Best Christmas Song

finlma

I love Christmas but I absolutely detest Christmas songs. The same rubbish every year. Fairytale is so over-played.

DaBreno

Stop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie. A personal fav, That and the Xmas Rte guide
signal the start of Christmas.

LegacyUser

Baby all I want for Christmas is you!

Kingp35

Would have to say "Fairytale of New York" as my fav but then I like Let it Snow by Frank Sinatra, actually I pretty much like anything by Frank Sinatra :cool:

rahim

Some of them would be good if they weren't played to death for over a month before the big day. Everywhere you go it's just the same cd on repeat. Awfull. It would be better if they were mixed in with other stuff and not played 52 times a day (figures based on experience of working in a popular chain of stores a few years back).

FatherTed

My favorites:

Have Yourself A Merry Little Xmas - Frank Sinatra
Home For The Holidays - Perry Como
Merry Christmas Darling - Carpenters
Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon
Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
All I Want for Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
Please Come Home For Christmas - The Eagles


Ones I Hate
Step into Christmas - Elton John
Last Christmas - Wham!
Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys
Wonderful Christmas Time - Paul McCartney

besty

fairytale of new york is up there.
maybe do they know its christmas too?
so overplayed, but so good!

scuba steve

BoozyBabe wrote:

Grandma got run over by a reindeer........

Ha Ha!!
I love Fairy Tell of New York tho

The_B_Man

fairytale is defo the best by a long way.

foggy

I always loved Fairytale of NY but it must be by the Pogues and Kirsty McColl. Not the christy moore version.
I worked in an Irish bar in Toronto for a year and they used to play it at least once a day. It ruined it for a while but now it's my favourite again.

Aisling(",)

Mariah Carey-All I want for christmas!!!
I Love that song.Me and one of my friends was singing that in September

LegacyUser

Aisling(",) wrote:

Mariah Carey-All I want for christmas!!!
I Love that song.Me and one of my friends was singing that in September

Thats my fave too, last year it got loads of air play, this year its not getting nearly enough.
Whenever it comes on I do me bestest Mariah Carey impression, which usually results in my howling out the words, whilst trying to look sexy, ha ha ha, great fun though.

I don't want a lot for Christmas
There's just one thing I need
I don't care about presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true...
All I want for Christmas
Is yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou...

DawnMc

FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK!!!!!!!!!!!! Even during the summer it's my fave song!


It was christmas eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won’t see another one
And then he sang a song
The rare old mountain dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I’ve got a feeling
This year’s for me and you
So happy christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They’ve got cars big as bars
They’ve got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It’s no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold christmas eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of new york city
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the nypd choir
Were singing galway bay
And the bells were ringing out
For christmas day

You’re a bum
You’re a punk
You’re an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy ****
Happy christmas your arse
I pray God it’s our last

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can’t make it all alone
I’ve built my dreams around you



OOOOOOHHHHH yyeeeaahhh!!

missingtime

Personally i find christmas songs depressing but since thats not what you asked i'll say .... Driving Home For Christmas.

namaimo

missingtime wrote:

Personally i find christmas songs depressing but since thats not what you asked i'll say .... Driving Home For Christmas.

I'll second that not that I find Christmas depressing but that Driving home for Christmas is my favourite...

Setun

It's gotta be an oldie, you can't beat Nat King Cole for nostalgia and ambience. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, lovely tune.

NoDayBut2Day

finlma wrote:

I love Christmas but I absolutely detest Christmas songs. The same rubbish every year. Fairytale is so over-played.

I like Christmas songs, but I know what you mean about being the "same songs.." Whenever a new artist records a Christmas album, you're guaranteed to find songs like "Chestnuts Roasting..." and "Silent Night".. it's like... geez... there are lovely songwriters... they should write more songs! :rolleyes:

But to answer the question, I like "This Christmas" (Christina Aguilera's version), "Merry Christmas Everybody" (by Steps) and "When Love Came Down" (Point of Grace).

Riamfada

Right I have to work tonight from 10pm-6am listening to coveres of all these crap xmas songs.

You know R Kelly does a cover of Silverbells! Yeah!! SILVERBELLS And its painfull. All christmas songs are horrible and corney and should be banned.

meldrew

John Lennon Merry Christmas (war is Over) is by far and away the best

Feenikusu

Last Christmas, Santa Clause is coming to town, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.
Never heard of Fairytale of New York

Piste

I love Christmas songs \o/


Don;t really have a favourite though. That Chris de Burgh one is nice though, a Spaceman Came Travelling

Setun

Feenikusu wrote:

Never heard of Fairytale of New York

Am I missing out on the sarcasm, or have you been avoiding anything that emits noise every christmas for the few years?

Lump

Oh holy night, yes I'm a softy.

John

CathyMoran

Fairytale of Newyork by the Pogues and Kirsty McColl does it for me every time - my brother knew that it is one of my all time favorite songs and played it for me when he was a guest DJ on a college radio at one time (even though it was the middle of summer).

Caravan of Love - The Housemartins - not sure if this is technically a Christmas song but it does remind me of Christmas.

The Power of Love - Frankie goes to Hollywood - another classic.

Stop the Cavalry - Jona Lewie need I say more.

Stan - Eminem, well it was no 1 over Christmas one year...

dundalk cailin

My fave christmas song always has been Shakin Stevens-Merry Christmas Everyone! Puts me in such a good mood when i hear it, cant wait to go home to hear it now

grumpytrousers

1) Fairytale of new york. Best xmas song ever. It's the law, you know.

2) Sleighride, by the Ronettes

3) Baby come home for christmas - U2

I could quite happily live the rest of my days without ever hearing that McCartney one, the Chris Rea one or any of the Cliff Richard ones...

RefulgentGnomon

Never heard of Fairytale of New York

:eek:

John

Feenikusu wrote:

Never heard of Fairytale of New York

You are seriously missing out. One of the best songs ever, Christmas or not.

There's a sample of it here but I recommend going out to any shop over the next couple of weeks and stand around for ten minutes, you're bound to hear it at least twice.

Mossy Monk

Feenikusu wrote:

Never heard of Fairytale of New York

lucky you imo. the song is severely over rated.

Boney M - Marys Boy Child is another good one

Bard

Kernel wrote:

I like Happy Birthday, I hear Warner own the rights now.

That's a fact... and it makes for interesting reading.

John Lennon's "Merry Christmas/War Is Over" is good but definitely goes on a bit too long at the end. Fairytale of New York is a classic that has been done to death (overplayed) on the radio, etc.

Here's a spanner in the works that nobody has mentioned... last year's (I think...) surprise hit...

The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)

Great song!