Reddit mentions: The best holiday & wedding music
We found 510 Reddit comments discussing the best holiday & wedding music. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 294 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the top 20.
1. Songs for Christmas
- Sufjan Stevens- Songs For Christmas
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Release date | November 2006 |
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2. Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
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Release date | October 2002 |
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3. A Charlie Brown Christmas [Green Vinyl]
- This holiday classic once again available on black wax.
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Release date | August 2009 |
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4. What A Wonderful Christmas
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Release date | October 1997 |
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5. Christmas Songs
- KRALL DIANA
- JAZZ
- INTERNATIONAL
- MUSIC
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Release date | November 2005 |
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6. Barenaked for the Holidays
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Release date | October 2004 |
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7. Merry Mixmas
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Release date | October 2005 |
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8. Dungeons & Dragons
Manufactured to the Highest Quality Available.Design is stylish and innovative. Satisfaction Ensured.Great Gift Idea.
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Release date | July 2012 |
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9. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Complete Ballet
- GERGIEV VALERY / KIROV O.
- MUSICA CLASICA
- INTERNATIONAL
- MUSIC
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Release date | October 1998 |
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10. We Wish You A Metal Xmas & A Headbanging New Year
- Used Book in Good Condition
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Number of items | 1 |
Release date | October 2008 |
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11. Jazz for Joy: A Verve Christmas Album
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- 2 Video Capture Modes: 720p & VGA, Video Capture Resolutions: (1280 x 720) & (640 x 480), Records Sound and Captures Video in AVI (.avi) Format
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Release date | October 1996 |
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12. A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Original Sound Track Recording Of The CBS Television Special
Vince Guaraldi Trio- A Charlie Brown Christmas
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Release date | September 2000 |
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13. CHRISTMASTIME Swingle Singers
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Release date | October 2003 |
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14. An Oscar Peterson Christmas
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Release date | July 2006 |
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15. A Charlie Brown Christmas [2012 Remastered & Expanded Edition]
- Vince Guaraldi- Charlie Brown Christmas
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Release date | October 2012 |
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16. Vaughan Williams: The Collector's Edition - 30 CDs
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Number of items | 1 |
Release date | July 2008 |
Weight | 1.50375 Pounds |
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17. You Make It Feel Like Christmas [White Opaque LP]
- Gwen Stefani- You Make It Feel Like Christmas
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Release date | October 2017 |
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18. A Santa Cause
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Release date | November 2003 |
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19. La La Land: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [LP]
La La Land Soundtrack
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Release date | January 2017 |
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20. When My Heart Finds Christmas
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Number of items | 1 |
Release date | May 2007 |
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Weight | 0.19 pounds |
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If they love classical music, Handel's Messiah and Bach's Christmas Oratorio are great. The Messiah is a LOT more famous and easily recognizable, so if they don't know too much about classical music it might be a safer bet than the Bach.
A strange and little known personal favorite of mine is Sneak's Noyse: Christmas Now Is Drawing Near. It is a collection of OLD (medieval and renaissance) English folk carols done with period instruments and singing style.
If they like jazz, and if you can find it, they might like one of the Swingle Singers holiday albums. I grew up with these, they are great fun to listen to. Also, no holiday is complete without Vince Guaruldi Trio: Charlie Brown Christmas. So, so good!
Another strange and wonderful album I grew up with is Pete Seeger's Christmas album. You have to love the banjo for this one, though!
Hopefully some of these will make your parents happy :-) Good luck, and I bet I can come up with more if you like!
EDIT: we also have some great scattered tracks of various big band artists doing Christmas stuff, but it looks like most of it is out of print. If your folks like big band jazz, you might try looking for tracks from this album, or just hunt around for tracks by Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glen Miller, etc.
(BTW -- Sorry about the Amazon links! Not sure where you get your music, they're just so you can see the album covers.)
Peer Gynt Suite | Edvard Grieg | 1 - Morning Mood, 4 - In the Hall of the Mountain King
The Nutcracker | Tchaikovsky | 3 - March, 19 - Waltz of the Flowers, 22 - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Carmen / L'Arlésienne Suites | Georges Bizet | 1 - Les Toréadors, 2-3 - Prelude / Aragonaise, Habanera
Also Sprach Zarathustria, bonus: The Planets | Richard Stauss, bonus: Holst | 1 - Einleitung or Sonnenaufgang (prelude or sunrise), 10 - Mars, the Bringer of War, 12 - Mercury, the Winged Messenger
Carmina Burana | Carl Orff | 1 & 25 - O Fortuna, 6 - Tanz, 15 - Amor Volat Undique
Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain | Modest Moussorgsky | 12 - The Great Gate of Kiev, 16 - Night on Bald Mountain (Fantasia version)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Greatest Hits | Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1 - Flight of the Bumblebee, 10 - Procession of the Nobles, 6 - Fandago Asturiano
I love Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas and Louis Armstrong & Friends' "What A Wonderful Christmas" album, which has his wonderful, happy-making "Christmas In New Orleans" on it. ETA: Also, if you like New Orleans style jazz, I recommend Irvin Mayfield's new Christmas album, which is pretty great.
This is such a cute idea! I started a new job yesterday! what does yours entail? I've been wanting this la la land vinyl for a while now, I think I've watched that movie 6 times now.. I actually went and saw it 4 times in the theatre, once on my own! and I think you would love these leggings they are SO COMFORTABLE and are such a pretty design I think they'd look amazing on you :)
This is going to sound funny, but here goes...
Jingle Bells - Diana Krall Album
The mastering on this album is fantastic, and I would say that every track is a great reference track. The brass and bass line, coupled with Diana's delivery are absolutely outstanding. No joke, this is my year-round reference.
A few to consider, some more affordable than others:
If you need anything more specific than that, let me know and I'll try to recommend something.
If you have a look in the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section for any of these, you'll find many more.
I just spent all last week compiling about 24 hours worth of Christmas tunes! My favorite albums are:
And personal favorite songs are:
A lot depends on what she already has/doesn't have in her Peanuts collection but I think:
This is a beautiful book for the ultimate Peanuts fan. This book is also a nice gem for collectors
And of course A Charlie Brown Christmas is always a nice stocking stuffer
And if she hasn't seen it yet, take her out to see the new Peanuts movie!
I can not check your playlist since I have no spotify account. But here is some of my favorite battle music.
Epic Endboss fights:
Diablo III ~ Reaper of Souls OST - Urzael
Diablo III ~ Reaper of Souls OST - Sehyen Ehvis
Thy Light - The Bridge
If your players are no fans of Naruto, some of the battle songs work surprisingly well:
Kokuten
Kakuzu
Midaregami
Matthew Pablo has some great stuff. Some of my favourite tracks:
Theme of Agrual
The Dark Amulet
The last Encounter
Heroic Demise
Vilified
ArcLight
If you like to go the epic metal direction I can recommend Eldamar and Dreams of Nature. It is bandcamp, so you can listen in to every song and decide if you like it; no idea if the stuff is onspotify:
https://eldamar.bandcamp.com/album/eldamar-dreams-of-nature
https://eldamar.bandcamp.com/album/the-force-of-the-ancient-land
https://eldamar-northernsilence.bandcamp.com/album/a-dark-forgotten-past
If you like Dungeon Synth, I can recommend Lord Lovidicus, especially some Stuff on Book of Lore - Vol. I
Other stuff to check out:
Incompetech (Royalty Free Music)
In Uchronia
The DnD Soundtrack by Midnight Syndicate - Amazon Link
Thank you, dude! I'll have to torrent most of these and keep them handy for the season; Kings College Cambridge and Charlie Brown, especially! I would also love to get the Charlie Brown (Vince Guaraldi) tracks on vinyl, turn off the lights and computer, and sit back with some hot chocolate or apple cider! When celebrating Christmas, you have to keep it old school!
EDIT: Look what I found! https://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Brown-Christmas-Green-Vinyl/dp/B002Y1OAJU
Fave Albums
My personal favorites:
X-M@$ - Corey Taylor
Oh Holy Night - Halford This is just one, but the entire album Winter Songs by Halford is just all, well, winter and Christmas songs sung by Rob Halford. Can't beat the Metal God!
Also, I recommend We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year. It has the aforementioned Alice Cooper song, plus ones with Dio and Lemmy and the like.
Well you've already got my favourite one :P but for the sake of variety, try some of these (not all of them are ALL jazz, but I would say they're all 'jazzy'):
Baby it's Cold Outside
Boogie Woogie Christmas
Christmas with the Rat Pack
Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas
A Jazz Christmas
Jazz for Joy: A Verve Christmas Album
Jazz to the World: A Christmas Collection
Merry Mixmas (one of my other favorites - most of them are originally jazzy, but were remixed)
EDIT: Formatting.
the Santa Cause- it's a punk rock christmas album was pretty nice. i can't a youtube playlist of it but it was pretty neat. there was also a vol. 2 that i never heard.
In no particular order, my favorite Christmas albums are:
Agreed, this is a fantastic set of tunes. Actually, this is one of the few times I've bothered to buy the physical CDs -- the box set comes loaded with extras:
>This 5-CD box set includes all five volumes, plus a 42-page booklet with an original Christmas essay by acclaimed American novelist Ricky Moody, two essays, a short story by Stevens, a holiday sticker, chord charts, lyrics, comic strip, family portrait poster, photos, and an animated video.
(from Amazon description)
Plus, creative, independent artists like Stevens definitely deserve to see some of the money from their satisfied fans.
A couple of my favorites:
A sample from Los Straitjackets's Christmas album.
Michael Bolton's Christmas album is surprisingly good (as is his live show - remember he was in a hair metal band in the 80s and early 90s before becoming a balladeer. The man can SHRED a guitar).
Frank Sinatra
Vince Guaraldi
Stevie Wonder
Elvis
Johnny Cash
Louis Armstrong
Oscar Peterson
Even Bob Schneider, though I don't recommend paying over $20 for the few songs that cd has on it.
Lastly, my absolute favorite Christmas 'song,' by Cary Grant. Enjoy and share. Here's the Amazon link
Do it online, do it online!!!
EDIT: Okay, seriously, you need to buy this. It is awesome and perfect for this time of year.
So there is an "official" soundtrack for the game released in 2003 and composed by "Midnight Syndicate".
While some of the tunes are helpful I prefer to use a bit more pop/nerd-culture music for my games. I'm currently running a group through Green Ronin's "Dirge of the Damned" during which one of the NPCs sings a "haunting melody" at the end of a play so I played this.
From a PC's perspective I love playing actual music as a Bard. A few years ago I played the following for my friends (during the appropriate moments):
My Bard died shortly after hitting 7 during a desert adventure but before he was devoured by a sandworm my party asked me for some traveling music.
That DG set looks awesome. Might have to be a Christmas present this year.
Some of my favorites are the EMI Elgar and Vaughan Williams sets, the Stravinsky collected works, and the big RCA Toscanini set.
Sufjan Stevens christmas album. Amazing singer/songwriter, five full length discs of music for $14, original as well as classic songs. What more could you want?
I have been on a retro Christmas album kick. Recently grabbed:
Christmas With The Chipmunks
Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Christmas Gift for You
Merry Christmas
The Hi-Fi will be full of Christmas cheer this holiday season.
This reminds me that it is about time to break out Songs For Christmas. It is a fantastic album by Sufjan and a must have for Christmas music lovers.
O Come O Come Emmanuel
Star of Wonder
We Wish You A Metal Xmas. Alice Cooper and Tim Ripper Owens sing Christmas carols, Stephen Pearcy does a fantastic rendition of Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer, and Testament's Chuck Billy covers Silent Night.
I find Sufjan Stevens's Christmas album to be a pretty pleasant listen when Xmas music would be most appropriate.
I like Diana Krall's Christmas album quite well.
Picturing her while hearing them also helps.
From the album, Merry Mixmas:
 
(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag (Thunderball Mix)
 
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Away Team Remix)
 
And the fat man's comin' in hot with Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (Johnny Mercer), although I always like to pretend it actually say's "Batman's coming"
My girlfriend's favorite track. I personally don't really like any Sufjan except for this song and maybe 1 or 2 others. For those wondering, he has a 5-cd box set with all sorts of Christmas/Christian songs: http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Christmas-Sufjan-Stevens/dp/B000HLDF0O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322873234&sr=8-1
He's very good!
If your'e feeling jazzy, B3 organ master Jimmy Smith's Christmas Cookin', from 1964, has been a favorite of mine for many years. It absolutely smokes.
In that same vein, An Oscar Peterson Christmas is pretty damn fine, too.
I have this album stashed somewhere. Pretty sure it applies.
http://www.amazon.com/A-Santa-Cause-Various-Artists/dp/B0000DF2KQ
"half-naked women"? If you want a great Canadian christmas album go for this hot album
So do the Barenaked Ladies in their Barenaked for the Holidays album. Their original songs "Elf's Lament," "Green Christmas," and "Christmas Pics" are becoming my favorite new traditions.
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Not a bad CD, Dio's take on "God rest ye merry gentlemen" is fucking epic, but as for the rest I personally wouldnt go out of my way to acquire this.
For those of you that would, I will not link you to Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Wish-Metal-Xmas-Headbanging-Year/dp/B001DZN5XA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1261686212&sr=8-3
...and can I just say that the soundtrack is by far the best Chrsitmas album I own.
Ella at Christmas is amazing. My go-to. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ella-Wishes-You-Swinging-Christmas/dp/B00006WL1Q
I think you are looking for this... Roy Hargrove, Christian McBride, Nic Payton + female vocalists Abbey Lincoln, Shirley Horn and Betty Carter.
Jazz for Joy: A Verve Christmas Album
Yeah, I would also recommend Sufjan Stevens' Christmas collection.
The whole "Jazz For Joy" Verve Christmas album is terrific. Shirley Horn's take on "The Christmas Song" alone is worth the cost of the whole album. When I looked up the link, I noticed it's only five bucks on Amazon in the U.S.
In games I've played, we usually used a World of Warcraft or Elder Scrolls soundtrack. I did receive the Dungeons and Dragons official soundtrack one year for my birthday that worked well too.
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Always a good choice to stay sane: A Charlie Brown Christmas It's a jazz trio...no Josh Groban howling at you!
I might suggest, if you want a stirring performance with clarity in the orchestral texture, the complete ballet, Valery Gergiev conducting the Kirov Orchestra. Gergiev is always topnotch when it comes to interpreting Tchaikovsky...
You could try this, its all good remixes of classic songs.
Amazon link
If you need to keep it proper.. I really like Merry Mixmas - Christmas Classics Remixed .. standard songs.. little twist
I'm quite partial to Harry Connick jr. He has a decent christmas album. There's something about his voice that I find quite soothing,
Oscar Peterson. Its nice and soothing. Nothing ground-breaking, but solid.
http://www.amazon.com/Oscar-Peterson-Christmas/dp/B000003D4X
There is, actually, an official D&D soundtrack literally made for that. Also various RPG tracks work fine too as they're designed to not be distracting.
http://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Official-Roleplaying-Soundtrack/dp/B0000BZYIS
In my more-than-humble opinion, the only Christmas album worth listening to--in any genre--is the timeless original Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack.
$15 on Amazon
A Charlie Brown Christmas [Green Vinyl] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002Y1OAJU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_EKb4DbA5MMVQV
Hold on, you guys are making me think maybe I shouldn't buy a copy of A Charlie Brown Christmas next November.
There is always the Official Dungeons and Dragons Soundtrack
So apparently there's an official Dungeons & Dragons soundtrack.
http://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Official-Roleplaying-Soundtrack/dp/B0000BZYIS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1331564545&sr=1-1
This + www.ambient-mixer.com
I use the Official D&D Soundtrack
Check out his entire album for more.
Vince Guaraldi Trio's album A Charlie Brown Christmas
This is where it's at.
Not trolling, just saying. Check out the Barenaked Ladies Christmas album, featuring three Hanukah songs and a Christmas ornament on the cover.
Sufjan Stevens' "Songs for Christmas" box sets. Vol. 1-5 and Vol. 6-10
https://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Brown-Christmas-Green-Vinyl/dp/B002Y1OAJU
http://www.amazon.com/Wish-Metal-Xmas-Headbanging-Year/dp/B001DZN5XA/
...sigh... $25 for this pre-order, or $12 on green vinyl from a variety of places.
Pre-order for $25 from Newbury Comics, or you know, just buy the fucking thing from the very same Newbury Comics for $18 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002Y1OAJU).
Or even better, buy it from somebody else like one of the 3rd party sellers selling it for $11. Insound marked theirs down to $5 before selling out.
Newbury can fuck right off with all of these unnecessary and overpriced reissues. I don't know why anyone buys them. 50-60% markups on titles that are readily available elsewhere, yet people eat that shit up. It makes zero sense.
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I just started DMing for the first time, and I've been playing music. Baldur's Gate (1 & 2) soundtrack is in there, as well as Warcraft (III + WoW + expansions), Lord of the Rings, Guild Wars, Halo, and this; plus a few random other things from my collection that fit the theme.
Before my last computer failure, I even had separate playlists for general, combat, in town, in an inn, dungeon crawling, etc... I haven't felt ambitious enough to recreate those yet.
I am convinced that the acute need to buffer the onslaught of horrible, horrible holiday music is why Apollo and the muses cast Vince Guaraldi into the fray, all old-school Clash of the Titans styled. (At least that's what his biography on wikipedia used to say...)
Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack #ftw