Christmas Playlist! · 4:06pm Dec 1st, 2015
I slowly add to this every year, and it has its roots in two albums from my childhood - "The Best Chrismas Album in the World...Ever!" and "Twisted Christmas". Also The Muppets. I like The Muppets.
As a general rule I don't like the "classic" Christmas songs that much - "Silver Bells" and so on. Mostly because I've heard them a million times and they're getting a bit old, even when they're covered. Still, always open to suggestions! I generally prefer more active Christmas songs to quiet ones.
1. CeeLo Green feat. The Muppets - All I Need is Love
2. Gary Glitter - Another Rock n' Roll Christmas
3. The Christmas Consort - Canon in D (piano)
4. Pentatonix - Carol of the Bells
5. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Canon
6. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve Sarajevo
7. The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
8. Mannheim Steamroller - Deck the Halls
9. The Pogues feat. Kirsty McCole - A Fairytale of New York
10. Band Aid - Feed the World
11. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - First Snow (instrumental)
12. Mannheim Steamroller - God Res Ye, Merry Gentlemen (rock version)
13. Greg Lake - I Believe in Father Christmas
14. Sting - I Saw Three Ships
15. Wizzard - I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday
16. Bob Rivers Comedy Corp - I'm Dressin' Up Like Santa (When I Get Out on Parole)
17. Mike Oldfield - In Dulce Jubilo
18. The Muppets - It Feels Like Christmas
19. Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
20. Bob Rivers Comedy Corp - Joy to the World (rock version)
21. Bob Seager - Little Drummer Boy
22. Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
23. Slade - Merry Xmass Everybody
24. Bob Rivers Comedy Corp - A Message from the King
25. The Muppets - One More Sleep 'til Christmas
26. Jethro Tull - Ring Out, Solstice Bells
27. The Muppets - Scrooge
28. The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy & The Red Baron
29. Elton John - Step Into Christmas
30. Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
31. The Muppets - Thankful Heart
32. Bob Rivers Comedy Corp - The Twelve Pains of Christmas
33. Danny Elfman - What's This?
34. Mariah Carrey - Where Are You Christmas
35. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Wizards in Winter
36. Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime
37. Rockapella - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (a capella)
Oh, that reminds me, actually - I need to get "Stille Nacht", the German version of "Silent Night". While going quite against my usual preferences for Christmas songs, "Stille Nacht" is associated with one of the better moments in human history (as usual, found in the depths of one of the worst periods), so if for nothing but its association with that, I want it.
Massive points for number 28. :D What about 'Christmas at Ground Zero' by Weird Al?
By the way, for the interested, most accounts of the Christmas Truce report that there were several football games, and that in the most well-known of those, the Germans won 3-2. Wouldn't things have been so much better if the War had ended there? Everyone just decides on status quo ante bellum and goes home?
Could never have happened, but it's nice to dream.
Punk Christmas songs can be great fun. No Doubt has a cover of the Vandals song 'Oi To The World' but the entire album by that game is good fun. And Hawksley Workman has a gorgeous Christmas album with lots of gorgeous original songs. The Barenaked Ladies Holiday album gets a lot of play at my house as does The Rankin Bass Rudolph soundtrack.
Muppet Christmas Carol songs? You have my heart.
Gary Glitter!! Really?
I think you will find he is serving a 16 year stretch at HM's pleasure for attempted rape, indecent assault and kiddy fiddling.
possibly not the best for a Christmas play list.
This is objectively the best Christmas song. There are no contenders.
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Good music is good music. I don't approve of what he did by any means, but that doesn't change that the song is one of my favorite Christmas ones.
On my walking-to-work playlist I have both "Dixie's Land" (associated with the Confederacy, despite pre-dating it by a number of years, not being racist at any point, and being extremely popular in the North as well as the South - in fact it was Lincoln's favorite song, he had it struck up after announcing Lee's surrender at Appomattox) and "Der Königgrätzer Marsch" (a tune written in 1866, decades before Hitler's birth, but which became strongly associated with the Nazi party due to their usage of it at rallies and such).
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Speaking of the Christmas Truce, there's "Belleau Wood" by Garth Brooks.
Straight No Chaser's "12 Days of Christmas" is a nice novelty... I mean, come on, they end it by going into a cover of Toto's "Africa," so what's not to love?
Mannheim Steamroller and TSO have some solid takes on the classics. I like TSO's "Wish Liszt."
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Now this I have to hear.
Update
That was the best thing I've ever heard to date. Good job, punzil.
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The problem is that Glitter still benefits through royalties from sales and airplay Hitler and Lincoln didn't.
I personally like 'Jerusalem' which is a hym but has strong links to the British National Party.
One you may like to consider for your play list is Jona Lewie and Stop the Cavalry
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Truth about Glitter, but my mp3 of it was ripped from a CD from the 90s, made before anything concerning Glitter came to light. It's already been bought and paid for better than 20 years ago - and not even by me, but rather by my dad.
Jona Lewie's already there, #30.
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Now how did I miss that! Yeah!