AspieAlly613 Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 There are numerous holidays across the calendar, and across different cultures. Yet, for some reason, the phrase "Holiday music" connotes Christmas music. What are some of your favorite songs for other holidays? Here's one of my favorite Simchat Torah songs. I don't celebrate Halloween, but I like this song. This non-traditional recording of a traditional Rosh Hashanah song is enjoyable because it's funny to listen to a liturgical piece sung in this musical genre. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FrostyPine14 Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 Halloween is my favorite! spooky scary skeletons is always a bop lol 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
verily-forsooth-egads Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 Halloween music is objectively the best. Ghostbusters theme did NOT have to go that hard. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blunose2772 Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 I love the music used in the Boo To You parade at Disney during Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Snao Cone Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BigBassFox Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 2 minutes ago, Snaolent Night said: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) https://youtu.be/4O2OJU9LNSY Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steel13 Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 I really like Dayenu and Miriam's Song on Passover. I also love Auld Lang Syne on New Years. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
A name is required Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 Happy Hannukah! (DEC18-26th this year) (people are usually very surprised when i tell them that it's a relatively minor holiday in Israel... and also that our dreidels have different letters on them here...) 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blunose2772 Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 Does this count as a Fourth Of July song? 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sally Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 Chad Gadya on Passover 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 Solstice songs from the HP Lovecraft Historical Society. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sally Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 4 hours ago, A name is required said: Happy Hannukah! (DEC18-26th this year) (people are usually very surprised when i tell them that it's a relatively minor holiday in Israel... and also that our dreidels have different letters on them here...) I think Hanukkah's become more "major" in the US because we want to have at least something during the Christmas onslaught. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dreamfyre Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Two of my favourites are Aigiri Nandini and the Shiva Tandava Stotram. Both are religious pieces of music. I guess they can be associated with Navatri and Shivaratri though my brain is too scrambled right now to explain in detail. This is my favourite Divali song also a religious one. Dedicated to Maa Lakshimi. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
coolshades Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Monster Mash 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AspieAlly613 Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 Oh, right, how could I forget this song that's totally NOT a Hebrew translation of "Come All Ye Faithful" (Seriously, it's not.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AspieAlly613 Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 On 12/2/2022 at 8:30 PM, Dreamfyre said: Two of my favourites are Aigiri Nandini and the Shiva Tandava Stotram. Both are religious pieces of music. I guess they can be associated with Navatri and Shivaratri though my brain is too scrambled right now to explain in detail. This is my favourite Divali song also a religious one. Dedicated to Maa Lakshimi. These are some really good ones I've never heard before. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sally Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 4 hours ago, AspieAlly613 said: These are some really good ones I've never heard before. Thanks for sharing. I forgot about Maoz Tsur (Mighty Stronghold), a Hanukkah song. Here are ALL the depressing lyrics. The music itself is kind of boring. O mighty stronghold of my salvation, to praise You is a delight. Restore my House of Prayer and there we will bring a thanksgiving offering. When You will have prepared the slaughter for the blaspheming foe, Then I shall complete with a song of hymn the dedication of the Altar. My soul had been sated with troubles, my strength has been consumed with grief. They had embittered my life with hardship, with the calf-like kingdom's bondage. But with His great power He brought forth the treasured ones, Pharaoh's army and all his offspring Went down like a stone into the deep. To the holy abode of His Word He brought me. But there, too, I had no rest And an oppressor came and exiled me. For I had served aliens, And had drunk benumbing wine. Scarcely had I departed At Babylon's end Zerubabel came. At the end of seventy years I was saved. To sever the towering cypress sought the Aggagite, son of Hammedatha, But it became [a snare and] a stumbling block to him and his arrogance was stilled. The head of the Benjaminite You lifted and the enemy, his name You obliterated His numerous progeny - his possessions -on the gallows You hanged. Greeks gathered against me then in Hasmonean days. They breached the walls of my towers and they defiled all the oils; And from the one remnant of the flasks a miracle was wrought for the roses. Men of insight - eight days established for song and jubilation Bare Your holy arm and hasten the End for salvation - Avenge the vengeance of Your servants' blood from the wicked nation. For the triumph is too long delayed for us, and there is no end to days of evil, Repel the Red One in the nethermost shadow and establish for us the seven shepherds. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AspieAlly613 Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 14 minutes ago, Sally said: Repel the Red One in the nethermost shadow and establish for us the seven shepherds. Fun fact. This verse was omitted from many printings in the Soviet Union, for fear of misunderstanding of who the "Red One" or "Red Nation" was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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imnotafreakofnature! Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 A few more, just because it's fun and I couldn't resist. I especially love the first one. And of course, we can't forget our weekly "holiday." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
a little annihilation Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Spooky scary skeletons Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Skittles87 Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Here's a Samhain song by Damh the Bard: (224) Samhain Eve by Damh The Bard with Lyrics - YouTube Quote Link to post Share on other sites
imnotafreakofnature! Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 A Louis Armstrong classic! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lilibulero Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 https://youtu.be/SxuapKdqIZw Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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