Favorite Christmas songs
 

I know we all have them. What's your favorite Christmas songs?

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) is one of my top ones, as is David Bowie and Bing Crosby: Little Drummer Boy.

I always liked the John Lennon one.

I like this.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra's rendition of Wizards of Winter is pretty sweet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZfxEWlTG7o Christmas Dragnet.

Not really a song, but as that about 99% of Christmas Music is repetitive, full of onomatopoeias, and played at me straight at work from goddamn Halloween on, I tend to hate all actual Christmas Music.

I like the ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas'' song.

You gotta admit it's catchy.

What, no "Weird Al" Yankovic? I for one quite like "Christmas At Ground Zero". The holidays could really use more death, panic, devastation, nuclear explosions and mutants, set to a relentlessly chipper, almost Wall-of-Sound-esque tune.

I second the Grinch song, it's always sure to please. "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" and "Silver Bells" are up there, too.

Jingle Bell Rock is one of the 'actual' Xmas songs I can tolerate, mainly because it reminds me of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie that I've always liked.

Also, you can never go wrong with the Twelve Pains of Christmas.

Anything that is a non-standard non-commercialized song. If it's a christmas tune, and in all likelihood it won't be heard blaring over a store speaker somewhere, that's the one I like.

The Twelve days of Christmas... possibly. I lost count.

I always like the Pogues Christmas song which I can never remember the name of.
Only the song though, not the video because if I watch the video I have to look at Shane McGowan.

Fairytale of New York. Funny, I came in to post that.

I heard two cover versions of it on the radio so far and am getting impatient with the radio people for not using the damn original.

Wouldn't that be a standard in itself?

I like Winter by Tori Amos. That's my favorite holiday song.

Can the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky count as a christmas song?
Because, well, it's really good and I likes it a lot. :B

Strangely enough, other than Alshosha (don't know how it's spelled, despite singing it in chorus) which is a Jewish song I sang once and I liked how it sounded, I don't really have a favorite christmas song.

Y'see, despite the good ol' favorites being the good ol' favorites, I heard them all to death (and poorly done) when I worked at Toys R Us last year. For instance, there was a track from the Star Wars christmas special. Why dear god, why?

So I have become tired of most popular christmas songs as well as a few relatively unpopular ones.

So what do I listen to this christmas?

"Love is the gift." from the The Bouncer by Square Enix, yes, the prototype for "Kingdom Hearts"'s final credits song. It's a jazzy song in the vein of a Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey song, but since the game itself takes place either on or near Christmas or New Year's Eve and is about a "gift", I have always thought of it as a christmas song. So sue me.

Neskvartetten on OverClocked remixes of Zelda songs, particularly Sahasralah's homecoming, and Link goes to new orleans.

Jet set radio's "Grace and Glory"

Both Outlaw Star endings, and strange MP3 I have from a random christmas download that says it's from Duke University, a "Lullaby for Christmas".

Also, I like to sing the Carol of the Bells song, which is the "Ding Fries are done" is copying. It's more fun to sing than listen, I always say, though my voice sucks from the ravages of puberty and the shame of public performances.

There's a version of Can You Hear What I Hear remixed to Baba O'Reilly that I think is awesome.

And I second what shiney said. I find church hymns a lot more pleasant to the ear than the commercialized music out there.

Christmas at Ground Zero has always been a favorite, which the Grinch song, and some other ones that have been mentioned.

The undeniably cheesier.... sickeningly female side of me likes Grown-up Christmas List(as sang by everyone and their moms). Goodness, why does it always make me tear up?

Little town of Bethelhem as sung by Bob Rivers (to the tune of House of the Risign Sun) is cool but a personal favorite is Hark the Herald.

I just listened to a Reggae version of The Drummer Boy.... fuck yes....

The Christmas Song, by Nat King Cole.

I fucking love Nana Mouskouri.


If it just weren't for those glasses...