Your Top 3 Christmas songs

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Now, you might not know this, but my taste in music is very wide and varied and I listen to a hell of a lot of different stuff but I think I can safely say that generic pop songs are not generally included in my list of 'likes'.

However, I feel Christmas songs are an exception. A lot of them are good fun and although it's music I wouldn't choose to listen to normally, I like most of them here.

I'm very aware that a lot of you will hate them though and find yourself wanting to tear your hair out at this time of year when they're played over and over and over again until you have Slade coming out of your ears.

My top 3:

1. Fairytale of New York - Pogues (easily the best for me)
2. Merry Xmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens (MAJOR guilty pleasure of mine. I know it's shit. But it's also good.)
3. Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade (classic)

Yours?

NO Carols. This is just pop songs.
 
1.RATM - Killing in the Name of
2.Smurfs go pop
3.Slade - Merry Christmas everybody
 
John Denver - Please Daddy Don't get Drunk this Christmas
John Denver - Aspenglow
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
 
I like American Christmas songs more than our own which are far less pop orientated.

1. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree: Brenda Lee
2. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas: Perry Como
3. Mary's Boy Child: Harry Belafonte
 
Why do I have to choose just three? I'd struggle to even narrow it down to a top ten, never mind three. I love most of the Xmas songs.

1. Shakin Stevens - Merry Xmas Everyone
2. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
3. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

(I have so many, many more I really struggled there to do that).
 
I also have a strong liking for 'It's the most wonderful time of the year'

 
WeasteDevil said:
1. Greg Lake - I believe in Father Christmas
2. Bing Crosby - White Christmas
3. Bowie & Crosby - Little Drummer Boy
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Good call, that's my dad's favourite as well. I like it cos it's original, if you look at the lyrics, it's an anti-Christmas song:

And I believed in Father Christmas,
And I looked at the sky with excited eyes,
'Till I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn,
And I saw him and through his disguise.

Great stuff.

Plus, King Crimson were a great band.
 
'Step into Christmas' by Elton John is a good pop orientated one.

 
1. Stop the Cavalry (I don't know if it's strictly an xmas song, but it gets played every xmas)



2. Fairytale of New York
3. Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody
 
1. Fairytale of New York - Pogues
2. Wish it could be Christmas everyday - Wizard
3. Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade
 
WeasteDevil said:
Maybe that's because "Christmas" actually appears in the lyrics? It clearly is a Christmas song.
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The inclusion of the word 'Christmas' alone does not make it a Christmas song, especially seeing as though the context of the song has feck all to do with Christmas. I would say it is a Christmas song, just about, reason being because it has taken off as one, despite it not being Christmassy at all.
 
rednev said:
The inclusion of the word 'Christmas' alone does not make it a Christmas song, especially seeing as though the context of the song has feck all to do with Christmas. I would say it is a Christmas song, just about, reason being because it has taken off as one, despite it not being Christmassy at all.
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Well, yes, that's why the Pogues' song isn't IMO a Christmas song, as it's not actually about Christmas.
 
Bright Eyes - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen


I've always had a soft spot for God Rest... as a carol, and I like the live sound of this version.

Also a big fan of Blue Christmas
 
Greg Lake - I believe in father Christmas
The Who - Tommy
Savatage - Christmas Eve
 
WeasteDevil said:
Well, yes, that's why the Pogues' song isn't IMO a Christmas song, as it's not actually about Christmas.
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It's about a couple reminiscing about a previous Christmas and listening to a band playing on Christmas day... yeah, it has other things it's about as well as just Christmas (the couple arguing and the bloke getting drunk and not fullfilling his dreams etc.) but it is still undeniably a Christmas song.
 
Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade
I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
Thank God it's Christmas - Queen

No particular order.
 
MrsGiggs said:
It's about a couple reminiscing about a previous Christmas and listening to a band playing on Christmas day... yeah, it has other things it's about as well as just Christmas (the couple arguing and the bloke getting drunk and not fullfilling his dreams etc.) but it is still undeniably a Christmas song.
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My point is that you could change the Christmas references to any other holiday in the year. It could be done on New Year's Eve and New Year's day for example and work just as well.
 
WeasteDevil said:
The Pogues would have trouble getting into my top 20, never mind top 3.
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That surprises me TBH....I would have thought lyrics like this would appeal to a man that prides himself of being a grumpy git:

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 faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last
 
Bing Crosby - Winter Wonderland
Ella Fitzgerald - Sleigh Ride
Pet Shop Boys - It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas
 
1] White Christmas - Jose Carreras and Hayley Westenra at the RAH in 2003
2] Bing Crosby - Let It Snow
3] Fairytale of New York - The Pogues

There are more, but certainly not including Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade. lol
 
WeasteDevil said:
The Pogues would have trouble getting into my top 20, never mind top 3.
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Just heard it on youtube, never listened to it before. Can't see what the fuss is about tbh. Its ok as a song but nothing great.
 
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