grinch.

[bats]

[cardian]

Super relevant to anime-themed tcgs I guess: There are two (2!!) Sailor Moon Christmas albums and my mother loves them. So our Christmases have been the house full of Christmas songs in Japanese sung by the Sailor Soldiers.

Of those CDs, my favourites are Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (because I learned the lyrics in a high school Japanese class), When The Saints Go Marching In (I never thought of it as a Christmas song before these albums), Koibito ga Santa Claus... heck. All of them are really cute. What an adorable spin on Christmas classics.

[bats]

AAAH THAT'S REALLY COOL LMFAO my mom hardly even knows who sailor moon is—i need to look this stuff up

[cardian]

My ma knows and loves Sailor Moon through how much I love it, lmao. IT'S VERY CUTE... Also: Album 1, Album 2

Thank you very much! Merry Christmas : >

[shonen]

i love christmas music especially anything off michael buble's christmas album his voice is really nice

[bats]

i love this album LMFAO

[vilya]

I have two! "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" is my favorite of the Christmas hymn music choices, and "Let It Snow!" is my favorite Christmas song overall! In general I love the themes of welcoming and family and love that pop up in Christmas/holiday music of all stripes.

The other day we saw real actual carolers walking through my grandma's neighborhood and I was so shocked in a good way, and also I'm a Christmas sap so I might have cried just a little bit. I wish caroling was a thing more people did more often.

[bats]

we used to sing hark the herald angels sing in school and i loved it because it just SOUNDS SO NICE?? ggggggahhhh i almost miss that.

omg i've never seen carolers I'M SO JEALOUS AND HAPPY FOR YOU

[toxicroak]

HALLOWEEN MUSIC IS THE BEST i love me some halloween jams. The only winter holiday music I really get hype about is You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch that's an all year jam for me, and Wonder Girls Yenny singing Last Christmas.

[bats]

i think monster mash is one of my all time favourite songs tbh... halloween is amazing

[komory]

I like Christmas Bells from the musical RENT. It isn't really a Christmas song but it mentions the holidays so w/e. I like to try to sing all of the parts of it at one time which results in a very interesting experience on my end.

It's also tradition for me to watch Nightmare Before Christmas and I'm a big fan of Fall Out Boy's version of What's This?

For more traditional Christmas stuff, so much Michael Buble. I would be content listening to only him for the holidays. His voice is so perfect for Christmas music.

[bats]

ooooh i need to see that... it keeps getting recommended to me and i keep forgetting

a++ on michael buble

[venicism]

I can take or leave Christmas music, honestly. Normally I don't hear it that often anyway, since I don't listen to the radio, and since I'm a homebody 80% of the time I'm not really exposed to it much either. Nor do I really go looking for Christmas music much.

That said, I do enjoy the Glee Christmas OST, Michael Buble's Christmas album, and since I'm an old lady and remember it coming out so darn well... the Nsync Christmas album. The only downside is that depending on my mood, a lot of Christmas songs can depress the hell out of me. A lot of them are meant for couples, and if I'm in the wrong mood I can only just remind myself that I've been single every year of my life on Christmas. >>;

[bats]

AHAHA nsync is great tbh... also i love the michael buble album +___+

[devilism]

i love all the dumb classic christmas songs they play over and over at american malls basically tbh.. i could sing along with them for hours IT JUST FEELS LIKE SUCH A NICE WAY TO GET INTO THE SEASON WHEN YOU'RE GOING ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAAAAS IS YOUUUUU..

[bats]

IT'S TRUE TBH I LOVE IT there's a christmas movie set in the mall in my city... i need to watch it

[ivoryandhorn]

I'm pretty neutral to Christmas music, but there are a few songs that have a special place in my heart because of what I associate with them.

"Baby, It's Cold Outside" and "Carol of the Bells" because I have fond memories of singing it in choir in high school.

...and "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" because a certain creepy partridge doctor is one of my characters. Ho ho ho.

[ex_deo48]

ok... please don't laugh omg
i don't really like holiday music in general BUT i used to be crazy about justin bieber's christmas album that he made however many years back because like. shit. this guy sucks but why are these songs about trees and drums so good? maybe because of the modern twist and beats he added to them. nevertheless...

[vinheim]

i LOVE!! christmas music, honestly. probably cause they're really simple and catchy? carols mostly, but also stuff like last christmas and all i want for christmas is you.

also, my favorite pop punk christmas song. thanks fall out boy.

[the_da]

I love this one Christmas in the Trenches

and of course this The first Hanukkah blessing

[fairypark]

JINGLE BELL, JINGLE BELL, JINGLE BELL ROCK♪

ahaha, i'm actually not a very big fan of christmas music, but that one has always been catchy as heck.

[thelump]

My favorite Christmas song growing up was Christina Aguilera's This Year. I actually just love that entire CD in general. But really besides that cd, all of my favorite Christmas songs come from claymation Christmas movies and the grinch. Including, but not limited to, the snow/heat miser songs and Blue Christmas from The Year without a Santa Claus, Put One Foot in Front of the Other from Santa Claus is Coming to Town, We're a Couple of Misfits and Jingle Jingle Jingle from Rudolph, and finally Where are You Christmas and You're a Mean one Mr. Grinch from the Jim Carrey, How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
I'm a giant child >.>

[tatsuya]

the only christmas music i like is the yaoi christmas album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv9vOMr0R6w

[bats]

i'm fuckin laughing so hard at kagami

[mametchi]

I don't really listen to much christmas music except for michael bublé's stuff... as for holiday music in general I'm super fond of halloween music

[kumoi]

meerry christmas lol

[jenybear]

My favourite Christmas song is Feed The World (Do they Know it's Christmas) by Band Aid - specifically the 1984 version. I find the line "well tonight thank god it's them instead of you" so powerful and it always gives me shivers. I'm mostly drawn to it because it just makes me really thankful for what I have and remember that Christmas is about giving back.

I really dislike the remade versions, especially the recent Ebola one.

[kumoi]

i looked up the lyrics to the ebola one and that's so awful omw...

[camilovesyou]

To be honest, I'm not big on holiday music. I'll admit that some of it is catchy but I never got into it because of the fact that there aren't too many occasions where listening to it would be appropriate.

[kumoi]

i don't listen to it much either tbh