by Christmas is approaching really quick now. While I traditionally do a festive edition of my Country Music Picks, I also felt like sharing some non-country music tracks with you this time. Good ones, weird ones – hope you feel entertained. I just scan hundreds of new releases per week – it would be a shame if I wouldn’t share some more music with you… Even if it is just worth to impolitely tell some unwanted guests that you prefer praising Santa C. without them….
Kelly Clarkson – Christmas Isn’t Cancelled (Just You)
To me, it is still strange that the musical Christmas song season somehow starts in mid to late September. In fact, Kelly Clarkson’s song has been released on 23rd September 2021 and was the first one I put on my list for this posting. Even though it is somehow a rather alternative view interpretation about the “Holiday of Love”, it sounds like a festive classic, at least.
Sabaton – Christmas Truce
That’s how Christmas is sounding in Scandinavia… At least if you are a electric guitar lover. Sabaton do their contribution to the Christmas playlists with a lot of power – but still also an emotional touch.
Cisek & Harloff – Lieblingsweihnachtslied
There is a touch of country music in this German song (which translates to “Favorite Christmas Song”). Not too surprisingly, as Andreas Cisek is known as a member of the German country band Truck Stop. His duet mate for this song, however is a bit of surprising: Fabian Harloff is a German actor. However, he is doing not that bad in here.
Blackmore’s Night – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / O Come All Ye Faithful
Blackmore’s Night released this Christmas double song in later October this year. However, the song has been part of their set list for many years. Actually, a lovely recording with a very traditional Christmas sound (with some riffs for the rock lovers). Might be a nice one under your tree as well.
Broilers – Grauer Schnee
The German pop-rock band Broilers released a full holiday album, Santa Claus, in November. The song Grauer Schnee (“Grey Snow”) is rather having an ironic and look on some of the downsides of the holidays. However, they also state Alles ist besser, wenn wir uns sehen – “Everything is better when we see each other”.
Andreas Gabalier – Rocking Around The Christmas Tree
The Austrian traditional folk rocker released three festive songs in early November – and they are actually quite fun to listen. Here is my favorite.
Darren Criss – Christmas Dance
Some Santa pop in this wide selection of x-mas songs. If you need to have a dance after the presents, take you dancing shoes out and party to Darren Criss, who by the way released a full Christmas album this year.
Pentatonix – Frosty The Snowman
Pentatonix released a full Christmas album, Evergreen. For this Christmas classic, they invited Alessia Cara to sing with them. Indeed a very classic holiday song sound.
The Kelly Family – One More Happy Christmas
The legendary Kelly Family released this Christmas song in a very traditional Kelly style right on my birthday. Irish folk Christmas with family power and a bit of rock music touch.
Hardy and Heroes – Noch ein Weihnachtslied
This song translates to “Another Christmas Song”. Yeah, if you had some beer or mulled wine, this is some track you still are able to sing along to… So it may be sensible to have in your playlist.
In Extremo – Weihnachtskater
Christmas, medieval metal style: the German band In Extremo gives a very nice song with an ancient touch. Will grandma bang her head to this song, which is called “Christmas Hangover”?
Maggie Reilly – I Believe In Father Christmas
Maggie Reilly is still somehow “Mrs. Everytime we touch” to me. Her 2021 Christmas album is actually quite nice and has a nice balance between pop and traditional sound. Here is one of her songs from Happy Christmas.
Marie Reim – Oh Santa
Matthias Reim’s daughter is wishing for the man by their side – is it right to ask Santa Claus for that? Might be a rather big delivery… A song between rock, pop and schlager.
Title picture: In Extremo – Weihnachtskarter single cover
Flyctory.com about Christmas
Here are all Flyctory.com postings which deal with Christmas in any way:
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Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 29th November 2024)
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Lucinda Williams – Have Yourself A Rockin’ Little Christmas (Lu’s Jukebox Vol. 5)
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Brett Eldredge – Mr. Christmas
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Tom Aquinas – XMas Greetings EP
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All “classic” blog posts
No reviews – just debating and certain topics – these are my “traditional” blog posts in the categories Just blogging, Just blogging on music and Sports Blogging:
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“Goldenes Oval” Opening Meeting – Opening Ceremony (Dresden, 30th August 2024)
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My Loyality Program Portfolio 2024
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Food I Had Onboard XIV (January 2024 – early March 2024)
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The Renewed Flyctory.com Country Music Playlists
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Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2023
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Food I Had Onboard XII (Late October 2023 – Mid-November 2023)
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Food I Had Onboard XI (Mid September 2023 – October 2023)
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Rock of Ages – 2024 International Dates of the Musical
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Food I Had Onboard X (July 2023 til early September 2023)
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Heart to Heart – Semmel Concerts Introduces the Songwriters Round to Germany
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Home is where the heart is – My Twelve Favorite Cities of the World
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Seepark Biker Days Pfullendorf 2023 – Atmosphere & Impressions
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My Traveler’s Thoughts About… Renting a Car and Driving in Iceland
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Food I Had Onboard VIII (April 2023 til Mid-May 2023)
Oops, I did it again. Just within about a month, I feel that I had a nice volume of flights, ...
My Favorite Eurovision Song Contest Songs
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Traveling on Iceland’s Ring Road (Reprise)
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Travel all Germany for 49 EUR a Month? The New Deutschland Ticket
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Rock of Ages Opening Night – Red Carpet Impressions
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Food I Had Onboard VII (mid-February 2023 til March 2023)
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Jim “Kimo” West is playing the very first German Weird Al Show tonight – he is back with “Nacht der Gitarren” in Fall
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Food I Had Onboard VI (December 2022 til mid-February 2023)
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Davis Cup Qualifiers – A Bad Day For (Men’s) Doubles Tennis
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Flyctory.com Best Ones 2022
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Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2022
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Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2022
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How I would love European Flight Compensation Regulation to Change
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Covid-19, Strikes and more – My Flight Rebooking Experience
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Some 2022 new Christmas Song Releases – Good Ones and Weird Ones
Just some ten days left until Christmas. Instead of my typical album preview, I this time go for a preview ...
Food I Had Onboard V (September 2022 til November 2022)
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Loyalty Programs – Are We Too Committed To Stay Rational?
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Weird Al Yankovic is touring Europe 2023 – Tour Dates and Travel Hints
The 7th November 2022 is one of these days I will hardly forget so quickly. In a Weird Al fan ...
Visiting the Lillehammer 1994 Olympic Sites in 2022
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Steel Guitar Santa is Back – The Flyctory.com Country Christmas Playlist 2022
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Rock of Ages – International Dates of the Musical in 2023
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Food I Had Onboard IV (May 2022 til August 2022)
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NHL Schedule 2022-23 released – Some suggested Icehopping Itineraries
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The Bergisch Coffee Table (Bergische Kaffeetafel) – A Sweet and Savory Tradition
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European Airports Go Mad – a Morning at Dusseldorf Airport
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Food I Had Onboard III (Mar 2022 til April 2022)
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Currently my favorite animal: Leon The Lobster
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Food I Had Onboard II (Nov 21 til Mar 2022)
After I got some quite nice feedback about my first Food I Had Onboard posting, I felt to continue this ...
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Beijing 2022 – No Flyctory.com Medal Count, Just Thoughts…
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Last week only, I had to cancel or rebook four trip due to Covid-19 related reasons. Three of them included ...
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It is time for the final posting of the years, simply named The Best Ones 2021. After looking into my ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2021
2021 definitely lifted Flyctory.com to another level. The community is steadily increasing - days with less than 2,000 page hits ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2021
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My Top 15 Airports Flown – With Some Brief Thoughts
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Ho Ho Ho – The Flyctory.com Country Christmas Playlist 2021
Okay, I give in. In the world of country music, Christmas starts in early September. That's when the first song ...
Food I Had Onboard (Oct 2021 til Nov 2021)
In October 2021, on a flight from Munich (MUC) to Keflavik Airport (KEF), I decided to go for a new ...
The Hits of the Trips – My Summer 2021 in Music
Summer feels to be over - Fall 2021 is coming. Finally, I had much more - and better - trips ...
My Hotel Checklist – Some Services Too Many Overnights are still failing at
This is a posting I am aiming to write since ages somehow. I visited so many hotels - not just ...
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After the 2018 PyoengChang Olympic Winter Games, I already felt urged to do my very own medal count of the ...
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Are you currently also fascinated (or disgusted) by the Olympic Games? This posting is about cool sports - even though ...
The Twelve Best Flights Of My Life (… so far)
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Music Publications – Does Nowadays The Length Still Matter?
I studied maths. This almost certainly means that I am weird. Or, at least, that I tend to have weird ...
Smooth McGroove – A Very Special Kind of Gaming Music
I got introduced to Smooth McGroove by a friend some half a year ago. At that time, the YouTube music ...
Jan-Marten Block is the German Idol – Some Thoughts After a Strange Season
At first sight, this is rather a blog posting for people outside Germany. At the time of reading, German residents ...
Bricky Trouble over Germany
Covid-19 has influenced our lifestyle in a historic way, indeed. A lot of things we did love to do are ...
Cologne – My Ten Favorite Songs About My Home Town
During a dinner concert in June 2020 of a Cologne local band, Cat Ballou (who will be part of my selection), I ...
(Over) 400 Media Reviews on Flyctory.com – your most popular ones
It started on 27th July 2018 with Talk of This Town by Catherine McGrath. Last weekend, I reached another milestone: with Immortal ...
The Dutch Museumkaart – One Year of Culture and History (almost) for free in the Netherlands
If you are on a city trip, you likely fancy to buy a multi-attraction ticket. There are global companies like ...
Understanding Train Station – A Podcast on Living Abroad and Cultural Differences
I already introduced you to Feli, the German Girl in America, now Feli from Germany, in my Flyctory.com posting about her ...
Dubai – A December 2020 Pandemic Disappointment
I am back. After five days in the United Arab Emirates metropolis, I came back to Germany. My Covid-19 test ...
Flyctory.com Best Ones 2020
After praising my favorite songs of 2020 and the favorite albums and EPs in 2020, the final posting to do ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2020
292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2020
2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
“Zärtliche Chaoten II” – exploring Gran Canaria 32 years later
The critics hated the movie - the cinemas loved it (as it really cashed in a bunch). As a sequel ...
My Ten Favorite Weird Al Yankovic Songs
Weird Al Yankovic is not only one of my most favorite artists, who I follow for some twenty years now ...
My First PCR Test (Centogene Dusseldorf Airport)
While I have a couple of "PCR professionals" in my circle of contacts, it took me until December 2020 until ...
Seven Things I look forward to do in the United States again
In addition to the very personal new Songs of My Life category, I feel like having a bit more blogging contents on ...
Some Christmas Present Ideas for Flyctory.com Music Lovers
Just about one month left until we are facing our very first socially distanced Christmas. Especially after hard times in ...
Hawk-Eye Live – the End of the Tennis Line Judges?
A typical scene at the bett1HULKS tennis tournament during the last two weeks at Cologne's LANXESSarena: Alexander Zverev (who swept ...
The Country Music Week turns Digital
During the last years, October has been one of the big months for European country music fans: being already "traditional" ...
One Year of Flyctory.com Country Music Playlists
Starting Flyctory.com as a travel and sports blog some 30 months ago, I wouldn't have imagined at its beginning how ...
The Big Three of Tennis Men Singles – Unique Dominance?
After Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open 2020, charts like the one by below by the German Data Journalist Felix ...
German Girl in America – YouTube Videos about US-German Differences
2020 is just halfway done - but if I was to choose a German person of the year, regardless whether ...
Nashville, Let the Girls Play – Some Thoughts on Women Country Music
I was originally working on a posting about key challenges that Nashville and the country music industry will face in ...
Olivia Lane – “Living Instead” Podcast about Artists’ Life and More
I absolutely loved to follow Olivia Lane on social media and listen to her music after I happened to run ...
“Lady Antebellum” becomes “Lady A” – My Thoughts
Country music rarely makes it to German media - especially the major US acts, which are typically rather unknown in ...
Lake Constance after the touristic Lockdown – My Experience
Many Germans did it - and I did it as well: travelling again. The Whitsun weekend was not only a ...
Women Soccer Bundesliga is back – But some Girls score in a different Way
They did it: the German Women Soccer Bundesliga (Flyeralarm Frauen-Bundesliga) re-started a few days ago, on 29th May 2020. I ...
Mrs. Greenbird: Strong Crowdfunding Start for New Album
Covid-19 has a huge impact on the music industry. My home town Cologne's local country music heroes, Mrs. Greenbird, were ...
Back To Soccer-Country: Germany
Saturday, 16th May 2020, 15:30 hrs German time. The point in time at which the German Soccer Bundesliga was intended ...
Kenny Foster – His Stories behind “Deep Cuts”
Kenny Foster, one of the Featured Artists of Flyctory.com and one of the most friendly people I met in the ...
Flyctory.com vs. Covid-19 – An unequal battle
A friend of mine recently asked me how the current Covid-19 situation is affecting myself personally and of course also ...
Two new Flyctory.com-managed Playlists on Amazon Music and Spotify
My Country Music Playlists on Amazon Music and Spotify are one of the most popular elements of the Flyctory.com music ...
Made in Bolka – About the Rise of a Floorball Club
Mlada Bolesav - a 44,000 people city in Czech Repiblic, some 65 kilometers Northeast of Prague. Though the city's history ...
My Favorite C2C: Country To Country 2020 Songs
Due to the late cancellation of the C2C festivals in London, Dublin and Glasgow and all the organizational trouble caused ...
Why I feel it makes sense to continue Flyctory.com during the Corona crisis
While I am writing this blog posting, I am sitting in London. The C2C: Country to Country has been cancelled ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 3 (08.03.2020) – Splitter
My third and final issue of stories around the C2C in Berlin - time to finish the days of country ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 2 (07.03.2020) – Splitter
Saturday in Berlin is over. A lot of good music has been played on several stages - but some stories ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 1 (06.03.2020) – Splitter
The German Country Music Scene is having their highest holidays - The C2C in Berlin started on 6th March 2020 ...
Flyctory.com Best Ones 2019
While I so far made an semi-annual look back in time, the "Very Important Postings", I decided something with my ...
Christmas Songs – Why not Hawaiian Style?
Due to my passion for Weird Al Yankovic, I know Jim "Kimo" West for a couple of years now. Kimo ...
My Favorite Music Albums 2019
I decided to split the "Best music" postings of 2019 into two parts: while I already published my personal Best ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2019
2019 has come to an end - and music has been one of the key topics of Flyctory.com in 2019 ...
No Women WFC 2019 Coverage on Flyctory.com?
You may have visited Flyctory.com the last days hoping to have some coverage of the Neuchatel World Floorball Championships this ...
Flyctory.com – My Postings on a Map
I am constantly aiming to improve your user experience on the website. I always felt that drilling down the list ...
Luke Combs – This One’s For You – The Record-Breaking Album
Usually, I am reviewing albums at the time of release. Luke Combs This One's For You has been released on 2nd ...
Frog Leap – An Amazing Project Back On Tour 2020
Leo Moracchioli sounds very Italian, but in fact, the metal musician and producer is Norwegian citiizen. Despite his Youtube has ...
The Flyctory.com Country Music Playlists – The First Ten Weeks
Some ten weeks weeks ago, I added another feature to Flyctory.com: the Country Music Playlists on Amazon and Spotify allows ...
Country 2 Country 2020 Lineup – My View
During the London Country Music Week, Country 2 Country traditionally presented the lineup for the festival. Every year, fans pray ...
Sound of Nashville Press Event & Logan Mize Concert (11th Sep 2019, Cologne)
Quite surprisingly, there seems to be a quite sudden competition about the promotion and management of country music concerts in ...
Flyctory.com on Spotify and Amazon Music Unlimited
I try to improve Flyctory.com steadily and enlarge your visitor's experience. I felt that there is so much music on ...
A Preview to Country Music Concerts (European Tours)
After my posting in April, which was already speculating about a country music boom in Germany and Central Europe, a ...
Very Important Postings – January to June 2019
June 2019, time for the third semiannual summary of the website. Quite a lot has changed and improved compared to ...
CMA Fest 2019 – My Meet & Greets
During the CMA Fest 2019 in Nashville, I did quite a lot of Meet & Greets. I just felt it ...
Visiting CMA Fest 2019
The beginning of June was a very flattering moment to me. After I got more and more into country music ...
My Favorite CMA Fest Songs 2019
CMA Fest 2019 was just massive to me. So many artists, so many new people - I was just overwhelmed! ...
Christina Taylor & Carolyn Miller – Two Upcoming Country Artists
Facebook, Instagram and all other kinds of internet sources nowadays allow you to (sometimes by chance) find, follow and support ...
CMA Fest 2019 – Fan Events with Cassadee Pope and Jana Kramer
The closer CMA Fest 2019 came, the more I became aware of all the side events, which are not happening ...
Country Music Concert Summer 2019 in Germany – a small Boom?
Country music in Germany has a hard standing. It is still not played in most radio stations - or declared ...
Shallow-ism – One Song in countless Versions
I have to admit that Germany is likely the largest music market, in which the amazing duet "Shallow" of Lady ...
My Favorite Country 2 Country Songs 2019
The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
European World Floorball Championship Qualification – A Preview
The "Road to Neuchatel 2019" - as only the Swiss team is qualified for their home World Floorball Championships in ...
Entertaining or not? An Inflight Magazine Comparison
You have them on almost every flight. They are located in the seat in front you? The airlines try to ...
Floorball Champions Cup 2019 – A Preview to Gävle
No floorball competition is changing that frequently like the Champions Cup. While previous season, six men and women teams each ...
Very Important Postings – July to December 2018
Another six months have passed - the first full half year of Flyctory.com's existance. After I did the Very Important ...
My Favorite Songs 2018
As blogging on music became a quite frequent category at Flyctory.com, I felt to look back to 2018 and introduce ...
How to buy a Hotel Group Status
Similar to frequent flying, there is a straightforward option to become a status member in all major hotel chains: frequent ...
Davis Cup World Group Playoff 2018 – More complex than ever!
Though I am a huge opponent of the Davis Cup reformations becoming active in 2019, I have to give in ...
Very Important Postings – Flyctory.com’s 1st Half 2018
1st July 2018 - we start counting down the days to christmas already. In this posting I resume about what ...
Flyctory.com’s Introduction on Mileage Pooling
With Miles & More, Lufthansa Group's widely used loyality programme, introducing the concept of Mileage Pooling to their program just ...
Atlanta 1996 – 22 Years later
There have been so many discussions about Rio 2016. Not just about whether the country itself is able to stand ...
Ode to my Superhero – Leander Paes
Tianjin, China. Tennis Davis Cup, one of my most beloved sports competitions. He was intended to be the hero, the ...
My favourite Country 2 Country 2018 songs
As you might have seen in the other blog entries, I have been attending Europe's major country music festival, the ...
My Medal Count Winner 2018: Canada
Yeah, I have to give in: as a German, you just hated when there has been a race with our ...
Why WordPress?
Some of you may ask: Why did I choose Wordpress for this site? First of all, my wife Sarah had ...
