Your favorite Christmas songs from past 15 years (modern classics)

linkinpark875 · 18/11/14 - 13:03

For years there was no modern xmas songs always repeats of Band Aid 1984 and Wham but there's been some decent tracks some done better than others over the years.

Here's my modern xmas playlist:

The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)
Coldplay - Christmas Lights
Band Aid 30 - Do they do it's Christmas?
Glasvegas - Please Come Back Home
Gabrielle Aplin - Power Of Love
Leona Lewis - One More Sleep

What's your favourite modern classics?

soulmusic · 18/11/14 - 13:27

Leona Lewis One More Sleep, Your Hallelujah, Mr Right (all original tracks) and Ave Maria. I love all the tracks on Christmas with Love album.
Kelly Clarkson Wrapped in Red

mushymanrob · 18/11/14 - 13:32

proper crimbo.....

zerothehero · 18/11/14 - 13:40

One more sleep is amazing and it came after years of no proper xmas songs from anyone but i have to admit to like peter kay/geraldine's xmas song

x+y · 18/11/14 - 19:37

The Killers release a Christmas song every year and have done since 2006. Shame none of them get much recognition as they're all really good. Here's my personal Killers festive chart:

1. Boots (2010)
2. A Great Big Sled (2006)
3. Don't Shoot Me Santa (2007)
4. I Feel It In My Bones (2012)
5. The Cowboys' Christmas Ball (2011)
6. Happy Christmas Guadalupe! (2009)
7. Christmas In LA (2013)
8. Joseph, Better You Than Me (2008)

Hopefully they'll release another one this year.

gelbma0991 · 18/11/14 - 19:51

One More Sleep by Leona Lewis & Kelly Clarkson's 'Underneath the Tree'... actually both their Christmas albums are really really good, and their original tracks are great too (Mr Right from Leona, Wrapped in Red by KC etc)!

I'm trying to think of others that I've really liked, but most of them are just covers of other Christmas songs.... oh, I do really like Oh! Santa by Mariah too, I think that's a great track! Not to serious, but very festive

(obviously it's no All I Want... )

gold2040 · 18/11/14 - 20:14

mushymanrob wrote: »

proper crimbo.....

Sing with meeeeeeeeeee

rfonzo · 19/11/14 - 02:02

I think the modern christmas songs have been awful but if I went for one it would have to be the Darkness, Christmas Time.

mushymanrob · 19/11/14 - 07:36

i wonder why most modern crimbo songs never make it big like seemingly most of the ones pre-2000 seem to.

arent they very good?

or is there a corporate conspiricy to keep spoon feeding us the same old crap? ok, i accept that alot of old crimbo songs are good ones and have become part of crimbo as much as carols have.... but after 40 years of hearing 'iiiits chhrrissstmassss' it /they have completely lost their appeal.

chrisw99 · 19/11/14 - 08:41

Artists try but it's like the old classics are set in stone, everyone has a best Christmas songs album, so for the new ones to get a foot in is very difficult.

I have a soft spot for the Status Quo one , "It's Christmas Time" from a couple of years back, it ticks all the right boxes compared to the 70s classics, cheesy lyrics, cheesy video... check it out...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxG49nJmkwQ

welwynrose · 19/11/14 - 10:38

I liked the one Justin Lee Collins did for his TV programme

http://youtu.be/0i20oJMgCWs

velixa · 19/11/14 - 13:07

Don't let the bells end - but there's not a lot to choose from.

I have a feeling that we'll be hearing Peter Kay's/Geraldine's efforts of years to come.

Proper Crimbo is a new classic but the video is so outdated.

icanboogie · 19/11/14 - 13:11

Hey Mr Snowman - Kim Wilde

Actually, I love all of the songs on Wilde's Winter Songbook. It's a really good Christmas album.

Ally_Bowie · 19/11/14 - 19:21

I love Christmas songs... I even love some of the cheesy efforts!!!

Cheeky Girls - Have a Cheeky Christmas
The Darkness - Christmas Time
Leona - One More Sleep
Avid Merrion/ Bo Selecta - Proper Crimbo

Ally_Bowie · 19/11/14 - 19:22

icanboogie wrote: »

Hey Mr Snowman - Kim Wilde

Actually, I love all of the songs on Wilde's Winter Songbook. It's a really good Christmas album.

I LOOOVE that record!!!

LaVieEnRose · 20/11/14 - 01:11

As a non-fan of Christmas I nominate

Black Christmas by Poly Styrene

and

All I Want For Christmas Is New Year's Day by Hurts

Billy Hicks · 20/11/14 - 01:52

The Darkness win the noughties and Coldplay (so far) wins the 2010s, although Geraldine's Once Upon a Christmas Song is a guilty pleasure.

There's also 'It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas' by the Pet Shop Boys, first released exclusively to their fan club in 1997 but then beefed up and released officially in 2009 - ironically on one of the coldest winters for decades! I saw them at the O2 that Christmas when tons couldn't make the gig due to heavy snowfall, which made the performance of that song very ironic - something Neil Tennant gleefully noted when introducing.

[Deleted User] · 20/11/14 - 10:15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=644U-jMpDUw

Smith and Burrows.. When the thames froze

Slarti Bartfast · 20/11/14 - 10:54

linkinpark875 wrote: »

For years there was no modern xmas songs always repeats of Band Aid 1984 and Wham but there's been some decent tracks some done better than others over the years.

Here's my modern xmas playlist:

The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)
Coldplay - Christmas Lights
Band Aid 30 - Do they do it's Christmas?
Glasvegas - Please Come Back Home
Gabrielle Aplin - Power Of Love
Leona Lewis - One More Sleep

What's your favourite modern classics?

Is 'Please Come Back Home' a Christmas song? If I were to pick a Glasvegas song it would have to be 'A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss)'.

However, my personal favourite of the last 15 years is 'Proper Chrimbo' by Bo Selecta

musicjukebox123 · 20/11/14 - 11:49

The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't let the bells end)
Kate Winslet - What If

cnbcwatcher · 20/11/14 - 11:57

My Only Wish (This Year) - Britney Spears (probably my personal fave of this lot - might play it now

)
Not Tonight Santa - Girls Aloud
Santa Baby - Kylie Minogue
Winter Wonderland - The Saturdays (Radio 1 Live Lounge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOES4jhzuSE)
Tears and Tinsel - Northern Kind
Driving Home for Christmas - Stacey Solomon
Christmas Tree - Lady Gaga
White Christmas - Lady Gaga (jazz cover live from A Very Gaga Holiday)
Have A Cheeky Christmas - The Cheeky Girls

The Saturdays are rumoured to be releasing a Christmas album and I heard they're releasing a soundtrack song for a festive movie called Christmas Wrapping. I'm looking forward to that if it's true :cool:

d56 · 20/11/14 - 13:57

Leona Lewis - One More Sleep
N*Sync - Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays (That might be just over 15 years though)
Kelly Clarkson - Underneath The Tree

~Jane~ · 20/11/14 - 15:13

Britney's - Santa, that's My Only wish This Year.

I can't believe my all time favorite Christmas song - Mariah's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' Is now 20 years old! it makes me feel very old too!

rfonzo · 20/11/14 - 16:09

icanboogie wrote: »

Hey Mr Snowman - Kim Wilde

Actually, I love all of the songs on Wilde's Winter Songbook. It's a really good Christmas album.

I must check that out. I wonder if it is a return to the classic style of christmas songs?

cody jarrett · 20/11/14 - 17:19

sally1978 wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=644U-jMpDUw

Smith and Burrows.. When the thames froze

Good one Sally, I love that tune.

Also George Michael's December Song and even the Spice Girls cover of Christmas Wrapping is quite good.

starry_rune · 21/11/14 - 16:12

I'll be home with bells on - dolly parton

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