Best christmas songs
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Yahoo offers up a top 25 pop holiday videos list.......am familiar with #1 and #2 and a few of the others http://music.yahoo.com/promos/xmas/
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Manneheim Steamroller has quite a few cds out & they are pretty decent.
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Status Quo - It's Christmas Time
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Eight Days a Week...is probably one of the the best examples of the promotion of hope and love, joy and optimism that's ever been recorded!
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Wonderful ChristmasTime - Paul McCartney (HQ Audio)
Great posts - great songs Keep 'em coming -
Everyone's favorite...
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These are always good for a grin for me
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Adam Sandler original Chanukah (Hanukkah) Song
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I didnt know about this one ....a cool Crimbo song St Etienne with Tim Burgess
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All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey Run, Run Rudolph - Chuck Berry
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Calling on Mary (live) - Aimee Mann
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Love Has Come - Amy Grant FOA Nashville Soundcheck
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The Chanukah Song (Part 2)
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So, I've been busy updating my Christmas music collection lately and have been purchasing a whole bunch tonight, in hopes of coming up with a Christmas music compilation that I can find myself satisfied with. As I'm browsing through all of the songs that I'm looking for, I thought: "Hey, you know what would be a good idea? To post a thread asking everyone's favorite Christmas songs on the Macca forum!" Actually, no, not really; it's just 6 A.M. and I'm incredibly bored and have nothing to do. But I do want to start the thread and, yes, moddies, I am aware that a music related thread is here in OT instead of BOTR, but that's because of one tiny reason: I want people to actually read this thread. And, yes, this thread should have been started sooner, but what the heck? So post your favorite Christmas songs: not just what you feel are objectively the best (for instance, "Yesterday" is probably a better song than "Lovely Rita," but I go back to the latter a lot more) or what you feel you should be liking, but the ones that you go back to every year. Provide links, see if there can be some new stuff to be discovered. Preferably give your thoughts on the songs. Until then, some very notable favorites of mine (in no particular order and not complete): Da Best:
- There's no Christmas song that exists which gets me more in the mood for Christmas than this song. God Bless The King for taking a song that was generally slow and borderline dull and turning it into an utter classic. Brilliant performance. - It's a testament to the Beach Boys when they could go from their usual "fun in the sun" songs and pull off a winter one just as well. A nice, southern California, swingin' styled Christmas song (which, then again, might give people reason to hate this song) and, while one of my daily rituals is to make sure I crack a joke at Mike Love (at least Mike Love post-1967), these are some darn good lyrics for the song. And, of course, there's that Wilson fellow who happened to write a great tune with this, even if the rhythm is similar to "Little Deuce Coupe." - Love it. A classic Stevie/Motown offering with incredible vocals and a Christmas song that's actually funky and makes you want to dance. - Great song by Chuck. It's rocking with some great guitar licks and was one of the first songs to use the word "freeway" in it. There's some trivia for you. Classic song which gets heavy airplay from me during Christmas time. - One of my very favorite Christmas songs. With the orchestra in the background mixed with Nat's always silky vocals, it really makes for one heck of a song. One of the very best. - It's sort of funny that during all of the ridiculously annoying protest songs that John was writing during the early 1970's that in the middle of it came this Christmas classic. And, sure, there are still some of those components even in this song, but it doesn't bother me here. A very nice tune and, actually, one of John's better songs from this time. And I've decided to find Yoko's vocals in the chorus charming. - Great swinging song with some nice guitar licks and a nice performance by a young Brenda Lee. Very good. - I love his Christmas music so much, he gets another song on the list; probably the only artist who gets that nod for me on a list like this. It's Elvis... in his prime. Need I say more? - See #7. - I know, picking the Drifters' version of Bing's? And I like Bing's version (although I've never been crazy over it) and it is, of course, the golden standard for arguably any Christmas song. Yet my tastes tend to go for this version more. On a side note, every time I hear this song, the scene from "Home Alone" always pops in my head, when this song was used. - Absolutely beautiful and probably my favorite rendition of this standard by my all-time favorite Hoboken born person. Sinatra's voice is perfect in this song and the background vocals are beautiful. Great arrangement with the a cappella introduction and really a standout. - It's funny, but it's almost embarrassing to put this on the list. But despite however I feel about Mariah and her music (which isn't really positive), she got it right with this song and it's probably my favorite modern Christmas song which says something, considering this was released nearly 15 years ago. Very uptempo, catchy, and harkens back to the Spector "Wall Of Sound" technique with some Brian Wilson influenced writing, at least in terms of the harmonic structure and some other things which would bore most people to tears. But great song. So I could keep going and going, since there are a ton of Christmas songs to choose from. But this isn't just a list about your favorite songs. The ones that listen to as you sit across the fire with your cup of hot chocolate beside you with your child on your lap bugging the heck out of you wondering why he can't open his gift NOW! and with your little poodle in their God awful Christmas outfit that you knitted for them thinking that it's somehow cute and charming right on your side. No, we're also here to tear down the worst. Da Worst: - With a title like that, do I even have to explain? And, you know, it really says something about a song when, as I'm listening to a little boy sing about what he wants for Christmas, that I instead want to strangle him and the writer who decided to unleash this venom on the planet. Probably my least favorite Christmas song ever. In fact, one of my least favorite songs during any season. You have no idea how much I freaking hate this song. O.K., one of my least favorite things in any song, English or otherwise, is when people go back and forth between two different languages, which is probably another problem for me with the song above. It's just annoying. This song is no different and it's not so much that the songwriting is bad... but for some reason, it just annoys me. Probably because of the overkill and then... the dreaded horns! The song is way too horny and, again, the chorus is catchy to the point of annoyance. - A novelty song, yes, and even one that is rather amusing and cute the first couple of times you hear it. But when you hear it EVERY single year?! Well, it sort of makes you wish that Elmo And Patsy were also blitzed by Rudolph and the gang during these recording sessions. - From the original by Eartha Kit to Madonna, I never got this song. The goal is to try and sound sexy and appealing, yet every time I hear it, I think: "Why you little whore!" And the song is just annoying, in general. - This isn't a song that I really hate, but out of all the traditional Christmas songs, this is one that I've never been able to really like. It's just always been cheesy, boring, and a bit over the top. Just not my thing. Either way, I'm sure our lists will vary, but it should be interesting to read the lists later. 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Ding - Fries are done
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Ding - Fries are done
"Would you like an apple pie with thaaaaaaat?"
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Just heard the famous Slade Chrstmas song on the bus so it must be christmas, What is the best ever Chrstmas record, MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY
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Hearing that for the first time normally means that its October.....people are going off their minds. Do shops actually think we enjoy them ? I feel sorry for the staff. I liked most of the xmas records when they came out.....but i hate them all now ( except one) including John and Pauls. They had a cd on at work once playing all over the building. I put a slight smear of vasiline on it......job sorted The one ? FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK- THE POGUES AND KIRSTY MACCOLL
great song I like a few that havnt been over played I used to play subuteo xmas day. I had a Argentina and a Brazil team Ray Davies and chrissie hynde have one coming out http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/ray_davies/news/13759 Look forward to it