Fav Christmas Song

[SycamoreinTexas]

Santa Claus is Watchin You-Ray Stevens

 

[Callmedoc]

I like the Christmas rape song..."baby it's cold outside"

 

[landrus13]

I don't like Christmas music. I hate it.

 

[bluebill]

Perhaps as you grow you will understand why we have this music..:meditate:

 

[XTreeXC]

I like the Christmas rape song..."baby it's cold outside"

Not sure I would have described it exactly as you did, but Brian Setzer (of Stray Cats fame) and Ann Margaret do a really good rendition of this song on his second Christmas album.

I pretty much like all the classics, but my current favorite is Kung Pao Buckaroo Holiday (Brad Paisley, Bill Anderson, George Jones and Little Jimmy Dickens). I guess the song itself isn't all that catchy, but I get a chuckle out of it poking fun at all the excessive political correctness we have to endure at this time of year.

Best Christmas album ever: "Christmas With the Smithereens"

 

[egc1985]

i work at a radio station and we play christmas music right now. i used not to mind it, but it now makes we wanna run threw a wall.. i will say, i hate all christmas music. cant wait for for sunday when we stop playing it.

 

[IndyTreeFan]

Geez, a real bunch of Scrooge's in here, eh? I will concur that I'm sick and tired of hearing Mariah Carey sing "All I Want for Christmas is You," thirty times a day. Perhaps if you listened to Christmas music that actually meant something, you'd find it more tasteful? Just a thought...

Besides, how can anyone not like Nat King Cole singing "The Christmas Song," or Frank Sinatra singing "The Christmas Waltz?" Or Bing Crosby's "White Christmas?" Those are classics!!!

But the best Christmas song of all time has to be "Silent Night." Any song that can stop a war dead in its tracks is an amazing song!!!

 

[XTreeXC]

Geez, a real bunch of Scrooge's in here, eh? I will concur that I'm sick and tired of hearing Mariah Carey sing "All I Want for Christmas is You," thirty times a day.

I can see how people get tired of hearing the traditional songs played over and over again (or worse, pop renditions of those songs). Might I suggest the following Christmas albums to spell yourselves from the ordinary:

Christmas With the Smithereens (garage band "Xmas rock" at its best!)

Boogie Woogie Christmas and Dig That Crazy Christmas - Brian Setzer Orchestra (very upbeat, and Setzer can grind the axe)

We Three Kings - Reverend Horton Heat (Xmas music with a punk-rockabilly twist)

Chris Isaak Christmas - Chris Isaak (okay, this one might border on poppish, but he does a pretty good job of putting his own stamp on the songs)

Barenaked for the Holidays - Barenaked Ladies (any band that does a version of "Jingle bells, Batman smells..." on its CD is okay by me).

If these don't get you in the spirit, nothing will.

 

[landrus13]

My grandma starts playing Christmas music in mid-October, so I get tired of it pretty quick.

 

[SycamoreFBGM]

All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey