What is your favourite Christmas song?

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We have probably had one of these before but I have searched back to 2017 and couldn’t find one so let’s have another.

What is your favourite Christmas song? I am very predictable with Mariah, The Pogues and Kirsty, Chris Rea, and Wham. I would say my favourite overall would be Chris De Burgh’s A Spaceman Came Travelling, although I’m not sure it even is a Christmas song.
 
What I love about Whigfield's interpretation of the song is that you can tell, in her voice and in her physical presence in the video, just how much she connects with the lyrics
 
Oh god yes La Bush. Haven't heard that yet this year actually, must RECTIFY IMMEDIATELY
 
S Club (7) - Perfect Christmas is SO GOOD

 
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These are top tier for me -

Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
December Will Be Magic Again
Have A Cheeky Christmas (genuinely)
Fairytale of New York
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
Mary's Boy Child
One More Sleep
Saviour's Day
Every Day's Like Christmas (by our Kylie)
And Mariah, obvs

I also love the following, which some very stupid people think are Christmas songs due to their videos / time of release, but are of course NOT:

Stay Another Day
The Power of Love (Frankie, not Huey)

And if we're talking carols, I think Oh Holy Night is sublime
 
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I mean Mariah wipes the floor for me as far as JOY goes, but Wham is obviously a classic for a reason, The Pogues too.

Of the newer ones, Kelly is undeniable and Britney has the perfect teen pop one.

Everyday‘s Like Christmas (PWL remix or whatever it’s called) from Kylie is fantastic, too.
 
Cristina darling's Things Fall Apart is brittle, brilliant and bites beautifully every time, like bullets. Every line bleeds and is an aching stretch to the punchline. The world did not deserve her.

However, Darlene Love's blizzard of pathos that is Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) has so much gusto, ghost-like CHER backing vocals and a wall of sound that crashes down so hard it's positively jubilant.

A special mention to Girls Aloud's Not Tonight Santa, a jaunty Spector-sprung endeavour that truly remains a missed opportunity - that we'll never see the day this topping the charts or playing in Greggs (as one walks past holding their breath as is sorb custom you know) is an eternal travesty of Cristina-imagined proportions.

And of course, Mariah. Vocals that spiral so vast they gift-wrap the entire planet.
 
Oh I forgot Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)…was going to say you can’t ruin that but then Steps gave it a bash in the most un-Steps way and I’ve never recovered.
 
If we're talking carols and hymns, I love O Come All Ye Faithful, Good King Wenceslas, 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen', Away In A Manger and O Come O Come Emmanuel.
 
The Phil Spector album is really decent. I know he was a monster, but that doesn't take anything away from his art.
 
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The Phil Spector album is really decent. I know he was a monster, but that doesn't take anything away from his art.
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I find I can still listen to it too - I don't think those great vocalists and musicians should have their work stricken from the records just because the producer was the absolute worst. That may be inconsistent of me but I've never felt like I was paying Spector any respect, rather The Ronettes, Darlene Love and The Crystals.

Also worth remembering that Spector's name wasn't originally in the title of the album; it was changed when Spector worked with a couple of ex-Beatles in the early 70s and Apple reissued the album as "Phil Spector's Christmas Album" with a pic of Spector on the front. Even now, editions vary between the original "A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records" and "A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector".
 
ALWAYS number one is Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).

Second is St Et's I Was Born On Christmas Day, then One More Sleep (Cahill Remix), Bananarama's Baby It's Christmas, Tracey Thorn's Tinsel and Lights, Dragonette.

Love all of the Emmy The Great and Tim Wheeler album but especially Snowflakes.
 
If we're going THAT far then...



Key lyric: "Died at 33, which is as good a time as any".
 
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