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wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Dec. 02 2008, 10:20 The snow is coming down today, and man it doesn't show signs of stopping... seriously. So, thinking of my 10 best Christmas feel-good tunes... 1 In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield 2 Let it Snow - Dean Martin 3 Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Frank Sinatra 4 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Dean Martin 5 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland 6 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas - Bing Crosby 7 Jingle Bells - Bing Crosby and The Andrew Sisters 8 December Will Be Magic Again - Kate Bush   9 I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake 10 Stop the Cavalry - Jona Lewie   And 5 Christmas Carols ... 1 Good King Wenceslas 2 Once in Royal David City 3 Silent Night 4 We Three Kings 5 Ding Dong Merrily on High -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

captain cavern Group: Members Posts: 267 Joined: Oct. 2003 Posted: Dec. 02 2008, 10:43 My favourite Christmas tunes (and covers) : Luciano Pavarotti - O Holy Night (Minuit Chrétien) Enya - Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) Mike Oldfield - In Dulci Jubilo Sting - I Saw Three Ships Frank Sinatra - Jingle Bells The Beach Boys - Little St. Nick John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Steve Vai - Christmas Time Is Here Mike Oldfield - Silent Night Enya - We Wish You A Merry Christmas Enya - Adeste Fideles (Come All Ye Faithful) Dream Theater - O Holy Night (Minuit Chrétien) (Live) Sinéad O'Connor - Silent Night Joe Satriani - Silent Night-(Holy Night Jam) And also... O Tannenbaum Il Est Né Le Divine Enfant Jésus, Que Ma Joie Demeure Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes Petit Papa Noël   Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod) Ave Maria (Schubert) Back to top

Guest Unregistered Posted: Dec. 02 2008, 11:10 No reason to hear cheasy christmas songs anymore.. No reason for buying gifts to put under the tree.. No reason to even buy a tree.. Why, you ask? I have just slaughtered Santa and eaten his stupid deers! 7 hours on the barbeque grill and rudolph was nice, crispy and tender.. - I´m not kidding, stop your christmas preparations - santa WON´t be joining you - he died a horrorful and painful death - screaming like a little kid..   Back to top

Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: Dec. 02 2008, 11:32 Quote (prisoner.of.the.dark.sky @ Dec. 02 2008, 16:10) - I´m not kidding, stop your christmas preparations - santa WON´t be joining you - he died a horrorful and painful death So, POTDS, is this your favourite Xmas song? I'll try and think of my own list later. Agree that wintery weather makes it seem much more festive! OK, probably just makes prisoner want to paint the snow red with the blood of a thousand deer but everyone else is probably cheered up   -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Dec. 02 2008, 12:53 Lyrics to ; - Theme Tune for a Pantomime Villain - Shudder at my eyes starring evilly Super psychopath dressed so extravegantly A million hiss and boos but I feed off their screams ... You're in love with my servant or something else like that My henchmen are fools so you can get away But you'll fall in my trap and I won't let you escape The village want me dead and you are going to succeed To bring my empire down and then you'll get married Narrator's on your side, I think I'll kill him too I'll murder you all tonight until you kill me too I'll burn I'll burn I'll Burn I'll burn MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Remember to cheer the goodies and boo the villains -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Dec. 02 2008, 13:28 Wish I were there. I live in Texas. It's cold, but not cheery. I think about the sleigh bell part of Hergest Ridge around this time. Jimbo -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: Dec. 02 2008, 14:09 1 Thanks For Christmas..XTC 2 Wonderful Christmastime..Paul McCartney 3 December Will Be Magic Again..Kate Bush 4 In Dulci Jublio..Mike Oldfield 5 Ring Out Solstice Bells..Jethro Tull 6 Christmas In Suburbia..Martin Newell 7 I Was Born On Christmas Day..Saint Etienne 8 Santa Claus Is Back In Town..Elvis Presley 9 I Believe In Father Christmas..Greg Lake 10 Stop The Cavalry..Jona Lewie Some songs just outside my top ten...I Heard The Bells(Johnny Cash) Everything`s Gonna` Be Cool This Christmas(Eels) Christmas Wrapping(The Waitress`s) I Believe In Santa Claus(Four Aces) Walking In A Alan Parsons Wonderland(Grandaddy) Some favourite Christmas albums... Aimee Mann..Another Drifter In The Snow Jethro Tull...Jethro Tull Christmas Album Brian Setzer Orchestra..Boogie Woogie Christmas James Brown..Funky Christmas Ultra Lounge..Christmas Cocktails Vol 1&2 Some Christmas songs that I like just for their sheer hilarity of cheesyness/naffness Jingle Bells..Frank Sinatra Jingle Bells..Bing Crosby(those two versions are almost impossible to seperate for me)   Mistletoe & Holly..Frank Sinatra Here Comes Santa Claus..Elvis Presley Christmas In Kilerany..Bing Crosby Santa`s Got An Aeroplane..The Beach Boys The Happiest Christmas Tree..Nat King Cole Senor Santa Claus..Jim Reeves An Old Christmas Card..Jim Reeves Back to top

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Dec. 02 2008, 14:29 Watch and Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9mW3c8I4CA -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Dec. 02 2008, 17:18 Some of my Christmas favs are covers of classic Christmas carols, others are originals. Here are some, in no particular order: -"Coventry Carol" by Alison Moyet. -"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" by Erasure. -"Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" by The Darkness. -"Please Come Home for Christmas" by Eagles. -"Blue Christmas", 2008 duet version by Elvis Presley & Martina McBride. -"Merry Christmas Baby" by Bruce Springsteen. -"All I Want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey. -"In Dulci Jubilo" by we-know-who. . -"Emmanuel", three versions: Blackmore's Night, Enya and Loreena McKennitt. -"Silent Night" by Enya. No, I won't write the Gaelic title. -"Silent Night" by we-know-who. -"Ding Dong Merrily on High" by Blackmore's Night. There are many more, but these are the ones which spring to my mind right now. About bad things happening to Santa: his Italian incarnation, called "Father Christmas" here (I'm not sure about him being called like that in other countries), was 'killed' by Francesco De Gregori in his 1976 folk-rock song "L'uccisione di Babbo Natale" ("Father Christmas's murder"). In the lyrics, Father Christmas is killed by a miner's daughter named Dolly and a hippie's son (unnamed). The latter is the actual murderer. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Guest Unregistered Posted: Dec. 02 2008, 18:18 Quote (Matt @ Dec. 02 2008, 16:32) *** I'll try and think of my own list later. Agree that wintery weather makes it seem much more festive! OK, probably just makes prisoner want to paint the snow red with the blood of a thousand deer but everyone else is probably cheered up   *** No No - not thousand deers - christmas CAROLERS -ALL of of them..- hunt them down with a big 30 ton truck and make gravy under the wheels. By the way - it´s not global warming that melts the icecap at the Northpole - it´s all done by me! - I want to get rid of all the principal shops on the ice, where dwarfs in silly hats packs santas gifts for stupid children all over the world. First santa Then the deers Now the dwarfs - and later - all the carolers.. Consider yourself warned (all of you), if you sing christmas songs in front of me, you end up in the hospital as an organdoner.. Ohhh..one last rampling...If I ever hear George Michaels "last christmas" again on the radio...I will burn the radiostation down...kill the DJ and her cat and sue the parents for bringing a stupid child into the world.. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Dec. 02 2008, 19:29 "Last Christmas" is by Wham!, not by George Michael. Subtle difference. By the way, Prisoner: is your dad a hippie? -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Dec. 03 2008, 03:23 Some of my favorite Yule tunes: "In Dulci Jubilo" - Mike Oldfield "White Winter Hymnal" - Fleet Foxes "Waltz of the Snowflakes" - Tchaikovsky "Walking in the Air" - Howard Blake "Ring Out Solstice Bells" - Jethro Tull "Winter" Concerto: Allegro non Molto - Vivaldi "Gaudete" - Steeleye Span "Ghosts Of Christmas Past" - Nox Arcana "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" - Doris Day "Let it Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow" - Dean Martin -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

Guest Unregistered Posted: Dec. 03 2008, 03:47 Quote (Ugo @ Dec. 03 2008, 00:29) "Last Christmas" is by Wham!, not by George Michael. Subtle difference. By the way, Prisoner: is your dad a hippie? I don´t know.....he came home with a christmas tree when I was 2 years old, so I killed him in his sleep   Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Dec. 03 2008, 04:05 prisoner.of.the.dark.sky - let me hear you say HO HO HO. Say it !! -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Guest Unregistered Posted: Dec. 03 2008, 05:26 Quote (wiga @ Dec. 03 2008, 09:05) prisoner.of.the.dark.sky - let me hear you say HO HO HO. Say it !! Okey.... you´re a HO you´re a HO you´re a HO Sorry   Actually I don´t think you´re a HO...but you dared me in to it..so it´s your fault.. I will give you a double-dare ...sing "white christmas" - I DARE YOU!!! Back to top

Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: Dec. 03 2008, 06:18 My favourites below. Couldn't manage top 10/top 5 but thought I'd list my thoughts anyway... Pop/pap: Fairytale in new york - The Pogues / Kirsty MacColl I believe in father christmas - Greg Lake White christmas - Bing Crosby Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow - Dean Martin Carols: Little drummer boy Silent night Jingle bells Special mention: Little Donkey Day of days - Jon Anderson Hark the Herald Angels Sing played by a brass band on a cold day... -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Dec. 03 2008, 09:04 DOUBLE. See below. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Dec. 03 2008, 09:15 @ Prisoner: "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm... dreamin' of a whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite... Christ-mas... just like the ones I used to knooooooooooooooowww..." @ Sweetpea: I assume you refer to Disney's Fantasia about the Tchaikovsky waltz? Well, its actual title is "Waltz of the Flowers" and it never struck me as a Christmas-ish piece, while the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", in the same Nutcracker Suite, often did. I also don't think that the Allegro non molto from Vivaldì's "Winter" has any particular association with Christmas, because it has an inner melancholy which I normally don't link with the festive period. More Christmas-ish tunes: - "Trains and Winter Rains" by Enya. - End of Hergest Ridge Part 1 by Mike Oldfield. - "Ho Ho Ho (Who'd be a Turkey at Christmas)" by Elton John. - "Clocks" by Coldplay. Same as Tchaikovsky's Sugar Plum Fairy above. - "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys. Same as above. - "More than words" by Extreme, because of a Christmas-themed cover version in Italian. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Dec. 03 2008, 11:16 Basshunter - Jingle Bells - HO HO HO. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UGquX-SQtZA -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Bassman Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Feb. 2008 Posted: Dec. 03 2008, 11:59 I wish Laibach would do a Christmas album.  It would be awesome!  It would also pretty much nail shut the whole genre.  These days it seems you can't swing a dead cat by the tail without hitting some so-called "Christmas" album by a cheesy, disposable crossover artist that sounds like they threw it together in 5 minutes! Back to top

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