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Favourite Christmas songs
« on: 21 December, 2018, 11:51:05 pm »
There are loads of crap Christmas songs but there are some good ones, ie:

David Bowie and Bing Crosby - Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy (actually I only really like the part that Bowie sings)

Jona Louie - Stop the Calvary

The Farm - All Together Now

Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #1 on: 22 December, 2018, 12:02:44 am »
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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #2 on: 22 December, 2018, 10:23:04 am »
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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #3 on: 22 December, 2018, 11:48:12 am »
Bzzzt!  "Stop The Cavalry" not a Christmas song, says Jona Lewie, who ought to know.
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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #4 on: 22 December, 2018, 11:49:51 am »
The Farm record is never played as a Xmas song, probably because it doesn't have bells in it.

My guilty pleasure is Johnny Mathis' "When A Child Is Born", even with the kitsch spoken bit.  "Black...white...yellow"  :facepalm:
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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #5 on: 22 December, 2018, 11:58:16 am »
Pretty much everything on this recording.
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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #6 on: 22 December, 2018, 12:04:37 pm »
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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #7 on: 22 December, 2018, 12:38:59 pm »
Sleigh Ride ~ Leroy Anderson & His Pop Concert Orchestra ( 1948 version )

Billy May ~ Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer Mambo

Dean Martin ~ I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm     
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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #8 on: 22 December, 2018, 12:48:43 pm »
Bzzzt!  "Stop The Cavalry" not a Christmas song, says Jona Lewie, who ought to know.
Yebbut Bruce Willis says Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie.

Actually I probably agree with Bruce on that one ... but Stop the Cavalry clearly IS a christmas song, and I'd like to see what %age of his royalties Mr Lewie would see without December being counted.

(It's my favourite, so I'm hardly going to reclassify it.)

The Bowie/Crosby thing is pretty fucking good too.
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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #9 on: 22 December, 2018, 01:08:50 pm »
Bzzzt!  "Stop The Cavalry" not a Christmas song, says Jona Lewie, who ought to know.
Yebbut Bruce Willis says Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie.

Actually I probably agree with Bruce on that one ... but Stop the Cavalry clearly IS a christmas song, and I'd like to see what %age of his royalties Mr Lewie would see without December being counted.

(It's my favourite, so I'm hardly going to reclassify it.)

The Bowie/Crosby thing is pretty fucking good too.
Die Hard takes place on Christmas Eve and includes smultz - it's a Christmas movie!

(And the best one)

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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #10 on: 22 December, 2018, 03:40:30 pm »
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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #11 on: 22 December, 2018, 07:43:04 pm »
Probably Stop the Apartheid Fascists by Rory McLeod.  I known the title doesn't sound very  Christmassy but it does contain this great chorus:

And I'm dreaming of a black Christmas
With black snow blowing outdoors
'Cos a black kid asked me why
She's never seen a black Santa Claus

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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #12 on: 22 December, 2018, 08:53:28 pm »
Malcolm Middleton - We're All Going To Die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbL9Vsobx8I

Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #13 on: 22 December, 2018, 09:08:49 pm »
FFS, the best Christmas song ever is Hey Santa by Kevin Bloody Wilson.
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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #15 on: 22 December, 2018, 11:15:33 pm »
FFS, the best Christmas song ever is Hey Santa by Kevin Bloody Wilson.

Not the best KBW song thobut . . .
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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #16 on: 23 December, 2018, 10:50:30 pm »
Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses is a great chrimbo choon. The bass line is insane...
Those wonderful norks are never far from my thoughts, oh yeah!

Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #17 on: 23 December, 2018, 10:51:40 pm »
Came up in the pub quiz last week!

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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #18 on: 23 December, 2018, 10:54:53 pm »
Bzzzt!  "Stop The Cavalry" not a Christmas song, says Jona Lewie, who ought to know.

And it's shite.

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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #19 on: 23 December, 2018, 11:01:40 pm »
The Killers have done a few nice things.
Don't Shoot Me Santa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cglLJJ0Czo8

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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #20 on: 23 December, 2018, 11:15:20 pm »
There loads of crap Christmas songs but there are some good ones, ie:

David Bowie and Bing Crosby - Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy (actually I only really like the part that Bowie sings)

Jona Louie - Stop the Calvary

The Farm - All Together Now

Two out of three ain't bad :-)

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/christmas-songs-ranked-from-the-worst-to-fking-unbearable-20181222180847

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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #21 on: 24 December, 2018, 07:00:52 am »
Tom Waits "Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis"

PRETTY MAIDS  "A Merry Jingle"

Dropkick Murphys  "The Season's Upon Us"

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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #22 on: 24 December, 2018, 10:44:13 am »
Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses is a great chrimbo choon. The bass line is insane...
I concur!
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Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #23 on: 24 December, 2018, 11:02:49 am »
Bzzzt!  "Stop The Cavalry" not a Christmas song, says Jona Lewie, who ought to know.
Yebbut Bruce Willis says Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie.

Actually I probably agree with Bruce on that one ... but Stop the Cavalry clearly IS a christmas song, and I'd like to see what %age of his royalties Mr Lewie would see without December being counted.

(It's my favourite, so I'm hardly going to reclassify it.)

The Bowie/Crosby thing is pretty fucking good too.
Die Hard takes place on Christmas Eve and includes smultz - it's a Christmas movie!

(And the best one)

DH is the Christmas movie. I'm sure we'll work through the boxset over the hols (minus number five on account of the fact that it is shit), but DH1&2 are Christmas Eve traditions.

Re: Favourite Christmas songs
« Reply #24 on: 24 December, 2018, 11:51:59 am »
FFS, the best Christmas song ever is Hey Santa by Kevin Bloody Wilson.


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