One more month to go... and Christmas will be here again!!!

 

Email me your top 5 of favorite Christmas songs and I will compile a top 10 of a very special edition of the Pmachinery Christmas Top 10.

 

You can send me an email until December 23, 2009.

Please write in the subject line: My Christmas Top 5.

Send your email to: ronald@pmachinery.com

 

But you can also reply to this post, that'll do as well!

 

Here are my five favorite Christmas songs of all time:

 

1. The Pretenders - 2000 Miles

2. Lemon - What I Want For Christmas

3. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas (Is You)

4. Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas

5. Alison Moyet - The Coventry Carol

1. Fairytale of New York

2. All I want for Christmas is you

3. Sleigh ride

4. Merry Xmas everybody

5. I wish it could be Christmas everyday

Hi Charli,

 

Which artists sing "Sleigh Ride" and "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"?

And I guess you mean "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade!

 

Thanks for posting!

 

Ronald

Edited November 29, 200915 yr by pmachinery

.... suppose it deals with 'retro' so yes, it qualifies for this forum :)

 

trouble is, some of my favs are post y2k which means they arnt retro...lol

Hi Mushymanrob!

 

Just send them in!

It doesn't really matter, does it?

 

Ronald

1. The Pogues ft. Kirsty Maccoll - Fairytale Of New York

2. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody

3. Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

4. Perry Como - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

5. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day

 

Not a fan of Mariah and Wham Xmas songs.

Edited November 29, 200915 yr by BrayFish

Hi Brayfish!

 

thanks for your reply!

1 I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake

2 Fairytale Of New York - Pogues / Kirsty MacColl

3 All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey

4 The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole

5 Last Christmas - Wham

1. Pogues /Kirsty MacColl - Fairy Tale of New York

2. Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

3. Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas

4. Wizzard (and a cast of thousands) - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day

5. Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry (assuming you treat this as a Christmas song)

5. Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry (assuming you treat this as a Christmas song)

 

I surely do!

One of the best Christmas songs around!

 

Thanks for posting here Suedehead2!

And thanks for your Top 5 too Robbie!

I surely do!

One of the best Christmas songs around!

 

Thanks for posting here Suedehead2!

 

i ran a thread last crimbo... 'when is a crimbo song not a crimbo song'... 'stop the cavalry' was the inspiration. its an anti - war song more then a crimbo song, it only qualifies to be used at crimbo because it mentions crimbo , but that was an irony, not a celebration.

1 Mike Oldfield - In Dulce Jubilo

2 Johnny Mathis - When a Child is Born

3 Greg Lake - I Believe in Father Christmas

4 Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry

5 David Bowie & Bing Crosby - Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth

i ran a thread last crimbo... 'when is a crimbo song not a crimbo song'... 'stop the cavalry' was the inspiration. its an anti - war song more then a crimbo song, it only qualifies to be used at crimbo because it mentions crimbo , but that was an irony, not a celebration.

 

It's more of a Christmas song than 'The Power of Love', 'Mr Blobby' or '2 Become 1' which always get dragged out this time of year by virtue of their release dates in previous years. I think the salvation army brass gave 'Stop the Cavalry' an extra Christmas vibe. There aren't really that many true Xmas songs when you think about it...some only make bare reference like Paul McCartney's 'Pipes of Peace' and The Farm's 'All Together Now' which both chose the WW1 Christmas truce as themes but aren't "christmassy" in sound per se.

It's more of a Christmas song than 'The Power of Love', 'Mr Blobby' or '2 Become 1' which always get dragged out this time of year by virtue of their release dates in previous years. I think the salvation army brass gave 'Stop the Cavalry' an extra Christmas vibe. There aren't really that many true Xmas songs when you think about it...some only make bare reference like Paul McCartney's 'Pipes of Peace' and The Farm's 'All Together Now' which both chose the WW1 Christmas truce as themes but aren't "christmassy" in sound per se.

 

only just, and i wouldnt call them crimbo songs at all. i dont agree that the brass gives it a crimbo vibe, to me it reinforces the military aspect of the track.

1 waitresses - christmas wrapping

2 bo selecta - proper crimbo

3

 

oh i dunno, tbh im sick of everything else!

i ran a thread last crimbo... 'when is a crimbo song not a crimbo song'... 'stop the cavalry' was the inspiration. its an anti - war song more then a crimbo song, it only qualifies to be used at crimbo because it mentions crimbo , but that was an irony, not a celebration.

Stop The Cavalry is always the one which provokes most debate because it mentions Christmas although, as you say, it's more of a reference to the "It'll all be over by Christmas" attitude. I wouldn't regard The Power Of Love or Stay Another Day as Christmas songs at there is no mention of Christmas in the song; they just had videos with a Christmas / winter theme.

Good call. Here is mine.

 

1 The Waitresses - Xmas Wrapping

2 Pretenders - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

3 Pogues/Kirst McCall - Fairytale Of New York

4 Pretenders - 2000 Miles

5 Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

 

I doubt most of these won't get a luck in, but I get so fed up with the usual suspects a la Wham, Slade, Wizard - they make me hate christmas!!

I am judging this purely on artistic merit as opposed to the artist themselves as 2 of them should not belong in this list but they both made cracking songs

 

 

1. Chuck Berry - Run Run Rudolph

2. Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

3. Gary Glitter - Rock And Roll Christmas

4. Bryan Adams - Run Run Rudolph

5. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

 

 

 

 

Edited November 30, 200915 yr by B.A Baracus

I have really gone off Fairytale Of New York now, I don't know if I am bored with it having heard it so many times or what but the song just makes me want to turn it off now :o