Christmas Songs/Quotes
 

Hey, just wondering what some of your favorite Christmas songs and quotes are?
Or even Christmas movies?
For...uh...no reason at all...
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Movie: Nightmare before Christmas
Songs: Deck the Halls / Dashing through the snow

Those are all pretty good!
I don't have any particular fave song, but I do love my Celtic Christmas cd and also the Trans-Siberian orchestra Christmas music.

I actually have only seen Nightmare Before Christmas once, but would actually love to watch it again eventually.

My favourite Christmas songs are

• Alvin and the Chipmunks- Christmas Don't be Late (The chipmunk Song)
• O Come All Ye Faithful
• 12 Days of Christmas
• Minka
• Welcome Christmas

I have too many faves. I love them all for different reasons, but first ones that comes to mind are Home Alone, It's a Very Muppet Christmas, and Edward Scissorhands(?).
Fave song would be Have a Holly Jolly Christmas sung by Michael Buble, and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen sung by Annie Lennox.
My favorite quote is "Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal, and a happy new year!" XD

Everyone has such great, diverse Christmas favorites!
I haven't heard the chipmunk Christmas song in years! Used to love it a lot. XD
And I never thought of Edward Scissorhands as a Christmas movie...but I suppose it does actually have a large focus around the holiday.

The Muppet Christmas Carol.
Best version of the story in my opinion.

We have piles of Christmas albums and such that we'd listen to but Nana Mourkouri always shows up at least once.

Not necessarily my favorite, but I need to share this because I haven't quite gotten over how good PelleK's voice is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YCbJICH2uY

I know that pain, Mekatra.
I prefer my "non-traditional" Celtic Christmas music and Trans-Siberian orchestra. But also have a soft spot for a couple of the songs off the MTV TRL and Hanson Christmas albums...

Completely agreed. I HATE October through December because it's a nonstop barrage of all of the same cliches. And it gets worse every year because they keep starting earlier and earlier, which makes them overlap, which means MORE cliches at the same time. And then January provides a small relief (for some reason New Year's stuff isn't nearly so annoying) and then we dive back into February (thank goodness only for the first half of the month).

And Christmas music is one of those cliches that annoys the crap out of me. Suddenly every radio station and every store's background music all sounds the same. It's the same songs I've heard for my whole life, and I can count myself lucky if a new song that isn't a cover of an old song gets successful enough to be played but not so wildly popular that it gets overplayed and burned out before the season is even over.

And then there are a few songs that I just absolutely despise with a seething passion: Last Christmas, Santa Baby, Baby It's Cold Outside, and Christmas Shoes come to mind. Not only are they overplayed (though thankfully Christmas Shoes hasn't made the rounds this year on the stations I listen to) but I hate the songs on their own merits anyway: Christmas Shoes is bloody depressing. Last Christmas is whining about being cheated on. Baby It's Cold Outside is either skeevy/rapey if you take the lyrics at face value or annoying and setting a bad example if you don't. And Santa Baby is just way too much innuendo for a song about the quintessential family-friendly holiday and EVERY VOCALIST I've ever heard perform it uses the same over-saccharine squeaky cliched supposed-to-be-sexy-but-actually-stupid voice.

There are a few I can tolerate. I'm a big fan of Trans-Siberian Orchestra; their stuff is musically interesting enough that the fact that they're covers of traditional songs doesn't bother me.

Okay, so I have to admit, I do like Baby It's Cold Outside despite the rapey tones just because...well, I don't really know why...it's catchy and I like the back and forth between the singers I guess.
Oh, uh...Killing Myself For Christmas by Sick Puppies is another of my faves to blast during the holiday season. It definitely is meant as a humorous song and not as any sort of pro suicide message, but I imagine people would take it that way.

Being catchy is all the more reason I hate Baby It's Cold Outside, because when I DO hear it, it sticks! XD

I like the James Taylor version best.

I like to sing, so in that way, even if I hate the song (Bing Crosby White Christmas anyone? Actually, the soundtrack from that whole movie) I'll end up singing it anyway, which is sorta balances it out. Or creates some manner of mental paradox.

I always get a kick out of the Bare-naked Ladies Christmas album, with a cover of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" and I still like a lot of the traditional stuff, and just suffer the religious ends. Little Town of Bethlehem, for instance, and Nana's Old Toy Train (not sure if that's the title).

We have several Celtic Christmas albums and such but even though the songs are good I have to admit that I like the traditional stuff that I've been singing since I've been a kid.

I also like most of the songs from Muppet Christmas Carol. "It Feel Like Christmas" in particular.

I like baby it's cold outside even though it's super rapey haha. It's got a nice tune. Did you all see Michael Buble and Idena Menzel's music video for it using children? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bbuBubZ1yE This bothered the HELL out of me, like no children should not be in the video for this rapey song. No. I like it, but it's problematic af.

I like Last Christmas by WHAM! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI Ariana Grande does a nice cover of it, if Wham! isn't your thing lol.

I worked retail for a looong time. I sold shoes at a Macy's. Retail is where the Christmas spirit goes to die. I completely understand how you feel, Coda. It's been four years since I worked in retail and I'm only just now starting being able to enjoy Christmas again.

I never found it quite that bad. More annoying was the general radio that only seemed to cycle through about five songs.

I think I like Last Christmas because it's barely a Christmas song. I've been cheated on so I like understand the perspective in the song.

Best Scrooge!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unOeCuBG_7A

wooooow, Galla, thanks for the link.

my sister is teaching a class about 'the philosphy of love and sex' this semester at her university, we send each other feminist literature all the time, i can't wait for her to see this, we've talked about this song before.

I know it's not rapey, and even said as much. But even when you ARE paying attention to the context, it's promoting the idea that it's okay to say things you don't mean and that you should expect to have to second-guess what your romantic partner is telling you. And that's something that INFURIATES me -- no, it's NOT okay to say one thing and mean something else. The ASSUMPTION that this is a thing that happens is the reason why date rape is such a controversial subject instead of being an open-and-shut case kind of thing.

So yeah, I GET the song. I just don't think it's the kind of thing that needs to be played on repeat in public. :/

Likewise, I GET Last Christmas and Christmas Shoes, and they certainly have their places in the right context, but they have meaning that's being completely being ignored when they're overplayed the way they are. Neither of these songs is about celebrating the holiday season; they're both about heartbreaking pain during a time when one is supposed to be happy.

(Santa Baby meanwhile is just trashy. You're welcome to like it if you want. I don't have any objective complaints about it. But subjectively, I can't stand it.)

I too admire this passion.

Ehehe. *rubs back of head* I'm actually in a good mood overall right now. Those songs just really manage to push my buttons.

Ugh thanks, it's stuck in my head now. (It's also one of my favorites.)

The drummer bit drives me nuts. It's never not driven me nuts. Blah. Hate it.

Lol. So on a slight topic change, I get to do most of the Christmas decorating in the cafe at the museum tonight.
Even though everyone else loved it last year, my boss HATES the homemade ornaments...guess what's going on the tree again this year?
;D

I don't like Little Drummer Boy but it doesn't infuriate me like some of the others do. (It's a musically uninteresting song with a drone and sound effects talking about banging a percussion instrument for a baby, which by all rights ought to terrify the poor child.)

Ah, Fuck You It's Christmas is a good one!
XD

I like Text Me Merry Christmas.

I uh...don't actually know that one.

i've been thinking a lot about that story where the girl sells her hair to buy him a chain for his watch and he sells his watch to buy her a comb for her hair. i don't know why, i just keep thinking about that this last week.

Just because I keep hearing bits of it on a commercial, I do like "Do you hear what I hear," even though I'm never sure if that's the first line.

Also this.

I'm pretty sure Christmas songs are the reason suicide rates are higher during December, buuuuuut if I had to pick one, I would say 'Feliz Navidad'. Jose Feliciano sounds so happy, and I want that happiness.

Cause seriously the only way I can get the other ones out of my head is to paint the wall with them. And by that I mean blow my brains out.

Mary, Did You Know? by Pentatonix always gives me the chills