Favorite Christmas music with good bass? (+Spotify playlist)

It’s (almost) that time of year - who’s got good Christmas albums that don’t sound like a department store from hell? :christmas_tree: :department_store: :fire:

This has got to be my favorite of all time -

UPDATE: I made a Spotify playlist with all my favorites plus some ideas from this thread:

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I’ll have to check that album out. I’m thinking about doing a holiday cover for a friend. I have an Aaron Neville (who she loves) holiday release in my digital library, Going to check and see if there’s anything easy I could work out :smile:

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Christmas music is very depressing to me. I avoid it no matter how good they say it is.

That’s just me, I don’t mean to be a grinch.

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Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney has some nice bass and it’s overall just a great Christmas song.
https://youtu.be/94Ye-3C1FC8

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Love that Bela Fleck album also. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon is pretty simple but still fun to play along to.

There’s also the whole Motown Christmas album which I say qualifies as “good bass” :sunglasses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmUW2pVAopc

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Actually the only christmas song I can tolerate. I’m a bit like @PamPurrs on this subject

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My absolute favorite, and actually has a decent bassline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8

Kirsty was such a loss. Pretty much the Pogues at their height too when it came out.

Also: I am super salty because I have already lost the Little Drummer Boy Challenge. Before Thanksgiving, in Japan, during a pandemic. Unbelievable.

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https://youtu.be/BpfHSqLXePI

The one and only Slade of course

Ann excellent live band. Only just quieter than Motörhead and a lot faster live.
Their bass player also played electric violin on some tracks

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Strong runner up :metal:

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And a very tongue in cheek song from one of my favourites The Darkness

https://youtu.be/I54u4-lPdgg

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I had no idea that was a thing! Ahaha loved it

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SO MAD :slight_smile:

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Christmas carols are a great introduction to transcription

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I wrote this song in 2011. I hope you like it:
It’s called “Reggae Christmas Time” from my anime band called Rofl_fm and it’s on Spotify or youtube.

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Thanks for the tracks everybody, listening now!

Haha I had to look that up too. I’ve already lost too!

Feel free to throw us a link in the thread @nelson.z!

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Hi, here is a link to the christmas song,

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Something different, probably to most of you?

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Wow never heard that song actually… Here in Italy (and probably whole EU) the challenge would be “Last Christmas Challenge”

This one is for @juli0r

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If the “Last Christmas Challenge” was a thing, I’d have lost already :rofl:

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Oof.

I always liked misheard lyrics but never heard of that one.
The most famous is probably “Agathe Bauer” (I got the power)

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