The official After Hours poll to decide the Greatest Christmas Song Of All Time !!

Pique · 19-12-2013 05:03PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhXvybI4WFk

Princess Peach · 19-12-2013 05:15PM

Great quality Irish song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YXp1BfVZTw

IvaBigWun · 20-12-2013 02:33AM

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

White Christmas is just a downright great song, Christmas or not.

Yes but if you'd have played it out your back garden in the middle of June this year you'd be typing the above from St John Of Gods now

Agent Smith · 20-12-2013 07:08AM

J_E · 20-12-2013 07:18AM

I'd say it would have to be The Wexford Carol. Not really interested in the religious affiliations but the melody is beautiful.

IvaBigWun · 20-12-2013 10:49AM

anncoates wrote: »

Being the OP of a greatest Christmas tunes thread isn't exactly a Mount Sinai of cool from which to deliver hipster lectures.

Just saying.

Oh you and your great way with words

IvaBigWun · 20-12-2013 05:33PM

Look at what we all forgot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq5FAbdkZg4

Festy · 20-12-2013 07:43PM

D1stant · 20-12-2013 08:00PM

When I were 10 years old my older brother filled me in on the whole Santa thing. The pr1ck. I consoled myself in knowing that nothing that bad would ever happen at Christmas again.

Then Ronan Keating did a version of Fairytale of New York. Can we revoke his passport?

smodgley · 20-12-2013 08:37PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ6kJ7GWtv0 i MUD; lonelly this christmas

IvaBigWun · 21-12-2013 07:40PM

MonstaMash wrote: »

Mother of jaysus.

wendell borton · 21-12-2013 08:06PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXjbI3kRus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar9Ip7pSqEg

Jacks Smirking Revenge · 21-12-2013 08:44PM

No love for this?

bnt · 21-12-2013 09:18PM

There's only one of these songs that gets any respect from me at all: Greg Lake's I Believe In Father Christmas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCEdrnaFlY

Míshásta · 22-12-2013 12:33AM

I have to say this poll doesn't make sense.

"The greatest Christmas song of ALL TIME"

Then we get a list of Anglo-American pop songs with a Christmas theme from the last 20 or 30 years. Okay, "White Christmas" goes back a little further.

There's a great corpus of Christmas Carols from all over the Christian world going back hundreds of years. Their popularity has stood the test of time and changing musical fashions.

They are the greatest of all Christmas songs - not the shopping mall jingles of the poll, even if they are some nice numbers included.

Pang · 22-12-2013 12:39AM

I love the Wizzard song because it reminds me of being a child and the excitement of Santa bringing presents.

AerynSun · 22-12-2013 12:47AM

Psycho Reptiles' "Psycho Christmas" medley was pretty popular in South Africa in the 80s/90s, you couldn't go into a shopping mall without hearing it - and it was a welcome respite from the Boney M carols that would be on permanent rotation otherwise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WkesmvWnJI

miralize · 22-12-2013 12:50AM

Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of...

It just gets me in the festive mood.

Daqster · 22-12-2013 04:35AM

Would say Fairytale of New York for me also but I really like the song Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg.

Often wondered if it was based on a true story and it turns out it was. When home Christmas one year when he was in his 30s, he bumped into an ex of his who was married and the song was written about that encounter. He never disclosed who the song was about in case it would disrupt her marriage. In 2007 he died from prostate cancer (coincidentally the saxophone player in the song - Michael_Brecker - also died of cancer that same year).

Shortly after Dan's death, the woman the song was about gave an interview to a local paper and acknowledged that the song was pretty much an exact account of the night.

Song is so sad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfAxWtcfDUk

IvaBigWun · 22-12-2013 09:32PM

Jacks Smirking Revenge wrote: »

No love for this?

With good reason

sammy37 · 22-12-2013 10:05PM

Daqster wrote: »

Would say Fairytale of New York for me also but I really like the song Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg.

Often wondered if it was based on a true story and it turns out it was. When home Christmas one year when he was in his 30s, he bumped into an ex of his who was married and the song was written about that encounter. He never disclosed who the song was about in case it would disrupt her marriage. In 2007 he died from prostate cancer (coincidentally the saxophone player in the song - Michael_Brecker - also died of cancer that same year).

Shortly after Dan's death, the woman the song was about gave an interview to a local paper and acknowledged that the song was pretty much an exact account of the night.

Song is so sad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfAxWtcfDUk

What a great song and does not get enough airtime in my opinion a great story behind the song too thanks for posting that link

LordSutch · 22-12-2013 11:08PM

Fairytale in New York - Its a bit raw in parts

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Living there almost dead
On a drip in that bed

You scum bag
You maggot
You cheap lousy fagg0t
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God
It's our last

The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells are ringing
Out for Christmas day

AerynSun · 22-12-2013 11:12PM

LordSutch wrote: »

Fairytale in New York - Its a bit raw in parts

Great lyrics. Reminds me of a revisioning of 'O Holy Night' that I heard once. I can't claim to have ever known all of the words, but it went along the lines of:

O Holy Night,
Me hands are bleedin' freeeezing,
I sold me gloves
For a half bag of gear.

... and so it goes on, a delightful story that eventually ends up with the narrator eventually getting the gloves back off his best friend's ma, who turns out was the local dealer.

Anybody heard this? or know where I could find the full version of the lyrics?
:pac:

bnt · 22-12-2013 11:44PM

If I expand the question a little, I think the greatest Christmas music is not a single song, but classical music: the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky.