Best and Worst Xmas Songs

[bickster]

Prompted by discussion in the General Chat topic....

Which xmas songs or tunes are your favourite and which do you despise?

[The_Rev]

I used to love Fairytale of New York, but it is so overplayed now.

I still enjoy Stop The Cavalry though.

This is probably every bit as played as The Pogues, but Christmas isnt Christmas without Wizzard.

Id throw in Slade & Fountains of Wayne too, but the stupid forum wont let me.

[tonyh29]

heard Slade Merry Christmas a few times on the radio of late

I'm no musician but it has what I think is possibly one of the best bass tracks , it just sort of trips along

(probably some musicians will now tell me a 2 year old could play it !!)

Greatest Xmas song for my money would be Band Aid and Do they Know it's Christmas .... the sentiment was right in helping others , even if the execution itself was flawed

Worse one has to be that Mariah Carey one , All I want for Christmas

[Xann]

Could happily live without -

Chris DeBurgh, Wings, Pogues and Wham.

Manilow and Cliff, serial offenders.

Festive 'Spot The Difference' with Mariah Carey.

[Jimzk5]

The snow man's looking at her Arse on the right.

[Xann]

It's probably the best way to approach her.

[packoman]

I've had this stuck in my head for weeks.

[Wainy316]

Another chance to say how truly horrible McCartney's 'Wonderful Christmas Time' is. Errrrrgh!

[mjmooney]

I don't have too much problem with the overplayed songs thing, as I don't listen to pop radio, and I avoid shopping malls, etc.

I have a collection of Xmas CDs, but I ration them carefully.

Whole albums:

Phil Spector

Jethro Tull

The Roches

A classical one by the Taverner Consort

A cheap carols compilation

Plus odd tracks:

Slade

Wizzard

John & Yoko

Pogues

Greg Lake

Springsteen

Aled Jones

Elton John

Waitresses

Mike Oldfield

etc.

Hate list includes Wham, Mud, McCartney, Shakin' Stevens, Cliff, Brenda Lee, Bing, Boney M, Mel & Kim, etc.

[CI]

Abba's Super Trooper and Chris Rea's driving home for Xmas are 2 of my favourites.

[theboyangel]

Have gone retro this year with my Christmas Tunes (although still harbor a fondness for Jona Lewie's Stop The Calvary)

Billy May - Christmas Mambo

Ray Anthony - Christmas Trumpets

[Jimzk5]

This I like

[CarewsEyebrowDesigner]

[rjw63]

They're nearly all cack, except this one.

http://youtu.be/84cMf7RlRdM

[lapal_fan]

Oasis - Merry Xmas Everybody.. just nice and chilled out cover version of the also brilliant Slade original.

That's like the only xmas songs I enjoy.

[peterms]

Everything played in shops at christmas, without exception, is utter shite. As if being in a shop at this time of year isn't already unbearable.

[choffer]

The waitresses is about the only Christmas song I like. Oh, and All I Want for Christmas is my methadone by bob Schneider:

http://youtu.be/yVhFRlwSrxE

[GarethRDR]

They're nearly all cack, except this one.

http://youtu.be/84cMf7RlRdM

One of my favourite bands have just covered that for a charity Xmas album.

That's not me suggesting you listen to it by the way Rob, lest ye put your fist through the monitor or something.

[GarethRDR]

Actually, VT can help settle an argument I'm having with the missus at the moment;

FGTH's 'The Power Of Love' is a Christmas song, is it not?

[CarewsEyebrowDesigner]