Christmas Songs

[simmo]

It was actually released the week after Christmas with the specific aim of getting to number one. In those days the lowest 7" sales were in the first week of the year, but they knew they could rely on maiden fans buying 20,000 copies of so - and so it proved - straight in at number one.

 

[moehat]

I have the DVD of the Box of Delights having been enthralled with it as a child. It hasn't aged well and I shall just have to cup my hands around the gentle flame of nostalgia.

Last night I binge watched The Children of Green Knowe which I did remember parts of ( especially Feste) and tonight I binge watched The Box of Delights but remembered very little of it so it was like watching it for the first time. It was pure escapism and I loved watching both of them. This on top of finding a favourite cartoon version of The Snow Queen on utube that I probably haven’t seen for sixty years. A total nostalgia fest and it was wonderful to escape back into another world for a few hours.

 

[Oldtimer]

Early Genesis with Peter Gabriel:

 

[Jayhawk]

Here are a few more party and karaoke favourites.
Riu Riu Chiu was recommended by Ian Hislop, Winter Song is one which Gideon Coe always plays on 6 Music, and there's another included for our friends in Canada who have done so much to make the forum what it is today.

Christmas In My Soul

 

[archie]

As this thread has been resurrected, I thought that I'd mention that it's exactly 50 years since I Believe in Father Christmas was kept off number one by the appalling Bohemian Rhapsody. Now that is a sobering thought on the passage of time.

 

[yorick]

Fairytale Of New York
I wish It could Be Christmas Every Day ("Come on you lot" and then the kids sing - love it)
2000 Miles Pretenders

Need burning:

Last Christmas - even writing it makes me nauseous
The Boss with his appalling Santa Claus Is Coming To town.
Santa Baby
Mistletoe and Whine

 

[The Fortune Teller]

E17 Stay Another day, class tune.

Although maybe not a 'proper' Christmas song.