couchtripper

What is your favorite song around the holidays?

I have a very funny choice. My favorite song is "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"

For those of you who don't know this great Christmas song, here's a link to it
https://www.minibite.com/christmas/hippo.htm

I think my favourite Christmas CD is one that was given to me many years ago--- by Harry Connick Jr. called "When My Heart Finds Christmas".

From years ago, I remember a song that my parents used to play by Nana Mouskouri called "Little Toy Trains" and I've always thought it had a nice sort of Christmas ring to it.

My alltime fave has to be Fairytale of New York by The Pogues. It literally gives me shivers

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
A rare old mountain tune
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you .....ahhhhh I think I'll listen to it now

Click here to listen

IRiSHMaFIA wrote:My alltime fave has to be Fairytale of New York by The Pogues. It literally gives me shivers

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
A rare old mountain tune
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you .....ahhhhh I think I'll listen to it now

Click here to listen

Ooooh, Irish - mine too!! (I'm a big fan of Kirsty MacColl).

I also love George Michael's "Last Christmas" - it always makes me think it's snowing outside.

Twirley wrote:

IRiSHMaFIA wrote:My alltime fave has to be Fairytale of New York by The Pogues. It literally gives me shivers

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
A rare old mountain tune
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you .....ahhhhh I think I'll listen to it now

Click here to listen

Ooooh, Irish - mine too!! (I'm a big fan of Kirsty MacColl).

I also love George Michael's "Last Christmas" - it always makes me think it's snowing outside.

I'm quite the fan of Kirsty MacColl's as well. She's some voice on her

I like some parodies mixed in with real crimbo tunes:

Aquaclause (song about santa in a jethro tull style)

Santaclause you cunt!!! by Kevin Bloody Wilson

There's something in the chimney (funny song)...


Non parody stuff:

Any SLADE crimbo song

Solstice Bells (Jethro Tull)

I do like the pogues & kirsty tune too...

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I have about 20 gig of Xmas MP3's if anybody wants some?

My favorite Christmas song is "Bright, bright the Holly Berries".
Don't ask why because I don't know. I just remember hearing a few years ago in the Dentist office and called up the radio station to ask who it was.

I love "we three kings"

don't know why but it always reminds me of my childhood?

Also "Let it snow" ahhhhhhh...

Christmas......I love christmas!

Barry

You know, I'm not religious by any stretch of the imagination but it's the religious songs of the season that tug at my soul. Maybe it's God telling me something ???

Gasman59 wrote:Maybe it's God telling me something ???

Or a repressed feeling of wanting to belong to an organized society that tries to baffle the worlds population with theories that expell any common sense or the clinical findings of scientists, historians & archiologists.....


Nah... I know what you mean m8...

Just because I am not religious now don't mean I wasn't exposed to any or the music related to it & the season...

Music is a mood enhancer, add some well chosen lyrics (specialy those that are sad stories or full of moral fiber) & throw in some xmas glitz & I'm a sucker for what I'm hearing too....

Hence my choice (& now the kids) of Parodies...
They kinda throw a dif' perspective on things, same mood altering chords but lyrics that make ya' smile knowingly or laugh out loud without all the moral & sadness of the original.

A song that everyone can appreciate!

Click here to listen

IRiSHMaFIA wrote:My alltime fave has to be Fairytale of New York by The Pogues. It literally gives me shivers

I ran into Shane McGowan in Eammon Dorans a few weeks ago, he was so drunk he could barely stand up

Disco wrote:

IRiSHMaFIA wrote:My alltime fave has to be Fairytale of New York by The Pogues. It literally gives me shivers

I ran into Shane McGowan in Eammon Dorans a few weeks ago, he was so drunk he could barely stand up

Such a bloody waste really. I watched some show he was on a while back and I couldn't believe how he looks now. He's aged pretty poorly and was so pissed up he could hardly talk.

6ULDV8 wrote:

Gasman59 wrote:Maybe it's God telling me something ???

Or a repressed feeling of wanting to belong to an organized society that tries to baffle the worlds population with theories that expell any common sense or the clinical findings of scientists, historians & archiologists.....


Nah... I know what you mean m8...

Actually, I think you've hit the nail on the head.....

https://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000570.php
Listen to the whole thing but have something to hang on to!