Your Top 3 Christmas records ..

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Bit of Xmas fun and all that ....

I would like to know what your top 3 most memorable/enjoyable/played Christmas records are over the past 40 years ... ya' know .. the ones that you love to play, hear and jive to !

due to being an old(ish) b*****d mine are ...

Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmas time
Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale Of New York

Whats yours ??? :)
 
Band Aid - Do they know it's christmas
Chris Rea - Driving home for christmas
The Pretenders - 2000 miles

I can't stand the new ones, if i hear that Coldplay one again i'll bloody smash the 'kin radio , Grrrr
 
Celiné Dion - Christmas Eve
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas (Is You)
 
Best one Ever...

Slade - Merry christmas

Then, Wizzard, then Gary Glitter.
 
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I generally hate the bloody things. I'd struggle to pick 3 but I would go for

Pogues - Fairytale of New York
Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry

Neither are really Christmas songs though.

If I really had to pick a third I'd go for Greg Lake's effort.
 
cambsno said:
Best one Ever...

Slade - Merry christmas

Then, Wizzard, then Gary Glitter.
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(y) on Wizard & Slade..... Its just not christmas until those two are singing or being played out aloud at christmas..


But I'm :thinking: Gary Glitter - which xmas song did he have :shrug:
 
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1. Slade - Merry Christmas Everyone

2. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

3. Kevin 'Bloody' Wilson - Santa Clause you..................................................
 
Slade Merry christmas

Johna Louie Stop the cavelry

Wizard wish it could be christmas

Oh and Fabs, Stop the cavelry was not written as a christmas song origionally it just happend to become a great xmas tune due to the lyrics

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Kirsty & the Pogues [obviously] :D

Wizard - I wish it could be Christmas every day

Mudd - Lonely this Christmas - no, I don't know why, but always catawaul along to it :LOL:



Spent all afternoon working my way through a bloody everest of ironing all the while dancing & singing to christmas songs on one of the MTV channels. :woot:
 
fabs said:
I always thought they were.
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Neither were written as xmas songs.

Fairytale is about a drunk dreaming about a failed relationship while he's locked up in a drunk tank and was originally written for the Pogue's female bassist to take the Kirsty McColl part. It was intended for release on an album (If I Should Fall from Grace with God) in January 1988 but the marketing machine stepped in and released it as single in early December 1987.

Stop the Cavalry is a protest song about the horrors of WW1 and subsequent wars - the only reason it's even slightly relevant to Xmas is the line "Wish I was at home for Christmas". Jona Lewie spotted an opportunity to cash in and decided to release it as an anti-christmas song song if that makes sense :LOL:

Greg Lake's offering was included because I've always liked the use of Prokofiev's Troika in it :p
 
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1 - Jethro Tull - Another Christmas Song

2 - Wizard- I wish It Could Be Xmas Every day

3 - Pogues - Fairytale of New York

And for a true kick up the backside christmas message - Jethro Tull - Christmas song

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Fairytale of NY
Stop the Cavalry
and rather revoltingly Lenon's Merry Christmas!

Kevin Bloody Wilson would be in there as well if I could pick 4.
 
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Slade-merry xmas
The Pogues and Kirsty McColl
Wizard- I wish It Could Be Xmas Every day

I think they will always be up there every year.:)(y)
 
Fairy Tale of New York,

Driving Home for Christmas

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