Christmas is a time to sing!! 2025

[Mendalla]

Guess it's time for a Christmas music thread. Advent starts this coming Sunday and there's already some new Christmas material out from various artists. Plus, of course, we can always post our favourites. Religious and secular are both welcome.

To kick off, Laufey did not release a new Christmas EP this year but did add a couple tracks to A Very Laufey Holiday from last year. Given her jazz-pop style, she's almost a shoe-in for doing Christmas albums.

With the new tracks comes this absolutely cute video for her version of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town". That's her dancing and Junia, her twin, on the piano.

Christmas Magic is a Laufey original, written by her and her producer/co-writer.

 

[GordW]

HEre is a new Christmas piece from Straight No Chaser:

 

[Mendalla]

A Christmas song from a band called "Dance of Death"? Yeah, metal gets fun sometimes. Their actual name is the Latin Saltatio Mortis but that's the English meaning. The band is German and part of the "medieval metal" genre. Their contribution to Christmas is this rather humourous take on Santa as ... A VIKING!! (hey, he comes from the North, right?)

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Recent country star Lainey Wilson doing a “duet” Bing Crosby.

 

[Mendalla]

"Father Christmas" by the late Greg Lake stands as one of the greatest rock Christmas songs period and as one of the few Christmas songs to come out of prog rock. And it is now 50 years old, first released in 1975. I can't even tell you when I first heard the song, only that I was ten that year and I have been hearing this song for a very long time. This animated video for the song was made to celebrate the anniversary.