What are your favourite Christmas songs?

[Father Christmas]

Do share with the group.

[Laurel]

I am of the mind that they should scrap every Christmas song each Christmas and just release a new lot of songs for christmas.
I see Sam whatshisface has done a Christmas song.

[Your Mum]

[Chess&Junkfood]

[anxiouslondoner]

I hate them all
Every last xmas-related sound that is weaponised against me in privately or publicly owned spaces is an assault on my well-being.
Turn it off. Turn it all off.
I'd rather live in complete silence for a month of the year than this offensive repetitive barrage of themed tripe. Stop it. Stop it now.
Anyway, you were saying?

[anxiouslondoner]

TBH the one bit of Christmas music I like is the bit in The Twelve Days of Christmas where it goes
Fiiiiive Goooold Riiiiiings!
I think this could be used in other seasonal songs to make them more tolerable.
For example:
So here it is, merry Christmas, everybody's having fun,
look to the future now, it's only just be-
Fiiiiive Goooold Riiiings!
-gun......

Isn't that better?

[genovese]

Anything harp based.
I once saw an impromptu harpist rattle out a bunch of Christmas carols/songs in a hospital waiting room. Very nice.

Originally Posted by anxiouslondoner

I hate them all

Except Slade Merry Christmas where every line is the same right

[biscuits]

Mine is the mince pie one.

My primary school had the best Christmas bangers. We have one teacher who played guitar and his repertoire was out of this world. An acoustic version of Jimi Hendrix.

[biscuits]

Originally Posted by anxiouslondoner

I hate them all

Are you trying to turn this thread into a brawl and then shut down?

*puts on my Christmas pudding, diamond encrusted knuckle dusters*

[Just-Matt]

Originally Posted by biscuits

Are you trying to turn this thread into a brawl and then shut down?

*puts on my Christmas pudding, diamond encrusted knuckle dusters*

Oh no, not a Xmas-themed brawl?!! This is my family Xmas in 2019 all over again

Besides, brawls are so uncouth. I'm more of a duelling man myself. Far more Christmas-y

[biscuits]

Wrap some tinsel around your èpèe and meet me at the clock tower at dawn!

[Just-Matt]

Personally, I usually can't stand Xmas songs, especially modern ones. For some reason, I find groups like Pentatonix particularly torturous to listen, but my sister loves them.

Despite the fact that last year in my old job for Sainsbury's working nightshift, they were playing non-stop Xmas songs throughout the whole store EVERY 10-hour shift I worked for the whole month and a bit (many songs played again and again) and putting me in a murderous rage half the time, I still don't mind a handful of the older ones, this one being my favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJPc7esgvsA

I left the link because I've forgotten how to embed YouTube videos.

[Just-Matt]

Originally Posted by biscuits

Wrap some tinsel around your èpèe and meet me at the clock tower at dawn!

Too impractical, I need the tinsel to wrap around my neck and look stupid cool in

[R.H.I.N.O.]

Fairytale of New York because it was written by Shane McGowan (RIP), who is one of the best songwriters of the last 40 years.

And he was born on Christmas Day, so no contest.

John Lennon- So This Is Christmas- second.

Greg Lake- I Believe in Father Christmas- third.

The rest can do one.

[Merritt]

Out of the ones you end up hearing everywhere, I don't mind Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses, and I have to admit All I Want for Christmas Is You is a bit of a banger.

All the others can go to hell and crawl up Satan's arse where they belong.

[Chess&Junkfood]

[Mole58]

[BFG_]

Eric Idle - F%#@ Christmas

And

[Dougella]

Originally Posted by R.H.I.N.O.

Fairytale of New York because it was written by Shane McGowan (RIP), who is one of the best songwriters of the last 40 years.

And he was born on Christmas Day, so no contest.

This. It's the only good one.

[genovese]

Banger

[choirgirl]

I like carols, the bangers of the past. Most of the well-known Christmas songs have Christmas shopping or working in retail bad memories attached. Confession time, I think I heard Buble do a Christmas song when I was out and I didn't hate it, I sort of enjoyed it. This is clearly a sign of the post fertile years, a rapidly declining music taste.

[billy_brown]

I listen to A Very Chilly Christmas (Chilly Gonzales) a lot at christmas. I like the Jarvis Cocker and Feist songs. The Last Christmas cover goes a bit too Richard Clayderman though.




https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=17u_0mLekkU



Here's a bit of Chilly and Jarvis doing it live.


[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/120H3edYEDo?si=P8pAmVGqm8u7PqFx[YOUTUBE]

[billy_brown]

^ Well I've buggered the links up, they're still clickable though.

[Merry]

Fairytale of New York, I was lucky to see them play it live a while ago and they had gold confetti fall from the roof, it was really magical.

The Pretenders, 2000 miles

Carol of the Bells

Winter Hymnel, Fleet Foxes

Christmas carols

[Jen.]

I suppose Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here, instrumental or vocal version. My dad always loved the record - I wasn't really bothered, and I dislike the cartoon, but I used to like this song from it when I was young because it always sounded a bit unsettling to me, a very weird atmosphere for a Christmas song and a bit creepy. Now as an adult it just sounds miserable, but not in a bad way.

It's difficult to have a favourite of anything really with songs that are played so much they're no longer enjoyable to listen to. I find there's something quite unpleasant about British Christmas songs in general, the ones from the 70s and 80s anyway.

[Chess&Junkfood]

[Chess&Junkfood]

[Chess&Junkfood]

[R.H.I.N.O.]

I forgot to mention one of my faves, which I heard yesterday, namely 2000 miles by the Pretenders.

Chrissie Hynde has a wonderful voice.