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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 4, 2008 21:46:03 GMT
The selection of Christmas songs has been brokwn out early after hearing Stop The Cavalry in a Chinese restraunt this week.
Currently playing are:
Troika - Lieutenant Kije, Suit. op. 60 - 4
I Believe In Father Christmas
The Power Of Love (Frankie goes to Hollywood)
In Dulci Jubilo
Stop The Cavalry
Ring Out, Solstice Bells
Fairytale Of New York
So what are your favorite Christmas songs ? And which year did Fairytale Of New York by Kirsty McColl & the Pogues go to #1 at Christmas ?
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 4, 2008 21:48:24 GMT
My favourite Christmas song is the Smurf's version of 'I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus'.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 4, 2008 21:55:01 GMT
The Night Santa Went Crazy by Weird Al!
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Post by Hero on Dec 5, 2008 0:33:46 GMT
Let it Snow by Twisted Sister.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2008 20:33:21 GMT
And which year did Fairytale Of New York by Kirsty McColl & the Pogues go to #1 at Christmas ? It never got to number one. It was a number two hit in 1987 and a number three hit in late 2005/early 2006. My favourite Xmas hits are Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas (the original not the crappy Stock, Aitken and Waterman version from 1989 or the more recent Band Aid 20 version), Shakin' Stevens 'Merry Christmas Everyone' and of course the perrenial favourite Wizzard's 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday'.* * Speaking of which it would be impossible for it to be Christmas everyday. The shops would be shut so nobody would be able to buy Christmas Presents and nobody would ever go to work so you wouldn't have any money to spend on presents anyway! |
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Dec 10, 2008 22:29:22 GMT
The whole of the Phil Spector Christmas Album - it's guaranteed to make me feel festive. I'd recommend it to anyone.
Other than that, the Pogues and Slade.
Mx
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 10, 2008 22:38:02 GMT
Zudobud is right. Remember what beat it (fine record it may be, didn't deserve tos top Fairytale being Christmas#1)
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Post by Hero on Dec 11, 2008 0:35:13 GMT
I may upload more TMNT Christmas Songs to youtube. Beware  |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 19, 2008 19:56:11 GMT
Back to basics:
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Post by Dave on Dec 20, 2008 11:40:00 GMT
I seem to have avoided xmas songs so far. It's not something I've been trying to do though. Maybe people just aren't feeling christmasy. I think I heard 'Donna & Blitzen' (Badly Drawn Boy) on a Beeb ad recently. I like that.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2008 19:28:05 GMT
Has anyone ever heard of Spitting Image's yuletide offerings
'Santa Claus is on the Dole' and 'First Athiest Tabernacle Choir'?
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 20, 2008 23:51:32 GMT
The joy of avoiding broadcast telly and most shops is I have heard very little festive songs this year. Hurrah!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 21, 2008 0:00:12 GMT
I feel sorry for the staff at Tesco in Falkirk - the Christmas music played there appears to consist of a grand total of four tracks, played on a loop, over and over..... After an eight hour shift I can imagine that would start to wear grooves in the brain....
Karl
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 22, 2008 9:00:28 GMT
Stirring carol service yesterday afternoon at a little church just round the corner that I occasionally pop into. Can't beat joining with such lyrics as: "Hither page and stand by me, If thou know'st it telling. Yonder peasant, who is he? Where and what his dwelling?" "Bring me flesh, and bring me wine, Bring me pine-logs hither: Thou and I will see him dine, When we bear them thither." A tear in the eye brought on by: "Yet the woes of sin and strife the world has suffered long; Beneath the angel-strain have rolled two thousand years of wrong; And man, at war with man, hears not the love-song which they bring: O hush the noise, ye men of strife and hear the angels sing!" And then rounding it all off by belting out a rousing "HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING..."
Yep, I'm in the mood now.
Martin
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Post by Hero on Dec 22, 2008 17:36:49 GMT
O Come all Ye Faithful can get very merry  ===KEN
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Post by Hero on Dec 24, 2008 20:16:00 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 10, 2009 10:02:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2009 19:41:35 GMT
I don't mind the hymn
O come let us ignore him
O come let us ignore him
O come let us ignore him
Oh Christ I'm bored!
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Post by kayevcee on Jan 11, 2009 21:39:46 GMT
Toys'r'us had nothing but Christmas songs playing from mid-November till January 6th. Same songs every day. Sometimes three or four versions of the same thing ('Very Special Christmas', a horrible tune with renditions by Christina Aguilera, Macy Gray and what sounds like Boyz II Men, seemed to be on every hour on the hour). By the end of a shift I would have been happy for the Earth to explode.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 4, 2011 20:29:59 GMT
Bump. It's that time of year
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Post by Hero on Dec 7, 2011 11:49:38 GMT
Christmas Time by Alvin & The Chipmunks.
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Post by andrewbcalculating on Dec 8, 2011 9:36:39 GMT
Back when Simon Mayo was on Radio 1, at Christmas he would play a song by Bob Rivers called Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear: www.bobrivers.com/#v8730 |<o>| |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 8, 2011 9:55:46 GMT
Has anyone ever heard of Spitting Image's yuletide offerings 'Santa Claus is on the Dole' and 'First Athiest Tabernacle Choir'? I've got a recording of Santa Claus is on the Dole here somewhere.... I am amused by Kevin bl**dy Wilson's Oi Santa Claus.... too (I will omit the rest of the title for decency's sake) |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 8, 2011 15:52:57 GMT
The Night Santa Went Crazy by Weird Al Yankovic
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 8, 2011 15:56:20 GMT
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 8, 2011 19:49:07 GMT
Can-I-have-some-more-plum-pudding.....
"I'm going to spend my Christmas with a Dalek". It really is unlike any other Christmas song one has ever heard. For good or ill there is nothing else like it.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 8, 2011 22:18:08 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 8, 2011 22:23:59 GMT
Has anyone ever heard of Spitting Image's yuletide offerings 'Santa Claus is on the Dole' and 'First Athiest Tabernacle Choir'? I've got a recording of Santa Claus is on the Dole here somewhere.... I am amused by Kevin bl**dy Wilson's Oi Santa Claus.... too (I will omit the rest of the title for decency's sake) A youtube search for "Kevin Bloody Wilson Hey Santa Claus" will find you this song. Just don't do the search or play it at work. Or in earshot of the easily offended. |
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Post by Hero on Dec 16, 2011 16:15:39 GMT
C'mon Phil . Time to dig out your copy of this fine classic of a film |
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