Your number one Christmas song?

Zefan said:
I really can't pick one, as it's really just this entire album that my parents played every single Christmas morning. Because of this, hearing songs in this specific order is tied to all those childhood memories and emotions, so hearing them in any other way feels a bit weird to me. If I *had* to pick one... Meh nah I can't, it's one of the first 10 or so.

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Just been listening to that and they are all memorable Christmas songs. The transition from Frankie Goes to Hollywood to Chris Rea is fantastic.
 
DEL 707 said:
I'm disappointed that The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl have not been mentioned.


If being stuck with someone you hate/love doesn't sum up Christmas, then I don't know what does.
All it's missing is some lyrics about Monopoly.
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I can't stand this song, I think it's the first part that I hate, it sounds so dreary, and possibly because I hear it on repeat at work most days.
 
Slade, Greg Lake & Jona Lewie already mentioned, and I've just made a playlist based on most of the rest. Excuse me if I missed someone mentioning...
 
Band Aid (the original 1984 cut) and also East 17 Stay Another Day. That was incidentally the same year as Mariah Carey (1994), but I think that is the most over-played Christmas song.
 
I was reading recently, and its true, it is always the same small quantity of Xmas songs we love from yeaaaaars ago. Every single Xmas. Meh.
 
Lots of good songs in the thread so far.

I thought I'd add some Christian songs that always make me think of Christmas when I was a little kid in church or at the school service.

O Come, All Ye Faithful

The First Noel

Silent Night
 
BowdonUK said:
Lots of good songs in the thread so far.

I thought I'd add some Christian songs that always make me think of Christmas when I was a little kid in church or at the school service.

O Come, All Ye Faithful

The First Noel

Silent Night
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Although I never listen to this type of music nowadays, all of these still send shivers down my spine (in a nice but bittersweet way). They take me right back to Christmas times at my primary school in South London in the 1970's. The country was obviously far more Christian back then and Christmas revolved around the real meaning and spirit of it. They take me back to a very happy time in my life. One that I miss dearly.
 
Hades said:
Although I never listen to this type of music nowadays, all of these still send shivers down my spine (in a nice but bittersweet way). They take me right back to Christmas times at my primary school in South London in the 1970's. The country was obviously far more Christian back then and Christmas revolved around the real meaning and spirit of it. They take me back to a very happy time in my life. One that I miss dearly.
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You don't have to be religious to enjoy traditional carols from a good choir historically most of them were simply popular tunes of the time that people happened to associate with xmas infact the church often wouldn't want anything to do with them as they were far too secular and non liturgical for their liking, the 18c equivalent of Merry Christmas Everyone or Mistletoe & Wine.
 
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