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Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 08 Dec 2006 09:55 AM |
Well, here in Canada, my ears are being assaulted by the sounds of jingles, sleighbells and fat blokes in red suits.... Got me wondering though, what's your favourite Xmas song? :)
Mine would have to be The Fairytale of New York by The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl, because I'm a miserable git :)
What's yours? :)
- Ara |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 08 Dec 2006 10:14 AM |
| Dominic the Italian Christmas Donkey. period. |
-Kalos
"When in doubt, tell the truth. It will amaze most people, delight your friends, and confuse your enemies" -Mark Twain
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 08 Dec 2006 10:19 AM |
All my favourite Christmas songs are extraordinarily vulgar, offensive, or dirty.
However, I've always been partial to "Here We Come A-Caroling." |
- [Rob], Balthor, Jake, and Thomas. |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 08 Dec 2006 10:22 AM |
Bah!
Humbug! |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 08 Dec 2006 10:27 AM |
| Just about any I can play on my fife, but I do enjoy We Three Kings. Also, just about anything done by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra :D |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 08 Dec 2006 10:58 AM |
I do like a little Peter and the Wolf on Christmas Eve.
And Fairytale of New York is splendid, one of my favorites. |
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about dying."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means lying in the ground with dirt on your face and holding your breath forever."
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 08 Dec 2006 12:54 PM |
Twelve days of Christmas, Canadian style:
Intro
Bob: Ok g'day. This is the Christmas part of the album, you can play this at your Christmas partys uh, or to yourself on Christmas eve if there is nothing else to do
Doug: G'day eh? in case you thought like I wasn't on this part.
Bob: Oh i guaranty ya, you'd be on.
Ok so good day, this is the Christmas part, and we're gonna tell ya what to get your true love for Christmas.
Doug: Look out the window!
bob: Where? Whaddya doin?
Doug:Snow!
Bob: Oh it's the great white north, and it's snowin cuz its Christmas time.
Hey, hoser! heres a quiz.. quiz for Doug:
Doug: Ok, I got my thinking toque on!
Bob: Yeah, right. What are the 12 days of Christmas?
Doug: Um.
Bob: Cuz figure it out , right? Christmas is when?
Doug: The 25th.
Bob: Right, well whats the 24th? Xmas eve, right.
Doug: Thats 2.
Bob: Then , whats after that?
Doug: Wrestling day
Bob: No.
Doug: Boxing day.
Bob: Thats 3. Then whats after that? Nothin'.
Doug: New years.
Bob: 4.
Doug: New years eve.
Bob: 5. Where da ya get 12?
Doug: Uh... theres 2 sat's and sun's in there , 4. Thats 9 and 3 other days which i believe are the mystery days.
Ok, this is our Christmas song, in case ya don't know what to get someone for Christmas.
Doug: Theres lotsa ideas in here, so listen and don't get stuck. By the way , thats me on the organ.
Bob: Ok geeze.
Doug: Ok, you start.
Song Lyrics
Bob: Ok, on the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me..
beer.
On the 2nd day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
2 turtlenecks,
and beer.
On the 3rd day of Christmas, my true love gave to me..
3 french toast,
2 turtlenecks,
and beer.
There should be more there, eh?
Where?
On the 4th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me..
4lbs of backbacon,
3 french toast,
2 turtlenecks,
and beer in a tree.
Oh. See? ya need more.
On the 5th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me..
5 GOLDEN TOQUES!
4lbs of backbacon,
3 french toast,
2 turtlenecks,
and beer in a tree.
On the 6th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me..
6 packs of two-four.
5 GOLDEN TOQUES!
4lbs of backbacon,
3 french toast,
2 turtlenecks,
and beer in a tree.
Ok.
On the 7th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me..
7 packs of smokes,
6 packs of two-four,
5 GOLDEN TOQUES!
4lbs of backbacon,
3 french toast,
2 turtlenecks,
and beer in a tree.
oh, i keep forgettin'.
whew, this should be just the 2 days of xmas, this is too hard for us!
On the 8th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me..
8 comic books,
7 packs of smokes,
6 packs of two-four,
5 GOLDEN TOQUES!
4lbs of backbacon,
3 french toast,
2 turtlenecks,
and beer in a tree.
Wow,That beers empty
Day 12.
G'day and welcome to day 12.
Yeah.
5 GOLDEN TOQUES!
4lbs of backbacon,
3 french toast,
2 turtlenecks,
and beer in a tre-e.
Where did you learn to do that?
Uh, Albums.
Boy, so thats our song merry Christmas, and g'day.
G'day everybody. Happy new years.
Ok, ya know what ya left out?
What?
Donuts. I told you to get me donuts.
Oh no!
Either on the 9th day, or the 10th day or the 11th day. I wanted donuts.
The song is over merry Christmas everybody, or the 12th you coulda gotten me a dozen donuts.
Go to the stores and get some presents. You coulda gone down to the donut shop where you buy a dozen donuts, you get another donut free. Then it coulda been 13 for the 13 days of Christmas.
Next Christmas, get me a chainsaw.
Take off!
Boy that song was a beauty.. it moved me.
Yah , it ranks up there with stairway to heaven.
What? |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 08 Dec 2006 12:59 PM |
| I love those characters from the movie "Strange Brew". A true classic. |
-Kalos
"When in doubt, tell the truth. It will amaze most people, delight your friends, and confuse your enemies" -Mark Twain
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 08 Dec 2006 01:08 PM |
| I'm a pretty hardcore athiest, but I cannot deny the beauty of The First Noel, sung by a harmonizing choir. |
True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.
-Gretel Ehrlich |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 08 Dec 2006 05:43 PM |
The "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen" and "We Three Kings" medley done by Barenaked Ladies for a Denver radio station live broadcast in 1999. Absolutely spectacular.
Also worth mentioning are John Lennon's "Happy X-Mas", Elton John's "Step Into Christmas" and "Baby It's Cold Outside".
I'm also a total sucker for the traditional French carol "Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella."
Happy Holidays, everyone!
-VK |
"You know, a gong. Large, flat object that you hit when you want things. Sort of like a waiter, but less portable."
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 08 Dec 2006 10:44 PM |
Darn you Q! This is an awesome CD but I ain't spending $115.00 as per Amazon.
Lisen, whose favourite Christmas CDs are the Christmas Cocktails ones:
http://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Lounge-Christmas-Cocktails-Part-One/dp/B000002UFL/ref=pd_sim_m_7/105-4286781-1360440
http://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Lounge-Christmas-Cocktails-Pt-2/dp/B000002TLS/ref=pd_sim_m_8/105-4286781-1360440 |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 09 Dec 2006 01:03 AM |
Darn you Q! This is an awesome CD but I ain't spending $115.00 as per Amazon.
Wow... some guy is obviously taking advantage of the supply and demand... In any event, if you want I can get you the .mp3s or I'll even burn you a CD and mail it to the hinterlands. |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 10 Dec 2006 08:00 PM |
| Christmas music sucks in general, but I gotta say I likes tha music in Merry Christmas Mister Lawrence, and it's tha best Christmas movie evar made! ;) |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 15 Dec 2006 10:35 AM |
Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby standards. And ... Burl Ives from any of the claymation Rudolph TRNR movies. Leon Redbone perhaps as well (if I'm all liquored up on egg nog), but Burl did it first and better. Ronnie Spector, I think before she was Mrs. Spector - and had the Ronettes backing her - was pretty good with I Saw Mommie Kissing Santa Claus... odd theme, but then again Ronnie Spector was pretty odd.
When I'm in the mood for something from this millenia, there is Trans-Siberian Orchestra who redid most of the classics I enjoy.
*sings* Have a holly, jolly Christmas. It's the best time of the year.
P.S. Bob & Doug albums from when a) there were albums, and b) they were still on SCTV were great. I've got the 12 days of Christmas lyrics still memorized. |
-æsir
"The man that finds himself at a crossroads, and unsure of direction, is not lost. For in truth, all roads will carry him to the same destination - his fate. But it is the determined man that takes the next step." -Aren
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 15 Dec 2006 12:47 PM |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsDqKeMZ7FI&mode=related&search=
A long forgotten Nat King Cole Christmas song. Not exactly safe for work. |
True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.
-Gretel Ehrlich |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 17 Dec 2006 03:50 AM |
A Christmas Song, by the Chipmunks. Definately... I used to listen to it in my childhood.
On a more personnal and french note, "C'est Nowël" from Paul and Paul. A french parody song that my dad used to sing. And nope, I still can't hear it, but I remember it. :)
Peace all,
Kim |
Frodo : What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 17 Dec 2006 09:25 AM |
My dad just used to repeat the first two lines of "Oh Christmas Tree" over and over, and then go on with the da-da-das...
Trimmed the tree last night to a Louis Armstrong compilation that included the song "A Kiss to Build a Dream On", making me nostalgic about the holidays and also about playing Fallout. |
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about dying."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means lying in the ground with dirt on your face and holding your breath forever."
-Burt Reynolds, "The End" |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 17 Dec 2006 03:59 PM |
My favorite has been and will always be:
"Grandma got run over by a Reindeer"
Talk about a funny song. |
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"One Color ~ Countless Shades" |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 18 Dec 2006 04:58 AM |
| I like "Baby its Cold outside" and "Xmas night of the living dead" |
Quoth the raven "nevermore" |
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Re: Your Favourite Xmas Songs
Posted: 22 Dec 2006 10:50 AM |
heh, I've never been a huge fan of Chirstmas music, but if I'm forced to listen to it, I'd prefer something along the lines of Trans-Siberian Orchestra... and Xerah, thanks for the reminder of the Mckenzie brothers' 12 days of Christmas... a classic.
Breath Of Heaven, by Amy Grant is an awesome song... that one stands out as a "favorite Chirstmas song" I guess.
And my wife just bought Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong... I'm really enjoying that (she has such a great voice, I love most anything she does) |
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