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It's the 1st of December so such things can be discussed now.
What's your favourite Christmas song?
Here's some to start us off.
Low - Just like Xmas
From my youth
Pretenders - 2000 miles
Run DMC Xmas in Hollis
😉
Christmas Overture Nigel Hess. On Classic FM right now!
Good call on Greg Lake though
Paul McCartney in disguise. 😉
And an instrumental you may have heard a bit of in the last few minutes. 😉
Because Christmas is about giving.
Anything from this album, will be getting a spin later.
I think it is hard to beat a good rendition of "carol of the bells" to bring a sense of a mythical traditional happy christmas.
I avoid them tbh. But when Shane sings 'It was Christmas eve babe, in the drunk tank' I can't help but smile. Such a great line and the perfect voice for it.
Well played Houns
Baby Jesus, born to rock:
For very personal reasons, my favourite Christmas song is Mariah Carey.
I'm so sorry.
But when Shane sings ‘It was Christmas eve babe, in the drunk tank’ I can’t help but smile. Such a great line and the perfect voice for it.
"We kissed on the corner and danced through the night" genuinely, and for no good reason I can think of, brings a tear to my eye. But then, I just listened to the start of Mogwai's beautiful Christmas Song and that just did the same, so maybe that's just me. 🙂
Love this -
And this -
And
I like an upbeat christmas song so it is either
Elvis - Santa bring my baby back to me
or Bob Dylan - Must be santa
Don't know how to embed 🙁
Every Christmas Eve I end up dreaming
She'll kiss me awake
But when morning comes
I'm just the fool who repeats his mistake
In the year since she left me
My wish list has remained the same
If I can't have her back
Please allow me to forget her name
Maria curry for me.
The two by The Ronettes - cracking tunes!
Aimee Mann…
Laura Marling
Joni Mitchell…
Shawn Colvin did a whole album of holiday songs, this one’s my favourite…
Aidan Moffat has a few good xmas tunes, here's a fave:
Here's my actual fave (apologies of it's too sweary mods)
This spans several current threads
I like setting Alexa to play Dominick the Donkey and I want a hippopotamus for Christmas at random times through the day.
And not just in the lead up to Christmas!
Mid rehearsals for half a dozen Christmas concerts ranging from - drunken carol rampage on a train Huddersfield to sSouth Yorks and back via a concert in a pub, to a Church Choir carol service, with a Male Voice Choir and a professional singing group (The Mastersingers) joint concert and three other pub carol-singing events, I may be a bit jaded on favourites. However, I found this last year and a couple of us decided Adrienne would look pretty good in a cassock:
Rage Against the Machine. Killing in the Name Of.
A Very Special Christmas Volume 1 starts the Christmas music chez Sandwich after the December birthdays are done. The kids (32 and 30!) would ask for it every year from around age 4.
This is bittersweet
Ok I've had 2 mince pies:
Anything by Phil spector
Low as the op
12 days of Christmas -the Muppets
Christmas thanks for nothing - slow club
Christmas at the zoo - flaming lips
Merry Christmas - the Ramones
Santa Claus go straight to the ghetto - James brown
I was born on Christmas day - st Etienne
And don't forget, it's cliché to be cynical at Christmas - hmhb
The Low song is from their Xmas CD
I think that song is great but the rest is mostly okay
Slade and the Pogues, you all know and love them so no point linking them, too uncool to admit liking them though it would appear (apart from desperatebicycle).
I don't have any favourite Christmas music but I shall be playing in this next weekend. Again!
it won't sound this good.
Big soft spot for John Lennon "Happy Christmas (War is Over)"
Phil Spector Christmas album
and
A few of my favourites have already been mentioned: Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses, Troika, etc....
Then this...
or this...
I don't know if anyone else feels it but I remember Bohemian Rhapsody being number 1 at Christmas in the 70s and that always takes me back to Christmas whenever in the year I hear it.
I dunno. They're all a bit naff aren't they?
Maybe Food For Thought by UB40. After all, it's OK to own their first two albums isn't it?
No, no and no again