favourite x-mas song?

Balls Of Steel

i know theres a music forums here but i think it would get better coverage here so what is your favourite christmas song??? mine is fairytale of new york

Cactus Col

agree with you there .. fairytale of new york (pogues / kirsty version)

_blank_

Yep, Fairytale of New Your is the best one.

woosaysdan

yeah it has to be fairytale of new york!!!

thetrickykid

The South Park Christmas Album has some crackers (excuse the pun).

'Merry F**king Christmas' being my fave...the most un-p.c. xmas song you'll ever hear.

aidan_walsh

"Theres a Dead Man Up the Chimney (Christmas is Cancelled)" by Fester and Ailin...

Sleepy

Fairytale of New York is afaic the only decent Christmas song.

Antisocialiser

It has to be Jackson 5 - Santa claus is comin to town :P

GeorgeBailey

Said it before and now I'll say it again: The old Penny's Christmas ad.

Sleepy

/me sings "Penney's gotta whole lotta things for Christmas, got a lot for the family...Tra la la la la... Tra la la la la..."

That song used to always get stuck in my head around Christmas time when I worked in Penneys. I remember one year when we all decided to have a go at sliding down the stock slide (used for moving boxes down from the first floor of the stockroom) to recreate the ad!

frantic_mel

i love that song "have yourelf a merry little christmas time"

Lump

Oh Holy night... from Home alone Fame.... in the church etc etc... rather a sad moment in the film and I think it's a nice song.


John

Cactus Col

Sleepy wrote:

/me sings "Penney's gotta whole lotta things for Christmas, got a lot for the family...Tra la la la la... Tra la la la la..."

I prefer the Primarks version

Hobbes

Lump wrote:

Oh Holy night... from Home alone Fame

I prefer Cartmans version.

cournioni

Fairytale in New York.

fade2black

sometimes in a bookies they have betting without the sure thing favourite....this is how this should go.....Fairy tale of new york wins hands do

The best songs are the ones that place you in a christmas place in your mind. I.E....Driving home for christmas from Chris Rea is a real christmas eve song..excellent. Any nat king cole song works too.

Chris Martin from coldplay has a lovely version of have yourself a merry christmas..if you can get your hands on it

gimmick

My current 'favourite' is a ditty called "I want to give you one for xmas"! Its absolutely awful, but laced with double entendres. I been looking for a link to it for the last hour, but to no avail. The search will continue.

I did find this rubbish though.

Rb

I'd have to agree and say Fairytale In New york.
The sunday tribune didn't put it in their "Legends Sing Christmas" cd surprisingly.

Ruadan

Happy X-mas (war is over)

John Lennon

ionapaul

I've got both an Elvis Christmas album and a Dean Martin Christmas album...they both rock

Corruptedmorals

We're walking in the Air

OLDYELLAR

wham , last christmas , I absolutely love it !:)

azezil

I quite like Zim's!

"Bow down, Bow down, Before the power of santa, or be crushed, be crushed, by..... His jolly boots of doom. x2 "

azezil

Corruptedmorals wrote:

We're walking in the Air

Guy who wrote that is a convicted child molester.

Fun fact for ya

alleepally

I'll follow along with what most people have said and vote Fairytale of New York. It's quite possibly the only song I could listen to forever and not get bored with it. A beautiful piece of work.

CJ_Will

FINALLY! A place with some taste! I ditto the vote for Fairytale of New York.
I realize not everybody always warms up quickly to Shane MacGowan's unique voice...
And I quickly realized not to try to "force" my co-workers over here to listen to any of my Pogue albums like Rum, Sodomy and the Lash or Red Roses. :rolleyes: But when I get hastled for trying to play such an absolutely brlliant, beautiful song like Fairytale, and then am told what is that *@$#? Or "that's not a real Christams song"... Then I do have to go off and say something :mad: .
So, again, I'm glad to finally be surrounded by those of good taste.
Cheers!

LoneGunM@n

My favourite is White Christmas [Bing Crosby], followed closely by Fairytale of New York [Kirsty & Shane] and the Little Drummer Boy [Bing Crosby & David Bowie] ... I love Chrimbo music ... the cd is camped in the car stereo at the mo!

p.s. Shouldn't we have a Santa Smilie or something to add a bit of extra chrimbo cheer :cool:

woosaysdan

i also like the santa clause ya c unt,
wheres me f ucking bike
i went through all this other ****é
and theres nothing that i like

oxygen_old

Im probably going to get absolutely slated for this and get plenty of bad reps but in terms of feel good,catchy,holiday style music the one I like is
(gulp) Maria Carey "All I want for Christmas".
Im not saying I dont like "Fairy Tale of New York" or "Driving Home for Christmas" but I dont really feel like its Christmas until I hear All I want blaring in a shop or better yet a pub.

Haruspex

Has to be for me John Lennon's Happy Christmas (War is Over).
Always relevant and poignant year after year...

Mossy Monk

Ruadan wrote:

Happy X-mas (war is over)

John Lennon

agreed

Seraphina

i ****ING HATE christmas songs... they started playing them where i work already.

happy jolly i want to ****ing kill you all on a loop three times a day
aaaaaarrrrrrgggggg

Blisterman

They're a mixed bunch. Some I can't stand, but others really get you in the christmas mood.

NotMe

Seraphina wrote:

i ****ING HATE christmas songs... they started playing them where i work already.

happy jolly i want to ****ing kill you all on a loop three times a day
aaaaaarrrrrrgggggg

I hate Christmas songs aswell. (Bah humbug...) I'd have say Fairytale of New York is the most bearable though.

Chinafoot

"santa baby hurry down the chimney tonight"

also

"rockin robin *tweet* tweetily-deet* "

always gets me in the christmas mood

arbeitsscheuer

Am I the only one who's gonna vote for Band Aid - Do They Know It's Xmas?!

Damn.

irlirishkev

Elvis has a lot of Christmas songs, but some of the best are -

Santa Clause is Back in Town - A real bluesy rock song from 1957
I'll Be Home For Christmas - Played at the end of Lethal Weapon 1. A real christmassy feeling song, that warms the soul..
If Every Day Was Like Christmas - A little known gem from 1966. Hauntingly 'Christmas'.

I urge you to check them out if you haven't heard them.. though I know you probably won't

Kevin.

woosaysdan

SebtheBum wrote:

Am I the only one who's gonna vote for Band Aid - Do They Know It's Xmas?!

Damn.

it looks like that

Chinafoot

SebtheBum wrote:

Am I the only one who's gonna vote for Band Aid - Do They Know It's Xmas?!

Damn.

well only if you're referring to the original one.......not that muck thats out now!

oh oh oh, "Lonely This Christmas"...........i love that one. so cool!

and for a funny one:

"grandma got run over by a reindeer
walking home from our house christmas eve,
you can say theres no such thing as santa
but as for me and grandpa we believe"

arbeitsscheuer

Oh jesus DEFINITELY the original one... :eek:
The new one is just... f**king... awful... :mad:

Ya know it's the 3rd time they've "redone" the song? And each time it's worse than the last...

Blisterman

Who else redid it and why? It's not even a good song to begin with.

Chinafoot

SebtheBum wrote:

Oh jesus DEFINITELY the original one... :eek:
The new one is just... f**king... awful... :mad:

Ya know it's the 3rd time they've "redone" the song? And each time it's worse than the last...

yup, merely highlights the ultimate crapness that passes for musicians theses days! i mean, come on, busted and dizzy rascal!!?

arbeitsscheuer

peachypants wrote:

busted and dizzy rascal!!?

says it all really, dunnit?
Oh god it's terrible... Especially "dizzee" rapping in the middle of it... Good christ...

simu

I like "An Oíche Úd i mBeithil".

I'm not keen on pop Christmas songs - they're too tacky.

theCzar

peachypants wrote:

"santa baby hurry down the chimney tonight"

I second marilyn monroe's Santa Baby

my second choice is "let it snow" if that's the name of it, by dean martin i think

Fairytale of new york is classic but i've heard it sooooo many times.

bandaid is played even more, and it wasn't as good to start with. Kudos to Geldof though...

ionapaul

Every classic Christmas song sung by Elvis or Deano is better than any other one EVER. And that's a fact.

In fact, if you sing ANY song like Elvis would, it sounds better. I invite any of you to prove me wrong.

'It'll be lonely this Christmas, without you to hold, it'll be lonely this Christmas, lonely and cold, it'll be COLD so CO-OH-OLD....'

Fairytale of New York would've been better as a duet by Elvis and Deano.

blondie83

Fariytale of New York is definitely the best - Saw Shane McGowan and some woman sing it live at the freshers ball one of the years, it was absolutely brilliant

Also like the original bandaid if I'm drunk and around other drunk people who want to sing along to it.

And like someone else said I've loved "Oh holy night" ever since I saw it in home alone. It can really send shivers down your spine if its sung properly!

Capt'n Midnight

Fairytale of New York - nice anti-christmas song - and if Elvis did it the sound might be better but not the emotion or sentiment , poor old Kirsty...
That one from slade
Frank Kelly's one is a bit over played but still worth a listen

Any christmas song where the people are having fun - not the commercial ones that only look like they are having fun

Eartha Kitt - best santa baby - (not that's it's great but the best version)

Badly Drunk Boy

"No Xmas For John Quays" by The Fall , and "A Junkie's Christmas From Interzone" by William Burroughs. Not really a song but 'tis beautiful...when you look beyond the nastiness...

cashback

has to be Fairytale of New york. I remember they used to always play the video on The Den. The one with a young Matt Dillon as a cop. Haven't seen it in ages.
Heard a xmas song on the radio that was fairly nice and christmassy. goes something like 'we all stand together, la la la la'. know I heard it before. anyway it's good.
In fact I miss all the videos, Shakin Stevens in Santa's workshop, George Michael throwing snowballs, and of course Mariah Carey frolicking in the snow! Happy days...

superconor

Has to be fairy tale of new york, then here it is merry christmas by slade, then wish it could be xmas by wizzard, then let it snow by..dean martin?

i HATE simply having a wondefull ****ing christmas time! AGHHH!! and that wham song! AGGHH!