Best and Worst holiday songs- Page 4

[Michelleruth2]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 2:55pm

WORST: Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas Time" -- way too much airplay

BEST: all Hymns. For contemporary fave "Baby It's Cold Outside".

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 3:40pm

My favorite songs are the classic traditional numbers, especially O HOLY NIGHT, I HEARD THE BELLS ON CHRISTMAS DAY, and I WONDER AS I WANDER. I also love all of the golden age Christmas recordings by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, etc.

The songs I hate: DON'T THEY KNOW ITS CHRISTMAS? (I think that is the title..its the 'Feed the World' one), LAST CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS SHOES (too much schmaltz), and I am sure that there are more I am leaving out.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 3:57pm

Favorites:
* O Holy Night
* O Come Emmanuel
* The Chipmunks Song
* Mele Kelikimaka
* Baby It's Cold Outside
* White Christmas
* Santa Baby (Jane Krakowski's version, not the insipid version by Willa Ford)
* Silver Bells
* All I Want for Christmas Is You

Least Favorites:
* Feliz Navidad
* Christmas Shoes
* I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
* Please, Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)

[WalkOn]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 4:05pm

THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY annoys me.

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 4:14pm

I hate any version of Blue Christmas. Oh, and while I don't "hate" it, I'm generally sick to death of any of the millions of versions of Santa Baby.

Some of my favorites are:

O Holy Night (Johnny Mathis)
God Bless Us Everyone (Celine Dion)
Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day & Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee)
Do You Hear What I Hear? (Linda Eder)
The Christmas Waltz (Harry Connick, Jr. or Doris Day)

Updated On: 12/4/06 at 04:14 PM

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 4:26pm

MYB--have you heard "Porky's Blue Christmas" by Seymore Swine ? That's the only version I like

[peach]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 5:11pm

The absolute worst is the one with the shoes. Christmas Shoes, is it? Oy vey! It's horrible!

The best is "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" as sung by a one Mr. James Taylor.


Updated On: 12/4/06 at 05:11 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:33pm

Like:
Silent Night by Stevie Nicks
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by Judy Garland
Christmas Canon by Trans-Siberian Orchestra (it's a bit repetitive, but somehow hypnotic)
Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt (so wonderfully sophisticated as only Eartha can sing it)
Silver & Gold - Burle Ives
Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg (a bit sentimental, but who hasn't had a moment in their life when they think what might have been)
The Bells (Edgar Allen Poe poem) - Morman Tabernacle Choir (It used to be on one of those records they gave out at gas stations)

Dislike:
Happy Christmas (War is Over) - Yoko Ono is dreadfully offkey and makes it a tough listen
Christmas Shoes (nothing like dying mothers needing new shoes on Christmas to wish someone a Merry Christmas)

Updated On: 12/4/06 at 06:33 PM

[mominator]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:58pm

Goth I am so with you on your two dislikes!

I like Angels We Have Heard on High
Silent Night (but NOT the Stevie Nicks version)
Mary's Boy Child
Carol of The Bells
Christmas Song (Nat King Cole)
Do You Hear What I Hear

[MotorTink]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 7:02pm

I was in a store this weekend and heard "Baby It's Cold outside" performed by Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey.....ick! Favorite version of the song: Liza & Alan Cumming.

[justme2]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 7:16pm

Best:

Holly Jolly Christmas/Burl Ives
O Holy NIght - Nat King Cole
Christmas Canon (sic?)
Christmas Bells - Patti Page
Jingle Bells/I like a sleigh Ride - Clooney?


Worst:
Wonderful Christmas Time -Paul McCartney (amen to whoever mentioned that already)
Eyes of a child - have no idea who the artist is
12 days of Christmas - (especially the Frank Sinatra and his kids version)
Santa Baby - the Madonna version is terrible

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 7:28pm

RIght now, it's the set I'm doing tomorrow for a bunch of little children with my a capella group just because they're all stuck in my head.

Do You Hear What I Hear?
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Let it Snow
Sha'alu Shalom
What Christmas Means To Me

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 7:35pm

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (mainly Garland's version) is definitely my favorite. Perhaps sadly, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" is second.

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 8:55pm

Favoriteis easy- Mad Russian's Christmas- Tran Siberian Orchestra (props to whoever said Christmas Eve (Sarajevo)

Runner ups-Anything TSO
O Holy Night
God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
WAy too many others, I like most

Least favorites- All I Want For Christmas is You
The Hippo One
Blue Christmas
Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 9:59pm

I can't believe people can't appreciate the Awesomely Badness of 'The Christmas Shoes.'

[vbplayer]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 12:41pm

I have to put my 2 cents in and say............."Merry Christmas Darling" by Karen Carpenter is a favorite of mine.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 1:03pm

"The Bells of Christmas" Julie Andrews

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 1:48pm

"I can't believe people can't appreciate the Awesomely Badness of 'The Christmas Shoes.'

There are two types of bad: so bad that it's good and just plain bad.

A person can enjoy watching Mommie Dearest because it's so bad that it's good.

A person cannot enjoy listening to Christmas Shoes because it is just plain bad. It has no redeeming qualities.

[ally_kay_on_broadway]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 3:17pm

i worked in retail 2 winetrs ago and hated 'wonderful christnastime' so much i would go into the bathroom when it came on. i HATED it. THAT. MUCH.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 3:27pm

Favorite version of the song: Liza & Alan Cumming.

Amen! It is not Christmas for me until I hear these two! It is sheer perfection from beginning to end

I also have to put in a vote for "Merry Christmas Darling." Plus it's VERY cheesy, but "The Gift Goes On" by Sandi Patty was a big favorite of mine as a kid.

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 3:37pm

LOVE:

Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses

Do They Know it's Christmas? - BAND-AID

Christmas in Hollis - Run DMC

Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes

Marshmallow World - Darlene Love

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - U2 version

The Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie with Bing Crosby

Last Christmas - George Michael

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Version by The Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan

The one Billy Squier sings. The name escapes me, but I love it.

All I Want for Christmas - Mariah Carey. I hate her. I hate her style of singing, but for some reason I love this song and have to give her kudos for crafting what's become a really enjoyable, modern Christmas classic.

The traditional stuff: Greensleeves, What Child is This? and O Holy Night

I'll join in on the hate for the Christmas Shoes song and Wonderful Christmastime. Also, I've always hated Domic the Donkey, My Grown Up Christmas Wish and Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

Updated On: 12/5/06 at 03:37 PM

[mmajer]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 5:46pm

Favorites:

-"Here Mid the Ass and Oxen Mild" (Shaw, that soprano solo over the choir is just haunting...and the female harmonies...I need a new pair of underwear...)
-"What Child is This" (Rutter, the Cambridge Singers have this on "Christmas with the Cambridge Singers" and it is chill inducing...again with a haunting soprano solo/descant)
-Anything by Mediaeval Baebes
-A few arrangements of "There is No Rose"
-Sam Phillips arrangement of "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
-Kiri Te Kanawa's "I Know My Redeemer Liveth" (and I'm not a big Kiri fan..)


Least Favorite:
Christmas.Shoes.

[singtopher]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 10:54pm

Favorite: "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" sung by Judy Garland.

Worst: Last Christmas. No. Contest.

[Magdalene]

Posted: 12/6/06 at 10:30am

One of my favs is "Peace Carol" by John Denver & The Muppets.

Other than that, I'm more of a traditionalist. There aren't to many that make me cringe.

[peach]

Posted: 12/6/06 at 12:40pm

Blueroses - thanks for giving a shout out to Christmas Wrapping!

That's a good one. I look forward to hearing it every year.