Favorite Christmas Songs

I’m doing some online Christmas shopping this morning while listening to Christmas music and my favorite song just came on! “Dreams of Fireflies” by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra is my absolute favorite song and always lifts my spirits and brings a smile to my face. I LOVE the mixture of rock and orchestra instruments and the drums in this song are just exceptional! I wish it was longer song at only two and a half minutes. It got me thinking, what are some of your favorite Christmas songs?

Grinches need not reply.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7S1NPLmkXw

I always love hearing Carol of the Bells… not the BK version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI I am kidding of course.

big_g wrote:

I always love hearing Carol of the Bells… not the BK version.

Yes, Carol of the Bells is a good one!

Let my Turkey digest and maybe i’ll circle back.

robby wrote:

I am kidding of course.

WHAM! is awesome! I’m not ashamed to admit I like this one!

All the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas songs.

Great topic.

Classics:
Pretty Paper – Willie
White Christmas – Bing
Blue Christmas – Elvis
Mele Kalikimaka – Bing

Modern:
Underneath the tree – Kelly Clarkson
Santa tell me – Ariana Grande
All I want for Christmas – Mariah (controversial choice, I know)
The Chanukah Song – Adam Sandler

Hallelujah. This version: https://youtu.be/ykbOxbyGlIE?si=OPwjLuYPhhBB7Se3

Kids choir, midnight mass, silent night, nothing comes close for tingles.

For fun we do a lil snoop doggy dog Xmas carols

Mannheim Steamroller has several Christmas albums which get played in our house often.

Almost anything by Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, or Frank Sinatra.

Some recent ones:
Because It’s Christmas by Sidewalk Prophets
Christmas Time Again by Steven Curtis Chapman

Grinch

Grandma got rin over by a reindeer.

I’m old school. I like Bing Crosby Christmas songs. Silent night is a good one

TI like traditional and choral music at Christmas. I’m heavy on the classics.

O Holy Night by almost any good tenor.
O come o come emmanuel – Luciano Pavarotti

Everything Christmas I time in to the BBCs midnight mass for choral music. Wonderful.

Anything from “A Twisted Christmas”

Pat k I like your style. I turn that entire cd on every Christmas morning

How about some AC/DC I want a mistress for Christmas

Dropkick Murphys The Season’s Upon Us.

Also, the entire Charlie Brown Christmas album.

Christmas by the Who is the only Christmas song I like. From the Tommy Album.

The Pretenders. 2000 miles.

Checkout Merry Christmas from the Family by Montgomery Gentry. It’s originally by Robert Earle Keen but I like the video of Montgomery Gentry. If I was younger and more tech savvy, I’d post a link but I’m neither! Happy holidays!

Along the same line…best all Christmas radio stations? I tend to like the traditional versions and get tired of the “All I want for Christmas type” songs which seem to get played over and over…for me they miss the point.

Best one I’ve found is Traditional Holidays on Sirius XM but my subscription is about to run out.

Pretty much anything from Burl Ives. (One of the Coolest names ever!) So a lot of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer stuff.

-J.

For Classic Christmas Songs it begins and end with Oh Holy Night for me.

My wife had some random stream going while decorating the other day and “Christmas in Hollis” by Run-DmC came on, THAT’S A BANGER! Brought me back to the Beavis and Butthead Christmas Special when I was an easily entertained teenager in the 90s!

Jon Jordan wrote:

Pretty much anything from Burl Ives. (One of the Coolest names ever!) So a lot of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer stuff.

Yes! Great songs and a great voice.

Little Drummer Boy

Pentatonix

I am really into NEWER versions of some old classics. There are just so many. Right now this is my favorite version of Go Tell It – think “Blues Bothers/James Brown”. The whole Zach Williams Christmas album is ROCKIN

Rick Z wrote:

Little Drummer Boy

Pentatonix

X2. Love all versions of the Little Drummer Boy. But Pentatonix version is near the top of the list.

blackbay wrote:

Hallelujah.

This is my Favorite Version of Hallelujah. Lucy Thomas’s voice is crazy Good