Top 5 Christmas songs

[Kickinthenostalgia]

Seen as I’ve been gently persuaded to step in to Christmas. What’s everyone’s top 5 Christmas songs? Just a bit of lighthearted fun…

1. I believe in Father Christmas - Greg lake
2. fairy tale of New York - the pogues ft Kirsty McCall
3. last Christmas - wham
4. do they know it’s Christmas - band aid ( original, the others just don’t hit the same)
5. a spaceman came travelling - Chris de burgh

HM - wonderful Christmas time - Paul McCartney, it just gives me the biggest kick of nostalgia. Reminds me of spending my childhood growing up up in a pub.

Last Christmas - Wham
Rocking Around The Christmas Tree - Mel & Kim
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Luther Vandross
White Christmas - Michael Boublé and Shania Twain
Meli Kilikimaka - Bing Crosby

There’s so many good ones! I rushed my list, should have given it proper consideration!

We love a stupid Christmas song in this house - Santa's Got a Choo Choo Train by Blake Shelton fits in with your list very well 😂😍

I listen to radio 2 every Christmas morning whilst I’m prepping the veg, so even songs like Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah and Puff The Magic Dragon are Christmas songs to me as I only ever hear them on the big day!

Fairytale of NY - Pogues

Do they know it’s Christmas - Band Aid

Stay Another Day - East 17

All I want for Christmas is you - MC

1. fairytale of new york
2. band aid
3. last Christmas

everything else is naff

@Kickinthenostalgia love your Christmas songs but would also like to add.....freiheit keeping the dream alive. Kept playing it last year 😄 got to have slade and wizard on the list too.... Christmas music from my childhood. Thank you for starting this thread x

I can't pick 5! I love them all. 😳

Silent Night - Sinead O'Connor

Christmas in Hollis - Run DMC

Merry Christmas Everyone- Shakin Stevens

Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Bruce Springsteen

Step into Christmas - Elton

Also Slade Merry Christmas Everybody, Elvis' Blue Christmas, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Fairytale of NY.

See? Too many.

And I always get a bit 🥹 when I hear children sing Away in a Manger and We Wish You A Merry Christmas.

I'm surprised at Band Aid being so popular. I love any and all Christmas songs except that. Can't listen to it at all. I skip it every time. It must just be me!

In no particular order -
FTONY
Slade
Greg Lake
Once in Royal David's City by a proper choir. I've heard it sung in a cathedral, and the opening solo boy's voice sends chills down the spine
O Come All Ye Faithful with the descant on 'sing choirs of angels'

Plus
Mel and Kim
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Hark the Herald Angels

But never, ever Last Christmas! Can't stand it!

My favourites are

wizzard - wish it could be Christmas every day
The darkness - Christmas time (don’t let the bells end)
Elton John and ed Sheeran - merry Christmas
Carol of the bells - any choir (we went to a midnight concert in Tromso and they sang this and it was the best version I’ve heard)
Johnny Mathis - when a child is born

also - Mary did you know (the pentatonix version) is also amazing!

The First Noel
Mary’s Boy Child
O Holy Night
Away in a Manger
O Little Town of Bethlehem/ God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (can’t decide!)

Like a previous poster, I enjoy the traditional carols as my top 5 but enjoy the modern ones too. I have been playing them for weeks now.

They’re not stupid they’re freakin’ awesome!
(and thanks for the tip!)

When the angelus was ringing
Silver Bells
White Christmas
Silent Night
Dzisiaj w Bethlehem

Sia- Snowman (discovered it last Christmas and fell in love
Elton John and Ed Sheeran- Merry Christmas
Wizzard- I wish it could be Christmas every day
Slade- Merry Christmas Everybody
Coldplay- Christmas Lights

Top 5:
Fairytale of New York - Pogues & Kirsty
Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade
Stop the Cavalry - Jonah Lewis
Wish it Could be Xmas Everyday - Wizzard
All I Want for Xmas - Mariah Carey

Next 5:
Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth - Bing & Bowie
Keeping the Dream Alive - Freiheit
Merry Xmas Everyone - Shaking Stevens
Happy New Year - Abba
Underneath the Tree - Kelly Clarkson

Never Played in this House:
Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
Last Christmas - Wham

Best Classical:
A Carol Symphony - Hely-Hutchinson
Bethlehem Down - Peter Warlock
A Christmas Festival - Leroy Anderson

Merry Christmas Baby, Please Come Home by Darlene Love (btw I absolutely detest the U2 version)