Carolers are at my door. Don't want to hear them anymore.

That's a lie. I never tire of Christmas music.

If you haven't noticed, I try to title my December posts with Christmas lyrics and that is from a song off Barenaked for the Holidays and it seemed the appropriate choice.

So here's my Christmas songs post. Only a little different from last year's selection I'm sure. I can't really pick favorites so here's just a general list of what has been on my Ipod (it's relatively long and not at all complete).

Winter Song (Sara Bareillis)
Frosty the Snowman (Fiona Apple)
Elf's Lament (Barenaked Ladies and Michael Buble)
Silent Night (Priscilla Ahn)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Hem)
Baby It's Cold Outside (Doris Day and Bing Crosby or Zooey Deschanel and Leon Redbone)
Green Christmas (Barenaked Ladies)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Barenaked Ladies)
Thankful Heart (Michael Caine - Muppet Christmas Carol)
Oh Holy Night (Voice Male)
Auld Lang Syne (Barenaked Ladies)
Angels We Have Heard on High (Relient K)
Wish I had a River (Robert Downey Jr.)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Voice Male)
One More Sleep Til Christmas (Kermit the Frog and the shorter version with Robin)
Little Saint Nick (Electric Mayhem from A Christmas Together - John Denver and the Muppets)
When the River Meets the Sea (John Denver and the Muppets)
Pennies from Heaven (Louis Prima from Elf)
Sleigh Ride (Ella Fitzgerald)
The Christmas Song (Dave Matthews Band)
Linus and Lucy (A Charlie Brown Christmas)

I know I'm missing some of my favorites. I need to get a copy of Susie Snowflake and 2000 Miles onto my Ipod because I love those songs. I can listen to almost any version of Oh Holy Night, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (James Taylor's is playing on the radio right now) and Angels We Have Heard on High - those are my top three all time favorites. I like the Hem version of Merry Little Christmas because it's the closest to the original (sung by Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis - which has become one of my "must see" Christmas movies, but that's a different post I suppose) and I like the Voice Male version of Angels We Have Heard on High because they all sing their parts so clearly and it's beautiful. I like the Josh Groban version of Oh Holy Night but don't have a copy.

The Christmas album I purchased this year was The Hotel Cafe tour presents Winter Songs. I highly recommend it if only for Fiona Apple's version of Frosty the Snowman - it makes me like that song again and I haven't liked that song for a very long time. Winter Song by Sara Bareillis is my new obsession, I might listen to it all winter since it's not so much a Christmas song and because I'm addicted.

I've also recently become addicted to Linus and Lucy and have been listening to that since this summer but it's on a Christmas album so it's technically Christmas music. I love the entire Charlie Brown Christmas cd.

And of course, Christmas is not Christmas without the Muppets...and plenty of them! My Christmas memories are entrenched with watching the Muppet Christmas Carol, listening to the soundtrack and to A Christmas Together with the Muppets and John Denver (I used to fall asleep listening to A Christmas Together on the record player).

So there it is. My Christmas music post. I love my Christmas music - I won't get into the Christmas songs I find revolting (*cough* Dominic the Donkey *cough*) because I like to try and focus on the positive - but I will say that the logs on the fire definitely DO NOT fill me with desire Carpenters. They most certainly do not.