Seven Songs for Christmas

Seven Songs for Christmas Day

1. Straight No Chaser - Let It Snow
--------A little more funk and doo-wop in this rendition.

2. Mariah Carey - When Christmas Comes
--------It's not the overdone "All I Want for Christmas is You." This song off her new holiday album is romantic mistletoe R&B.

3. Kelly Rowland - Wonderful Christmas Time
---------Suited for those twenty-somethings who can't live without a phat beat during the holidays.

4.  Michael Buble - Let it Snow! 
---------Classic swing done by the crooning heartbreaker of today.

5. Relient K - Sleigh Ride
----------This will always be a must-have on my mixes - it truly rocks around the Christmas tree.

6. Maroon 5 - Happy Christmas (War is Over)
----------No kids choir, no crazy build ups. This stripped down, piano solo is enough to give you chills. Adam Levine will make this John Lennon ballad your new favorite.

7. Stephen Colbert - Another Christmas Song
----------For the politically incorrect.

The Holiday Buzz of Straight No Chaser

Before you run away from this post about Christmas carols (you knew I'd do one, c'mon!), listen carefully. Nary a trumpet or sleigh bell in hearing range, Straight No Chaser is solidly a cappella and anything from watered down.

Straight No Chaser puts the zest into classic Christmas tunes, with a fresh, rousing take on songs such as "The Twelve Days of Christmas," "Aud Lang Syne" and "Jingle Bell Rock." And these guys aren't a bunch of barbershop bums. Backed by Atlantic Records and followers old and young, SNC brightens up retro and modern music with their angelic, manmade melodies.

SNC's Christmas Cheer is the perfect holiday album for those who still haven't replaced their Miriah Carey Christmas album and are looking for a very new, delightful spin for the season.

Still don't care for carols? Check out the group's outstanding mashup of Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." If it doesn't put a smile on your face...Grinch...all I've gotta say.

http://myspace.com/sncmusic/

Song of the Day

**12/4/09

Kelly Clarkson - The Trouble With Love Is

--------------Let me just declare for the whole world wide web to hear: If you dislike/hate/haven't seen the movie Love Actually, you have no pulse or haven't experienced absolute holiday happiness.

Not kidding, kids. The collection of stories about love can't help but warm your heart, especially when Sam squeals "Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love!"

Love is like a 2-battery component. Without both a positive and a negative side, it's not gonna work out. We're all familiar with the positives, but Clarkson emphasizes the agony and deception of it. A bold and disarmingly (favorite new adjective) pessimistic move for a pop diva, but Clarkson is going just far down enough with honesty and matter-of-factness. Get "The Trouble With Love Is" from the Love Actually Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

**The clip below isn't today's song, but it's a damn adorable clip from the movie.

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ah7XSxWFpM

Song of the Day

**12/24/08

Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You

-------------I could say some little yuletide cliches about Christmas being the time of year when we all need to love each other, but MC beats all other Christmas love songs with her legendary vocal range and snuggly pop lyrics. Carey captures the spirit of the holidays and how even though we're with the ones we love at this time of year, there's always something - or someone - on our Christmas lists that we especially want. Get All I Want for Christmas is You from her 1994 album, Merry Christmas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8rY0Fyws20

Song of the Day

**12/7/08

Relient K - We Wish You A Merry Christmas

--------------Christmas carols aren't all about somber renditions of "Silent Night" and thundering trumpets. The little drummer, guitar,bass, and vocal boys of Relient K are decking the halls with hellacious Christmas cheer, giving yuletide yells into an instrumental breakdown that not even Santa's elves could create. Get We Wish You A Merry Christmas from their 2007 holiday album, Let it Snow Baby...Let It Reindeer.