Favorite Christmas Song

[MathCzyk]

I've always LOVED "O Holy Night."

And I'm obsessed with Josh Groban.

For the people above who said they like all three verses and a baritone...this one's for you:

:D :D :D :D :D

[2tabbymom]

I enjoyed the Josh Groban version of O Holy Night, but I think if Josh Turner did this song I would truly be in heaven. He is more of a baritone/bass.

I forgot before that I really like "Mary's Boy Child" by Harry Belafonte.

[vikingo]

Mary's Boy Child sung by Nina and Frederick. I do appreciate it more for the singing than for the song being christmas-y. The songs arranged and recorded for the Disney cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s sets me in tender mood. Maybe not strictly christmas songs but they tend to be played a lot around christmas. The vocal arrangements and performances are brilliant.

[mindlife]

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'll Be Home for Christmas" and "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" both come from ww2. Both of them address the issues of war, loneliness and pain quite directly, and have been used as evidence in discussions of American cultural history of the twentieth-century in general and the impact of ww2 in particular.

[Busrider]

I'm not much into Christmas. - I'm no very social person and a atheist. The lyrics of Grandma's gone run over by a rendeer appeal to me although the interpretation of the song doesn't at all *prepares to toss speakers*

Stop the cavalry is a piece of art I value as it is.

Another X-mas related song I like is Bruttosozialprodukt by a German Punk / comedy band Geiersturzflug. It's a song about cheerful workaholics and mentions Christmas as a holiday of useless crap gifts and let the crowd of garbage collection workers appear proud of the extra work they're doing after the hollidays.

I 'd get along with Christmas as a holliday of peace; but maybe I'm too dumb to sense that...

I've been in X-mas overdriven jobs. Did overtime as a sales person, SO hauled me to her parents, where I had to act cultivated and religion conform and didn't find the peace to prepare myself for the stressful ill selected presents return days before New Years eve.

If I had a choice, I'd secretly volunteer to do some sloppy, easy going production shifts over the hollidays, sipping half a cup of mulled wine and knibbleing cookies, while I keep them machines going and enjoy most of the coworkers being absent and not buggering me. - That's peace I like! (keeping my mind just busy enough to generate something similar)

The 1st divorce lawyers hotline here started their business on a 23rd of December. Those guys are damn clever and knew what they were doing... Too many of those part time housewifes and mothers I know tend to break down over the hollidays. Pleasing the kids, visiting monsters in law, getting hurt there, and feeling unprotected neglected by their SO, nobody valueing their environmentfriendly, PC, sugar free cookies charred with loving care from incredients purchased at the single world fair trade store, including eggs layed by happy hens living on the ground and unaltered Bio milk & butter and dentures challenging wholemeal...

Damn, I'm not cynic, but for me peace is something pleasant, stress free, allowing mindless thumb sucking and not what the hollidays became.

I don't know if somebody ever wrote a song about my feelings. I can partly mentally socialise with them poor soldiers abroad; what their songs are dreaming about is probably better than what they would have back at home these days.

[cijay]

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:

What child is this who lay to rest

on Mary's lap is sleeping?

Whom angels greet with anthems sweet

while shepherds watch are keeping.

This, this is Christ the king

whom shepherds guard and angels sing

Haste, haste to bring him laud

the babe, the son of Mary

So bring him insence, gold and myrrh

come peasent, king to own him

the king of kings salvation brings

let loving hearts enthrone him

Raise, raise the song on high

the Virgin sings a lullabye

Joy, joy for Christ is born

the babe, the son of Mary.

That's one of my favourites, I also love "Do You Hear What I Hear?". Come o Come Emanuel...I didn't think I liked that song 'til I heard it on the Peter, Paul and Mary Christmas Special. Noel (Paul) Stookey has the perfect voice for it. That show is also the source of one of my favourite non-traditional ones "The Heart Of Man's A Palace".

I'm not big on the pop ones either, however, "Do They Know It's Christmas" always brought tears to my eyes and now, after having lived in Ethiopia for 4 months - I don't ask that about the poor and starving, yes, they know it's Christmas. I ask it of the people who don't share. Do THEY know it's Christmas?

[free spirit]

The best song for me is.. O holy Night, I like it by

Josh groban, Nsync ( accapello ) and Celine Dion.

Its also in Home Alone ( the Movie )

[annie71]

i've always always loved "so this is christmas" by the beatles or john lennon (not even sure of the title to be honest)

and! also that christmas song by the waitresses! those songs rock :)

oh, and being a child of the 80's, i love that "do they know it's christmas time" song by ?bandaid?