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

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"Christmas Wrapping" the Waitresses (I think that's the name of it)
"I Saw Three Ships" Sting
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings" BNL and Sarah McLachlan
"The Christ Child's Lullaby" Shawn Colvin
"Children Go Where I Send Thee" Natalie Merchant
"Oi to the World" No Doubt
 
"Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" - U2
"Christmas In Hollis" - Run DMC
"Blue Christmas" - Bright Eyes
"Hey Parker, It's Christmas" - Ryan Adams
"Santa Baby" - Madonna (that's my sister's song...:D)
 
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - U2
Christmas in Hollis - Run DMC
Happy Christams (War is Over) - John Lennon
Christmas Song - Dave Matthews
Do They Know Its Christmas (original) - Band Aid
Santa Baby - Madonna (I know it sucks but it makes me wish I was Santa ) :wink:

People had already mentioned the first three, but they needed to be mentioned again.
 
Oh, yes, I love the Dave and Tim "Christmas Song" from Live at Luther College.

she was his girl
he was her boyfriend
she be his wife
and make him her husband
a surprise on the way
any day, any day...
 
The whole A Christmas Gift To You album (from all the 'Phil Spector artists')
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Winterland 1978 version)
^^^ I can even listen to that one in the midst of May and still get excited by it.
 
Most Christmas songs I can stand. My college choir (which I am in) gives a concert on Sunday. My favorite song on the program is called "Come We Shepherds" by Richard Horn and Richard Crashaw, published by MorningStar Music Publishers.
 
I actually don't mind Christmas songs at all, I just don't like hearing them for 8 weeks before the actual day.
 
David Bowie and Bing Crosby - Little Drummer Boy "My name's Bing"
The soundtrack from a Charlie Brown Xmas
U2 - Baby, Please Come Home
 
The intrustmental of Sleigh Ride," I didn't know we did it.

Also Peggy Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." And the main guy who does "Flese Diva Da." :););):)
 
The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)
Mew - She Came Home For Christmas
Fear - Fuck Christmas
Elvis Costello & The Chieftains - The St. Stephen's Day Murders
Low - Little Drummer Boy
U2 - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Smashing Pumpkins - Christmastime
James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers) - Last Christmas
Run-DMC - Christmas In Hollis
St. Etienne/Tim Burgess - I Was Born On Christmas Day
Stiff Little Fingers - White Christmas
Weezer - The Christmas Song
The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
Neil Finn - Sweet Secret Peace
Bright Eyes - Blue Christmas
John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
John Cale - Child's Christmas In Wales
Coldplay - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
 
I can't believe only one person has said "Fairytale of New York." There is so much to that song. It's more about people in real life facing the holidays; the sadness, the isolation, the fleeting hope. It's poignantly balanced in humor and sadness. There's just not enough that can be said about the instrumentation and the performance, especialy Kristy MacColl's. And I hate to say it, but this is much better than U2's "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)"

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It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
And I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They've got cars
Big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old

When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on the corner
Then danced through the night

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

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 faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God
It's our last

I could have been someone
So could anyone
You took my dreams
From me when I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you
 
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Low - 'Christmas' (the entire album......thought I've yet to listen to it.....)


I'm positive it will be great. Other than that, there are many songs I will post at a later date when I have time.
 
1. The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song
2. Dismemberment Plan - This Christmas
3. Death Cab For Cutie - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
4. The Polyphonic Spree - Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
5. Sufjan Stevens - We Three Kings Of Orient Are
6. The Flaming Lips - A Change at Christmas
7. The Walkmen - No Christmas While I’m Talking
8. Mogwai - Christmas Song
9. Sufjan Stevens - O Holy Night
10. Yo La Tengo - It’s Christmas Time
11. The Flaming Lips - Christmas At The Zoo
12. Eels - Christmas Is Going To The Dogs
13. Coldplay - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
14. Low - Just Like Christmas
15. Copeland - Do You Hear What I Hear
16. Ron Sexsmith - Maybe This Christmas
17. Sufjan Stevens - What Child Is This Anyway

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

-Waz
 
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