<p>pugmadkate,
Can I suggest you go roast some chestnuts by the open fire, sip a little hot spiced wine or eggnog, and relax??</p>
<p>Oh… and have yourself a merry little Christmas…</p>
<p>The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole is unforgetable…</p>
<p>Some day I’m going to put together a CD entitled Christmas Songs to Make You Weep. Of course, *Christmas Shoes *will be on there. And that horrible one where the cat protects the mouse from the cold on Christmas Eve and on Christmas morning, the cat is dead and the mouse is alive. </p>
<p>Then I’m going to write my own, about the toys in the toy store that didn’t get bought.</p>
<p>Should be a big hit.</p>
<p>Agree on can’t stand “grandma got run over…” and “dominic the donkey” (H loves both, yucch.)</p>
<p>Don’t like “Last Christmas”. But really really hate that Paul McCartney one “Really having a Wonderful Christmas Time” or something like that. Bah, humbug.</p>
<p>Ones I love–I like “Do they KNow it’s Christmas”. Unfortunately, still relevant, even with some dumb lyrics–the song and voices are gorgeous.</p>
<p>Other favs–2000 Miles–the Pretenders
“Fairy Tale of NY”–The Pogues
Christmas WRapping–The Waitresses
“Baby Please Come HOme” U2
“Father Christmas” --the Kinks</p>
<p>TOS fans–my S just saw them, surprise guest star STeve Tyler!</p>
<p>Feliz Navidad has to be one of the worst. I was in Mexico for Christmas one year and they played it over and over. I have to think that they must have had much better carols that they could have been playing.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard the cat and mouse song or the donkey song - lucky me, I think.</p>
<p>Feliz Navidad–Spanish for “This Song Never Ends”.</p>
<p>Anything by the chipmunks. I love the Nutcracker but hate hearing really bad muzak style versions of Nutcracker in every mall and store. Just give me a good orchestra playing Nutcracker and it’s OK.</p>
<p>I really dislike Baby’s First Christmas. And I love Breath of Heaven by Amy Grant.</p>
<p>I really love to hear the old songs from the singers my mother liked when we were growing up.
Andy Williams, Perry Como, Mitch Miller,Burl Ives and Bing Crosby. I never thought I would say that, but it is the nostalgia of it.
Also, I like the more modern renditions ( just not Bruce) I like
" Christmas Wrapping " by the Waitresses, " Christmas in Hollis Queens, Run DMC…and even the MacKenzie Brothers " 12 Days of Christmas ".</p>
<p>Sarah McLaughlin and Bare Naked Ladies Christmas tunes too…and Vince Guaraldi Trio
( Charlie Brown Christmas )</p>
<p>And I love Breath of Heaven by Amy Grant.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard Amy Grant sing it, but the varsity treble choir sang it the other night at the school choir concert and it was lovely - lots of lush harmonies.</p>
<p>What my husband plays incessantly are the old Firestone Christmas albums (did you get them free with tires?) from the 60s…Perry Como, Andy Williams, Annamaria Alberghetti (sp), etc.</p>
<p>I like all the Ronettes stuff with that big wall of Spector sound…</p>
<p>I have never heard the Christmas shoes song, or the cat and mouse song…when I have been caroling with my kid’s classes , I hate it when they butcher Rudolph ( with a verse between each verse )
When I was a kid, we sang the real carols…all of them
Love O Holy night</p>
<p>Tom Waits Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis Greatest Christmas Song Ever! Followed by Joni Mitchell’s The River as a close second.</p>
<p>Oh, a couple more. The Ramones Merry Christmas I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight
John Prine Christmas in Prison
The Waitresses Christmas Wrapping</p>
<p>I heard “Christmas Shoes” for the first time last Saturday–how awful! I agree that Barbra Streisand’s version of Jingle Bells isn’t very good. Madonna’s “Santa Baby” is the WORST! At least Eartha Kitt’s version is sophisticated. I love Elvis’ “Blue Christmas”–it reminds me of the Christmases we’ve spent in Hawaii. I decided I really don’t like Bruce Springsteen the first time I heard his “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”. I like the Waitresses’ song.
I’m not a fan of radio stations switching to all-Christmas music the Saturday before Thanksgiving–the 15th of December would be plenty early. Also, in San Francisco, the all-Christmas stations only play secular music–no Julie Andrews doing “Silent Night” (must not be politically correct!)</p>
<p>O Holy Night
Tonight is my bar mitzvah
I get a suit and I speak hebrew too.
My uncle’s here and I will get a wristwatch…</p>
<p>That’s all I remember of the lyrics a Jewish friend always sang when forced to sing this song in the school Christmas Show. Very softly, but very clear.</p>
<p>I can’t express how glad I am that other people hate the Christmas Shoes song, too. I was listening to the Christmas music radio station while doing surgery on a mouse today, which is fun except when they play Christmas Shoes, because I can’t switch the station without taking off my gloves. And before they played it, they said, “Oh, here’s a song everybody loves: Christmas Shoes!” Who likes this song?!? Who?</p>
<p>My co-worker hates “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” because she thinks it sounds like date rape.</p>
<p>My favorites are O Holy Night (by anybody, really, but I think Josh Groban’s version is nice) and Carol of the Bells.</p>
<p>We have a gospelly blues-ish version of O Holy Night, by Irma Thompson, which I really like. Overall, it’s my favorite carol. Followed closely by Hark the Herald Angels.</p>
<p>lololu–cute lyrics. In the original, besides the beautiful tune, it’s got some pretty socially aware lyrics:</p>
<p>“Truly He taught us to love one another;
His law is love and His gospel is peace.
Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother;
And in His name all oppression shall cease.”</p>