Hi there

I am compliling a CD of my fave Christmas songs and looking for inspiration.

What are you favourite Christmas records and also why?

Cheers

Merry Christmas!

"Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses.....

Because it has everything...!

"do you hear what i hear?" by perry como.

reminds me of "Gremlins"

All I Want For Christmas, as much as I dislike Mariah Carey, this is a good song.

Christmas Dream by Perry Como.


First heard it in the magnificent film The Odessa File

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8OM9_38VM

I Believe in Father Christmas...Carl Palmer...BRILLIANT!!

That's a fave of mine too.

You've also got to have

Slade: Merry Xmas Everybody
Wizard:

Some stuff from Phil Spectors Xmas album:
Frosty the Snowman etc.

Personal top 5:

1. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You
2. The Darkness - Christmas Time
3. John & Yoko - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
4. The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York
5. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day

I think this would be suitable for me

My Only Wish (This Year) by Britney Spears

because its different from all the others

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrvebqA8xdM

Oh Holy Night is my favourite Christmas hymn and Driving home For Christmas by Chris Rea along with Christmas Day by Dido my favourite Christmas songs.

TMI! That conjures up too many awful images for me!

Do you mean Greg Lake? Or did Palmer also do a version? However this song is my favourite too.

OMG yes..how did I get that oh so wrong!!!!

Too much cheese before bed will kill you, but seeing as it's only seven o'clock I'll admit to my faves including:

All I Want For Christmas - Mariah
Mary's Boy Child - Boney M
Another Rock 'N' Roll Christmas - G*** G******
Cheeky Christmas - Cheeky Girls
Last Christmas - Le Sport (euro electropop cover of the eye-scratching-outingly awful you-know-who original)

On a slightly more credible note, I'd also have to plump for the aforementioned Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping, and Saint Etienne/Tim Burgess's I Was Born On Christmas Day.

Other than that I think they're mostly interminable shite, especially that whole played-to-death-from-September-onwards cycle of 70's 'classics' that have long been held in unimpeachable legend.

The most imperative to avoid though? Let's just say I'd happily see Christmas banned if it meant never being exposed to one bar of East 17's Stay Another Day again.

'Wonderful Christmas Time' by Paul McCartney, don't know why but fo me it's THE Christmas tune.

Pretenders 2000 miles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWjVCyNWs1o

Don't Shoot M Santa by The Killers.
It's so random but I love it!
And the video is AWESOME! I need to steal their sweaters!

But I also love the good old classics like Last Christmas, Merry Christmas Everybody, Step Into Christmas, Wonderful Christmastime and Fairytale of New York.

And Jona Lewie's "Stop The Cavalry" has a nice, christmassy feel to it, too!

Definitely

1. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues and Kirsty McCall
Have seen this sung live twice by the Pogues in the week before Christmas (20 years ago in Glasgow and latterly 2 years ago in Manchester and it was still as special as ever) Love it!

2.) The Power of Love - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Really beautifully and powerfully sung.
(Not strictly sure if you'd class it as a Christmas song but it was out at that time of year and the video has a lot of religious imagery in it)

For me, most of the rest of the usual Xmas songs merge a bit into into wallpaper shopping music, lol !
Except maybe, 'Driving home for Christmas' by Chris Rea, which has real feelgood vibes !

My two favourite Christmas CDs are by Josh Groban and Hayley Westenra. They're great if you want something a bit more classical to mix things up. There's something so magical and spiritual about the traditional songs. My fave tracks are:

1. What Child is This? -- Josh Groban
2. O Come All Ye Faithful -- Josh Groban
3. Carol of The Bells -- Hayley Westenra
4. Corpus Christi Carol -- Hayley Westenra
5. Little Drummer Boy -- Josh Groban

The CDs are 'Noel' by Josh Groban and 'Winter Magic' by Hayley Westenra -- Hayley also has some great originals on there: All With You and Peace Shall Come.

They're on You Tube, so you should check them out!

repeating a few already suggested here but

Fairy Tale of NY - Pogues/Kirsty
Little Drummer Boy - Bowie/Bing Crosby
The Power of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Merry Xmas - Slade
Last Xmas - Wham ( cheesetastic I know)
WIsh It Could Be Xmas Every Day - Wizzard
Only A Winters Tale - David Essex
All I Want For Xmas - Marie Carey
Do They Know It's Xmas - Band Aid
Please Come Home For Xmas - The Eagles
Xmas Time - The Darkness
Lonely This Xmas - Mudd

and for a laugh you could always include Bros and "Silent Night"

Also The Pretenders version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas is just gorgeous!

Mariah's All i want for xmas

I love Gavin degraw's version of Silver Bells and PCD's version of Santa Baby.

Steeleye Span = Gaudete
The Damned - There Ain't No Sanity Clause.

Two of my favourites.

Wasn't Greg Lake's song meant to be a rant at commercialisation of Christmas, or the actual message being lost admist the wrapping & Turkeys?

And Jona Lewie's song wasn't meant to be about Christmas until they added that line "wish I could be home for Christmas..."

Bah Humbug!!!