Wizzard and Slade tracks are both vastly superior to Last Christmas and All I want for christmas is you imo, but then again I have disagreed with most of the songs placings so far :P

At #3 it is.........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

of course.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://991.com/newgallery//Wham-Last-Christmas-17833.jpg

 

#3 Last Christmas (216 POINTS 32 votes - 4 1sts, 4 2nds & 5 3rds)

- Wham!

 

"Last Christmas" is a song by British pop duo Wham!, released on Epic Records in 1984, on a double A-side with "Everything She Wants". It was written by George Michael, one half of the duo.

 

The song's Christmas theme was essentially a ruse to draw in the festive market as the lyrics were entirely about a failed relationship, which just happened to come to a head the previous Christmas. There were no other words or expressions within the lyrics with a seasonal theme or hint, except for a sleighbell effect during the instrumental interlude.

 

Wham! had been a dominant force in the UK singles chart in 1984 and news that they were planning a Christmas single meant that a mouth-watering battle for the coveted Christmas #1 spot in the UK seemed set to be between Wham! and the year's other big act, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, who had achieved a third #1 in early December with "The Power Of Love". However, the Band Aid project, helmed by Bob Geldof, ensured that the destination of the Christmas #1 spot became a non-contest. Wham!'s offering peaked at #2 for much of the period, although George's involvement in Band Aid meant that Wham! still had an input. Wham! subsequently topped up the monies raised by Band Aid by donating all of their "Last Christmas/Everything She Wants" royalties to the Ethiopian famine appeal.

 

"Last Christmas" did make #1 in various other countries.

 

The single sold well over a million copies and became the biggest selling single in UK chart history not to reach #1. A year later, it was re-issued for Christmas again (this time without a billed flip-side) and got to #6. A second re-issue at Christmas 1986 - by which time Wham! had split - stalled outside the top 40.

 

Danish singer Whigfield did a cover version of the song which just failed to make the top 20 in the UK at Christmas 1995. A number of other artists have recorded the song with varied levels of success, including Hilary Duff, Ashley Tisdale, Keshia Chanté, Human Nature, Billie Piper, Darren Hayes of Savage Garden, The Cheetah Girls, Manic Street Preachers, Jimmy Eat World, Busted, Crazy Frog, Hawk Nelson, Leigh Nash, The Ordinary Boys, Swedish artist Jan Johansen, Korean pop princess BoA, Japanese actor Yuji Oda(with American Musician Butch Walker), and Norwegian musician Erlend Øye, although only the Wham! original has maintained status as an airplay and party staple each festive season on both sides of the Atlantic.

 

Wham!

 

Whigfield :puke2: (Personally I think the Crazy Frog's version is better)

 

 

i hate wham's last christmas song it irratataes the hell out of me

So so so so so much better than 'All I want for Christmas' :P

 

A fantastic Xmas classic ^_^

 

However, it is far to high -_-

So the number 1 is between

 

http://cityrag.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/mariah_carey_finger.jpg

 

and

 

http://www.ananova.com/images/web/88276.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming in at #2 is......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

one of the worlds most gifted, talented & greatest (& very sexy IMHO) female singers that the world has ever known.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.lyricsvault.net/halloffame/KirstyMacColl.jpg :cry:

 

#2 Fairytale Of New York (230 POINTS 30 votes - 10 1sts, 8 2nds & 2 3rds)

- Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl

 

"Fairytale of New York" is a popular Christmas song by Irish folk-rock group The Pogues, and featuring the British singer Kirsty MacColl. The song is an Irish folk style ballad, written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan, and featured on The Pogues' album If I Should Fall From Grace with God. The song features string arrangements by Fiachra Trench.

 

"Fairytale of New York" was released as a single in 1987 and reached #1 in the Irish charts and #2 in the British charts, over Christmas (the time of peak sales). The song has become a festive classic in the UK and Ireland over the years, and was voted the best Christmas song of all time three years running in 2004 and 2005[2] and 2006 in polls by music channel VH1 UK. It was also voted as the 27th greatest song never to reach UK#1 in another VH1 poll, and also voted as the 84th greatest song of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners in their "Sold on Song" top 100 poll.

 

The song features two Irish immigrants, lovers or ex-lovers, their youthful hopes all but crushed by alcoholism and drug addiction, reminiscing and bickering on Christmas Eve in New York City. MacColl's melodious singing contrasts with the harsh sound of MacGowan's voice and the lyrics which are sometimes bittersweet, sometimes plain bitter: "Happy Christmas your arse/ I pray God it's our last". The lyric "Sinatra was swinging" suggests an unspecified period after World War II. The title, taken from author J. P. Donleavy's novel A Fairy Tale of New York, was chosen after the song had been written and recorded.

 

MacColl was not originally to have appeared on the song. The Pogues were at the time being produced by Steve Lillywhite, MacColl's husband, who asked his wife to provide a guide vocal of the female part for a demo version of the song. The Pogues, however, liked MacColl's contribution so much that they asked her to sing the part on the actual recording.

 

The song was released in the United Kingdom in early December 1987, and swiftly became a hit. On December 17, 1987, the Pogues and MacColl performed the song on the BBC's popular television show Top of the Pops, and it was propelled to #2 on the UK charts. For the Top of the Pops appearance, the BBC insisted that MacColl's singing of "arse" be replaced with the less offensive "ass", although as she mimed the word MacColl slapped the relevant part of her body to make it clear what was meant. Although it finished the year as the #48 song based on a single month's sales, it was infamously denied the Christmas #1 spot by the Pet Shop Boys' cover of "Always on My Mind". MacGowan commented on this in his typically forthright manner: "We were beaten by two queens and a drum machine."

 

The song was re-released by The Pogues in the UK in 1991 (reaching #36), and again in the UK and Ireland for Christmas 2005, reaching #3 in the UK. All proceeds from the latter release were donated towards a mixture of homeless charities and "Justice for Kirsty", a campaign to find out the truth behind MacColl's death in 2000. In December 2006 the song entered the UK Top 10 for the third time.[4]

 

On December 22, 2005, The Pogues performed the song on a Jonathan Ross Christmas special on BBC One in the UK, with the female vocals taken by singer Katie Melua. This was The Pogues' first television performance of the song since 1988. It was also their first ever live television performance of the song, previous television performances having been lip-synched.

 

Since its original release, "Fairytale of New York" has been covered by numerous artists, including Ronan Keating and Maire Brennan, Christy Moore, Dropkick Murphys, Third Eye Blind, Pilot Speed (formally Pilate), No Use for a Name, The City on Film, Stars, Johnny Borrell of UK band Razorlight, Kevin Evans, Dustin the Turkey with Dervla Kirwan, and the Irish Tenors (who leave out some of the racier verses). There is a German version featuring Wolfgang Niedecken from BAP and Nina Hagen. At the Kirsty MacColl tribute concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 2002, the song was performed by Mark E. Nevin and Mary Coughlan.

 

Lyrics:

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

The Rare Old Mountain Dew

I turned my face away

And dreamed about you

 

Got on a lucky one

Came in eighteen to one

I've got a feeling

This year's for me and you

So happy Christmas

I love you baby

I can see a better time

When all our dreams come true

 

They've got cars big as bars

They've got rivers of gold

But the wind goes right through you

It's no place for the old

When you first took my hand

On a cold Christmas Eve

You promised me

Broadway was waiting for me

 

You were handsome

You were pretty

Queen of New York City

When the band finished playing

They howled out for more

Sinatra was swinging,

All the drunks they were singing

We kissed on a corner

Then danced through the night

 

The boys of the NYPD choir

Were singing "Galway Bay"

And the bells were ringing out

For Christmas day

 

You're a bum

You're a punk

You're an old $l*t on junk

Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed

You scumbag, you maggot

You cheap lousy f*****

Happy Christmas your arse

I pray God it's our last

 

I could have been someone

Well so could anyone

You took my dreams from me

When I first found you

I kept them with me babe

I put them with my own

Can't make it all alone

I've built my dreams around you

 

 

 

1987 TOTP's performance

 

 

& at #1 it is

 

#1 All I Want For Christmas Is You (255 POINTS - 29 votes 16 1sts, 7 2nds & 1 3rds)

- Mariah Carey

 

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, and recorded for Carey's fifth album Merry Christmas (1994). Its protagonist declares that she doesn't care about Christmas presents or lights; all she wants for Christmas is to be with her lover. It was released as the album's first single in December 1994 and reached the top ten in several non-U.S. countries (including UK#2), and it is one of the most commercially successful Christmas singles of the modern era.

 

According to The New Yorker, it is "one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon". Because the song has achieved such success and acclaim in a relatively short time period, many are unaware that it is an original song written by Carey and Walter Afanasieff. It has been covered by singers such as Shania Twain and Samantha Mumba, and bands such as My Chemical Romance. It was performed by Olivia Olson in the film Love Actually (2003). By late 2006, it had become the best-selling holiday ring tone of all time in the U.S.

 

Mariah Carey's Alternative video (much better than the one you see all the time of the Music Stations IMHO)

 

My Chemical Romance (2006 version) :puke2: :puke2: :puke2: :puke2: :puke2: :puke2: :puke2:

Fabulous Top 6 :P

 

I'm never right when I predict, but I had it right for once! Go me and Tim!!

 

Thanks for doing this, Rich :party2:

Sorry, but I think 'All I Want for Xmas' is extremly irritating. Her voice really annoys me in this song :P

 

The Pogues is the real winner by a country mile if you ask me :wub: :wub: :wub:

Sorry, but I think 'All I Want for Xmas' is extremly irritating. Her voice really annoys me in this song :P

 

The Pogues is the real winner by a country mile if you ask me :wub: :wub: :wub:

I disagree, Mariah is better :P

I disagree, Mariah is better :P

 

Mariah's is just a cheesy Xmas song, the Pogues is genuinly a classic song, not just by Xmas standards. It actually means something and everything about it is truely amazing IMO :wub: :wub:

I have to agree with Scotty on this.

 

The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl were robbed.

 

But the results are the consensus of the BuzzJack majority.

Mariah's is just a cheesy Xmas song, the Pogues is genuinly a classic song, not just by Xmas standards. It actually means something and everything about it is truely amazing IMO :wub: :wub:

 

Agree completely with Scotty.

 

This has been a great thread though, especially with the YouTube videos representing the good, the bad and the ugly of Christmas songs. Well done for doing this, thisispop.

Well done for doing this, Richard. Great thread. :)

There is a video for Christmas Wrapping, but it's just one a fan of the song did herself. I've not seen the original video (if there is one), but I think this fanmade one is quite good.

 

The Waitresses- Christmas Wrapping

 

 

And also there's this interesting cover version of Walking In The Air by Nightwish.

 

Nightwish- Walking In The Air (Live)

 

Well I can certainly say the right song won. ^_^ :wub:

thank god pogues didnt win imo its the worst christmas song of all time, i just dont see the fasination.

 

my 2nd best xmas song won, wuda preffered Wham mind you

To recap the results:

 

Buzzjack's Favourite Christmas Songs

 

1 All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey

2 Fairytale Of New York - Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl

3 Last Christmas - Wham!

4 Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade

5 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard

6 Do They Know Its Christmas? - Band Aid

7 Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon & Yoko

8 Stay Another Day - East 17

9 Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin Stevens

10 White Christmas - Bing Crosby

11 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee

12 Wonderful Christmas Time - Paul McCartney

13 Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt

14 Proper Crimbo - Bo Selecta

15 Step Into Christmas - Elton John

16 Baby It's Cold Outside - Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews

17 Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses

18 Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie

19 Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie & Bing Crosby

20 Walking In The Air - Aled Jones

21 The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting ..) - Nat King Cole

 

 

Out of interest here is the results of VH1's 2006 Xmas song poll - That they revealed last night (I only caught 12 to 1):

 

12 Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin Stevens

11 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard

10 Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon & Yoko

9 Wonderful Christmas Time - Paul McCartney

8 All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey

7 Silent Night - Frank Sinatra

6 Lonely This Christmas - Mud

5 Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade

4 White Christmas - Bing Crosby

3 Last Christmas - Wham!

2 Fairytale Of New York - Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl

1 Do They Know Its Christmas? - Band Aid

 

There is a video for Christmas Wrapping, but it's just one a fan of the song did herself. I've not seen the original video (if there is one), but I think this fanmade one is quite good.

 

The Waitresses- Christmas Wrapping

 

 

And also there's this interesting cover version of Walking In The Air by Nightwish.

 

Nightwish- Walking In The Air (Live)

 

 

 

The Nightwish version is really good....Nightwish is one of my fav bands of all time.

#18 Stop The Cavalry (38 POINTS, 11 votes, 2 3rds)

- Jona Lewie

 

"Stop The Cavalry" is a song written and performed by the musician, Jona Lewie.

 

The song charted at number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1980. The song was never intended as a Christmas hit, but the line 'Wish I was at home for Christmas' as well as the brass band arrangements made it an appropriately styled song to play around Christmas time. The song appears to be set at the front during a war in which the UK participated, although references to Winston Churchill, the Russian Tsars and a "nuclear fallout zone" mean that its exact chronology is uncertain.

 

is it true that this was a big hit in Germany in July??? ot an urban myth???

Whigfield :puke2: (Personally I think the Crazy Frog's version is better)

 

better christmas records are out there from Denmark :lol: