Favorite Christmas songs/albums

[4saken1]

Merry Christmas, all! Hopefully, everyone isn't completely over it by now. I wanted to get this thread started earlier, but Christmas got in the way.

At any rate, post some of your favorites if you're into Christmas music, or even if you're not but have that one guilty pleasure......

Here are some of mine:

Songs
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Mele Kalikimaka
The Kinks - Father Christmas
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime (my girlfriend hates this one)
Payolas - Christmas Is Coming
The Pretenders - 2000 Miles
Queen - Thank God It's Christmas
The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight)
Run-DMC - Christmas In Hollis
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Whirling Dervishes - You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch

Albums
El Vez - Merry MeX-mas
Elvis Presley - Elvis' Christmas Album
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Christmas Caravan
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Santa's Greatest Hits
A Stocking Full of Christmas Tunes
The Edge Of Christmas
Boogie Woogie Christmas
Christmas With The Rat Pack
Christmas With The Stars

[The Darknight Detective]

Well, for today, at any rate :

Favorite album: Elvis' Christmas Album (honorable mention: The Phil Spector Christmas Album).
Favorite song (religious): O Holy Night (Johnny Mathis); honorable mention: Ave Maria (Perry Como)
Favorite song (non-religious): I'll Be Home for Christmas (Elvis); honorable mention Silver Bells (Chet Atkins)

[PaulBullion]

Favorite Xmas albums are the ones by Luther Vandross, Nancy Wilson and Dionne Warwick. Also both efforts by the Temptations.

Favorite songs:


This Christmas by Donny Hathaway

(then nothing for a looong time, it is so far ahead)



Soul Holiday by Sounds of Blackness
Do you hear what I hear in the Gladys Knight & the Pips version
Some Day at Christmas, Stevie Wonder

[kjn]

Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon

[seismic-2]

[CellarDweller]

Fave Christmas songs.....I heard this one on the way home from my brother's place this evening.

[4saken1]

Favorite Xmas albums are the ones by Luther Vandross, Nancy Wilson and Dionne Warwick. Also both efforts by the Temptations.

Favorite songs:


This Christmas by Donny Hathaway

(then nothing for a looong time, it is so far ahead)



Soul Holiday by Sounds of Blackness
Do you hear what I hear in the Gladys Knight & the Pips version
Some Day at Christmas, Stevie Wonder

I really like that version of Do You Hear What I Hear.

[PaulBullion]

I really like that version of Do You Hear What I Hear.

I think it was produced by the same guy who worked on some of her biggest hits of the 70s, so it's really timeless for me and blows the Whitney version out of the water. Sadly, both Gladys Knight & the Pips Christmas albums are very uneven.

[Iron Maiden]

This simple and elegant song is one of my favorite ones. Not heard often today.

[MyriVerse]

Christmas really isn't my holiday, but I dig the spirit and music.

In no particular order, and I'm sure I forgot a dozen or two...

Pretty much any silly, spoof version of a Christmas song gets a thumbs up from me -- Walking 'Round in Women's Underwear, anything.

The Chipmunks - The Chipmunk Song
The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy's Christmas
Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas
John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Happy Christmas (War is Over)
Elmo and Patsy - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad
Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime
Spike Jones - All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
Burl Ives - Holly Jolly Christmas
Lou Monte - Dominick, The Italian Christmas Donkey
David Bowie & Bing Crosby - Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy
Gene Autry or Burl Ives - Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer
Leon Redbone & Dr. John - Frosty the Snowman (Autry and Durante are just "meh" after this)
Cocteau Twins - Frosty the Snowman
Eric Idle - F****** Christmas (NEW Holiday Classic! well not "new," but ya know)
Vince Gauraldi Trio - Linus & Lucy (sometimes, I want a continuous 10-hour loop of this, and that whole album is great)
Stevie Wonder - Someday At Christmas
Stevie Wonder - What Christmas Means To Me
Vince Vance - All I Want For Christmas Is You (not the same song as Mariah's)
Pogues & Kristy MacColl - Fairytale of New York
Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin'
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
James Brown - Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto
The Singing Dogs - Jingle Bells (yup! I'm that guy!)
Mannheim Steamroller - Deck the Halls
Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters - Mele Kalikimaka
Maybe any of those Bing songs.
Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas (maybe the only time I can dig Elvis)
Jackson 5 - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Jackson 5 - Grown-Up Christmas
John Cougar Mellencamp - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (that whole first A Very Special Christmas album)
Jon Anderson - Three Ships
Wham - Last Christmas
She & Him - Christmas Waltz, Wish... that whole album
Cee Lo & Muppets - All I Need Is Love
Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
Pretenders - 2000 Miles
Louis Armstrong - Zat You Santa Claus
Baby It's Cold Outside (it's been done so many times I've stopped caring which version)

[4saken1]

Not a big Eagles fan, but this one is nice.

[PaulBullion]

Favorite Xmas albums are the ones by Luther Vandross, Nancy Wilson and Dionne Warwick. Also both efforts by the Temptations.

Favorite songs:


This Christmas by Donny Hathaway

(then nothing for a looong time, it is so far ahead)



Soul Holiday by Sounds of Blackness
Do you hear what I hear in the Gladys Knight & the Pips version
Some Day at Christmas, Stevie Wonder

Since then, I got (and am enjoying) the Christmas albums by The Four Tops, India Arie & Joe Sample with Guests, and Jeffrey Osborne.

[Phoenixx9]

Merry Christmas, all! Hopefully, everyone isn't completely over it by now. I wanted to get this thread started earlier, but Christmas got in the way.

At any rate, post some of your favorites if you're into Christmas music, or even if you're not but have that one guilty pleasure......

Here are some of mine:

Songs
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Mele Kalikimaka
The Kinks - Father Christmas
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime (my girlfriend hates this one)
Payolas - Christmas Is Coming
The Pretenders - 2000 Miles
Queen - Thank God It's Christmas
The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight)
Run-DMC - Christmas In Hollis
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Whirling Dervishes - You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch

Albums
El Vez - Merry MeX-mas
Elvis Presley - Elvis' Christmas Album
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Christmas Caravan
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Santa's Greatest Hits
A Stocking Full of Christmas Tunes
The Edge Of Christmas
Boogie Woogie Christmas
Christmas With The Rat Pack
Christmas With The Stars

Love, love, love Mele Kalikimaka and 2000 Miles!

[Vegan Daddy]

Low - Christmas

[Joker]

Pretty much like, the only good christmas album.