Favorite Christmas Songs

[Edward Teach]

Winter Wonderland
by Johnny Mathis

White Christmas
by The Drifters

 

[minsue]

I gotta agree with Cant on "The Holly and the Ivy" and with Abs on "War is Over". The only other one I have to add is "Christmas in Killarney".

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I gotta agree with Cant on "The Holly and the Ivy" and with Abs on "War is Over". The only other one I have to add is "Christmas in Killarney".

Don't add that...it's too perky.

side note, a girl I worked with was from Ireland and used to bitch at "That Fucking Stupid song"....LOL.

 

[rgraham666]

Songs: Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht sung a capella.

Og

I can't listen to that one anymore. There was a scene in a book on Stalingrad, where a Russian soldier was listening to the Germans trapped there sing that song.

Broke my heart. Still makes me cry.

 

[oggbashan]

I can't listen to that one anymore. There was a scene in a book on Stalingrad, where a Russian soldier was listening to the Germans trapped there sing that song.

Broke my heart. Still makes me cry.

It reminds me of the 1914 Christmas Truce on the Western Front. The German and British troops sung it to each other before playing football. It was the end of innocence.

Og

 

[nikkijames]

Feliz Navidad
don't know why.. I'm not a spanish speaking person

 

[fairysong]

White Christmas

fairysong

 

[jeanne_d_artois]

Quittez Pasteurs

Since Og has limited himself, I thought I'd bring back the sheep.

Baa!

Jeanne

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

the Barenaked Ladies/Sarah McLachlan version

 

[Guest]

A JOHN WATERS CHRISTMAS

The delightfully deranged filmmaker turns his eye for kitsch, camp and bad taste on the ripe target of Christmas music. A guy who plucked the 1960 Paul Evans hit "Happy-Go-Lucky Me" as title music for his 1998 comedy, "Pecker, " clearly qualifies as a major pop archaeologist. As expected from the director of the notorious "Pink Flamingos," Waters' take on holiday records is vulgar, profane, openly sentimental, extravagantly tacky and totally hilarious. By veering back and forth between utter sincerity and harsh lampoons, Waters spins a dizzying pop portrait of the American holiday. He gleefully refuses to distinguish between the banal juvenilia of the Chipmunks ("Sleigh Ride") and the saccharine sincerity of "Little Mary Christmas," a woeful, cornball recitative about a disabled orphan by onetime Beach Boys lyricist Roger Christian. Waters punctuates the set with some obscure, comic R&B minor masterpieces -- "Santa Claus Is a Black Man" is a particularly commendable discovery, although "Fat Daddy" by Baltimore-area '60s deejay Fat Daddy isn't far behind. From Tiny Tim singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" to a prayerful child offering "Happy Birthday Jesus," the creator of "Hairspray" has made a Christmas oldies mix that, like his oddball movies, manages to be rude and reverential at the same time. It's definitely not for everyone. -- Joel Selvin (SF Chronical, 12.5.2004) pic

 

[LadyJeanne]

Decisions, decisions. I'm a big fan of "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" and "I Saw Momma Kissing Santa Claus". But I used to date a minister's son, and every Christmas we spent all kinds of time in church singing carols - this one always made my heart soar:

Angels we have heard on high,
Singing sweetly through the night,
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their brave delight.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why these songs of happy cheer?
What great brightness did you see?
What glad tiding did you hear?
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ, the Lord, the new-born King.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.

See him in a manger laid
Whom the angels praise above;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
While we raise our hearts in love.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.