In a few days, it’ll all be over and we can return to hating our fellow man instead of pretending to get along.
So here are the last few Christmas songs, including my favourite. And what’s my favourite shouldn’t surprise a single reader. If it does, you aren’t paying attention.
First, some John Cale. Okay, it’s technically less a Christmas song than a whatever it is, but it’s John Cale. He’s better than you. He plays the viola. You don’t.
Next… I want one too.
Ladies and gentlemen, the legend herself, Miss Eartha Kitt, and that purr.
Thanks to Staples adverts, I now associate this song with the back to school sales. But it is a Christmas track.
The original- Darlene Love. U2 my ass.
This is one of my favourite Christmas tracks of all time- because I love beagles.
And finally- the single Christmas track ever in the history of mankind. The Pogues. Kirsty MacColl. And a really bad day.
It’s cold and snowy and generally very Canadian weather out there. I have to take my youngest and go grocery shopping. So I’ll brighten my mood and yours with a funny Canadian classic.
And a little more sentimental, but heartwarming none the less, the last three minutes of Charlie Brown Christmas.For both “O Tannenbaum” and “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”.
As a bonus, because I still love it after all this time, Straight No Chaser’s 1998 Christmas medley.
More British glam rock. Or it could be circus clowns who somehow ended up on Top of the Pops. I’m not really sure. But it’s Wizzard with “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday”. Enjoy.
I’m three days behind my daily list (love life). My kids and I have decorated our tree and began eating the chocolate out of the advent calendars. And the girls are listening to the Glee Christmas album with shrieks of delight. So, I’m here to give the next three songs and catch up to the day. Yes, folks, it is a musical advent calendar for you.
First off, I would like to dedicate the next one to my lovely, charming BFF Jayme, who loves this song, as do I. There is no way this duet should have worked. But it does.
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written melody composed by Adolphe Adam and the best know version is with the poetic lyrics of one John Sullivan Dwight. It’s a hymn that people love to sing but few can sing well. There is that note, after all, that only dogs and Celine Dion can hear. I went with my favourite version, by the legendary Nat “King” Cole.
Finally, a modern Christmas classic that just makes me smile. It’s terrible. Just terrible. But it is Bill Nighy.
Ah, Christmas. I may hate the actual day itself, but I love the music.
Yeah, you don’t look all that shocked by either of those things,
This year I’ll be playing you some of my favourite Christmas songs ever. Some of them reflect the only time I ever actually like going to Church was at Christmas, or that I love Slade, or that I really love the Pogues.
We will start with the U.K. christmas classic, with Noddy Holder and gang bringing us glam and poor spelling with “Merry Christmas Everybody”, the one time Noddy didn’t misspell something.
