Wednesday, December 18, 2013

What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?

I was planning on posting some Christmas Youtube videos/songs during the next week.
Poking around online for songs/video ideas got me thinking about my favorite Christmas songs/carols.

Here are my top 10 Secular type songs.....at least my favorites this year......

10.  Merry Christmas from the Family

9.  Shake up Christmas

8.  You Ruined My Christmas

7.  We Need a Little Christmas

6.  Silver Bells

5.  Christmas Island

4.  Hippie Christmas

3.  Maybe This Christmas

2.  Christmas in Dixie

1.  White Christmas

And here are the ones that just make me want to take hot metal pokers and shove them into my ears.......

10.  Dominic the Donkey

9.  Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas

8.  Wonderful Christmas Time

7.  The Christmas Shoes

6.  Jingle Bell Rock

5.  All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth

4.  Santa Baby-especially the Madonna version

3.  Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

2.  I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

1.  Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer


And here are my top 10 Religious/Traditional songs/carols.....again, my favorites THIS year.....

10.  The Seven Joys of Mary

9.  O Holy Night

8.  O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion

7.  Lo, a Rose e'er Blooming

6.  Past 3 o'Clock

5.  Down in Yon Forest

4.  In Bleak Midwinter

3.  Ave Maria (the Bach/Gounod one)

2.  When Was Jesus Born?

1.  The Wexford Carol

And here is one that really isn't a Christmas carol/song but feels right to listen to it this time of year anyway.
A capella fans will like this....



 



So what songs/carols are on your list of favorites?

And which ones do you think will make you go insane if you hear them just one. more. time!?

Sluggy
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13 comments:

  1. Lee AnnDecember 18, 2013 at 4:27 PM

    I've never heard of Past 3 O'clock. hmmmmm

    I like, secular wise, All I want for Christmas is You. I think it has a snappy tune.

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  2. LindaDecember 18, 2013 at 4:31 PM

    On my favorites list:
    Snoopy and the Red Baron, or whatever it is called.
    Chipmunks song.
    Love Santa Baby with Rod Stewart
    Grandma Got run over by a Reindeer
    I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
    Sleighride


    Hate:
    Christmas Shoes The hate hate

    Religious:
    Most of them:
    Oh Holy Night
    Silent Night

    Why Don't people like?
    Little Drummer Boy
    I do.

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  3. LorraineDecember 18, 2013 at 5:23 PM

    Faves:
    Sleigh Ride
    Santa Baby
    The hippo song (sung by Elmo)

    My hubby hates the Little Drummer Boy and 12 Days of Christmas.

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  4. LeslieDecember 18, 2013 at 6:40 PM

    Where's the Feliz Navidad?!? It was my favorite as a kid, but now when I hear it on the radio, I still like it, but am ready for it to be over about halfway through.

    I also like the Manheim Steamroller and the Transiberian Orchestra songs; makes good background music for work.

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  5. Susie QDecember 18, 2013 at 7:11 PM

    Most faves are more religious - O Holy Night (sung by Josh Groban!) is for sure my very most favorite! And Silent Night. But for fun I do like Rockin Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee!

    Makes me batshit crazy, though, that we have Christmas songs from before Thanksgiving all over the radio and the day AFTER Christmas they just cut us off. Cold.Turkey. I mean.........couldn't they go at least until New Year's Eve Day?

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    1. LindaDecember 19, 2013 at 5:31 AM

      Susie Q,
      I laughed until I coughed and choked! >>batshit crazy and just cut us off cold turkey<<<I so agree with both sentiments.

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  6. rivuletDecember 18, 2013 at 8:57 PM

    I love Mele Kalikimaka... not sure why but it just makes me smile so much everytime I hear it.

    O Holy Night is the best though!

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  7. Nd.chicDecember 18, 2013 at 11:19 PM

    Favorites:
    Silent Night
    Grandma Got Ran over by a Reindeer
    Absolute fave:
    Redneck 12 Days of Christmas

    You can take the girl out of the trailer but you can't take the trailer out of the girl. Haha

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  8. AnonymousDecember 18, 2013 at 11:21 PM

    I am so Christmas musiced out(ok that is my own made up phrase) but my top two of each

    1, Favorite song: Silent Night or Mary did you know
    2. Hate: Christmas shoes and These are a few of my favorite things(seriously its not a freaking Christmas song!
    3. If they play it again I will scream: Grandma got run over and Jingle bell rock

    They start playing Christmas music the week before Thanksgiving and they play the same ones over and over and over...

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  9. TaniaDecember 19, 2013 at 6:38 AM

    I don't have any favorites, and I don't know them by name, but I've always found the stalkerish one (snow outside?) very amusing. I also like Christmas (baby come come) and Happy Xmas (War is over).

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  10. McValDecember 19, 2013 at 10:38 AM

    Love that video!!! Thanks for posting that. It reminds me of some of my Irish songs!
    I don't know half your religious songs! I probably would if I heard them I suppose.
    I hate the Christmas Shoes song as I feel like the kid is a panhandler type who will sell the shoes on Ebay the first chance he gets. I've gotten cynical in my old age...
    I love Mary Did You Know, All I Want For Christmas Is You, and about 140 more and I know the words to all of them.

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  11. Sonya AnnDecember 19, 2013 at 11:16 AM

    I have to say that Santa baby by Eartha Kitt is my favorite. Shhhh don't tell anyone that I have a Christmas song that I like, it goes against my image.

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  12. AnonymousDecember 19, 2013 at 11:16 AM

    My all time fav is 'I Saw Her Standing There' by The Beatles.

    Not a Christmas song?

    Exactly.
    iTunes Radio just released 20 newly discovered Beatles tunes. They can only play them till the patent/copyright runs out Dec 31, 2013. That's what I'm listening to this holiday season.

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