Your personal, No Excuses, Christmas top 5

[albin25]

Simple, list the 5 Christmas songs/carols that you can hear over and over and over and still can't wait to hear them every year. If it's a particular version name the artist(s). No explanations, apologies or justifications are needed (or necessary).
You can also throw in three that you would just as soon never hear again.

In no particular order:
Let it Be Christmas... Alan Jackson
Frosty the Snowman... Leon Redbone
Let it Snow... Vaughn Monroe
The Christmas Song...Nat King Cole
O Holy Night... Kerry Roberts

The ones that always curdle my eggnog:
The Twelve Days of Christmas... by anybody
Good King Wenceslas...not even instrumental
Little Drummer Boy... even if hummed

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[Oregonhunter5]

Alabama, Christmas in Dixie.
Alabama, Thistlehair the Christmas Bear.
Kenny Chesney, by of Oak ridge boys, Thank God for Kids.
And that Alan Jackson song mentioned above.
That's it thus far!

 

[IronMonster]

Good?
If I aint drunk, It aint Christmas - Corey Taylor
I want a Mistress for Christmas - AC/DC
Run, Run Rudolf - Lemmy Kilmister
Stripper Christmas Weekend- GWAR
Twas the night before Christmas- Henry Rollins

Bad?
Everything else.

 

[Member 5605]

O Come o come Emmanuel: BarlowGirl

O Holy Night: Kerrie Roberts

O Come All Ye Faithful: Jeremy Camp

No excuses. I'm a purist who loves Christ and enjoy the ones centered on the reason.


This one always has me intreagued.

 

[Stomper]

I'm a Christian and I've never really cared for Christmas music (even when I was a kid), but I always liked Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away.

Trans Siberian Orchestra makes good music.

 

[Scrammer]

The Restroom Door Said Gentlemen, Bob Rivers, Twisted Christmas.

 

[teflon6string]

Johnny & Edgar Winter - Please Come Home for Christmas
From the album, Hey, Where's Your Brother?

 

[orygun]

This one is my favorite, hands down. The Drifters, White Christmas.

Silent Night, especially when sung in church Christmas eve is pretty darn special, too.

Then, a little bit on the silly side works for me also.

And ya can't forget Ertha Kitt and "Santa Baby".

I like most all of the "classic" Christmas songs, but I only need to hear Johnny Mathis a couple of times and I'm ready to shoot the radio!

 

[IronMonster]

 

[etrain16]

O Holy Night
Carol of the Bells (traditional version) - Andy Williams
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
Mary's Boy Child - Boney M
Where are you Christmas - Faith Hill

No go:

Happy Christmas (War is Over) - John Lennon and Yoko NoNo
Last Christmas - Wham
A Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney

 

[orygun]

No go:

Happy Christmas (War is Over) - John Lennon and Yoko NoNo
Last Christmas - Wham
A Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney

Roger that!

 

[Stomper]

Never been a huge Beatles fan, and Yokococoa truly tanked that (yellow) submarine.

 

[Just Jim]

Let it snow let it snow let it snow

 

[OLDNEWBIE]

At the moment,

also: Any version of "God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen" on a sad lone Tuba
"If We Make it through December", Merle Haggard.
"Joy to the World" Neil Diamond version
"2000 miles" Pretenders

 

[Monica Cowles]

Hmmm...I've never embedded a video on here, so I hope it works.
This song always blessed me...

 

[EZLivin]

TSO is pretty much the only "Christmas Music" I like these days. Oh, and some of the (mostly) instrumental "Celtic" stuff too. Unfortunately most of the Christmas music my wife plays sounds like it was recorded by washed up lounge singers.

I can't find a decent live version of Christmas Eve Sarajevo online, but that would be one of my favorites.

 

[The B]

 

[Stomper]

TSO is pretty much the only "Christmas Music" I like these days. Oh, and some of the (mostly) instrumental "Celtic" stuff too. Unfortunately most of the Christmas music my wife plays sounds like it was recorded by washed up lounge singers.

I can't find a decent live version of Christmas Eve Sarajevo online, but that would be one of my favorites.

Hmmm.... Maybe it's that "washed up lounge singer" aspect that has put me off on Christmas music all these years.

 

[salmonriverjohn]

Any and all the songs on "A Charley Brown Christmas"

 

[salmonriverjohn]

O Holy Night
Carol of the Bells (traditional version) - Andy Williams
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
Mary's Boy Child - Boney M
Where are you Christmas - Faith Hill

No go:

Happy Christmas (War is Over) - John Lennon and Yoko NoNo
Last Christmas - Wham
A Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney

I gotta take the whole Lennon, Yoko, beatles thing over to the joke section. I won't defile this post here. Check it later if you have time.