Your favorite winter holiday songs

[Shellhead]

I worked in retail during the holidays for six years, so I endured a painful amount of Christmas music over the years. But I still like a few songs, and I assume the rest of you do too. Which songs do you still like? Do you prefer traditional ones or modern? Are there any that you just can't stand? And are there any good Hanukkah (or Kwanzaa) songs? I know about the Adam Sandler one, but I'm tired of it.

My favorites:

1. "I Believe in Father Christmas" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
2. "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" by John Lennon
3. "Please Come Home for Christmas", by the Eagles
4. "Same Auld Lang Syne", by Dan Fogelberg. (yeah, I know that it's a sappy New Year's Eve song, but I still like it.)

My least favorite:

"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer", possibly by Satan himself.

[mattx110]

Richard Thompson

"Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne" (I hope you spelled it right, cause I cheated off your paper)
A song about singing about holidays counts too, right?

Some of that "Nutcracker suite" stuff is pretty hep too cool cats.

And Hannukah songs suck. The real jewish musicians hide the good stuff for orthodox weddings and small concerts where they plot to make you hear "Hava Nagila" and "the candles are burning" a thousand times.

You'll never hear more people tell you "jewish music about practicing your minor second and flat six scales" than the guy who spends 3 hours a day running through his freygish tonality and harmonizes it another 2.

Why? Because people have more hate for sappy christmas songs than anything, and when it finally comes around to "now that we're happy hollidaying, shouldn't hannukah get some overplayed holiday music to the point where everyone is sick of it?"

"no.";)

[Jonathan Bogart]

I'm one of those weird people who like Christmas music a lot, and I've never worked retail, so you name a carol and I like it. But I don't usually attach performers to them; I grew up hearing them not on the radio but sung by my family, and later on I never listened much to the radio around Christmas time.

The latter-day, peer-approved list of Christmas favorites doesn't move much beyond the Kinks' "Father Christmas" and Charles Brown's "Merry Christmas Baby." I'll even be listening to the Phil Spector Christmas album for the first time this year.

But I'd much rather be listening to some anonymous 40s crooner sing "Winter Wonderland" or "Adeste Fidelis" or "Ave Maria." Somehow, over the past few years, I've managed to associate old-time radio and Christmas in my head, which as far as I'm concerned is a score on the plus side of the chart.

[mattx110]

I'm one of those weird people who like Christmas music a lot, and I've never worked retail, so you name a carol and I like it. But I don't usually attach performers to them; I grew up hearing them not on the radio but sung by my family, and later on I never listened much to the radio around Christmas time.

The latter-day, peer-approved list of Christmas favorites doesn't move much beyond the Kinks' "Father Christmas" and Charles Brown's "Merry Christmas Baby." I'll even be listening to the Phil Spector Christmas album for the first time this year.

But I'd much rather be listening to some anonymous 40s crooner sing "Winter Wonderland" or "Adeste Fidelis" or "Ave Maria." Somehow, over the past few years, I've managed to associate old-time radio and Christmas in my head, which as far as I'm concerned is a score on the plus side of the chart.
Wait? The grinch likes Christmas???

This is a joke, don't feel threatened. I just didn't expect it. And Ave Maria is beautiful.

[Gordon Smith]

My least favorite:

"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer", possibly by Satan himself.

I like that song myself, but to each his or her own. As to an all-time personal favorite, I'm kinda partial to ''Snoopy's Christmas: Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron'' by The Royal Guardsmen.

[Laughing Mask]

none.

they make me thankfull xmas is once a year.