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Top 50 Winter Holiday Music Nomination Thread: ♪Holiday VoooOOOoooOOOte, Holiday VoooOOOooote♪

Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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"Hehehe, hello, friends, it's me, the Christmas Creep! People have been warning you all about me this time of year. I get it. Christmas sucks all the air out of the room and there are other holidays going on within the next few months. Oh, don't misunderstand me, I do love Christmas. Perhaps too much. But I do love people spreading their love of all the winter holidays around this time of year! So I want to hear from you! I want a winter holiday playlist to help get me through the holidays. After all, I spend so much of my time stressing out about getting gifts, attending parties and also devouring naughty or behaviourally-unaligned children that by the end of the season, I'm just frazzled. I need something to fuel the spirit. So please, I want to hear all about YOUR favourite holiday songs. I know this is early but if we don't get started now, well, by December it will be too late for my MUSICAL ADVENT CALENDAR! That's right, starting Dec. 1, you'll be getting two songs a day from my own special Holiday radio station chosen by you. And I understand people fed up this early but we got to do this now. The deadline is in twenty days time but in all likelihood you'll still be able to do it by Nov. 30. But please try to have it in BEFORE then if possible."

You heard the green thing. If you haven't done this before, here's how it works.

A) Send a list of your top 25 favourite holiday songs or pieces of music. You are free to send a smaller list if you want but I will say my personal preference is a full list if possible.
B) PM me your list. And keep it a secret! Treat it like a secret gift.
C) I'll tally everyone's list and make a composite list of 50 songs.

And here are the rules:
1) The songs or pieces can be from any "Winter" holiday or observance. I'll include any celebration ranging from American Thanksgiving to any in January.
2) Obviously, there are a lot of versions of the same tune. You can just submit the standard and your preferred version. If the preferred version makes a strong showing, I might choose to separate the two. I'll be happy to make certain exceptions, especially if it is strongly different from the source.
3) There are a lot of songs about Winter that aren't necessarily holiday songs. They count. I'm also including songs originally not intended to be related to the holidays that got folded into it.
4) As you might expect from how I'm framing this, Christmas will make a strong showing but feel free to think outside the box. I get that there is a problem with Christmas sucking a lot of the air in the room (it's actually a part of my Early Childhood Anti-Bias class) and there are a lot of great celebrations and a lot of amazing music from different cultures and traditions that deserve to be noted. And yes, I am making it an advent calendar which is specifically Christmas but most of these holidays are actually done before them except Boxing Day, New Years and Orthodox Christmas.
5) You also don't need to limit yourself to the obvious ones. You can include comedy or novelty songs about the season, ones from movies and such. Note that even if it is a Christmas movie, make sure the song is about the holidays too (like, "What's This?" from the Nightmare Before Christmas works better than "This is Halloween.")

Gee, is there anything I'm forgetting? If I am or you notice a blind spot, let me know.

Here are some winter Holidays:
Christmas, Orthodox Christmas (I celebrate both Christmases), Thanksgiving (American), Hanukkah, Bodhi Day, Santa Lucia Day, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, New Years and National Thesaurus Day


Well, the deadline is Nov. 26, 2023. Please remember it and I hope everyone takes part. I know the next two months are kind of busy but I really am hoping to get, at the very least, 15 lists. Wish me and the Christmas Creep luck, OK everyone?

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"I eat my young."
 
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Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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Torzelbaum said:
How do you want us to indicate / convey what our preferred version is?
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You can just put the preferred version in the list. Unless you are very adamant and express your desire for them not to be grouped together, I'll put them in with the others. So if you say "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" by Springsteen, I'll put it with the standard version but let me know if you want it to be considered a separate entry.

Is that clear? I ask because I'm not always as clear or articulate as I intend. Basically just make a list and in each entry you can mention a preferred version and make special note if you want a particular version not lumped in with the others.
 
Adrenaline

Adrenaline

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Seems pretty easy to just talk about your preferred version when the song appears on the list
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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I agree but there are definitely covers that are extremely different than most to the point its almost its own thing so I can understand wanting to focus on that. But it definitely makes it easier just to put them together in most cases.
 
Torzelbaum

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Johnny Unusual said:
I agree but there are definitely covers that are extremely different than most to the point its almost its own thing so I can understand wanting to focus on that.
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While making my list I have been listening to different versions of my picks for this and my mind has definitely reacted strongly against versions that don't sound right to me / match my hazy memories.
 
Torzelbaum

Torzelbaum

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Johnny Unusual said:
One gift I would value above all others is participation in my popularity contest list

Top 50 Winter Holiday Music Nomination Thread: ♪Holiday VoooOOOoooOOOte, Holiday VoooOOOooote♪

"Hehehe, hello, friends, it's me, the Christmas Creep! People have been warning you all about me this time of year. I get it. Christmas sucks all the air out of the room and there are other holidays going on within the next few months. Oh, don't misunderstand me, I do love Christmas...
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I'm not demanding it, of course. Maybe you hate Holiday music or are in general sick of Christmas taking up so much societal headspace. But I am hoping to get at least 15 participants (and the more the merrier). So if you want to do me a solid or even save a bit of money on items, a list would mean a lot (hey, you could do this and just a card if you want. I do like getting things in the mail, after all).
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I just sent you my gift. I hope you like it. Please tell me if it's not the right size or color.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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One week done and I have three lists. We still have plenty of time but I'm hoping for at least 15 lists by Nov 26th so if you want to take part please don't forget to send one!
 
Kirin

Kirin

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I'm hoping to get one in but it's definitely not gonna be until some time after I'm back home later in the week.
 
Violentvixen

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Johnny Unusual said:
I agree but there are definitely covers that are extremely different than most to the point its almost its own thing so I can understand wanting to focus on that. But it definitely makes it easier just to put them together in most cases.
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Oh man, I bet I could make a list of 25 different versions of Carol of the Bells if I wanted to. I will exercise restraint because I think that would be a bit too weird, but I'm probably going to put a few versions of it on my list.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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I got 4 lists! But that's not even a third of my aim. Only a week and a half left. That doesn't sound like a lot but time really flies this time of year.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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I've got 6 lists now. Ho Ho Ho.

I'm hoping to get nine more. The official due date is in a week! Then four more days while I tabulate the votes but preferably try to get it in by the 26th. The countdown starts Dec. 1st!
 
Bongo

Bongo

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Johnny Unusual said:
A) Send a list of your top 25 favourite holiday songs or pieces of music. You are free to send a smaller list if you want but I will say my personal preference is a full list if possible.
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Does the list have to be sorted?
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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Bongo said:
Does the list have to be sorted?
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Yes. Favourite (#1) to least Favourite (#25, assuming you can make a full list 9f 25). If you don't, I'll just assume the first thing in your list is #1.

I forgot to mention it but the higher on the list the more points it's worth (#1 is 35 points, #2 is 34 points and so on)
 
Bongo

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Rather than assigning arbitrary point values to rankings, some form of instant runoff voting will probably produce fairer and more representative results. Anyway, I'll have some songs for you pretty quick.
 
Kirin

Kirin

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Bongo said:
Rather than assigning arbitrary point values to rankings, some form of instant runoff voting will probably produce fairer and more representative results.
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I immediately had a knee-jerk reaction to this of “sure, ok, cool, but we’ve been doing it this way for a decade and it’s fun”. But hey, that’s a knee-jerk reaction. So then I thought for another minute and realized that trying something along those lines would require waaay more than a minute of thought due to the fact that we’re not working from a set list of candidates and we want a full ordering, not just a winner.

Now, people have put a lot of thought into voting algorithms so it’s not all that unlikely that something actually applicable exists, but it’d require some more digging. Definitely not suggesting Johnny change anything for this list unless he wants to. I have a list coming up after, so if the fancy hits me and I have some time maybe I’ll look into it a little more for fun. Or not, the old way works too!
 
Violentvixen

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Yeah, let's not use this for a specific ranked list especially when people have already submitted lists, that's like removing tournament rankings or ignoring win records going into playoffs.
 
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