Return to the Canon of Christmas Songs

[beamjockey]

Today in XKCD #988, Randall Munroe illustrates the point I was making in "Canon of Christmas Songs: Well Gone Dry?" back in 2000

Comments

[archiver_tim]

Gee, I thought the popular Christmas we have today came from returning World War II soldiers who wanted to create a holiday they were kept from while overseas and make a better one for their children

[tigertoy]

Tom Lehrer's classic "A Christmas Carol" is copyright 1954, and there really hasn't been anything new to say about Christmas in the United States since then.

[kevinnickerson]

Surprisingly (to me) "Christmas" is not a genre on All Music.

[polyfrog]

That's true generally; it is not one of the default genres in the ID3 spec.

[kip_w]

Your sig reminds me: Have you heard PDQ Bach's Miss Hilarious? The Gloria might remind you of something. And the Kyrie contains one of the most immortal lines in liturgical music ever, "Kriste! Kriste! Jesu H. Kriste!"

[beamjockey]

I have not heard it.

[acmespaceship]

Jingle Bells: 1857. But the point is taken