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What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'?
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Subject: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST,Ed Date: 19 Dec 07 - 04:07 PM Top 4 (in order) Hark the Herald Angels sing Silent Night Angels we have heard on high Once in Royal David City |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Peace Date: 19 Dec 07 - 04:11 PM Hard Rain Draft Dodger Rag |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST,Ed Date: 19 Dec 07 - 04:12 PM 'Hard Rain' as in Dylan's 'gonna fall'? |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Seaking Date: 19 Dec 07 - 04:22 PM Anything by Slade |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: fat B****rd Date: 19 Dec 07 - 04:25 PM Christmas wrapping by The Waitresses We Three Kings by The Roches Santa Claus Is Coming To Town by anybody Walking Round In Women's Underwear by myself |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Cats Date: 19 Dec 07 - 04:32 PM Christmas isn't Christmas until we have been to Padstow and sung the carols. 'Zadoc', 'Rouse, Rouse', 'Harky, Harky', 'Sages' and 'Mountains'. |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: PoppaGator Date: 19 Dec 07 - 04:37 PM I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (for fun) Deck the Halls (for Yule) and on a more religious and nostalgic note, O Holy Night Angels We Have Heard On High Joy to the World Adeste Fidelis |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 19 Dec 07 - 04:45 PM Listening to Greg Lake's I believe in Father Christmas. Singing 'Hark the herald angels'. Turning off Bing Crosbys' 'White Christmas', Wizzards' 'I wish it could be Christmas every day (why would you? The shops would be shut and we'd all die of turkey overdoses) and Slades' 'Merry Xmas'.... my three all time Christmas hates. LTS |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Bill D Date: 19 Dec 07 - 04:57 PM Frankie Armstrong's "Anti Carol" |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: topical tom Date: 19 Dec 07 - 05:04 PM For fun:Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth The Marvellous Toy(could be for Christmas!)(Tom Paxton) Most moving:Christmas in the Trenches Mary's Boy Child I'll Be Home For Christmas |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: oldhippie Date: 19 Dec 07 - 08:42 PM "Old Hippie Christmas" of course (Bellamy Bros). |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: MargoMcP Date: 19 Dec 07 - 08:49 PM Frank Sinatra and occasionally Bing Crosby, from my "youth". I love those j-i-n-g-l-e bells, those holiday j-i-n-g-l-e bells and being home for Christmas, if only in my dreams. As a child in mid-50's I hated those "new" songs, "Frosty the Snowman" and "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer." I always liked the older church or "adult" songs, never children's songs, no matter who sang them but especially if Burl Ives sang them; still can't stand him! Some adults just felt condescending to me and he was one of them for some reason. |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: number 6 Date: 19 Dec 07 - 08:57 PM "Christmas Time is Here" .... The Vince Guaraldi Trio biLL |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Amergin Date: 19 Dec 07 - 09:02 PM Santa Bloody Claus by Eric Bogle... any christmas song by kevin bloody wilson. You're a mean one mr grinch. I think you all are starting to get the idea of what I think about this piece of shite day. |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST Date: 20 Dec 07 - 03:56 AM Carol singing in Sheffield. Any - but especially "Old Foster" "Pentonville" "Liverpool" and "Portugal". And nowadays Eliza Carthy singing Jack Frost. Master craftsman, skilled engraver. |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST,LTS pretending t o work Date: 20 Dec 07 - 04:06 AM Anything from the Chieftains album 'The Bells of Dublin' or the Boys of the Lough 'Da Day Dawn' (reissued as 'Midwinter night's dream') will have me in a happy Christmas mood, 'Chestnuts roasting' will have me reaching for the puke bucket. LTS |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Jack Blandiver Date: 20 Dec 07 - 04:58 AM By this point I've had enough, so away with 'The Holly Bears the Crown' and 'Holy Heathens and The Old Green Man' (fine albums both) as I reach for suitable alternatives to get me through to the other side. Here's but three: 1) No Xmas for John Quays by The Fall - for pure Sentiment the '78 Peel Session version / for raw ritual power that on Totale's Turns. 2) Eddie Waring by Help Yourself - which appears on 'Christmas at the Patti'; 14-minutes of pure drone indulgence. 3) New Dawn Fades by Joy Division - from Unknown Pleasures, of course. My association with Christmas & Joy Division goes back to an arduous day of Xmas shopping in Durham in 1993, my find frazzled by the usual festive muzak fare being played in all the shops; all except for Oddbins where they were playing Joy Division. It was like walking into heaven... |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Folkiedave Date: 20 Dec 07 - 06:24 AM That guest who liked the Sheffield carols was me of course. |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST,Neil D Date: 20 Dec 07 - 12:05 PM I second what Liz said about "The Bells of Dublin". It's sitting in my car's CD player right now. I listened to it on the way to work and will listen to it on the way home. It will stay there till Christmas Day when I'll take inside and play it while we cook all morning and eat all afternoon. The Beautiful Christina, My Beloved, actually prefers her CD of Christmas tunes on bagpipes so we'll take turns. |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's Apprentice Date: 20 Dec 07 - 01:33 PM Christmas Must Be Tonight - (Robbie Robertson) as recorded by either The Band or The Albion Band Christmas Song - trad. arr. The Copper Family Snow Falls - John Tams O Holy Night - as sung by Jon Anderson & Sandra Crouch Rebel Jesus - (Jackson Brown) as sung by The Albion Christmas Band |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 20 Dec 07 - 01:46 PM Oddly enough, a World War II era song keeps resonating, "I'll Be Home For Christmas." For those of us old enough to remember having Fathers, Brothers, Uncles or friends deployed overseas and in harm's way during that war, or Korea, or Viet Nam or now, it is one of the most melancholy, yet hopeful songs I can recall. "Let it Snow" is another I like, though it has been done to death recently in films such as "Die Hard." For traditional carols, I like "O Holy Night" and the "Coventry Carol," among others. |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Little Robyn Date: 20 Dec 07 - 01:51 PM We wisshhh you a merry Chrisssstmas, We wisshhh you a merry Chrisssstmas, We wisshhh you a merry Chrisssstmas, And a happy new year. And Oh Holy night and The Angel Gabriel from Heaven came. Robyn |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: mrmoe Date: 20 Dec 07 - 01:54 PM I'm dreaming of a white mistress Christians roasting on an open fire |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NO CHRISTMAS IN KENTUCKY From: Rog Peek Date: 20 Dec 07 - 02:16 PM NO CHRISTMAS IN KENTUCKY (Phil Ochs) G C Christmas shoppers shopping on a neon city street D C G Another Christmas dollar for another Christmas treat G C There's satin on the pretty dolls that make the children glow D C G While a boy walking ragged in the cold Kentucky snow G C G No, they don't have Christmas in Kentucky C D There's no holly on a West Virginia door G C G For the trees don't twinkle when you're hungry C D G And the Jingle Bells don't jingle when you're poor There's lots of toys for children when then Christmas time is near But the present for the miners is a stocking full of beer In the dark hills of Kentucky there's one gift that may be found The coal dust of forgotten days that's lying on the ground No, they don't have Christmas in Kentucky There's no holly on a West Virginia door For the trees don't twinkle when you're hungry And the Jingle Bells don't jingle when you're poor Let's drink a toast to Congress and a toast to Santa Claus and a toast to all the speeches that bring the loud applause There's not enough to give, no, there's not enough to share So let's drown the sounds of sorrow with a hearty Christmas cheer No, they don't have Christmas in Kentucky There's no holly on a West Virginia door For the trees don't twinkle when you're hungry And the Jingle Bells don't jingle when you're poor Have a merry, merry Christmas and a happy new year's day For now's a time of plenty, and plenty's here to stay But if you knew what Christmas was, I think that you would find That Christ is spending Christmas in the cold Kentucky mine No, they don't have Christmas in Kentucky There's no holly on a West Virginia door For the trees don't twinkle when you're hungry And the Jingle Bells don't jingle when you're poor RPdec07 |
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Subject: Lyr Add: DING DONG MERRILY ON HIGH From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's Apprentice and Family Date: 20 Dec 07 - 03:25 PM Amergin and mrmoe must be absolute riots at Christmas parties...the comic relief I suppose you'd call it *LOL* Ding dong merrily on high, In heav'n the bells are ringing: Ding dong! verily the sky Is riv'n with angel singing. Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis! E'en so here below, below, Let steeple bells be swungen, And "Io, io, io!" By priest and people sungen. Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis! Pray you, dutifully prime Your matin chime, ye ringers; May you beautifully rime Your evetime song, ye singers. Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis! Merry Christmas to one and all, from our house to your house :-) |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 20 Dec 07 - 03:29 PM If you want to send me running screaming, put on the CD I found for a pound a few years ago... lots of Christmas favourites played on the concertina and the banjo... it's truly foul! LTS |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST,maire-aine Date: 20 Dec 07 - 03:32 PM Thanks, Rog, for the Phil Ochs song-- those are great lyrics. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 20 Dec 07 - 06:07 PM By the way, for those who have personally known want or are sensitive to those in need, as I am sure most are, Merle Haggard did a song some time ago called "If We Make It To (Through?) December." I grew up around a lot of Dust Bowl families who made it to California in the 1930's and '40's. Too many kids and never enough money. This song sounds like it could have described any of them. Any kind of Christmas was pretty special to them. I think of those folks every time my family gets together for the holidays. |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST,Mike in DC Date: 21 Dec 07 - 12:22 AM Most anything by Noel Sing We Clear, but especially Time to Remember the Poor. |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Jack Blandiver Date: 21 Dec 07 - 07:56 AM Try this... |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Greg B Date: 21 Dec 07 - 08:48 AM As I mentioned on another thread, I grew up with the Padre Choristers of Mission Santa Barbara's Christmas EP... if I had to pick one song, it would be their rendition of 'Pastores a Belen' that makes me think 'Christmas!' |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: PeadarOfPortsmouth Date: 21 Dec 07 - 09:44 AM It's not Christmas until I hear The Kingston Trio's "Last Month of the Year". Great album. My dad would play it each year when I was a kid and one of my favorite Christmas memories is tied to the song "Goodnight My Baby". (Maybe that could be another thread...songs that remind you of special holiday moments?) Anyway, my dad was absolutely thrilled when I was able to track it down as a CD last year and gave it to him for Christmas...he could finally retire the vinyl. Happy co-opted solistice, everybody! Peter |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Dec 07 - 01:40 PM I hate myself for saying this, but the first song that comes to mind is "Silver Bells." I don't even like the song that much, but something about it apparently strikes a chord in me. I think it's kind of a Christmas earworm. The song keeps going through my head, all Christmas long, and I can't forget it's Christmas, even if I want to!!! Humbug. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Lowden Jameswright Date: 21 Dec 07 - 02:53 PM For a touch of realism - what about the Pogues.... |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: john f weldon Date: 21 Dec 07 - 03:01 PM Most loved - Holly and Ivy, both the churchy version and the folk-dance one. I like the natural imagery; makes me think it comes from something very ancient. Most hated - Little drummer Boy, especially if played on slide guitar! |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's Apprentice Date: 21 Dec 07 - 04:13 PM "For a touch of realism - what about the Pogues.... " ah yes, Shane MacGowan...everyones favourite drunken uncle... |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST,Volgadon Date: 21 Dec 07 - 05:26 PM A few, in no particular order: In the Bleak Midwinter Silent Night I wonder as I Wander |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: GUEST,Mike in DC Date: 21 Dec 07 - 08:08 PM I happened to hear Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas the other day, followed shortly by White Christmas. The two songs are quite similar - somewhat sentimental, written about the same time (1943 and 1942, respectively) for movies (Meet Me in St. Louis and Holiday Inn)and performed by very popular singers (Judy Garland and Bing Crosby). I've heard them all my life. I've always liked Have Yourself, never felt much one way or the other about White. But hearing them in close proximity really accentuated their differences for me. If I hadn't been in a public place, with no control over the sound system, I would have turned White Christmas off in mid chorus. Crosby sounded painfully lugubrious compared to Garland, then at the height of her powers. Anyone else have a similar reaction? Or perhaps a completely opposite one? |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: number 6 Date: 21 Dec 07 - 08:25 PM The Mole Catcher's Apprentice .... I love your handle! now ... back on track with the subject of this thread. Every December back in the years of my formidable teenage youth, the Beatles always launched a new Album, with much fanfare. I've never really been a fan of the 4 mop tops, but when ever I hear "Dear Prudence", or "Savoy Truffle" my mind can't help but drift off to a very, very special Christmas (1968). To me those 2 songs can be classified as 2 of my favourite Christmassy songs. biLL |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Bee Date: 21 Dec 07 - 09:40 PM I thought I was the only person who really liked In the bleak Midwinter. O Holy Night makes me feel 'Christmassy', I guess because I spent all my teenage Christmas Eves in a lather of stage fright before soloing it at the Carol Service. |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Dec 07 - 04:38 AM In the bleak midwinter has always been one of my favourites, and I'm another who always turns Bing off before he can swoop up into that first note.... I must admit, I really don't like crooners, they make me want to reach for any sharp immplement and stick 'em with it. LTS |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: jacqui.c Date: 22 Dec 07 - 05:21 AM The Carol of the Bells, Fairytale of New York, Slade's Christmas stuff, Bleak Midwinter, Silent Night. |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Dec 07 - 05:39 AM Bing recorded "Bleak Midwinter"? Really? Now, that's what I call a classy Christmas song - but I don't know that I'd want to hear a Bing Crosby recording of it. Oh, and I think we should vote for the sexiest Christmas song - my vote goes to "Riu Chiu." -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Jack Blandiver Date: 22 Dec 07 - 04:35 PM Riu Chiu as sung by The Monkees... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko94b3I0X0Y I know we had this a while back, but for the sake of the season... |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Padre Date: 22 Dec 07 - 04:55 PM Besides the obvious carols: In the Bleak Midwinter , one song (actually tune, because it has no words) that somehow reminds me of Christmas is 'Telstar' - by the Tornados. It hit #1 just before Christmas in 1962, and I was at a down time - the melody seemed to help me feel better. Padre |
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Subject: RE: What songs make you feel 'Christmassy'? From: Padre Date: 22 Dec 07 - 04:56 PM I must learn to control the send button! |
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