Favourite Xmas Song

[Fromtherough]

My favourites are:

Stop the Cavalry - Jona Lewie
Fairytale of Newyork -The Pogues
2000 Miles - The Pretenders

Strangely, none of which are very festive.

 

[evahakool]

Santa baby-Ertha Kitt

Fairytale in New York

Slade.

 

[evahakool]

Bing Crosby and David Bowie - Little drummer boy. Like the video too

Always thought that was a very strange collaboration for Bowie, probably because he was out of it on cocaine at the time.:thup:

 

[Piece]

I don't mind most Christmas songs .

I really don't like (and I'll don my tin hat) the Fairytale of New York.

 

[tugglesf239]

Bing Crosby and David Bowie - Little drummer boy. Like the video too

oh

Good shout also

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I really don't like (and I'll don my tin hat) the Fairytale of New York.

Well with two of us we can't make a defensive square but we can at least go down fighting together side by side :thup:

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Don't think I've spotted mention of Mike Oldfield's In Dulci Dubilo - another fave of mine - of course being the music for a carol also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCvz7uflMIU

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Well with two of us we can't make a defensive square but we can at least go down fighting together side by side :thup:

I'll add a third side. Nearly ready for a square go if we get one more. Surely it's not that loved?

 

[bernix]

None of them. All too overplayed

+1 (i hate all of them)

 

[Snelly]

Fairytale of New York.

Although the first thing I will play on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day etc is Spem in Alium. For those unfamiliar with it, Spem in Alium (Latin for "Hope in any other") is a 40-part Renaissance motet by Thomas Tallis, composed in 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each, widely considered to be the greatest piece of English early music and one of the greatest choral works ever composed.

Check it out. Sit somewhere quiet, headphones on, close your eyes and think of things dear to you. Go to the end as it builds and fades beautifully. Hanky at the ready......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtJvtk6EHZE

 

[SatchFan]

Agree with Snelly's choice of choral music. If you want something a bit more commercial there is always Carol of the Bells by Libera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzVsrQhL62U