I really like this thread because...I just love the sound of sappy Christmas stuff...I only hear it like once a year on drives to Indiana...but when they play that one Carpenters song...somehow it just gets me. I loved cheesy Christmas music as a kid...it burrowed into my subconscious and never let go.

mrdfnle wrote:Chrismas Wrapping-The Models? The Motels?

The Waitresses

simmo wrote:And the worst Christmas song of all time:

- Simply having a wonderful Christmas time/Paul McCartney

Enough to make a man festivally homicidal.

I absolutely loathe this song. It only has 3 elements: sleighbells (which usually isn't a bad thing at all. quite the opposite), a bizarro keyboard patch and oddly effected vocals. And it has the negative effect of remaining in my head LONG after I've heard it.

Come on, it's Paul McCartney. Certainly he could have tried a little harder.


But every holiday time I usually bust out my old Beach Boys Christmas cassette.
http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Beach-Boys/dp/B0002Y4TY2

And always I love to hear Bing Crosby sing that romantic tune Baby, It's Cold Outside.

I have the Snow single by the Cocteau Twins which is okay. It's not their best work and I still don't really know how I feel about hearing Elizabeth Frazier sing Frosty the Snowman. It's a little unsettling. Winter Wonderland is the nicer track but then it sounds a little muzak-y. Still, I'll never get rid of it.

The Figgs do a killer version of the Kinks tune Father Christmas (give us some money). That's a rocker.

And of course The Pogues. Now THAT's a classic.

noise&light wrote:And always I love to hear Bing Crosby sing that romantic tune Baby, It's Cold Outside.

Is it better than Dean Martin's version? That's pretty hard for me to imagine.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

noise&light wrote:And always I love to hear Bing Crosby sing that romantic tune Baby, It's Cold Outside.

Is it better than Dean Martin's version? That's pretty hard for me to imagine.

I prefer the version from Elf.

OK not really.

You know what puzzles me? The Neil Diamond/Bette Midler/Barry Manilow christmas albums. It's a SHONDA, I tell ya.

The Neil Diamond christmas album is the only christmas album my mother owns.

johnnyshape wrote:I am astonished that no-one has yet mentioned 'Fairytale Of New York' by the Pogues & Kirsty Macoll.

I love that song!


But if I can count "Linus and Lucy" as a Christmas song, I have to go with that. If you can hear that song without smiling, your heart is five sizes too small.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

noise&light wrote:And always I love to hear Bing Crosby sing that romantic tune Baby, It's Cold Outside.

Is it better than Dean Martin's version? That's pretty hard for me to imagine.

Oh. You know what, I think that I've been mistaken all these years. You're absolutely right, it's Dino!

for whatever reason i quite like whatever mariah carey xmas song he sings. dunno why, dunno how, i cry but i do.

my favorite tunes are "o how a rose e'er blooming" and "o come all ye faithful." i'm fond of "little drummer boy" sans rum-pa-pums.

none of them.

for awhile i was bombarded with these things for one month out of the year.

it's grown to a month and a half. i'm pretty sure at some point the whole year will be christmas.

what a shitty year that will be.