Christmas Pop Music

[Rowls]

Queen's effort just came up thanks to YouTube's all-too-predictable algorithm.

I like it but it's a bit too relieved rather than joyous to be one of the best Christmas songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V5mtUff6ik" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Rowls]

This is better - Wizzard

Even has improbably Disney sound effects too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJPc7esgvsA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Post your favourite!

[4:20]

I like this one by Jethro Tull, it's how I imagine the good people of Summerisle would celebrate this time of year..


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcPS-J0HTg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[BFCmaj]

Bing Crosby - Mele Kalikimaka

https://youtu.be/ob4LT_gUSFQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[BFCmaj]

This is better - Wizzard

Even has improbably Disney sound effects too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJPc7esgvsA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Post your favourite!

Whenever I listen to this song, the chord at 2:24 always sets my teeth on edge. I appreciate he’s trying to use a secondary dominant to modulate back the original key, but it doesn’t work.

[The Enclosure]

Has to be Fairtale of New York with the late Kirsty Macoll and The Pogues.
https://youtu.be/l14aDp-4NKk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[South West Claret.]

Queen's effort just came up thanks to YouTube's all-too-predictable algorithm.

I like it but it's a bit too relieved rather than joyous to be one of the best Christmas songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V5mtUff6ik" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I like it very much but maybe I'm a bit biased as we've just seen Bohemian Rhapsody at the Cinema, which incidentally I thought was a superbly done film of Queen.

[Foulthrow]

Christmas music is depressing. Imagine working in a shop and listening to the same ten or so songs on repeat for a whole month.

[houseboy]

The late great Greg Lake without a doubt for me. As a massive ELP and King Crimson fan at the time I was stunned to hear a Christmas single by Greg but it just works on every level. His superb vocal over the slightly pompous music is a treat but the lyrics make it special, it's a kind of 'anti-Christmas' song in many ways and strips away a lot of the pretend magic and closes with the best line ever in a Christmas song:
'Halleluah, Noel, be it heaven or hell, the Christmas we get we deserve.'

[Lancasterclaret]

I do like John Lennon - Merry Xmas (War is over) but Fairytale of New York is the daddy

[NottsClaret]

The greatest Christmas song ever, is Johnny Mathis "Do you hear what I hear".

You don't need a debate or a 'Top 40' channel 4 marathon, that's fact. And it's in the greatest Christmas film ever, Gremlins, as if you needed any more evidence.

[conyoviejo]

Nothing beats this one..Bah humbug

https://youtu.be/sprYwxNUjIE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Falcon]

Shakin Stevens, Merry Christmas Everyone is my fave

[Sleeping Cat]

St Etienne feat Tim Burgess - I Was Born On Christmas Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdzo_vPnhio" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[FactualFrank]

"So this is Christmas, and what have you done?"

The start of a John Lennon song, or the wife about to start an argument?

[Bosscat]

There can be only one

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Blobby_(song" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

[Rowls]

Nothing beats this lyrically compared to the other Christmas songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm6CheT6rs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[LeadBelly]

When Jethro Tull was mentioned above, I thought it would be this one (a throw-away track from the excellent 1972 "Living in the Past" album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzH0O44xs9s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - a bit of "hippy idealism" maybe.

My nostalgia-based favourite (from the Danish/Dutch pairing of Nina & Frederik), hit the charts around Christmas 1960 (the Leadbelly household had a copy for the newly acquired little portable record player) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qudi6JqE-M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bosscat]

Nothing beats this one..Bah humbug

https://youtu.be/sprYwxNUjIE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hmmmm very festive

[AlargeClaret]

Though it’s rarely played ( for obvious reasons ) Gary Glitters Rock n Roll Xmas is a cracking tune .

[Falcon]

Human by the Killers always makes me feel festive. Think it was released around Christmastime.

[expoultryboy]

Alargeclaret : i know its not "pc" but i agree , it was a great Christmas tune .

[Squarepusher]

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - Ain't No Chimneys In The Projects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3jvDeHLkgo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Dazzler]

Kevin 'bloody' Wilson

https://youtu.be/arY57gOCdV8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[longhair]

https://youtu.be/bPwVGGIJgtE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Another from the tull

[Funkydrummer]

Not strtictly Christmas, but I think this fits the bill. Saw them last week at the
Philharmonic music room in Liverpool and they were just as good as when I first
saw them in 1972 when the support band was Genesis. Brilliant night out.

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_dsk7u26A" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[longhair]

https://youtu.be/EDUQMhHVWO8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A true classic Dora Bryan

[Falcon]

Though it’s rarely played ( for obvious reasons ) Gary Glitters Rock n Roll Xmas is a cracking tune .

Agree. Great song but I can't bring myself to put it on my Xmas playlist as it just reminds me of what he did, especially the line "you'll never guess what you've got from me"

[Stalbansclaret]

Agree that Fairytale of New York is king but Christmas in LA by The Killers is a great track and the video for it is the only thing watchable ever made featuring Owen Wilson.

[ClaretTony]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6zYBOPk4gU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[edison]

Christmas music is depressing. Imagine working in a shop and listening to the same ten or so songs on repeat for a whole month.

Doesn't have to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-urqRVexH5g" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[edison]

Loads of good music away from the songs they play in every shop, many of which are listed above:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnTS48ekgVg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[edison]

See also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJpn4oLiwlE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Not pop I know, but class

[TheFamilyCat]

Mogwai and Gorky's - nice.

I'll throw in this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A72bls1DoIk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Plus Bruce Springsteen's 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' and all of the Phil Spector Christmas album.

[dougcollins]

'Nothing beats this lyrically compared to the other Christmas songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm6CheT6rs'" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Though to be fair he 'borrowed' the music from Prokofiev:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GUzJ7fQBtg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[edison]

Mogwai and Gorky's - nice.

I'll throw in this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A72bls1DoIk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Excellent

[Clarets4me]

It has to be this .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXgFYDTi8jU

[Bainsyclaret]

I heard Wombling Merry Christmas in a shop today and had to stay till it had finished. Forgot how good it is!