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;

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!

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;

Bing Crosby - Mele Kalikimaka

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Rowls wrote: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.

Has to be Fairtale of New York with the late Kirsty Macoll and The Pogues.
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Rowls wrote: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.

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

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.'

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

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.

Nothing beats this one..Bah humbug

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Shakin Stevens, Merry Christmas Everyone is my fave

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;

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

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

There can be only one

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Nothing beats this lyrically compared to the other Christmas songs

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

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;

conyoviejo wrote:Nothing beats this one..Bah humbug

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

Hmmmm very festive

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

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

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

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;

Kevin 'bloody' Wilson

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

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

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.

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

AlargeClaret wrote: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"

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.

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Foulthrow wrote: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;

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;

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

Not pop I know, but class

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.

'Nothing beats this lyrically compared to the other Christmas songs
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Though to be fair he 'borrowed' the music from Prokofiev:

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

TheFamilyCat wrote: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

It has to be this .....

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

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