The EC album you most associate with XMAS (the holidays).

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:21 pm

For me, it is Imperial Bedroom. I first got into it last year around this time, and it is bringing back very xmas-y memories.

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:16 pm

Has to be Kojak Variety.

DrS bought it the Christmas before we got back together. We listened to it while I helped him wrap presents. I wasn't into EC at the time, but I loved the album upon first listen. We were making a lot of decisions about getting back together and several of the songs seemed to speak to me. I'll always think of that album at Christmas time.

Post by **DrSpooky** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:32 pm

Kojak Variety because I bought it used right before Christmas when Mrs S and I were restarting to date. We listened to it a lot then and still wake to it every morning as the alarm.

I know it isn't one of those EC releases that generally gets high raves but we have always liked it.

We also got a Todd Rundgren Greatest Hits that same Christasm which is very special to us. But that's off topic.

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:36 pm

You guys are the greatest.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:03 am

Definintely the "Little Drummer Boy" duet with Bing.

That wasn't Elvis? Oh, never mind.

Branst · Post by **Branst** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 4:36 am

Definitely North for me. Imperial Bedroom fits pretty nicely too.

Vis · Post by **Vis** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:32 am

When I was first getting into Elvis a few years back, I found "Extreme Honey" sticking out of my stocking on Christmas morning. To this day, I can't hear "Sulky Girl," "London's Brilliant Parade," or "The Other Side of Summer" without feeling the CHristmas spirit. I can practically smell the clementine oranges.

wardo68 · Post by **wardo68** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:19 am

Mine would be the Best Of that came out in '85. I bought the tape with Xmas money, and listened to it on my Sony Walkman in the car on the way up to visit my grandparents.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:58 pm

Really, from My Aim Is True all the way to The Deliver Man, all of Elvis' stuff is about the glory of our savior's birth.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:24 pm

Oddly enough, I have absolutely no Xmasy memories of EC. Seems his records usually came out in fall or spring, if memory serves. I do, remember, getting Stevie Wonder's "The Secret Lives of Plants" for Christmas and listening it all day on first semi-half-way-decent stereo along with the other records I got, "Little Criminals" and "Darkness on the Edge of Town."

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:32 am

i don't seem to have any either.

the early stuff makes me slightly giddy, as if there are things to be expected, though i have no idea what they are.

The Beatles White Album makes me feel all summery, which i know is WRONG - it's supposed to have a Xmas feeling, it was released at holiday time. however, i discovered it in my friend's mom's stack of LP's, and we'd put it on - we only had the first disc - and set the speakers up to aim the tunes to the front yard, and we'd hang out and listen over and over and over.

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:42 am

I don't really have any Elvis album that I associate with the holidays, though if I had to pick one for some reason Imperial Bedroom comes up.

VonOfterdingen · Post by **VonOfterdingen** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:57 am

Me neither but 'Blur Chair' does sound a bit christmas-like with those bell kind of things

King Teddy Wogan · Post by **King Teddy Wogan** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:33 am

I think Spike is quite Christmassy, what with the all the ship's bells he plays.

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:18 am

North Pole
This Year's Christmas Tree
Almost a Blue Christmas
Blood and Christmas
All Those Useless Presents
When I Was Santa

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:52 am

What about

Yule Never Be A Man
Pads Paws and Santa Claws
Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Sled

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:55 am

I sense many-a-bad Christmas in this message board's past.

King Teddy Wogan · Post by **King Teddy Wogan** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:48 pm

Well for Xmas this year I got; My Aim Is True, This Years Model, Armed Forces, Get Happy! and Taking Liberties all on LP, so i guess those would be the most Chrismassy Elvis songs/albums