Spooky, Scary

[globalesque]

Christmas reigns supreme when it comes to holiday music. On both sides of the table - religious and secular - there are dozens, probably hundreds of great tunes. Besides Happy Birthday, I plan to assume some Christmas song is the most widely known and sung in the world. Feel free to weigh in on that.

So why is it the other holidays get such short

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[globalesque]

Thriller by Michael Jackson
Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg
Happy New Year by ABBA, especially the lyric "it's the end of a decade/ in another ten years' time/ who can say what we'll find/ what lays waiting down the line/ in the end of eighty-nine?"
Fairytale of New York by The Pogues

[halphasian]

"Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" is awesome in exactly the same way "Simpsons Christmas Boogie" is awesome. (Thinking about that one still makes me laugh. Out loud.)

[halphasian]

There are literally thousands of songs that could be considered "Valentine's Day" songs.

"Monster" by Kanye West (and Nicki Minaj (and Jay-Z (and Rick Ross (and Bon Iver)))) could be a future Halloween classic. Check it out if you don't know it. Especially the Nicki Minaj verse.

"Werewolves of London." "A Nightmare On My Street." "Zombie?"

[hanjudy]

"There's a song in the air!". Isn't that true always if people take time to listen? Stop, listen, feel!

[clyde_park]

There are plenty of songs considered Christmas songs that really aren't.

"My Favorite Things," "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" "Hallelujah Chorus" (a song about the Resurrection not the first Advent), "Sleigh Ride", "Baby It's Cold Outside." etc....

And Winter would be a lot more managable if we could just sing "Winter Wonderland" "Let It Snow" "Jingle Bells" all Winter long. But sadly they are now only Christmas songs.

[halphasian]

Indeed, every December I go into a mini-rant about how songs that have nothing to do with Christmas have become "Christmas" songs (only). "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is the king of the recent entries -- it's about date rape during a cold spell, but it could easily take place in January or February -- but to me "My Favorite Things" has always been the most mind-boggling one. I can accept that songs about winter or cold weather ("Sleigh Ride," "Jingle Bells," "Winter Wonderland") can be turned into "holiday" classics, because where we grew up, snow/winter and Christmas go hand in hand. But "My Favorite Things" isn't even about thatIn the musical it comes from, it was originally sung in the Mother Abbess's office to encourage Maria before she was sent to the von Trapps. In the movie, it was moved to the thunderstorm scene. In neither case did it have anything at all to do with Christmas or even winter. Even the lyrics are hardly suggestive of the holiday season -- you've got "snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes," "warm woolen

[clyde_park]

"Frosty The Snowman" Not really a Christmas song either.