What is your favorite Christmas/holiday song?

[IrishEyes]

My favorite Christmas songs are

Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Santa Baby
I want an alien for Christmas
Snoopy's Christmas

I also like the Chanukah song by Adam Sandler. It is one of the songs that I listen to when I'm wrapping presents. I figured that I would ask this now since I haven't gotten sick of Christmas music yet for this season.

[riderinthestorm]

1. Is this too depressing for the lounge?

I'm in such a dark place between the Colorado PP shootings and the escalation of tensions in Syria.

I will say I did always like this tune, even before....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yN4Uu0OlmTg

[LiberalElite]

6. Not depressing at all! Thanks!

I never thought this was depressing. Have I been missing the point all this time?

[Brother Buzz]

2. Carol of the Bells

The coolest, hippest version of this song ever recorded was by Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks

[LiberalElite]

7. This is great!

Carol of the Bells is on my very short list of xmas song likes. - Never saw this!

[Lizzie Poppet]

11. Great song. Here's another take on it:

[Brother Buzz]

20. Indeed, a great song. Here's an irreverent take on it for your amusement:

[Lizzie Poppet]

23. Ha! That's hilarious. (nm)

[betsuni]

3. I like old-timey songs like this:

[From The Ashes]

4. This is my new favorite...

...at the moment, anyway:

[hobbit709]

5. Tom Lehrer's A Christmas Carol

[LiberalElite]

8. I like

Carol of the Bells
anything from The Nutcracker
Linus & Lucy
Wonderful Christmastime
Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey

The list of Christmas songs I don't like is very long, with several vying for Most Hated.

[catbyte]

9. Bob & Doug McKenzie's version of "The 12 Days of Christmas."

It's just not the holidays without it.

I also had a wild tuxedo cat named Howie (short for Hell on Wheels) who absolutely loved the song "Run, Run Rudolph" by Chuck Berry. He'd run into the room when he'd hear it & want me to pick him up to dance. Man, I miss that cat, sigh.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. The whole "Noel" album by Joan Baez. nt

[Lizzie Poppet]

12. Unbeatable combo: Cocteau Twins' "Frosty the Snowman"...with Calvin & Hobbes cartoons!

[IDemo]

13. Least favorites:

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

Holly, Jolly Christmas

[cwydro]

14. The Little Drummer Boy song.

I love a lot of the old carols and songs.

[femmocrat]

15. "O Holy Night" sung by Perry Como.

Actually, anything sung by Perry Como.

[bobbobbins01]

22. I came here to post this.

Thanks for saving me the trouble . Great song performed by a great artist.

[femmocrat]

27. That's so nice! :)

Great minds think alike!

I never missed a Perry Como Christmas special when he was still alive and performing. Once I heard Perry, I felt ready for Christmas!

[bigwillq]

17. Last Christmas by Wham

Or

All I want for christmas is you by Mariah Carey

[Coventina]

18. Mine is the Coventry Carol. The dark side of Christmas.

The subject is the "Slaughter of the Innocents" by King Herod.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

19. I have two:

Without them, it just isn't the season.

[catnhatnh]

21. Jim Croce...

[DFW]

24. I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas

followed by these:
The Pogues: Fairy Tale of New York

Jona Lewie: Stop the Cavalry

The Freedom Toast: The 12 Debates of Christmas 2008

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. I don't think I have a real favorite, but

there are a few that I really, really loathe, especially as arranged for easy listening in the elevator. Which I think was the reason some of them were written in the first place. My pet hates:

"The Little Drummer Boy"
"Do You Hear What I Hear"
"Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" and similar novelty songs

The first two are treacly and annoying. "Grandma" is just stupid.

So, bah humbug.

[magical thyme]

26. no one song. Windham Hill's "A Winter's Solstice" collection

takes me back to a much simpler and more hopeful time... And I've just discovered #V, so I have a new one to listen to this year!

[kwassa]

28. I like only the really old Christmas carols and hymns.

Like, centuries old.

O come Emmanuel, Holly and the Ivy, Lo How a Rose 'Er Blooming, Coventry Carol.

[Tom_Foolery]

29. Alison Krauss' "Shimmy Down the Chimney"...

[madamesilverspurs]

30. This one:

Barenaked Ladies - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings" with Sarah McLachlan

Sadly, the production quality of the album leaves a great deal to be desired. But this track is just delightful.

[Skittles]

31. And So This is Christmas by John Lennon

[Boomerproud]

35. Yes. Thank you.

I haven't heard it on the all-Christmas station yet which surprises me. Father Christmas by Greg Lake is another great one.

[rurallib]

32. 3 - Christmas Canon by TSO

Jesu Joy of man's desiring

We need a little Christmas

[Hula Popper]

33. Anything Ronnettes Christmas

or this one ! My Favorite.

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[ailsagirl]

34. Christmas carols are beautiful

The traditional ones, I mean. I like nearly all of them but I think that "O, Holy Night" is the most exquisitely beautiful of them all. When I hear it sung, it brings tears to my eyes and I get goosebumps.

[laundry_queen]

36. I like that one in French

One of my favorite memories was in our local Catholic church - we didn't normally go (my parents are lapsed Catholics...and quite anti-religion in general) but one year when I was a teenager we went to midnight mass - which where I live is in French - as my mom was feeling nostalgic as they did midnight mass when she was a kid. When the choir sang "Minuit Chretien" I nearly had an out of body experience it was so beautiful. It remains one of my favorites to this day. Another favorite of mine that we sang often in school, also a French carol, is "Il est né, le divin enfant"

I also love Coventry Carol and Carol of the Bells.

I love pretty much all of them. Well, there are a few I could do without (ahem, Paul McCartney) but most of them I can't get enough of around Christmas.

[ailsagirl]

39. Amen, laundry_queen

How beautiful "Minuit Chretien" must have sounded!! I can only imagine. All of those you mentioned, actually.

[trof]

37. We Need a Little Christmas

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I'm an old septuagenarian atheist, but I do sometimes wax nostalgic about the Christmas season.
There have been times of adversity in my life when I've said "Goddamit, we need a little Christmas! Right here, right now!
I'm such a damn sentimentalist.

[pinboy3niner]

38. The one about that razor guy

Occam All Ye Faithful.

[betsuni]

41. I thought the razor guy song might be "Silent Night"

because of the lyrics at the end: "Christ, the shaver is bored."

Another song I like is "I Came Upon a Midnight Beer."

[Coventina]

43. Haha! Reminds me of "We Three Kings of Orientar"

When I was a kid I always wondered where the magical land of "Orientar" was.....

[Sunriser13]

40. The Temptations - Silent Night

Turn it up, close your eyes, and let the chills run amuck...

[Art_from_Ark]

42. The hip Santa song

which was taught to me by my elementary school teacher back in the '60s

(To the tune of Up On The Housetop)

Hey, look at Santa, man, he's flipped
Went and got himself all hipped
"Man, I'm a cool cat", Santa said
"A big fat daddy-o dressed in red"
Ho ho ho (Man, I'm beat!)
Ho ho ho (My aching feet!)
Dig all those housetops *click click click*
Dig all those chimneys
Poor Beat Nick!