Favourite Christmas Songs Reviews

At this time of year, every other song on the radio seems to be a classic Christmas hit from any time in the last 60 or so years. From the early years of the post-War era, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby (with or without David Bowie) and Nat King Cole are regular favourites. In more recent times there have been some surprising Christmas hits and ...  Read the complete review

I have enjoyed reading about a few people's favourite Christmas songs in the run up to Christmas, and it has inspired me to write about a few of my favourites too. Christmas is the only time when cheesy festive songs seem ok, but in amongst all the festive cheesy songs there are a few classics. So in no particular order I'd like to share a ...  Read the complete review

Christmas is a time when you hear the same songs for a brief period of a few weeks and then these songs get put to bed for another year. As a result it's hard to tire too much of Christmas songs (although I suspect if you work in a shop which plays this kind of music non stop from September to the end of December you may feel differently) and you ...  Read the complete review

I love Christmas. I'm a total sucker for the whole shebang, commercialism and all. Whether you're shopping, channel hopping or listening to the radio, from mid-November onwards you can't avoid the carols and festive pop - so you might as well enjoy it. I do recall one year when I would happily have throttled George Michael - but it was mostly for ...  Read the complete review

By the time I was 25 I had lots of problems with Christmas. I wasn't religious and I wasn't a materialist either - and it seemed that the anthems to this ritual of superstition meets greed were either some thoroughly nauseating carols I hated from school and terrible song by Wizard. I recall doing my Christmas shopping in Oxford hemmed in more ...  Read the complete review

I must be getting sentimental in my old age, as this year I feel like typing some Christmassy stuff. Apart from food items, I didn't bother last year, so am making up for it now. Though overall I'm not a participator in the whole scheme of Christmas as it truly gets on my nerves big-time, there is one sneaky little thing I do look ...  Read the complete review

It must be old age or the rule of being a parent but every year when the Christmas decorations come out i some how have to add a Christmas CD to the hi-fi and that is all i listen to then for 2 or 3 weeks , it depends how early i put the decorations up, anyway on with the songs/carols. 1) Band Aid , do they know it's Christmas , I love ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Christmas is the time of year when some of the greatest festive tunes come out of hiding and start to appear on our radios. Singers who don't get listened to all year -the Pogues, anyone- suddenly come out of hibernation, and are playing full blast in every shop you walk into. Children are standing dressed up in the chilly winter breeze to sing ...  Read the complete review

We all know the script, sitting round the Christmas tree, stuffed full of turkey and chipolatas, presents opened, port flowing freely when someone suggests putting on that old christmas album. We sit and smile at the perfect christmas portrayed by our favourite songs and sigh contentedly. We're dreaming of a white chrstmas with Bing, seeing ...  Read the complete review

I love that song. it always reminds me of how Christmas should be. I was feeling a bit down, just before Christmas. It was cold and wet outside, the decorations kept falling daown and scaring the cat, so I had a rummage around in the loft (as you do) and I found a little brown shoe box. I opened it, and found an old audio tape (remember ...  Read the complete review

As a teenager I made my own Christmas compilation tape - even at that age I was too stingy to buy the Now Christmas album! It also meant that I could wake up to John & Yoko whispering Merry Christmas on Christmas morning. But I've decided to omit most of the songs on that tape from this top ten, because you know all about them and ...  Read the complete review

Everyone has their own personal favourite songs for Christmas, be they traditional Carols or more contemporary music. I have trawled back in my long memory to come up with my own favourites list. Some are well known, others are probably more obscure, but all of them are chosen for a variety of reasons. They are in no particular order, just as they ...  Read the complete review

Here are my Top 10 Christmas Songs: 10. Do They Know Its Christmas (Band Aid): This song was the song of my Year 2 Christmas Play and ever since then it brings back memories and it makes me think about what Christmas is really about. My two favourite lines from the song is ‘At Christmas time its hard, but when you are ...  Read the complete review

We are bombarded with Noddy Holder's "It's Christmas” The advertising companies love it, if you have a product to sell at Christmas you can't go wrong with it. We hear it so often, you think we would get feed up with it, lets face it if Noddy Holder had not made another record ever, he could probably live quite nicely off of the royalties ...  Read the complete review

Christmas is rapidly approaching us, and before we know it, we'll be celebrating the big day to our hearts content! As we all sit round the table, stuffing ourselves silly, and pulling the crackers, the Christmas music will be playing happily in the background. So, I thought I'd tell you what my all time favourite ...  Read the complete review

Every year, a whole host of pop singers bring out a selection of really cheesy songs - even good old Queen have done it. Most of these offerings really are dreadful, but we all sing along anyway, because it's that time of year and goodwill to all even includes boy bands! Readers of my occasional music ops will have noticed by now that ...  Read the complete review

Being a somewhat cynical, dry-humored person, I often find myself shaking my head at the idea of Christmas. Now, I enjoy the traditional celebration of Jesus' birth, but anything else is just plain commercialism in my book. Exchanging gifts with family members and other loved ones is great, as it symbolizes (to me, at least) the giving of ...  Read the complete review

Christmas music? What does it mean to me? Well my favourite Christmas music has to be Christmas Carols. I love to sing all my favourites such as O Little Town of Bethlehem, Silent Night, Hark The Herald Angles Sing etc. I can remember as a little girl singing O Come All Ye Faithful for my grandfather as it was his favourite ...  Read the complete review

I think 'Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer' must be best known Christmas song here in UK. I haven't taken account of carols, of course.It's my favourite and is probably the most popular song with children. Children of two years old and upwards can identify the famous reindeer and if you ask them who it is they will answr ...  Read the complete review