Ziffler Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Here's a topic that doesn't require much thinking, but does require a difficult decision. There are so many great Christmas songs. Both Classical like "Silent Night" to comical like, "Chipmunk Christmas". Christmas is my favorite time of year. I love everything about Christmas. Right now, one of my sisters is making me a goody basket filled with homemade cookies and candies. I can't wait. lol. As for Christmas songs, I love them all. BUT! There is one song, that has always been my very favorite since I was a little boy. I love everything about the song. The music, the words, the meaning, the images it brings to my mind and the memories of my youth listening to the song. My favorite Christmas song? "The Little Drummer Boy" Come they told me Pa rum pum pum pum A new born King to see Pa rum pum pum pum Our finest gifts we bring Pa rum pum pum pum To lay before the kIng Pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum So to honor Him Pa rum pum pum pum When we come Little baby Pa rum pum pum pum I am a poor boy too Pa rum pum pum pum I have no gift to bring Pa rum pum pum pum That's fit to give our King Pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum Shall I play for you Pa rum pum pum pum On my drum Mary nodded Pa rum pum pum pum The ox and lamb kept time Pa rum pum pum pum I played my drum for Him Pa rum pum pum pum I played my best for Him Pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum Then He smiled at me Pa rum pum pum pum Me and my drum Merry Christmas to Everyone. Link to post Share on other sites
mouth brooder Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Oh Come, Come, Emanuel is my favorite Christmas time melody by far, but the lyrics ? *raspberries* :P So, I play it on the flute and don't sing. Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, is much more my style for lyrics. I always stop and listen to The Little Drummer Boy, though. That one has captivated me as far back as I can remember. Link to post Share on other sites
Xenon Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 My favourite Christmas song would be "Christmas at Ground Zero" by Weird Al Yankovic. Link to post Share on other sites
fern Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 As for Christmas songs, I love them all. BUT! There is one song, that has always been my very favorite since I was a little boy. I love everything about the song. The music, the words, the meaning, the images it brings to my mind and the memories of my youth listening to the song.My favorite Christmas song? "The Little Drummer Boy" Me too. And for the same reasons. What is it about that song? Link to post Share on other sites
2tabbymom Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 I love Christmas music, too. My favorite religious song is "O Holy Night", especially sung by a baritone. My favorite secular song is Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby". I can't wrap presents without listening to mood music. It also gives me the Christmas feeling, sometimes I get Grinchy without enough of it. I listen to the two KC stations that play all Christmas music through November and December. Link to post Share on other sites
mindlife Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Star in the East, part of the suite of carols by Malcolm Dalglish, as sung by the St. Olaf Choir. Link to post Share on other sites
mindlife Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Oh Come, Come, Emanuel is my favorite Christmas time melody by far, but the lyrics ? O come, o come Emmanuel & ransom captive Israel. Who waits in lonely exile here. O come o come Emmanuel, & ransom captive Israel. Link to post Share on other sites
anticulus Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Fairytale of New York. Link to post Share on other sites
KAGU143 Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 At the moment my favorite song is "Stop the Cavalry", but that may change tomorrow. Hey, Mr Churchill comes over here To say we're doing splendidly, But it's very cold out here in the snow Marching to and from the enemy, Oh I say it's tough, I have had enough, Can you stop the Cavalry? I have had to fight almost every night Down throughout these centuries, That is when I say, oh yes, yet again, Can you stop the Cavalry? Mary Bradley waits at home, In the nuclear fall-out zone, Wish I could be dancing now In the arms of the girl I love. Dubadum...etc Wish I was at home for Christmas. Bang! goes another bomb, On another town While the Czar and Jim have tea. If I get home, Live to tell the tale, I'll run for all presidencies, If I get elected I'll stop, I will stop the Cavalry. Dumadum...etc. Wish I was at home for Christmas Wish I could be dancing now In the arms of the girl I love, Mary Bradley waits at home, She's been home waiting two years long, Wish I was at home for Christmas -GB Link to post Share on other sites
Tanwen Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 I love 'Emmanuel' too, plainsong is so evocative. I also have fond memories of 'Once in Royal David's City' - my first 'Carols by Candlelight' at St Mary's in Upton village. We (the choir) processed down the aisle - horrified some of the more 'traditional' members of the congregation. Of course with all the H&S legislation, couldn't have a church lit by candlelight today and haven't we lost out because of it. I realise this is very sad, but I like 'It's Christmas' by Slade... :oops: Link to post Share on other sites
Parth Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 "The Little Drummer Boy" is my least liked of all Xmas songs :( My favourite would be "Happy Christmas (War is Over)" by John Lennon. I also have really been turned off Xmas carols altogether because I work in a supermarket and have to hear them constantly. The worst one of that lot is the children's choir rendition of "12 days of Christmas". *shudder* Link to post Share on other sites
M51 Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Oh Holy Night. I heard it once where the melody was sung by an incredible soprano soloist, with the choir backing her up with angelic sounding harmony (which sometimes consisted of lyrics and sometimes with just ahhs and ohhs). It raised every hair on my body. I like to Sing Silent Night because I know a cool harmony. I'm atheist, though, so since these songs are mostly sung in church I rarely get to sing or hear them. Link to post Share on other sites
Beelzebuddy Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 "Silent Night" by The Dickies. Followed, drunkenly, by "The 12 Days of Christmas" by Splodgenessabounds. Link to post Share on other sites
mindlife Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 O Holy Night was the song that temporarily stopped ww1. During a Christmastime lull in the fighting, one soldier started to sing it and the rest on both sides joined in. For about twenty-four hours afterward, the men played games and talked. Link to post Share on other sites
Kuroneko Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 My absolute favourite Christmas song is I'll Be Home for Christmas. The lyrics and the music are so sad. I may be wrong about this but wasn't this song written during WWI? I also like Melody's version of Do You Hear What I Hear? Normally I don't listen to that Christmas song that much. Link to post Share on other sites
HannaWyLady Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Anything from Handel's Messiah - I get to sing in the choir performance of the Messiah each year and love it. Then I come home and listen to all the goofy more worldly Christmas songs I can find! Link to post Share on other sites
mackat5 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 My favorite is "O Holy Night". It has three verses, but those who sing it rarely sing all three. I'd like at least two verses. Link to post Share on other sites
M51 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 O Holy Night was the song that temporarily stopped ww1. During a Christmastime lull in the fighting, one soldier started to sing it and the rest on both sides joined in. For about twenty-four hours afterward, the men played games and talked. Now I like it even more. Chills.... Link to post Share on other sites
Derp Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 My favourite Christmas song would be "Christmas at Ground Zero" by Weird Al Yankovic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_CP3OKWGYE That would be my favorite, too. Along with this one. It just makes me giggle for some reason. :D [Edit: OMG, how could I forget The Chimney Song? :o :mrgreen:] Link to post Share on other sites
Hallucigenia Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I dislike most pop Christmas songs. I don't know why, they just bother me. But there are a ton of very nice traditional carols (mostly sacred, but a few secular) that I don't mind at all hearing sung by people who know what they're doing. A few years ago I happened upon a truly lovely song called "Bethlehem Down" - it was arranged for solo voice by Peter Warlock, although I'm not sure if he made up the worlds or not. Very evocative and not your normal happy-happy carol. But the only recording I have of it is a choral version that I don't like as much. As a (sort of) professional choral soprano, I do have a weakness for any carol that ends with a great big descant (Hark the Herald, O Come All Ye Faithful, Once In Royal David's City, and so on and so forth... and then the conductor has to tell me to pipe down. :oops:) I'm also rather fond of the Carol of the Bells, although there isn't really much to it. Link to post Share on other sites
Tanwen Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Heard twotoday I'd forgotten about: The Bells were rining out for Christmas Day - The Pogues Only a Winter's Tale David Essex. Link to post Share on other sites
ChildOfTheLight Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 My favourite Christmas song would be "Christmas at Ground Zero" by Weird Al Yankovic. I've never heard that, but I like "The Night Santa Went Crazy" by the same artist. My favorite Christmas song would be "The Rebel Jesus" by Jackson Browne. I wish they would play it on the radio...how many third-rate celebrities' versions of "Santa Claus is Coming To Town" do you need? Link to post Share on other sites
Xenon Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 ... for something a little different: "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" by Twisted Sister! Link to post Share on other sites
sakura_alice Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 The guy singing the christmas carol is funny, and of course the rabbid screams. Raving Rabbids is soooooo much fun btw. DAHHH!!! :D Link to post Share on other sites
borrowedTime Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 I dislike almost all poppy Christmas songs. I agree with what Parthenos says. John Lennon's one is my favourite. And I can't stand "Little Drummer Boy", and I'd probably feel the same way about any song featuring the repeated lyric "pa rum pum pum pum"... Proper traditional carols are generally much better. (Though even then I'm picky... I shudder at the thought of "Away in a Manger" (especially when sung by choirs of 6-year-olds)) "In the Bleak Midwinter" starts off great in its first verse... if it only continued that way... Instead it all goes downhill when it starts talking about breasts and mangers and 'maiden bliss' and all that. And then it finishes off with that "Yet what I can I give him" which at first glance completely fails to make sense (though its alternative "Yet what can I give him" isn't any better, as it doesn't have enough syllables to fit the tune...) "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" is definitely one of the best, though it's slightly annoying in the way it puts 'mild' after 'mercy' and attempts to rhyme 'come' and 'womb'... "O Come All Ye Faithful" is good, although let down by the attempts of congregations to actually sing it properly ("leaving their flocks, draw nigh to gaze" just doesn't fit the tune for most untrained singers). Perhaps the Latin lyrics are better? But "In Dulci Jubilo" probably tops the list. Link to post Share on other sites
Shadow girl Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Angels We Have Heard on High Link to post Share on other sites
Frigid Pink Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 I've always liked "White Christmas," mainly because I've always wanted it to snow on Christmas, and, well, in Atlanta, Georgia, that doesn't happen too often. Link to post Share on other sites
hydrae Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 "Carol of the Bells" and I think the other song I like is called "What Child Is This", but I am not quite sure. I can hear the tune in my head, but I am not 100% positive what the words are :lol: I do not like pop chirstmas songs either. My favourites are the traditional and secular songs (despite the fact that I am not Chirstian.) If it was written after the 1940's I won't listen to it. Link to post Share on other sites
roddy9uk Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 "Adeste Fideles" sung by a half-decent male voice choir (in latin of course!) has to be near if not at the top of my list... O Holy night is almost unheard in the uK..but then being French probably accounts for that..however it is one of the most evocative of carols.. In the bleak midwinter..if sung by an alto soloist... Mary's boy-child for the more modern ones... roddy Link to post Share on other sites
Hallucigenia Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 "Carol of the Bells" and I think the other song I like is called "What Child Is This", but I am not quite sure. I can hear the tune in my head, but I am not 100% positive what the words are :lol: If the tune is the same tune as "Greensleeves", then it's "What Child Is This". And the words are here: http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/H...s_version_1.htm Link to post Share on other sites
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