Favorite Christmas Songs!

[MrBug708]

What is everyone's favorite Christmas Song's?

My Top 5 are

1. Carol of the Bells
2. What Child is this?
3. Little Drummer Boy
4. Oh Holy Night
5. Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel

And a wildcard - Christmas is Coming sung by Ms Piggy

[McSweeny]

1. Fairytale of New York by the Pogues (best Christmas song ever)
2. Oi to the World by the Vandals
3. So This is Christmas by John Lennon

[cthomer5000]

1. Christmas Wrapping - the Waitresses
2. Little Saint Nick - Beach Boys
3. Have yourself a merry litte x-mas - Nat King Cole.

[TLK]

1. All I Want For Christmas--- Mariah Carey (not a fan of hers, but a good song none the less.....)
2. New York City Christmas--- The Cover Girls (almost impossible to find this song)
3. The Christmas Song--- Nat King Cole

[Craptacular]

Christmas at Ground Zero

[sterlingice]

Originally posted by Craptacular
Christmas at Ground Zero

Nah, if we're going Weird Al, I've gotta go "The Night Santa Went Crazy"

SI

[yabanci]

ban christmas.

[sterlingice]

Originally posted by yabanci
ban christmas.

Ah, I see a vote for some musical version of the Grinch. ;)

SI

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by sterlingice
Nah, if we're going Weird Al, I've gotta go "The Night Santa Went Crazy"

SI

Another excellent choice. However, Christmas at Ground Zero just has that fun, uplifting sound that all Christmas songs should have.

[sterlingice]

Originally posted by Craptacular
Another excellent choice. However, Christmas at Ground Zero just has that fun, uplifting sound that all Christmas songs should have.

Sorry, I just love the image of Santa going postal on the North Pole before getting carted away by the feds or getting killed in a shootout (depending on the version) to nice cheery, sing-songy music. :D

SI

[Draft Dodger]

Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?

[korme]

Originally posted by sterlingice
Nah, if we're going Weird Al, I've gotta go "The Night Santa Went Crazy"

SI

always a good one

[korme]

It's Christmas time, again
It's time to be nice to the people that you can't stand
All year
I'm growing tired of all this Christmas cheer
You people scare me
Please stay away from my home
If you don't wanna get me down,
Just leave the presents and then leave me alone

[MrBug708]

Nice song

Did Bubba unwrap your present Shorty?

[AnalBumCover]

Oh Holy Night - Eric Cartman

[mckerney]

Last Christmas - Jimmy Eat World style
Bizarre Christmas Incident - Ben Folds

[SirFozzie]

My favorite silly Christmas Season Songs (making a CD tonight of this stuff, if I can find a couple more songs to add to it)

Christmas in Hollis- Run DMC
Santa Baby- (the old version)
The Night Santa Went Crazy/Christmas At Ground Zero (Weird Al)
The 12 Pains of Christmas
Jingle Hells Bells
Wreck The Malls (favorite line "Send the beagles on a Rampage.") :)
I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus (a coworker can't believe someone made this song ;))
Oh Holy Night -- Eric Cartman
12 Days of Christmas- The Muppets

((Note: If anyone can direct me to a MP3 or whatever of Stan Freiburg's "Christmas Dragnet" I would much much much appreciate it! I need it for the CD))

Not so Silly XMas Songs

Santa Claus is Comin To Town (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in Concert. I'm shocked and appalled noone mentioned this one)
Do They Know It's Christmas Time Band Aid
Little Saint Nick -- Beach Boys
The Little Drummer Boy -- Anne Murray
Also By Anne Murray -- Three Christmas Wishes, or My Christmas Wish. (one line is: "My Third Wish, for now and forever, is to spend all my Christmases.. with you)
Feliz Navidad -- Daze (Techno :))

Honorable mention to Adam Sandler's holiday season Haunakkah tunes :)

[Ksyrup]

Blue Christmas, sung by Porky Pig
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Syphilis - Dr. Dirty

As far as serious songs go, I'm pretty well worn out on the standards, so about the only Christmas songs I willingly listen to are from Hawksley Workman's Almost a Full Moon.

[KWhit]

The Christmas Song - Nat King (I also like the Aimee Mann version)

[cthomer5000]

Originally posted by Shorty3281
It's Christmas time, again
It's time to be nice to the people that you can't stand
All year
I'm growing tired of all this Christmas cheer
You people scare me
Please stay away from my home
If you don't wanna get me down,
Just leave the presents and then leave me alone

wrong thread. and they suck anyway. keep your pre-teen angst out of here.

[Scarecrow]

In no particular order...

Little Drummer Boy - Bing Crosby and David Bowie
Silent Night - Bing Crosby
O holy Night - Pavarati
Carol of the Bells - Manhiem Steamroller
Christmas Song - Anne Murray

[Ksyrup]

Actually, one of my favorite "Christmas" songs is Red Water (Christmas Mourning) by Type O Negative. Admittedly a downer, but holidays are often depressing for people who have lost loved ones, and this song does a great job of capturing that feeling.

[oykib]

The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole

Speaking of which, I think it's about time to blow my friends off the stage singing that at karaoke.

This Chrismas - Dru Hill
Holly, Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives (there's just something about that song in Rudolph...)
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - any decent choir accompanied by orchestra.

[judicial clerk]

I like all of the carols as sung by Tarzan Tonto and Frankenstein.

[sterlingice]

Originally posted by judicial clerk
I like all of the carols as sung by Tarzan Tonto and Frankenstein.

Amen to that! :D Man, I miss the days when SNL didn't suck

SI

[Craptacular]

For my "serious" Christmas selections, I like a lot of the songs from Trans-Siberian Orchestra's two Christmas albums.

[sterlingice]

Originally posted by Craptacular
For my "serious" Christmas selections, I like a lot of the songs from Trans-Siberian Orchestra's two Christmas albums.

I've got their first. The big song on there "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" is just genius. The rest of the CD is also very good. I'd love to see them perform it live.

SI

[Ksyrup]

Funny. My mom and my wife love T-SO. Neither of them enjoyed Savatage's Streets years ago when I played it all of the time. Basically the same thing, although one is a "Christmas" album and the other is a "metal opera" album.

Packaging. It's what sells.

[Noop]

Louis Logic - The Ugly Truth (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/profasimusic.htm)

:)

noop

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by sterlingice
I've got their first. The big song on there "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" is just genius. The rest of the CD is also very good. I'd love to see them perform it live.
SI

I went to their concert last year, and loved it. They were supposed to start their "Beethoven's Last Night" tour this year, but it got delayed again. They are doing the Christmas tour again right now, but are "planning" to start the Beethoven tour in May 2004.

[General Mike]

Father Christmas - The Kinks

[AZSpeechCoach]

Jingle cats!!!!!!

Or anything from the "Tales From The Crypt" christmas album.

[Vince]

I second the Trans-Siberian Orchestra vote.

[andy m]

bob nanna & elizabeth elmore's cover of "fairytale of new york".

also, the christmas cdep that low put out. amazing stuff.

[ice4277]

Just give me the dogs barking 'Jingle Bells' and I will be happy :D

[MIJB#19]

"Flappie" from Youp van 't Hek

Really, if only you all understood Dutch, then this would be a top 5 chrsitmas song.

[MJ4H]

I love the song O Holy Night. Far and away my favorite Christmas Song. The others are all the same.

[Chubby]

At this point none.

Then again I get sick of christmas songs by Dec 1st. That's what happens when you work retail...