is the Killers Cowboy Christmas song the worst Xmas song of all time



It may be a charity single but it is so bad. Is this really the band that did Mr Brightside.

On a positive note i get to hear the 4 best Xmas songs a plenty

Silent Night by Sinead O'Connor
Gaudete by Steeleye Span
Xmas Wraping by the Waitresses
Fairytale of New York by Kirsty McColl and the Pogues

[iWhite Christmas[/i is the granddaddy of seasonal songs.

Band Aid takes the worst song ever. Not only is it an awful song, it lies.

Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie/Bing Crosby is my favourite.

In saying this though it's hardly a classic,like most Xmas songs.

My favourite is another Rock N Roll Christmas by Gary Glitter. Just because he's a paedo it's seen as non pc to play his music any more but I still enjoy it.

One bugbear of mine is why on Christmas LPs you have random songs with nothing to do with Christmas, that were released around Christmas, like that annoying stay another day song by East 17 and that Frankie goes to Hollywood song that goes "ayeayeayeaye feels like fire..."

Mud - Lonley this Christmas, best one.

Power of Love, not a Christmas song but the video is based around the nativity (purely to cash in on Christmas) so it tends to get trotted out by commercial radio and Music channels around this time of year.

Kevin Bloody Wilson,

its not Xmas till ive heard his song

Go to the vid share site that shall remain nameless and search.....
"i'm santa and i know it".... parody of LMFAO i'm sexy and i know it..

Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney is my favourite. It really gets me into the spirit of things

fairytale of new york, Lonely this christmas and Stop the cavalry are probably my top 3.

And the grandmammy must be Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas from the film you mentioned on the other thread about Christmas memories ... Meet Me in St Louis.
I love the song and the lyrics.
But perhaps sung by Sinatra rather than Garland.

Rubbish. Great song. Achieved a huge amount, probably holds a barrel of memories and emotions for anyone around at that time, and is about as intertwined with Christmas as you can get.


Probably because they were released with the Christmas No.1 in mind (East 17 were No.1 in 1994 and FGTH were only beaten to No.1 by Band Aid in 1984), and again, they probably hold memories and emotions for that reason. The FGTH single is a classic of the 80s with a brilliantly cheesy Nativity video (albeit with no connection to the lyrics!) - it brings back loads of memories and feelings for me of Christmases in the 80s with my family, and East 17 is seen similarly by kids of the 90s - my Mrs loves it for the same reasons.

That's what makes a Christmas song for me. Not the musical content, lyrics, chart success or whatever is considered 'cool', but what it means to you personally.

A song doesn't have to be about, or include the word Christmas for is to be a 'Christmas song'.

There's a few.

You know it's Christmas when Noddy says so on "Merry Xmas Everybody"

When A Child Is Born by Johnny Mathis and
Mary's Boy Child by Boney M
both get across the Christmassy feeling to me

Best party Christmas song may well be
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day by Wizzard

Judy Garland's "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is very bittersweet, and right up among my favourites.
"Fairytale of New York" is a classic.
"Let it Snow" by Sinatra even more so.

And what about Silver Bells? Jim or Bing (and of course "White Christmas"icon_wink.gif
Or Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! for that matter..
And Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song

Dora Bryan "All I want for Christmas is a Beatle"

Faitytale of New York is, I think, the 'best' Christmas song from a musical/artistic point of view. Really well written and executed to perfection.

My most christmassy Christmas song would probably be We Need A Little Christmas by Johnny Mathis.

Eric Idle sings a nice little Christmas ditty. Just youtube his name and christmas

I've always far preferred the Matt Monro version, personally.

Others I like not mentioned so far are Jingle Bell Rock (always reminds me of Lethal Weapon too, which I suppose is technically a christmas film), and Brian Setzer's Jingle Bells.

I can't be doing with any songs that are laden with transparent schmaltz, fake sincerity or baby-Jesus-ness.

Hence, I'm fine with a little light nonsense from Slade, Wizzard or even Dean Martin ... but want to vomit when I hear Johnny Bleedin' Mathis wheedling out "When a child is born". It's even worse if you actually listen to the words.

Bowie and Crosby, please, no, take it away.
Poor old Bing, not knowing if he's on this earth or Fuller's, wondering who this plonker is that's singing with him.

"Fairytale of New York" ... well, I could never understand how a decent singer like Kirsty McColl could tie up with such a bunch of talentless deadbeats as The Pogues. (From which you'll gather that I don't like that one either).

Cliff Richard should put his mistletoe and wine in a blender and pipe the result up his septuagenarian @rse.

Miserable old git? Yes, now feck off my doorstep.

Septugenarian colostomy bag surely?

Greg Lake's 'I Believe in Father Christmas' and Low's 'Just Like Christmas' are personal faves.

Also Eels' ' Everything is Gonna Be Cool This Christmas' deserves a mention, just for the line '....Baby Jesus, born to rock....'.....

2000 Miles is a shocking omission from this thread IMO.

But the daddy of them all is the Spinal Tap classic Christmas With The Devil......

[iSanta Came on a Nuclear Missile[/i "Healther Noel", from the album American Song Poem Christmas Album. A classic of its genre www.filmcement.org/rummage/archives/000154.html

[iSanta Came on a Nuclear Missile[/i "Healther Noel", from the album American Song Poem Christmas Album. A classic of its genre www.filmcement.org/rummage/archives/000154.html

You have now lost all credibility when it comes to music matters.

You may not like them but to call them talentless

Some personal favourites already mentioned, such as Fairytale of New York, Christmas Wrapping and the wonderful I Believe in Father Christmas.

I also enjoy Wombling Merry Christmas and Step into Christmas.

Great annual income for the writers of some of these songs!

I forgot Chris de Burgh's "A Spaceman Came Travelling"