Dreaming of a White Christmas? (Favourite Christmas Songs)

Member Name: herbie__53

Product:	Favourite Christmas Songs
Date:	31/03/09 (22 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Adds to the festiveness of the season

Disadvantages: This modern trash is rubbish!

For me, my all time favourite Christmas song is "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", and it has to be the version sung by Judy Garland from 1944. Close second comes "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby. These two songs for me evoke the true feelings and images of Christmas - open fires, a snowy thatched cottage through the windows of which you can see the log fire burning, snuggling up with your partner under a blanket to keep warm.
The best Christmas songs are the oldies - these "modern" Christmas songs by bands like the Spice Girls, Westlife, Robbie Williams are rubbish - they are the sort of cheese that will be playing in the shops as reluctant Christmas shoppers perform their yearly duty of present buying. You cannot buy a decent Christmas CD anymore - more than half of it is filled out with this modern trash. Why oh why do they insist on putting Angels by Robbie Williams and The Power Of Love by Frankie Goes To Hollywood on these CD's? Since when have these become Christmas songs???
Other true classic Christmas songs are "Happy Christmas, War is Over" (you've got to love the opening line "So this is Christmas"!), "I wish it could be Christmas everyday", "Merry Christmas Everybody", "Rocking around the Christmas tree" and of course the original Band Aid. (The new Band Aid they did recently was a disgrace to the original one, what was with the rap in the middle??)
The songs I mention above as being classic songs, this is of course in the understanding that we are talking about the versions by the original artists, not covers by modern day artists. The one I forgot to mention, which of course deserves one of the top spots, is Last Christmas by Wham!. This is my all time favourite upbeat Christmas song - its so catchy! And whether you like to admit it or not, everybody knows the words, and the men attempt the high notes. Plus this song has sleigh bells in it, which is a sound that everyone associates with Christmas.
I think the ballads are the songs that really bring out the Christmas spirit, I know I've said I don't like covers but I have to make one exception here - I love Otis Redding's version of White Christmas. He really puts soul into this timeless Christmas song.
I always listen to Christmas music around the festive period - but my CD has to be a home made one with hand picked tracks that really release the true spirit of the period.

Summary: Good for a sing along!