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[nautilus]

Well I have the carols playing...

I love..

Oh Holy Night
"O' Holy night, the stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Savior's birth..."


Hark The Herald angels sing
Hark the herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!....



And talking of pop songs..the classic has to be..

Last Christmas (Wham/George Michael).
- Kind of funny to be teaching that to my junior kids last week. Selected by my co-teacher haha.

[fadedgirl]

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

[tzechuk]

Oh Holy Night is definitely my all time favourite - better sung in French, though!

[nautilus]

[PimpofKorea]

Jingle Balls....a nice little ditty if I do say so myself

[JongnoGuru]

The old favourites are my personal favourites too. White Christmas, Silent Night, I don't care for modern pop Christmas songs at all, stuff like "Last Christmas", because I can't get over how gratuitous (esp. from a group like Wham!) and fake and shopping-mall plasticy they sound. Another one that we sadly can't seem to get through the holidays without hearing is "Jingle Bell Rock" sung by large groups of school children, going at a slower tempo. Gosh it's grim stuff. Now I'm sure if you're a teacher or a parent of one of those kids up there on the stage belting out that mouldy oldie, then you probably love it. But understand that the rest of humanity is leaping for the remote before they get off the second "Jingle Bell...". Sung solo, it's almost bearable.

[philthy]

"White Christmas" by Bing Crosby is my fave.

[peppermint]

Modern stuff- not so much. Lots of jazz and Boris Karloff singing "you're a mean one Mr. Grinch

[Sleepy in Seoul]

Silent Night is my favourite. Especially the version sung by Enya in Irish "Oiche Chiuin".

[oneofthesarahs]

[gypsyfish]

White Christmas and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Here's an interesting link to an article about the second song.

http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1569872_4_0_,00.html

I'm a 'have to muddle through somehow' person.

[SarcasmKills]

New Kids got ran over by a reindeer.

[JongnoGuru]

I know I represent the majority of mankind when I say I'd much rather hear that talented dog barking Jingle Bells than a stage full of school children singing Jingle Bell Rock.

I also feel that an end date should be applied to Christmas songs, a year beyond which no new songs can be added to the canon. I think this year should be the one right after Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer was released.

Some have mentioned TV show Christmas songs -- Frosty The Snowman and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. These cannot be included, I'm afraid. In the case of the former, what's the deal? Kids build a snowman in winter, and it melts when the weather warms up. So? There's no moral lesson to be learnt, is there? Oh, so Frosty comes to life, or so the kids think. Well, they're probably just hallucinating. Long exposure to extreme cold can do that. So can good drugs. Rudolf went down in history. Frosty and his little friends are going down to the Busan Police Station for drug tests.

The Grinch... oh, what a wicked, evil, atheistic (or paganist... hmm) can of pro-druggie, bolshevik, mind-controlly worms that programme is. Who is not aware of the powerful, malevolent currents that run beneath the surface of that story of a fairytale-like fully functioning Socialist State called Whoville?? Children!! That's who!! And that's precisely why the socialist author was under investigation by the FBI on suspicion of being a dirty communist sympathiser. No. Bloody. Way. Are any of those songs going on the list of Guru-approved Christmas songs.

[smogdonkey]

The Christmas Song, by Nat King Cole, never seems to get old. It's probably been ingrained in my head by some childhood experience or something, because I have an abnormal obsession with it this time of year.

[peppermint]