WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?

I am listening to my own Christmas music on my ipod.. everything from songs from my dad's time until now.  I love to listen to Christmas music and I could listen all day!!  I hope you do too!

Christmas music band performs at a California shopping mall (2008)

Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season, which tends to begin in the months leading up to the actual holiday and end in the weeks shortly thereafter.

"Please Come Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song, released in 1960, by the American blues singer and pianist Charles Brown. Hitting Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in December 1961, the tune Brown co-wrote with Gene Redd peaked at position #76. It appeared on the Christmas Singles chart for nine seasons, hitting #1 in 1972. It includes a number of characteristics of Christmas music, such as multiple references in the lyrics to the Christmas season and Christmas traditions, and the use of a Church bell type sound, created using a piano, at the start of the song. It is sometimes referred to as "Bells Will Be Ringing", which are the first four words of the song.

"Please Come Home for Christmas"
Single by Eagles
B-side	"Funky New Year"
Released	November 27, 1978
Format	7-inch
Recorded	1978 at Bayshore Recording Studios, Coconut Grove, Florida
Genre	Blues Rock, Christmas, Pop
Length	2:57
Label	Asylum 45555
Writer(s)	Charles Brown, Gene Redd
Producer	Bill Szymczyk
Eagles singles chronology
"Life in the Fast Lane" (1977) "Please Come Home for Christmas" (1978) "Heartache Tonight" (1979)

"Please Come Home for Christmas"
Single by Bon Jovi
B-side	"I Wish Everyday Could be Like Christmas" (4:25) "Back Door Santa" (3:52)
Released	1995 (Japan)
Format	CD single
Genre	Christmas, Pop
Length	2:53
Label	Mercury PHCR-8343
Writer(s)	Charles Brown, Gene Redd
Producer	Jimmy Iovine

Metal Health
Studio album by Quiet Riot
Released	March 11, 1983 August 28, 2001 (Bonus tracks)
Recorded	1982, The Pasha Music House, Hollywood
Genre	Heavy metal, glam metal
Length	40:57
Label	Pasha/Sony/Columbia
Producer	Spencer Proffer
Quiet Riot chronology
Quiet Riot II (1978) Metal Health (1983) Condition Critical (1984)

Metal Health is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot. It was released on March 11, 1983, bolstered by the #5 hit "Cum on Feel the Noize" and the #31 hit "Metal Health". Metal Health is notable for being the first heavy metal album to reach the #1 spot on the Billboard 200. It knocked The Police's Synchronicity out of #1 in the US. The album went on to sell more than six million copies and is considered a classic among heavy metal fans. Some critics, such as Allmusic, describe it as a one-hit wonder, owing to Quiet Riot's relative lack of critical and commercial success with following albums (and subsequent disintegration) towards the end of the 1980s. The title track was ranked #35 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs

Drops of Jupiter
Studio album by Train
Released	March 27, 2001
Recorded	1999–2000
Genre	Rock, alternative rock, roots rock, pop rock
Length	48:33
Label	Columbia
Producer	Brendan O'Brien
Train chronology
One and a Half (1999) Drops of Jupiter (2001) My Private Nation (2003)

Drops of Jupiter is Train's second album, released in 2001. The album's title is derived from "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)", its first single, which won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Bon Jovi
Released	October 29, 2010 see (release history)
Recorded	1983-2010
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal, glam metal
Length	70:53
Label	Island
Producer	Howard Benson, Tony Bongiovi,Jon Bon Jovi, Peter Collins, Luke Ebbin, Bruce Fairbairn, Danny Korchmar, Lance Quinn, Bob Rock,Richie Sambora, John Shanks
Bon Jovi chronology
The Circle (2009) Greatest Hits (2010) Inside Out (2012)
Singles from Greatest Hits
"What Do You Got?" Released: September 21, 2010 "No Apologies" Released: February 24, 2011 "This Is Our House" Released: September 6, 2011

GREAT ALBUM!

Anything?
Studio album by Todd Rundgren
Released	February 1972
Recorded	Late 1971, I.D. Sound Studios and Runt Recorders, Los Angeles The Record Plant, New York City Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, NY
Genre	Art rock, power pop, psychedelic pop, pop rock, experimental rock
Length	86:15
Label	Bearsville 2BX-2066
Producer	Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren chronology
Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren (1971) Something/Anything? (1972) A Wizard, a True Star (1973)
Singles from Something/Anything?
"I Saw the Light" b/w "Marlene" Released: March 1972 "Couldn't I Just Tell You" b/w "Wolfman Jack" Released: July 1972 "Hello It's Me" b/w "Cold Morning Light" Released: December 1972 "Wolfman Jack" b/w "Breathless" Released: December 1974

I've seen Todd and his former band Utopia 37 times live in concert since I became a die-hard fan in 1972 ..... Todds music has enriched and inspired my life in so many ways over my lifetime. He has dabled in so many genres of music from pop-rock love ballads to heavy metal, experimental dance-electronica, progressive rock and lounge music.... You name it, Todds done it ! He's been a phenominal Producer of many other notable musicans and bands as well as a computer wiz/inventor ... Todd really is A Wizard - A True Star !!

ke
Studio album by Godsmack
Released	October 31, 2000
Recorded	River's Edge Productions Inc., Haverhill, Massachusetts
Genre	Heavy metal, alternative metal
Length	45:29
Label	Republic/Universal
Producer	Sully Erna, Mudrock
Godsmack chronology
Godsmack (1998) Awake (2000) Faceless (2003)
Singles from Awake
"Awake" Released: November 2000 "Bad Magick" Released: 2001 "Greed" Released: May 2001

Released on todays date in 2000! 

Surrealistic Pillow
Studio album by Jefferson Airplane
Released	February 1967 (1967-02)
Recorded	October 31 – November 22, 1966 in RCA Victor's Music Center, Hollywood, California
Genre	Psychedelic rock, folk rock
Length	34:48
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Rick Jarrard
Jefferson Airplane chronology
Jefferson Airplane Takes Off (September 1966) Surrealistic Pillow (February 1967) After Bathing at Baxter's (December 1967)

Grace Slick was born on this date in 1939...

Black Ice
Studio album by AC/DC
Released	17 October 2008 (2008-10-17)
Recorded	March–April 2008 at The Warehouse Studio, Vancouver, Canada
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal, blues rock
Length	55:38
Label	Columbia
Producer	Brendan O'Brien
AC/DC chronology
Stiff Upper Lip (2000) Black Ice (2008) Backtracks (2009)
Singles from Black Ice
"Rock 'n' Roll Train" Released: 28 August 2008 (2008-08-28) "Big Jack" Released: 18 December 2008 (2008-12-18) "Anything Goes" Released: 25 February 2009 (2009-02-25) "Money Made" Released: 5 July 2009 (2009-07-05)

AC/DC's "Black Ice" sells 780,000 copies in its first week of release to top the Billboard 200 chart. The disc, exclusively available at Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and ACDC.com, is only the band's second album to reach #1 in the U.S. ‘82’s "For Those About To Rock We Salute You" was the first. On this date in 2008