Christmas Songs You Can Listen to Without Stabbing Your Ear Drums With A Pencil

[elevatedmole]

Beck - Little Drum Machine Boy

I also really love The Flaming Lips' Christmas at the Zoo.

 

[dandy]

i like my christmas music to have a little soul and sass in it:

bing crosby
louis prima
ella fitzgerald
lena horne
julie london
louis armstrong
etta james

my current favourite is, (aside from bing and bowie's 'little drummer boy', of course) 'dig that crazy santa claus' by ralph marterie (the original version from the 50s).

childhood favourite: snoopy's christmas, the one with the song about the red baron. classic.

 

[U2Kitten]

--Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth- David Bowie & Bing Crosby



umm... well, that's about it.

Strange, Little Drummer Boy (by anyone) is one of my all time most unlistenable holiday songs. I especially detest the overuse of the 'pa rumba bum bum' over and over again The Ashlee Simpson version on TV the other night was unbearable.

Due to it being put in the background of almost every commercial this time of year I no longer like the jingling bell noises I loved as a kid

I like

Father Christmas by The Kinks
U2's Baby Please Come Home
John and Yoko's Merry Xmas
other traditional ones it just depends on the version

please, don no gay apparel and bring me no figgie pudding

Bah, humbug

 

[Popmartijn]

I actually don't mind Christmas songs at all, I just don't like hearing them for 8 weeks before the actual day.

I refuse to play any Christmas music before 6 December.
Or it has to be the aforementioned Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band version of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
BTW, I have a Bruce Springsteen Live Christmas CD.

And oh, another suggestion:
Monty Python - Christmas In Heaven

C ya!

Marty

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

Anyone ever hear Jimmy Eat World's cover of Last Christmas??? It's funny but I find myself listening to it year round!

i suppose it'd be less annoying if they'd ever sing anything more than just the chorus.

 

[hippy]

Ella Fitzgerald - Sleigh Ride as well as the instrumental version


That's my absolute favorite Christmas song!

 

[UnforgettableLemon]

i like my christmas music to have a little soul and sass in it:

bing crosby
louis prima
ella fitzgerald
lena horne
julie london
louis armstrong
etta james

That sounds like Christmas CD that might be good for something else.

 

[dandy]

That sounds like Christmas CD that might be good for something else.

i am the queen of multi-tasking, you know...

 

[JOFO]

"The Christmas Song" by Nat King Cole.


.....chestnuts roasting on an open fire......

this song is also a good one to sing your own lyrics to.....

 

[Renne]

Fairytale of New York is one of my favourite Christmas songs, both the version by The Pogues and the live version I've got by Christy Moore.

I also like:
Carol of the Bells - The London Symphony Orchestra
Do They Know it's Christmas (the 1984 version, of course ) - Band-Aid
So this is Christmas (War is Over) - John Lennon
Christmas (Baby Come Home) - U2
Christmas Day - The Scared Weird Little Guys

Plus some of the songs from Tripod's Christmas shows:
It's Christmas time - which is about Christmas in Australia to the tune of Do They Know it's Christmas
Plastic Surgery for Christmas
Little Drummer Boy - which turns out being about an Australia ex-variety television host

 

[IWasBored]

The Pogues Fairy Tale of New York

low's version of little drummer boy rules.

 

[Appy]

go to the link below and dl

Winter Wonderland/Misty Mountain Hop

http://flemingandjohn.com/sound.asp

this song is kind of cute for those who like to get the Led out.

enjoy Leah

 

[alexvilagosh]

Bright Eyes - Blue Christmas

and...

Beck - Little Drum Machine Boy!!!!

 

[U2Kitten]

Has anybody ever heard that Iron Man parody, "I Am Santa Claus?"

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

"O Holy Night" - Cartman

i have to add this one to my list... there's nothing like playing this version at work right after one of my coworkers played the "beautiful" celine dion version

 

[tiny dancer]

Silent Night-Stevie Nicks

 

[Catman]

"Fairytale of New York" - The Pogues
"Father Christmas" - The Kinks
"Christmas Eve (Sarajevo)" - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
"Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" - U2
"Do They Know It's Christmas" - Band-Aid (original, haven't heard the new one)
"Do You Hear What I Hear" - Whitney Houston (yeah, that's right)

gerrrrrrrrr.......that's all I can think of right, now. My favorite Christmas carol is probably "O Come All Ye Faithful"