Non-motoring > Your favourite christmas song which is it? Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Bigtee Replies: 37

 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Bigtee
Maria Carey all i want for christmas.

The Pouges fairy tale of New York,

Band Aid.

Bing Crosby White Christmas.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - RattleandSmoke
The Pogues without a doubt for me, it is just Brilliant and sums up Christmas for better than most Christmas songs.

White Christmas is a lovely song but its a bit too nice if you know what I mean.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Zero
I despise them all, but none more than Slade's merry Christmas.

As soon as you hear the first bars of that song, sometime around late November, you know its going to get pounded into your head by every musical source for the next two months.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Bigtee
The pouges is ideal to sing when your drunk.
Last edited by: VxFan on Mon 19 Dec 11 at 19:42
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - RattleandSmoke
Indeed, they played it on Saturday at the usual rock club, the audience aged between 18 and 50 all really loved it. Mind you most Pogues are great to sing along to after you've had a few....
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - RattleandSmoke
A forum always has a Scrooge :). I quite like that the song as a song, but I agree it is over played and gets in your head. I try and counter it by playing Cum Feel the Noise at this time of year.

Personally I think some of the best Christmas songs are the carols, so much nicer than all the cheesy pop stuff.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Focusless
>> Maria Carey all i want for christmas.

Best thing she's ever done by miles; classic Christmas pop.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Bromptonaut
The Pogues/ Kirsty McCall by a country mile.

A few others are worth a listen. Yesterday's Sounds of the Seventies included the Bowie/Crosby rendering of Drummer Boy; a twee old song but brilliantly rendered.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Roger.
I'm walking backwards to Christmas. The Goons.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Iffy
Slade is my favourite - a brilliant pop song which makes the most of the band's attributes, particularly Noddy Holder's vocal.

Least favourite is The Pogues, sentimental faux-Irish folk claptrap.

 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Bigtee
Bruce Springsteen. Santa claus coming to town ( that one)
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Dog
I believe in Father Christmas www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCEdrnaFlY
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - madf
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_04WT87e8s
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Focusless
Another classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ6kJ7GWtv0&ob=av2e
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Skip
I believe in Father Christmas

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 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Robin O'Reliant
>> I believe in Father Christmas
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And Slade's Merry Christmas, it's just a great pop song.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Bigtee
Spice Girls, 2 become 1.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - wotspur
guilty secret of Xmas song I quite like is "stay another day" By East 17, but concur The Pogues is really good as is Happy XMAS (War is over)-by John Lennon
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Alastairw
Christmas Time, by The Darkness.

I must also confess to a softspot for the Mariah Carey number mentioned by the op, but that is because I have been singing it so much lately with this lot: www.rockchoir.com/home.html
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - BobbyG
Favourite Carol is NKC singing O Holy Night - just can't beat it. That is what Christmas means to me.


Favourite Christmas Song? That's more difficult - I like the gimmicky ones like the Wombles but also like A Spaceman Came Travelling from Chris De Burgh.

Another question on the same theme is - what is the most recent Christmas song that will be in the "list of Christmas songs" for years to come? Most recent I can think of is East 17's Stay Another Day and even then, it is not in the Slade / Wizzard league?
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Roger.
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 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - devonite
Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - legacylad
Leaving on a jet plane. Peter, Paul & Mary I think.
Preferably somewhere remote.
I wish.
My view is jaundiced after too many years in retail.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Hard Cheese

The most applicable one for this site has to be "Driving home for Christmas", Chris Rea.

 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - NortonES2
Stille Nacht. Has the advantage of not being a plastic Irish song. The censor does realise that every mention of the pogues is a back-handed reference to their original name?
Last edited by: NortonES2 on Tue 20 Dec 11 at 10:01
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - CGNorwich


www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZR3lJobjw
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - VxFan
Not a favourite, but often gets an airing throughout the day on the radio

Shakin Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - R.P.
Stille Nacht - A German engineered song carved from solid Mahogany that !
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Zero
well if we are going auf Deutsch

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LieDB2SG5To&feature=related
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Focusless
At son's school carol service last week one of the carols was Stille Nacht. Fortunately they printed the words in the programme, and with my one year of school German I just about struggled through the first verse.

But I was finding the second verse hard going - couldn't work out the pronunciations. Then half way through I realised that the second verse was in French.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Focusless
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIWHWjddGsQ
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Crankcase

>> Then half way through I realised that the second verse was in French.

I'm afraid that made me laugh immoderately.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - NortonES2
As a member of the school choir (BFPO 45) in Berlin we were asked to sing Stille Nacht to residents of an old peoples home. In German. Judging by the mahogany facial expressions, English army brats singing to elderly, probably punctilious, Germans in their own language was maybe not very well judged.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Ateca chris
Driving home for christmas for me.

Radio 1 chris moyles is trying to get this into the charts this week
it was no2 in the i tunes chart this morning.He has been playing
it at christmas for years

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F03b3-g
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Zero
I thank the lord for Jazz FM, nary a chrissy song played. You have to admire the jazz folk for the depth and strength of their prejudices.
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Robin O'Reliant
This, of course is the best Christmas son ever -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuTHxMjVivg
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - madf
"This, of course is the best Christmas son ever -"

And what is the best Christmas daughter?
 Your favourite christmas song which is it? - Focusless
>> The Pouges fairy tale of New York,

Saw a cracking version of this on TV yesterday - the real Shane MacGowan partnered by, er, a Beluga whale. Surreal, and very funny:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFRWC53bgKM

(Programme is a year old so apologies if posted before.)
Last edited by: Focus on Sun 1 Jan 12 at 09:46
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