Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on December 03, 2008, 08:55:23 PM
Title: The Annual Question.
Post by: Roger Kettle on December 03, 2008, 08:55:23 PM
What's your favourite Christmas song? Post 'em here! (I will admit to a nostalgic fondness for Slade and Kirsty McColl).
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Post by: Diane CBPFC on December 03, 2008, 10:00:26 PM
I don't have a favourite.
...But with what is going down on our Canadian Parliment Hill theses days...I can't help humming "It's begining to look a lot like christmas". ;D
Title: Re: The Annual Question.
Post by: Colin on December 04, 2008, 01:46:49 AM
The Pogues with Kirsty McCall. Fairytale of New York is a good shout for my favourite.
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Post by: The Peepmaster on December 04, 2008, 06:06:46 AM
In the early 1980s there was a band called Nevada that did a superb version of In The Bleak Midwinter, which I really liked, but it doesn't appear to be on YouTube. (It has to be that one).
This song reminds me of the School Carol Concert, and I like it anyway.
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Post by: Malc on December 04, 2008, 07:45:37 AM
The Pogues and Kirsty are definitely in the frame there - great song. Slade's "So Here It Is, Merry Christmas..." is a great one, especially when Noddy sings "It's Chriiiiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaas!! at the end.
I was educated in an army boarding school in Germany, so I had to attend church services, especially the Christmas ones, and I remember all the hymns.
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Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on December 04, 2008, 08:36:21 AM
I snogged Lesley Henderson (name changed to protect the...oh, okay, I forgot her real name) all the way through Wizard's 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day', at the school Christmas disco in 1974, under a piece of fake mistletoe (it was actually a bit of string, but you improvise, don't you? Lesley neither noticed nor cared - her strengths were not horticultural).
She only did it to make her 6' 2" boyfriend jealous, but the song elicits a nostalgic grin every time I hear it nonetheless. I was a legend for about a week.
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Post by: Zesty White on December 04, 2008, 10:05:25 AM
O Holy Night by Placido Domingo -fantastically sung, and yet there is still humour in it. You can tell that he has learned the English translation phonetically. The guitar solo in Mike Oldfield's In Dulci Jubilo is awesome too.
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Post by: Fyodor on December 04, 2008, 10:57:45 AM
Don't know if it's a Christmas song, but David Essex's A Winter's Tale rings my chimes.
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Post by: Malc on December 04, 2008, 02:41:20 PM
Quote
In the early 1980s there was a band called Nevada
That was Nirvana, and you had a cold. And it was the 90s.
Title: Re: The Annual Question.
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 04, 2008, 03:47:05 PM
(http://www.nlightsweb.com/lib/gallery/bleak.jpg)
I wish I could someone would upload it to YouTube. I've got it on an old compilation tape somewhere.
http://www.nlightsweb.com/lib/lyrics/nevada.htm
Title: Re: The Annual Question.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on December 04, 2008, 04:19:30 PM
I like Sarah McLaughlin's in the bleak midwinter - I like the whole Wintersong CD.
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Post by: The Peepmaster on December 04, 2008, 04:30:40 PM
This is a great one from the late, great Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
"There's no lights on the Xmas Tree Mamma - They're burning Big Louie Tonight". It's about gangsters, and cops gunning each other down, and Louie gets put in the electric chair. It hasn't got sleigh bells on it though.
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Post by: Malc on December 04, 2008, 06:44:15 PM
Brilliant. Interesting to see Zal with no Pierrot make up. I'm assuming it's him.
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Post by: Max on December 04, 2008, 06:46:32 PM
I could push for Perry Como's "Christmas Dream" from the movie "The Odessa File", written by Tim Rice.
However a lady in Seattle sent me this CD once, and from the CD.......................
Brilliant. Interesting to see Zal with no Pierrot make up. I'm assuming it's him.
I was a big fan of Alex Harvey and saw them live at Parkhead, Glasgow in 1976 when they supported The Who. That WAS a day/night to remember.
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Post by: Tom on December 04, 2008, 08:04:51 PM
My favourite seems to be very popular on here... The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl "Fairy Tale of New York"
"... and the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day..."
Quite a sad song really.
Title: Re: The Annual Question.
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 04, 2008, 09:26:13 PM
Here's another one I like. I remember choosing to have it play at a school assembly. It was very unusual to have "pop music" played in an assembly in those days!
Title: Re: The Annual Question.
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 04, 2008, 09:29:52 PM
Brilliant. Interesting to see Zal with no Pierrot make up. I'm assuming it's him.
I was a big fan of Alex Harvey and saw them live at Parkhead, Glasgow in 1976 when they supported The Who. That WAS a day/night to remember.
I bought his album, "Framed", on hearing just the one song - the title track. I recently bought a "Greatest Hits" CD, and most of it is good, with a couple of duffs.
He died too young, like many rock-stars. He was a Glaswegian of course.
Just found this version of "Framed". Stunning guitar work by the clown Malc mentioned! Feast your senses...
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Post by: Joan on December 08, 2008, 11:15:33 PM
I'm even more of a sucker for Christmas songs than films. I drive the family mad playing Christmas CDs wherever I go in December. Buy at least one every year. Could also be the singing along that drives them mad.
Hard to pick a favourite, but carol is probably "Silent Night", also "The Holly and the Ivy, when they are both full grown ...", songs "And so this is Christmas", John Lennon, "When my Heart finds Christmas", Harry Connick, jr. "Wonderful Christmastime", Paul McCartney, "Blue Christmas", Elvis and Peter, Paul and Marys' "The Little Drummer Boy", one of the first records my Dad got for his new stereo record player in 1960 something.
The player was in "case" form - turntable in the bottom and two speakers for lid, which separated and unclipped, so you could stand them at the correct distance apart - great "gadget" man, my Dad. We always had the newest "things", like gas powered cork screws, electric knife sharpeners - whatever was available in downtown Castle Douglas. He would have been in absolute heaven nowadays - and probably flat broke. ;D
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Post by: The Peepmaster on December 08, 2008, 11:25:23 PM
Roger was always mad about new inventions. Did you know he had the first penny-farthing in Scotland?
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Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on December 08, 2008, 11:40:56 PM
Roger was always mad about new inventions. Did you know he had the first penny-farthing in Scotland?
And he's never spent it yet.
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Post by: Zesty White on December 09, 2008, 10:13:44 AM
Jethro Tull did a Christmas album?!?!? I did not know that. This forum really is an educational wonderland...
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Post by: Malc on December 09, 2008, 10:28:57 AM
I did not know that neither, but I bet (on the evidence of that one track) it was a load of b*llocks from start to finish, and what's more that it was a personal project of Ian Anderson's and that the rest of the band had to forced into the studio with electric cattle prods.
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Post by: The Peepmaster on December 09, 2008, 11:09:32 AM
I remember the track being issued as the B-side of a single. I don't think it was that bad, compared to a lot of Christmas stuff issued, and it's message was quite different from most, especially for that time. It was a long time ago!
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Post by: Joan on December 09, 2008, 11:15:26 PM
There's a Jethro Tull track on one of my Christmas cds. It's called "Ring Out Solstice Bells". Not one of my favourites, I'm afraid.
It seems just about every singer has had a go at a Christmas song at some point. Here's one for your edification: