What is your favorite Christmas Song?

Me too! When I saw this question, I thought “Baby it’s cold outside, hands down,” and then I clicked on it and you had written that too! Small world. :)

O Holy Night.

Traditional: O, Holy Night
Modern: Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses
Sarcastic: Father Christmas by…I can’t remeber right now.

Deja vu? Pretty sure we chatted about this already, but no harm in doing it again :)

I stick with O Holy Night, because I play a mean version on guitar with a vocal accompaniment.

But I’d love to find some newer and alternative Christmas music. I’d love songs about how Christmas sucks, about the awfulness of the spendathon, something heavy and Dead Kennedys style. If not just for the fact that anti-Christmas music is quite ironic and would be a hoot to play at parties.

:-), Thank you everyone.

“Sleigh Ride”. And the Barenaked Ladies Holiday album is one of the greatest holiday albums out there. The best being (of course) Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown Christmas.

This one

O Holy Night also…I find it interesting that it is a favorite of so many!

Silver Bells. I remember hearing it from the radio on the console television growing up in the sixties. Somehow, it sums up all the magic of Christmas from a little girls perspective. I loved it. ring a ding, hear them ring

Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s rendition of “Carol of the Bells,” probably.

That or From First to Last’s “Christmassacre,” just because I find the clash so funny.

Also Little Drummer Boy…Jars Of Clay version.

i have so many! but my number one favorite would be silent night.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Canon Rock !!!!!

Someday At Christmas by Stevie Wonder. It is a sad song but I love it.

Oh, carol of the bells as well. I learned the alto part one year in school for the winter concert and I still know it. :)

I freaking despise Christmas music.

They tacked on religion to a secular holiday to get people to buy things. That and the music usually sucks…

AND it gets old hearing the same songs over and over in all the places of business you go.

(Yes, I’ve been called the grinch many times).

I still celebrate it but I openly admit that I only like it because there are presents involved and I get holiday time.

Baby It’s Cold Outside, for sure!

@elchoopanebre: They tacked what onto a what? How was Christmas (literally Christ’s Mass) a secular holiday? And if you think it was put there to overshadow Saturnalia, it’s still about the temple for Saturn so…

It’s been commercialized over the years, definitely. Same as Halloween. But I don’t think it was ever a secular holiday. And by “I don’t think” I actually mean “it’s always been religious”.

ETA: Unless you mean winter solstice in which case, same as Saturnalia, it was totally all about conversion, not consumerism which didn’t really exist then anyway.

I love the crass commercialism of Christmas…

@EP

Well by a secular holiday I mean it’s not in the Judeo-Christian Bible.

What the Roman Catholic Church does is secular in my (and many scholars’) opinion.

Is Baby it’s Cold Outside a Christmas song? I thought it was just a winter song.

I like Silent Night, because it makes me remember when my Dad sang it to me as a child, and tho it makes me miss him more, it’s kind of like having a little ‘visit’ with him.

I also really, really hate holiday songs. I’m not really a fan of Christmas and the repetitiveness drives me bonkers but I really liked a few songs from The O.C. Mix 3 (crappy flash samples after link) which was comprised of old Christmas covers by new indie bands.

Just Like Christmas by Low (track 3) is fantastic. Captures that oddly quiet and quaint feeling of the holidays with a barely restrained joy in the chorus. Great stuff. Snow Patrol has a good cover of the same song and while good it sounds a little more conventional.

Good question…hm…all i want for christmas is you-mariah carey (1994)

Andy Williams: Happy Holidays / It’s The Holiday Season
This song just gets you in the holiday spirit and makes you want to dance.

i love them all because i am a CHRISTMAS FREAK. i still have all of my christmas decorations in my room and my braces are red and green!:)

Mary’s Boy Child / Oh My Lord – Boney M