What's your favourite Chrismas song?

[cyclingthelakes]

Don't ask me this question or you will get a serious answer.

Actually love Noel/Nowell and Air Supply does a good version.

We Three Kings,some folk groups can do a fantastic version of this I have heard.

Also, not a big fan of Elvis but his Blue Christmas and even Here comes Santa Claus are very well done for a more contemporary version, in fact, most Christmas songs are outstanding, one of the ol' Rock and Roll girl groups did Frosty the Snowman, very good version.

There's a song that Im not sure of it may be this "Good Christian Men" but not sure, I always only hear it.http://www.operationsantasearch.org/mus ... SongID=115

Boar's Head Carol! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_Head_Carol

Silent Night, most recorded UK Carol: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BJ3F920101220

And the Charlie Brown theme song piano instrumental jazzy is real good.

[Mr.Benton]

"I want an alien for Christmas" by the Fountains of Wayne is my favourite

[NUKe]

Gerg Lake ' I believe in father Christmas '
or Jethro Tull 'Solstice bell'

[burnsie]

Hmm. A few in mind.....I rather like Christmas Rapping by the waitresses..........but if pushed would go for I believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake.

Dave

[Mick F]

Gerg Lake ' I believe in father Christmas '

Yes, good song, but badly done - even if it is the original!

I heard Toya Wilcox doing it some years ago, and it was fantastic! The Greg Lake original is over produced and therefore too crass. Listen to the words and sing it gently and with meaning. That's what Toya did. So much better.

[eileithyia]

+1 for the Pogues, also Spaceman came travelling, it appealed to my burgeoning atheism and thought it brill that the Star could possibly be a spaceman.

[Lawrie9]

A Cycling Merry Christmas by Brooke and the Saddles

[hubgearfreak]

also Spaceman came travelling, it appealed to my burgeoning atheism

thanks, i had sort of heard it, but never listened to it. i've just youtubed it, and it is good, isn't it.

[Mick F]

We have it on 45rpm ............

but that's showing my age.

[squeaker]

+1 for the Pogues, also Spaceman came travelling, it appealed to my burgeoning atheism and thought it brill that the Star could possibly be a spaceman.

Good choices (similar reasoning)

[PW]

Definitely The Pogues and the late Kirsty McColl. A better class of insult!

[wrangler_rover]

Whatever your favourite Christmas song is, you can guarantee that there won't be so many memorable ones in the future thanks to the X factor & similar shows.
Back in the 70's and 80's, each Christmas, there was a memorable song that topped the charts, ok some were naff but they were memorable & stood the test of time, ie:
Mud - Lonely this Christmas
Wizzard - I wish it could be Christmas every day
Slade, Cliff, Shakin Stevens, The Pouges & Kirsty etc.

Who can remember the artists or songs that were No.1 at Christmas for the last 5 years?
Hardly anybody because they were all manufactured by the X Factor non descript manufactured artists machine.

[hubgearfreak]

there won't be so many memorable ones in the future thanks to the X factor & similar shows.

it's my sincere hope that crap-factor et al have a limited lifespan

[JonnyQ]

Fairytale of New York by The Pogues.

The song just conjures up another more gritty version of Christmas that is somehow more culturally understandable than, say, Bing Crosby's White Christmas; and all that twaddle about sleigh bells in the snow

I agree with this choice.

I love Christmas Carols too.

I hate how 'Feed the world' has become an almost celebratary song as Christmas, with crowds of drunk people singing along without thinking what the lyrics actually mean

[hubgearfreak]

with crowds of drunk people singing along without thinking what the lyrics actually mean

what does/did it mean, a re-igniting of the careers of failing popstars?

i can't be the only one for whome the word hypocrite springs to mind when we're reminded to part with our cash by those with £10m in the bank?