Your best three Christmas songs

[Josef K]

I apologise if this has already been done. Just ignore if so. 
what are your favourite christmas songs

mine are 

1. Two Fingers of Firewater : Douglas Fir.
2. Darren Hayman : Christmas Wars. 
3. HMHB : Cliched To Be Cynical. 
4. St Etienne : I Was Born On Christmas Day

If i knew how to use YouTube id put the Darren Hayman tune on here but i don’t. 
I don’t think Two Fingers Of Firewater released Douglas Fir, but it is a beautiful song even though it’s quite depressing. So i have been told by friends & Da Family. 

[Futtocks]

Can't say what's best, but here's a very random selection.

 

 

 

 

[Ullman]

15 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Can't say what's best, but here's a very random selection.

 

 

 

 

I really like that Erasure version of Gaudete (as well as Steeleye Span's).

[HawkMan]

Haven't got a top 3,but as number 1 is so far ahead as the best Xmas song of all time......

 

[hindle xiii]

 

[Shadow]

 

[Old Frightful]

33 minutes ago, Shadow said:

 

Nothing comes near to this as far as I'm concerned.

Goosebumps no matter how often I hear it.

[graveyard johnny]

7 hours ago, Shadow said:

 

like many others such as the power of love by fgth and stay by e17 - not actually recorded or intended to be a christmas song

[graveyard johnny]

step in to christmas - the wedding present 

when a child is born - harry belafonte

[Futtocks]

4 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

like many others such as the power of love by fgth and stay by e17 - not actually recorded or intended to be a christmas song

Keeping the Dream alive by Freiheit often appears on Christmas compilations and playlists in the USA, mainly because it was a December release.

 

[graveyard johnny]

5 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Keeping the Dream alive by Freiheit often appears on Christmas compilations and playlists in the USA, mainly because it was a December release.

 

am fairly sure - merry Christmas everyone - by shakin stevens was always meant to be an xmas record though

[ivans82]

I believe in father christmas       Greg Lake

Ring out , solstice bells       Jethro Tull

Give her one for christmas       Sir Les Patterson

 

[moorside roughyed]

1 The Pogues - Fairytale of New York.

That's it.

[hw88]

'Another Rock n' Roll Christmas' - airbrushed from history because it is by ........................ Gary Glitter!

Hate the man not the music!

 

 

[EggFace]

 

[EggFace]

Not Christmas but I always play it in Winter.

https://youtu.be/uNb54rwDQJM

[EggFace]

 

[GUBRATS]

2 hours ago, hw88 said:

'Another Rock n' Roll Christmas' - airbrushed from history because it is by ........................ Gary Glitter!

Hate the man not the music!

 

 

Some great songs from the glam rock era , loved them all , just so much fun , they didn't pretend to be anything else although some of the bands were genuine rockers really , definitely ###### that the biggest exponent of the genre turned out to be a peadophile 

In answer to the OP , the pogues for me followed by the 2 big classics by Slade and Roy Wood , " ok you lot , Take it "

[Futtocks]

A few suggestions.

 

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

With regard to Futtocks' and Ullman's selection of "Gaudete", it's good to know a song can still be popular 440 years after publication!  It appeared in the Finnish collection, "Piae Cantiones" ('Pious Songs') of 1582.

I agree with them; it is good.  My church choir will sing it on Sunday during the annual carol service.

[doc]

Eeor eeor!!

[Josef K]

On 06/12/2022 at 16:16, HawkMan said:

Haven't got a top 3,but as number 1 is so far ahead as the best Xmas song of all time......

 

I wonder what those kids are up to nowadays ?. 

[Adelaide Tiger]

No idea how to put videos on posts but surely ‘Christmas Countdown’ by Frank Kelly - Father Jack Hackett in Father Ted - deserves an honourable mention.

There is a video of him on You Tube performing the song on Top of the Tops on 5 January 1982.  The song got to 26 in the UK charts.

But for me the Christmas Carol ‘In the bleak mid-winter’ tops all modern efforts.

[Futtocks]

6 minutes ago, Adelaide Tiger said:

But for me the Christmas Carol ‘In the bleak mid-winter’ tops all modern efforts.

Which begs the question - which tune? Gustav Holst or Harold Darke?

[Futtocks]

Three more for your festive enjoyment.