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Favourite Christmas Song

Difficult to choose just one, in no particular order, a good top 10

Greg Lake - I believe in Father Christmas
Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus)
Celtic Woman - Carol of the Bells/ Ray Conniff - Ring Christmas Bells (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYlq70973Ig) both versions good though
Michael Buble & The Puppini Sisters - Jingle Bells (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlWkUGjoLRY)
Felicity Lott - Twelve Days of Christmas
Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas
Scouting For Girls - Christmas in the Air
Bowie & Bing - Little Drummer Boy (yep I'm in the minority)
Annie Lennnox - God rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlsJD8RlhbI)
Coldplay - Christmas Lights
 
Piece said:
No one liking Wham’s Last Christmas? :p

FTofNY is at the bottom of my list. In fact it’s not even on the list.
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Wham - Last Christmas is a good song, but for me it's a wham song and every time I hear Wham on the radio or TV, it gets turned over. I don't necessarily dislike their songs, but doing the switching has just become habit.
 
For me it's I believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake, but I like most of the classic ones! Can't stand Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea though. I have no idea why!

On this subject, this is something I wonder every year.....when was the last time someone made and released a truly "classic" Christmas song? I mean, if someone asked you to compile and release a double CD of Christmas songs, you'd be choosing the likes of Wizzard, Slade, Band Aid, John Lennon and Yoko etc etc etc. But which one of those choices of songs would be the most recent?

Strikes me that most of the true classics were made in the 70s and 80s. Nothing recent springs to mind as being a "classic". The most recent one I can think of is All I want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey but that was made in 1994 - over 20 years ago! (Another one I don't personally like, but it's a popular "classic" one).

So....anyone got the answer?
 
Don Barzini said:
For me it's I believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake, but I like most of the classic ones! Can't stand Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea though. I have no idea why!

On this subject, this is something I wonder every year.....when was the last time someone made and released a truly "classic" Christmas song? I mean, if someone asked you to compile and release a double CD of Christmas songs, you'd be choosing the likes of Wizzard, Slade, Band Aid, John Lennon and Yoko etc etc etc. But which one of those choices of songs would be the most recent?

Strikes me that most of the true classics were made in the 70s and 80s. Nothing recent springs to mind as being a "classic". The most recent one I can think of is All I want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey but that was made in 1994 - over 20 years ago! (Another one I don't personally like, but it's a popular "classic" one).

So....anyone got the answer?
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What makes it a classic? I think a couple of the ones I listed above could be classed as classic in years to come. It will all be down to taste - I dislike a number of the current classic christmas records :)
 
Pretty hard to pick one, all Christmas records are great, picked six ones that I listen to alot :-

Dominick The Donkey – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYlvfX3nwlc&feature=related
Grandma Got Run Over by A Reindeer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIwLeASnkw
Marys Boy Child – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxm1FlLSfe4
Merry Christmas Everyone – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeyHl1tQeaQ
This Winter – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAj30JIsC4o
What Child is this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg0-n47JQFM

KennyG would have been the seventh one, he can play the sax well.:cool:
 
I love the Killers Christmas songs (don't shoot me Santa, Joel the Lump of Coal etc)
The Phil Spector Christmas album is amazing, but then again so are Mariah, Mud, Slade, Elvis, Bo Selecta etc

All Christmas songs are fantastic, there are no bad ones.
 
Don Barzini said:
For me it's I believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake, but I like most of the classic ones! Can't stand Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea though. I have no idea why!

On this subject, this is something I wonder every year.....when was the last time someone made and released a truly "classic" Christmas song? I mean, if someone asked you to compile and release a double CD of Christmas songs, you'd be choosing the likes of Wizzard, Slade, Band Aid, John Lennon and Yoko etc etc etc. But which one of those choices of songs would be the most recent?

Strikes me that most of the true classics were made in the 70s and 80s. Nothing recent springs to mind as being a "classic". The most recent one I can think of is All I want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey but that was made in 1994 - over 20 years ago! (Another one I don't personally like, but it's a popular "classic" one).

So....anyone got the answer?
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East 17 springs to mind with Stay
 
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