100 Days To Christmas

[Sally71]

Fairytale of New York

At home when I’m in the kitchen I have a playlist running, which is basically everything that all 3 of us have got in our combined music collections, minus my daughter’s famous five books (which we could probably delete now but she won’t let us) and a few boring bits. For some reason the Christmas collection haven’t been taken out so it REALLY annoys my daughter when we get the occasional Christmas song coming up in July It doesn’t annoy me quite so much, although I might take them out the next time I redo the list. The playlist contains over 4500 songs, so if we left it running 24 hours a day it would probably last a couple of weeks Saves me having to spend ages trying to decide what to listen to though!

 

[Leadinglights]

i dont really do xmas As for cards my family and friends know that instead of sending them out , For each card I get I make a donation to a charity instead. This year its the East Angian Air Abulance . Xmas is a time for memorys of those who have gone for me

What an excellent idea for such a worthy cause, it is a charity we support knowing several people who have had their lives saved by the air ambulance being on hand to air lift them to specialist trauma centres.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

They also did Rock And Roll Winter which is on my festive playlist as I think that it qualifies.

Ah that’d have to go in our post-Christmas Winter playlist!

We’ve built lists for each season this year! Some of the contents are hilariously tenuous! And some wintry ones get pushed to the Christmas mix if they have too many twinkly bells

 

[CliffH]

@CliffH @Martin.A @stephenS50

Mary’s Boy Child, Stop the Cavalry, Wombling Merry Christmas, Slade, and Wizzard (sorry Martin) all present and correct.

Nat King Cole’s Christmas song was dropped for outdated reference / slur to Inuit and other artic ethnic minorities (we must look for an updated version by someone else, there’s bound to be one)

Elvis’s Blue Christmas was upgraded only last year to the Muppet ‘Cookie Monster’ version. And I don’t think anyone can argue with that!

Elvis will be spinning (rather sluggishly) in his grave

 

[CliffH]

Nice to see all the Muppet songs on that list. I really can't stand The Little Drummer Boy. Still love Wizzard, back in the 1970s I was quite a fan of Wizzard generally. They also did Rock And Roll Winter which is on my festive playlist as I think that it qualifies.

I liked the 'everything-including-the-kitchen-sink' approach of 'See My Baby Jive' and 'Angel Fingers'. I regret that, in all the years I lived in Wolverhampton, I never went to see Roy Wood at the Robin 2, in nearby Bilston .

 

[CliffH]

Ah that’d have to go in our post-Christmas Winter playlist!

We’ve built lists for each season this year! Some of the contents are hilariously tenuous! And some wintry ones get pushed to the Christmas mix if they have too many twinkly bells

Can you put George Harrison's 'Ding Dong' in your Winter playlist? He tried (unsuccessfully) to write a 'New Year' song that would become a standard, like 'White Christmas' 🙄.

 

[CliffH]

Ah that’d have to go in our post-Christmas Winter playlist!

We’ve built lists for each season this year! Some of the contents are hilariously tenuous! And some wintry ones get pushed to the Christmas mix if they have too many twinkly bells

How many Slade songs are included so far? Please remember that their festive songs include 'My Oh My', 'All Join Hands', 'Do You Believe in Miracles?' and 'Here's To (The New Year)'.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Here you go @CliffH

Emphasis is on snow, snuggling by the fireside, cold, comfy jumpers, and songs that shamelessly feature ‘winter’ in their title/lyrics

 

[CliffH]

Here you go @CliffH

Emphasis is on snow, snuggling by the fireside, cold, comfy jumpers, and songs that shamelessly feature ‘winter’ in their title/lyrics

That reminds me of a song that doesn't reference Christmas (or Winter) specifically and yet tends to be associated with Christmas: 'All Around My Hat' by Steeleye Span.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

'All Around My Hat' by Steeleye Span.

Will give that a listen!

 

[CliffH]

My favourite Xmas song is Mary's Boy Child by Boney M, a traditional carol given a pop makeover. We have it on a CD of Xmas hits. Unfortunately the CD also contains my least favourite - I Wish It Could Be Xmas Every Day by Wizzard.

Xmas-themed pop songs seem to be out of fashion these days. The ones you hear on the radio during the festive season seem to be mostly from the back end of the 20th Century - Wham, Slade, Mudd etc

Yes: we never seem to hear 'In Dulce Jubilo' any more.

 

[CliffH]

Will give that a listen!

You can watch them perform it on 'Crackerjack!'

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

You can watch them perform it on 'Crackerjack!'

It’s Friday… It’s five to five…

 

[CliffH]

It’s Friday… It’s five to five…

Do we need five pages of a separate 'Crackerjack!' thread?

 

[CliffH]

I thought the festive season begins when we first hear Mariah Carey's All I Want For Xmas Is You, especially after it featured in Love Actually.

"I've got a bit of grit in my eye"

 

[Chris Hobson]

I like Mike Oldfield's version of In Dulcie Jubilo. I like the Baroque style ending. Codas hadn't really caught on back then so we would just play until there were no more notes on the page and then just stop. I have an arrangement of the hymn Good Christian Men Rejoice which is mostly the same tune so I have played it on my piano.

Jethro Tull have done lots of good Xmas tunes. Jack Frost And The Hooded Crow, Another Chrismas Song and Ring Out Solstice Bells being some of the most memorable.

 

[Ditto]

In Dulci Jubilo and Pans People on YouTube, now there's jolly!

 

[Satan’s little helper]

Sorry @MikeyBikey , just seen this on Netflix? Some producers thought they would make Santa into a cross between Thor & Rambo. With a reference to “home alone.” I’ve traditionally done Bond on Boxing Day?

 

[MikeyBikey]

Christmas Shop | M&S

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[Satan’s little helper]

Christmas Shop | M&S

Create an extra-special Christmas with M&S, from the perfect dinner to the final finishing bauble on the tree and gifts for the whole family.

www.marksandspencer.com

I still get a Halloween vibe in my locals which includes a demon Santa face mask? But the Christmas non perishables with a use by date of oct 31. Are appearing.