Your "go-to" Christmas Playlist
 

Hi Guys!

I thought it would be fun to post our "go-to" Christmas songs or playlists. List your favorites and maybe we can discover some new gems for our own playlists. :angel:

Here's mine. I play it every year.

1. "Holiday Road" - Lindsey Buckingham (not necessarily a Christmas song, but it fits, IMO.) Good, upbeat way to start the playlist.

2. "Winter Wonderland" - The Eurythmics. Catchy, fun tune.

3. "Jingle Bells" - The Ray Conniff Singers. These group of singers are from the 50's-60's. My Mom always played them so it's nostalgic, classic Christmas for me.

4. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" - The Pretenders. Love their rendition of this classic.

5. "Silent Night" (The live "Very Special Christmas" TV special version) - Stevie Nicks. WAAAY better than the recorded version, imo.

6. "Do You Hear What I Hear" - Bing Crosby. Classic Christmas.

7. "All I Want for Christmas" - Mariah Carey. Over-played at times, I know, but it's still good.

8. "Frosty the Snowman" - The Ray Conniff Singers. Again, nostalgic.

9. "Christmas -Baby Please Come Home" - U2. 80's goodness.

10. "Last Christmas" - Wham! George Michael is one of my all-time favorite artists, and this is my very favorite Christmas song. The video is a must-see.

11. "Do They Know it's Christmas?" - Band Aid. Tons of my 80's favorites on one song. I was estatic as a teenager when this song was released. I even bought the 12'" version. :thumbsup:

12. "Step Into Christmas" - Elton John. Fun to listen to.

13. "Little Drummer Boy" - Neil Diamond. He's one of my favorite vocalist and this version is beautiful.

14. "I'll Be Home For Christmas" - Barbra Streisand. She has been a favorite of mine since I was 9 years old. Gorgeous vocals as usual for Barbra.

Recently, I purchased the new Mary J. Blige Christmas CD. It's really good, AND she has a beautiful duet with Barbra Streisand on it! ("When You Wish Upon a Star")

So what are some of your favorites?? :angel:

~Jamie

Excellent idea-love this!

Your 2,4, 5,10, 11 are on my Christmas playlist (what good taste you've got!) along with

Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth : David Bowie / Bing. Always makes me teary.

Happy Xmas / War is over: John Lennon

Adeste Fideles: Anne Murray. I am not religious but something about this version...

God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman: Barenaked Ladies/ Sarah McLachlan

Feliz Navidad--always makes me sing and dance around. Such a happy song, but could be that it is still new to me (I don't remember hearing it in England).

We have been listing to a lot of the 'sounds of the season' digital music and hearing lots of interesting songs and versions. Fun for us and the kiddos.

"Do You Hear What I Hear?" -- Whitney Houston or Martina McBride
"O Holy Night" -- Josh Groban. I'm not really a fan of his, but I must admit his version is beautiful.
"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" -- Judy Garland
"Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow" -- Dean Martin
"Merry Christmas, Darling" -- The Carpenters :o

Stevie's Silent Night is number one and hope it gets played for my funeral.
I like all of the Xmas tunes on your list Jamie.I'm not fussy on holiday tunes.
I like old tunes from the 1900's to the current holiday tunes.

me too! :thumbsup: still love it.

yes and yes.

i'm generally not into that many Christmas songs, but there are some that i adore for one reason or another. besides the ones above, i love:

• Fairytale of New York - The Pogues (love love love for a number of very different reasons)
• 2000 miles - The Pretenders
• Something About Christmas Time - Bryan Adams

The original How the Grinch Stole Christmas song from the tv special.

Anything from Elvis.

Jewel has a pretty good Christmas album out too.
Not to mention Clint Black.

From Jamie's list.

11. "Do They Know it's Christmas?" - Band Aid.

I love this tune.

I wish that Stevie or FM performed on this song.


Lindsey was a part of USA for Africa which I do know.

One Xmas song I can do without is Santa Baby.Any version.Its so retarded.

Basically any time I can play Bob Dylan's "Christmas in the Heart" is a good time. Even if it isn't Christmas!

It's not a Christmas song per se but any excuse to play it, to be honest...

River - Joni Mitchell

Many Christmas songs they play on the radio over here drive me up the wall - I think its because I've heard them sooooo many times, and some of them are also really bad. But I do love hearing Christmas carols - I never get bored of them. And I love the following songs.......

And this one is just beautiful, thanks for reminding of it...

Yes! I know it's "officially" not a Christmas song, but, I mean... it samples Jingle Bells for Pete's sake. I'd have it on my list too.

Kate Bush's 50 Words for Snow and Dead Can Dance's Within the Realm of a Dying Sun are both decidedly not Christmas albums, but certainly are "wintery" and get a lot of airtime at my house this time of year.

As for actual Christmas music, I'm a traditionalist. I go for old-school religious choral music. And, although I'm not crazy about supporting the LDS church financially, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir simply does the business best in this category. I am spotifying the heck out of those guys.

Well that's a bit weird.... for some reason I ended up you-tubing Kate Bush last night. I think I spotted one of her video's. So I now know about her snow album, and I watched a great interview where she was talking about Wuthering heights and she was only 19 years old - amazing women!

She is such a brilliant person! Her Snow album is sort of thematically the inverse of Aerial, if you're familiar with that one. It's worth checking out and is among my very favourites. It's quite minimalist, though. A lot of long, repetitive, melodically simple tracks. Not everyone digs it. But I think it might be the best thing she's ever done.

Thanks for the info. I really don't know much from her later albums, after her early 80's hits. I saw a clip of her accepting an award in 2012 and she was so sweet and humble. They played a bit of a video where she was singing about a dog, with a black and white puppet scene. It did seem very minimalist, not sure its my thing, but I will explore further. I just love the fact that she is so unique.

She is truly one of a kind and literally every single one of her releases has surprised me in some way. I got into her through her work up to 1985, but now I find myself listening to her later work much more often. I find it comforting how diverse her body of work is. There's always going to be something I have a taste for, musically.

Individual clips don't really do the songs on 50 Words much justice, tbh. At the risk of sounding way too arty-farty, it's all about the mood, and the enveloping quality of the songs as a whole. I feel so much more immersed in her world with this album than with her previous work. But not being into it is ok too. I just have the habit of gushing over it whenever possible. ;)

Well I love much of her earlier work, so I'm definitely very intrigued by these later albums. I'm looking forward to investigating further ;)

It's a brilliant album from a brilliant human being.
I adore it.

This just made me explode.

*highfives* ;)

I have been listening to tons of Christmas Music. Here is my Playlist.

1. Merry Christmas Darling = the Carpenters
2. Holiday Road = Lindsey Buckingham
3. Last Christmas = Glee's Version
4. My Favorite Things = Barbara Streisand
5. Hard Candy Christmas = Dolly Parton
6. All I Want for Christmas Is You = Mariah Carey
7. Baby, It's Cold Outside = Glee's Version
8. El-Shaddai = Amy Grant
9. Mary, did you know? Kathey Mattea
10. Little Alter Boy = The Carpenters
11. Jingle Bells = Barbara Streisand
12. Where Are You Christmas = Faith Hill
13. It Must Have Been The Mistletoe = Barbara Mandrell
14. Rockin Around the Christmas Tree = Darlene Love
15.The Christmas Song = The Carpenters
16. Mele Kalikimaka = Don Ho

As far as Christmas Albums by Artists, you cannot go wrong with The Carpenters. They put a lot of work into their Christmas Album and Karen Carpenter's voice is perfect for the holidays.

I would like to add Dominick the Donkey to the annoying crap list with any version of Santa Baby.

Also I would add any holiday tunes from Rascal Flatts.They stink.Or the lead singers voice sucks.

On the fave list.









I will add more later.

Some great Christmasy tunes you posted there. I didn't know Salsoul Orchestra did a Christmas song. I was really into their music (funk and disco etc) at one point in my life.

Here's my Welsh offering



In contrast.....I've been managing to avoid crap Christmas songs until someone put this on full blast, at a place I work, last week. ARRGGG!!! It was like torture. I was talking to a customer, and they tried to make me feel better by saying they'd had to endure it for many more years than me, as they were older.

Here a video that I made years back with Xmas music and view of the Xmas lights in town.

Stevie's Silent Night is included.



In contrast.....I've been managing to avoid crap Christmas songs until someone put this on full blast, at a place I work, last week. ARRGGG!!! It was like torture. I was talking to a customer, and they tried to make me feel better by saying they'd had to endure it for many more years than me, as they were older.

Lets try again.



Here a video that I made years back with Xmas music and view of the Xmas lights in town.

Stevie's Silent Night is included.



Mods I cant delete post 26 that I made .Its wrong .I cant delete it for some reason.Thanks an advance.

Wow a whole christmas album. I actually got into them in the 90's (a bit late I know) but I had friends that were very enthusiastic about house, disco, garage etc. Since your post I've been searching out my favourite disco tunes. I'll post one on "what are you listening to now" as its not Christamsy.

"White Christmas" -- Bing Crosby
"Christmas Dreaming (A Little Early This Year)" -- Frank Sinatra
"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" -- Perry Como
"The Christmas Song" -- Nat King Cole
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" -- Dean Martin
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" -- Judy Garland
"Mistletoe and Holly" -- Frank Sinatra
"Happy Holiday" -- Peggy Lee
"Cool Yule" -- Louis Armstrong
"Merry Christmas" -- Anne Shelton
"Deck the Halls" -- Mitch Miller & The Gang
"Let It Snow!" -- Dean Martin
"The Merry Christmas Polka" -- The Andrews Sisters
"Here Comes Santa Claus" -- Doris Day
"Marshmallow World" -- Vic Damone
"Christmas And You" -- Dave King
"O Come All Ye Faithful" -- Frank Sinatra
"The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot" -- Nat King Cole (I personally hate this song, but Nat makes it a whole lot better. His voice makes me melt!)
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" -- Brenda Lee
"Santa Baby" -- Eartha Kitt
"Santa Claus Got Stuck In My Chimney" -- Ella Fitzgerald
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" -- Bing Crosby & Judy Garland
"Mele Kalikimaka" -- Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
"Baby It's Cold Outside" -- Buddy Clark & Dinah Shore
"Zat You, Santa Claus?" -- Louis Armstrong
"Silver Bells" -- Doris Day
"Suzy Snowflake" -- Rosemary Clooney
"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" -- Jackson 5
"O Little Town of Bethlehem" -- Dick Haymes
"The Birthday of a King" -- Judy Garland
"Stop the Cavalry" -- Jona Lewie
"I Believe in Father Christmas" -- Greg Lake
"December Will Be Magic Again" -- Kate Bush
"Mary's Boy Child" -- Boney M
"Merry Christmas Everybody" -- Slade
"Fairytale of New York" -- The Pogues & Kirsty McColl
"Merry Christmas Darling" -- The Carpenters

Yeah, I love the oldies, if you can't tell already. :p

Yea. Lets dance in the holidays.LOL..

Heres the Mistletoe Disco band which was around the same time as Salsoul orc was in the mid 1970's.the same band released an album with the same tracks with another name a couple years later.I have them in my Xmas collection somewhere.

What a great list.Yes Santa ,I think we will have a white Christmas this year here in New England for you can deliver the gifts to the nice boys and girls.

BTW Stevie starts Silent Night at 4:53 .

P.S. How I forgot this.

That is a great list - beats Slade any day.

The video with the lights is fantastic - I really love Stevie's version of Silent night

Yes Thank You.Yes That was her first version from the first "A Very Special Christmas "collection .





I love her big hair there in the video.


Later one from the TNT special with Tom Petty.




I was at Walmart last night and seen the 25th anniversary CD is out.WOW .That many years already.

Michael Buble Christmas show just started on NBC.I like his style and music.

A show from 2011.


Celine Dion holiday special was on CBS tonight and it sucked and boring because the show lacked holiday tunes and there was only one holiday tune sung on on it .I thought it was only Celine and her guests just singing holiday tunes only and also it turn out to be a mini telethon for a adoption.

I taped the iHeart holiday special with was on another channel.I should of watched that instead.

Every Christmas I listen to Karen Carpenter. She has the best Christmas voice.

Now I got 36 hours of holiday tunes playing on the radio.

I adore 50 Words for Snow. I never get tired of listening to it. Nobody can capture the mood of snow and winter like Kate Bush. There is such an aura running through the entire record, it's simply amazing.

As far as Christmas music goes, Annie Lennox's Christmas album is a class act. The voice, the arrangements, the production...all stellar!

For my Christmas driving music I've been listening to Bella Donna. Not exactly a Christmas album, but it seemed to suit my Christmas mood.