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Top 10 Christmas Songs of all time
Well, seeing as christmas is coming up very soon i thought it would be fitting to make my first post rather christmasy. And whats more christmasy than the christmas songs that play year after year. We all love them, some may be bad, infact, most are awful, but we listen to and love them, mainly down to the memories they can bring up in your mind. But i was thinking, as there are hundreds, what are the best, and why? So this is where this post comes in, Listing, from 10 downwards, what i believe to be the greatest christmas songs of all time. Im also linking them on youtube incase you want to listen. Well, lets begin……
Number 10 – All i want for Christmas is you Mariah Carey
Released in 1994, this is the most recent festive song to enter my list, but nonetheless is still a classic. I can understand why many people will disgree with where i have placed this as it constantly gets the number 1 spot on many music channels, but it personally just doesn’t ‘do it’ for me. I have never felt a personal connection to this song. Having said that, its still good and the lyrics make you feel rather warm and festive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5bo4VDEH-U&feature=related
Number 9 – Last Christmas Wham
This song is overplayed every year to the extent that you could quickly flick through radio stations and hear it playing on most of them in December. However, a christmas song is immune to the laws of ‘overkill’ which quickly makes me dislike so many normal songs. This is a quality song which always starts my period of feeling christmasy but i have never been the biggest fan of it as at the end of the day, it is just about someone whos extremely whingy, but recently it really is growing on me. The music video is also one of the best with christmas songs, its not just them being filmed singing, but telling the story of the lyrics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI&ob=av3e
Number 8 – It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby, an absolute legend when it comes to christmas songs. If a song stays popular year after year for more than 60 years, then you know it must be good. The song didn’t actually originate with him, but its his version we all know and love. Absolute classic, many television adverts use this song and rightly so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcZAwoip5aY
Number 7 – Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Dean Martin
I’ve had to debate this one, as i also would of liked Paul McCartneys ‘Wonderful christmastime’ to of made the cut, being a big beatles fan and everything, but to leave this song out of the top ten list would have been tragic. Its incredible that a song released in 1945 is still considered this highly. But it rightly deserves its survival of the test of time. Living in Britain, i know how ‘dreadful’ the weather outside is during this time of year. Makes you happy to be warm inside, and sad for the ones who are not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7LW0Y00kE
Number 6 – I wish it could be Christmas everyday Wizzard
This song reminds me of the twilight hours of christmas day during the 90’s over at my aunts house. By twilight i mean, not opening presents and not eating. I have a solid memory of this being on tv all the time in the living room and it always makes me smile as i miss those days of being a kid and having a magical(but always disasterous) christmas days. On a serious note, i do not wish it was christmas everyday, it would make it less special and make me bankrupt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoxQ4Ul_DME&ob=av3e
Number 5 – Do they know its Christmas? Band Aid
With Bono, George Michael, Paul McCartney and Phil Collins coming together on a song, this was always going to make the top 10. A thought provoking, emotional song, that makes you think of how lucky you are and to not take things for granted, which is what christmas really is about, showing your friends and family your appreciation. Sung for a good cause and stopped Whams last christmas from the christmas number spot in 1984 ( not that George Michael cared). Need i say more…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5cX_ncZLls
Number 4 – Merry Christmas Everybody Slade
Everything about this song defines the 70’s. A Christmas song from a rock band, that is not entirely lame is an achievment in itself. Its hard to talk about this song without mentioning the famous ‘ITTTTSSSS CHRISTMASSS’ near the end, that always gets the message across of the time of year and how good Christmas is. Even if it does sound a little annoying. This song however, reminds me of being a child again on christmas day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG4BPNvayWo&feature=related
Number 3 – White Christmas Bing Crosby
Yet again by the one and only Bing Crosby and deemed one of, if not the, biggest selling single of all time, it shows the never ending love for christmas, and the life lasting memories they produce. ‘Just like the ones i use to know’ really makes you think back to the heart wrenching memories of Christmas at home. And it may also of started the ‘will it…wont it’ tradition of there being snow on Christmas day, which, unfortunely where i live, is very unlikely. It is also from what many ‘modern’ traditions on Christmas in American and Western Europe stem from. Well Done Bing…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXcNfA4qebQ
Number 2 – Happy Xmas (War Is Over) John Lennon and Yoko Ono
From one of the best Artists of all time, and certainly the best beatle, This song has deeper meanings than Christmas. More of a war protest than a Christmas song, during the infamous Vietnam War. Its message still stands as long as war remains, with a lengthy war still ongoing in afghanistan, and many more wars in other countries its only natural at this time of year to think of them in an awful situation, and hope that the year ahead, is a peaceful one. NOTE: if watching my link for this song, the video is modern and quite shocking images of war in the 21st century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN4Uu0OlmTg&feature=related
Number 1 – Fairytale of Newyork The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl
Well, here we are at last, number 1 Christmas song of all time. Im sure its no suprise to any of you that Fairytale of Newyork got the top spot. About people down on their luck, and reminiscing about lost love and wasted opportunities, no other song applies so much to the ‘regular joes’ of society. A warm song that lifts the spirits of people looking at the bottom of a glass on Christmas day, it also has its amusing moments including the use of the word faggot. The Pogues truly hit christmas gold with this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q&feature=related
Thank you if you have taken the time to read this, do you agree with my list? If not, why not?, What would you of chose insted? Also as this is my first post on my first ever blog, any constructive critiscism would be more than welcome.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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