Reply With Quote1. All my friends are dead - Turbonegro
2. Rape Me - Nirvana
3. Walking in the air - Aled Jones
1. Fairytale of New York - Kirsty Mccoll and Shane McGowan
2. Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody
3. Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
1. All my friends are dead - Turbonegro
2. Rape Me - Nirvana
3. Walking in the air - Aled Jones
RIAC
Christmas Wrapping, by The Waitresses. It's five minutes of sheer awesomenes.
Edit: That's about the only 'Christmas' song I actually like.
Great first choice!Originally Posted by seikopath
1. Elvis Presley - If I Get Home On Christmas Day
2. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day
3. East 17 - Stay Another Day
I only like one.
1. Santa Baby - Ertha Kitt
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chavtastic!
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
[Pedant mode]I think that you'll find that it's "The Pogues - featuring Kirsty MacColl" [/Pedant mode] - however - it's a great Christmas ong (and one of my top 3)
1) Fairytale of New York - The Pogues - featuring Kirsty MacColl
2) I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day - Wizzard
3) Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Bing Crosby (I know - but it's Christmassy - OK?)
It was a near miss for Slade for No. 3 though.
Cheers,
1. John Lennon - Happy Christmas
2. Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody
3. Fairytale of New York - Kirsty Mccoll and Shane McGowan
1. Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
2. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
3. I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
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1. Fairytale of New York - Kirsty Mccoll and Shane McGowan
2. Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody
3. Chris rea - Driving home for Christmas
beat me to it, +1!
Hate the Slade song.
Waitresses, Greg Lake and Chris Rea for me
1 - Fairytale of New York - The Pogues and Kirsty Macoll.
2 - I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
3 - The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
1. Santa Baby - Kylie Minogue's version (just for the video you understand)
2. Driving Home for Christmas - Chris Rea - memories of doing just that
3. Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade - again for the memories
I think the Fairy Tale of New York was the first Christmas tune I heard this year.
Always remember that as trivia question as NYPD don't have a choir.
A runner up has to be Stop the Cavalry - Jona Lewie
Slade, Lake and Lennon for me please.
But Pogues/MacColl and Rea would be in a "top 10" along with Steeleye, Oldfield C.de.B. (
From my very own playlist, guaranteed to empty the dance floor and upset your in-laws:
Top 3:
'I wish it could be christmas today'- Julian Casablancas
'Black Christmas' - Poly Styrene
'Hark The Herald Angels Sing' -The Fall
and also:
'Christmas Was Better In The 80s' -The Futureheads
'Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)'- The Ramones
'Merry Muthafu***** Christmas' Eazy-E
'New Year' The Breeders
For pop, I'd probably have to go for:
1. All I want for Christmas is you - Mariah Carey
2. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
3. Santa Baby - Kylie Minogue
Sad, I know, but it is Christmas! :santa:
Last Christmas - Wham! (first vote for this?!)
All I want for Christmas (is you) - Mariah Carey
Walking in the Air or Merry Christmas Everyone (Shakin' Stevens).
The Pogues & Kirsty McColl -Fairy Tale of New York
Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt & Kylie versions
Run Rudolph Run - Chuck Berry
Frank Sinatra & Cindy Lauper - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
yes...i know it's four :) (technically five!)
If I'm allowed a fourth choice, it's this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSgEDKjmT5o
Just for the sight of the late, great Clarence Clemons wearing a Santa hat.
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I forgot this classic one:
The Farm - All Together Now
About the Christmas truce between the Germans and the British in the trenches of Belgium, WW1, and the football match on that day.
Not your average Christmas song, but fantastic nevertheless.
Seeing as though I am in an unusually festive/posting mood I will add my bit:
The Darkness - Bells End (Don't let the)
Boney M - Mary's Boy Child (Boney M are my life's guilty secret)
Wizzard. I Wish it could.....
Enough I think!
The Pretenders - 2000 Miles
Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
Shakin Stevens - Merry Christmas everyone
Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
Slade
Might go out and buy a Christmas CD on the back of this thread.
As luck would have it, it's this time of year I start listening to my Christmas playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/gamingdave ... i7BmYJAvlp
Starts with the crooners, goes through the funk and ends up in the pub.
Top 3 Pop for me though:
Merry Christmas Everyone : Shaky - all time favourite, just so christmassy, and perfect in the pub.
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday : Wizzard - like a Crimbo jumper, embarrassing, but fits the mood perfectly.
Christmas Wrapping : The Waitresses - its got bells, its fun and warming, its just great.
Favourite non pop (well I guess they were pop, but as a lad growing up in the 80's pop has a different meaning) :
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas : Perry Como - yes it is Perry, yes it is. Perfect heart warmer from a time gone by.
Blue Christmas : Elvis (and many others) - not exactly uplifting, but what a track!
Sock It To Me Santa : The Last Heard - basically Browns' Poppas Got A Brand New Bag, but Santa. Xmas, funk, have it.
Jingle Bells : Booker T and the MGs - the worlds greatest house band funking up an classic. Awesome.
Stop The Cavalry : Jona Lewie - Not intended as a Christmas tune, but adopted and rightly so.
Santa Baby : Ertha Kitt - Wow what a voice, prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrr.
Of course Fairytale of New York is unfair, it IS the Christmas tune.
E17 - Stay Now
Mud - Lonely This Christmas
Frosty The Snowman - The Ronettes
Christmas Wrapping. The Waitresses.
I was born on Christmas Day. St Etienne.
Stop the cavalry. Jona Lewie.
There are so many good Christmas songs, a top three is virtually impossible to defend. Top three per decade is easier.
Mine just gives away my age:
Wizard, Slade, & Greg Lake with John Lennon as close fourth.
There were lots of good Christmas songs in the 80's too though.
Jonah Lewie, The Waitresses and Wham's Last Christmas.
No 90's ones spring to mind though...
Sorry but I cant think of any :D
Christmas wrapping - is good
Greg lake - a bit sinister ( or is that just me )
Pogues etc - v. Good but overplayed
St etinene - like that ( but many won't )
Jona Louie - catches the tone very nice, but rather English
My favourite = e17 - stay another day (no 1 @ Christmas but not a Christmas song)
+1....Always loved this song (original version by the Waitresses, not the crappy Spice Girls cover)
Second one for me has to be Step Into Christmas, by Elton John.
Third one is Last Christmas by Wham/George Michael.
Can`t stand most Christmas songs but I do like these.
Paul
Correct!1. Fairytale of New York - Kirsty Mccoll and Shane McGowan
2. Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody
3. Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
The Power of Love - Frankie goes to Hollywood
Frosty the Snowman - Cocteau Twins
and my current favourite
Home for the Holidays-Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler
edit : actually when you see that written down it seems a tad, well, iffy so you'll excuse me if I add some testosterone
Merry Christmas - The Ramones
Some great left field choices there. I was secretly hoping we'd get to the end of the thread without wham having a mention but there you go
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
According to my iTunes play count my favourite 3 are
Let it Snow!, Dean Martin
Merry Xmas..., Slade
Wombling merry Christmas, The Wombles
I think Fairytale Of New York would have to top them all though. Probably not as high as the GF hates it. Heathen!
The one that has strongest nostalgia memories would have to be In Dulci Jubilo by Mike Oldfield. I think it must have been on at a particularly happy time when I was young and must have sounded very different to me back then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIUlEUWK ... re=related
Still makes me shiver to hear it.
Oi!! You tasteless bunch!!
Christmas( baby please come home) - Darleen Love.
She was in Lethal Weapon you know.
Jon Andersons Three Ships the whole album is good.
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas
Bryan Adams - Run Run Rudolph
Love the first two, but would add the following as my 3rd (ok a bit corny, but I love it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UbUo45HO8g
Chris
1. Happy Christmas (War is over) - John Lennon & Yoko Ono
2. Fairytale of New York - Kirsty Mccoll and Shane McGowan
3. Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy - Bowie & Crosby
Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon
Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys
Marshmallow World - Darlene Love
+ :lol:
I cant believ nobody has gone for
Must be Santa - Bob Dylan
A great party song and oh, try and learn the words and sing along :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus&ob=av2e
I will also go with the waitresses, excellent song.
Cheers,
Ben
..... for I have become the Jedi of flippers
" an extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife "
1) Greg Lake - I Believe in Father Christmas
2) John Lennon - Happy Christmas
3) The Pogues featuring Kirsty McColl - Fairy Tale of New York
1. Fairytale of New York - Pogues & Kirsty Macoll
2. Santa Claus is coming to Town - Bruce Springsteen
3. Three Ships - Barenaked Ladies
....or Winter Wonderland - Elvis Presley version. :idea:
1. Power of Love - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
2. Do they Know it's Christmas -Band Aid (the original)
3. Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth - Bowie/Crosby
Geordie in Wonderland - The Wildhearts
Merry Christmas - John Lennon
I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
Bubbling under Slade and Pipes of Peace... Macca
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