"Every year, American culture embarks on a massive project to carefully recreate the Christmases of baby boomer childhoods."
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It is bizarre that we made Christmas music as a genre and just decided that the genre needed zero additional songs for the rest of time with the exception of Mariah Carey.
And god-damned Wham.
Is there some law that every modern musician has to cover Wham's song? Because it sure seems that way.
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There have been others that have popped up, we've just collectively decided to forget them the following year because they were so bad.
Please don't make us think of them. Let them die, or I'll curse you with my yearly Christmas Trolling song, Christmas In The Northwest.
With wonderful Christmas hits like Dominic the Donkey, idk what you’ve forgotten, but I need your seasonal troll music collection for a cd.
Here in Britain we have a whole slew (or sleigh) of others, but, sticking with the theme, very few of those are from the last 30 years.
I'm surprised at least a couple of them didn't catch on in the US. Maybe they're too whimsical or alien for the average US audience.
Similarly, Feliz Navidad is largely unknown over here. Then again, we don't have the large Hispanic cultural influence that might have allowed it gain a foothold.
Feliz Navidad is the only Christmas song that I don’t utterly despise. Perhaps because none of the places I worked at that played music when I was younger ever had it on the rotation, I can appreciate that it’s super catchy and fun.
All other Christmas music makes a holly jolly boy a sour Scrooge.
There's quite a few from the 80s aren't there?
Two of the inescapable ones* are from the 70s and a couple of others besides, but yes, 1990 is a significant dropping-off point.
Curiously, one Top 40 chart for Christmas songs streamed in the UK, from December 2021 has Feliz Navidad in there at 35, which is kind of funny because that's above our own band The Darkness. Their '00s Christmas effort tried so hard to re-capture the spirit of the '70s and do well. To some extent it did but the magic wasn't quite there. It probably didn't help that it was based around a riff stolen wholesale from Queen's Brian May (Somebody to Love if memory serves.)
But importantly, that chart does list several others. It's a fairly safe bet that if you see a song, or band (or both) you've not heard of, it's probably one of our home grown ones that hasn't made it big where you are.
* 9 and 12 on the linked chart.
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Sia made a christmas album a few years back and it's actually very good.
Billy Idol made a Christmas album in 2006 and it is actually very bad.
🎶 With a jolly yell, he cried "ho, ho, ho" 🎶
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My dude, every year micheal buble is all the christmas charts. And how about that kid that's probably a adult by now.
Ah yes, the grown up child... How could anyone miss that reference.
This is bizarre. And it's weird that after the boomers die off a similar thing won't happen for gen X since their childhood Christmases were defined by the same thing.
Millennials as well, considering we're mostly the kids of boomers
I thought it was avoiding family on the holidays to fight home invaders and meet the neighbors.
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Mariah Carey is our Christmas nostalgia music.
Funny thing is for me...
Christmas music is like 30% Traditional, 2% new picks and 58% snowy video game music... and 10% Phineas and Ferb.
My favorite Winter-y video game music has to be:
- Winter Tundra - Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage
- Freezeezy Peak - Banjo Kazooie
- Ice Cavern - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Kinda sounds like something from the old Rudolph special.)
- Ice Cavern - Spyro the Dragon
And for P&H, We've got S'winter and I know it's cheating but the Let It Snow cover isn't all that bad either. And I really don't hate Christmas.
The snow biome theme from Terraria is an absolute gem.
Don't forget In a Snowbound Land from Donkey Kong Country 2
Arguably the best track in the game. They only used it a couple times, and it only shows up in some of the last levels.
Video game christmas song are bangers, don't know why.
Killing floor 2 has a really good metal/synthetic cover for carol of the bells
Payday 2 had a joke xmass album,the whole thing is great but this one is my favorite one.
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Fuck boomer Christmas. Claymation sucks. Charlie Brown is boring. Frosty should've been left to melt. And 'It's A Wonderful Life' bombed at the box office for a reason. Just because it was dirt-cheap for TV stations to air during the Holidays in the late '70s/'80s doesn't make it good.
Lmk how your inevitable life-changing journey with a magical Christmas creature goes
It'll have a different vibe when the starving polar bears attack
It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite movie...
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Are you saying that industries such as the automotive industry exploit nameplates born in the 60s? I thought the Charger, Challenger, Bronco, Mustang, Blazer and Ford F truck were all original names and designs.
What about Last Christmas? That's from like the 80s
Also Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time
I've been wanting to remake this chart for a long time.. So I made one based on the first 20 of Billboard's "Holiday 100 most charted songs"
When you realize that music was created by people from the silent generation.
Silent generation was before 1945, boomer from 45 till 64, the pill came out 62 no more baby boom, so tell me about the hits before 45.....oh fuck you got me.....
Lets look at the members of The Beatles (:
- John Lennon was born in 1940
- Paul McCartney was born in 1942
- George Harrison was born in 1943
- Ringo Starr was born in 1940
Just because the music was made during the age of the boomers doesn't mean the people that made it were boomers.
I saw my mistake, never hit a human that agreed he was wrong
He was right so I changed the title...
Sure, but others like Santana, Michael Jackson, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna,Ted Nugent, Ozzy Osborne,Jimmy Buffet, Karen Carpenter, and Neil Young were Baby Boomers. Lots of great music from Baby Boomers
Can confirm, I'm currently on an 80s synth-pop kick.
It turns out you can buy some forms of love, but it's really impractically expensive.
I can keep The Beatles and Steely Dan, everything else can get their coats.
Black Sabbath gets to stay too.
For sure.
Zep had a few good albums. Jethro Tull. David Bowie. Pink Floyd.
But there are also a finite number of times you can listen to the same album before you start craving new stuff.
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Don't forget Boomer movies. So many classics that we have all collectively forgotten about. Personally, I'm getting into Westerns.
Relatable
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