tolerable Christmas songs

[Maude]

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1507313781' post='3384756']
Just out of interest, have any decent Christmas songs been written in the last 20yrs?
[/quote]

The Darkness?

[fretmeister]

Buble version of White Christmas is fun to play.

Fairytale of New York.

[taunton-hobbit]

Sorry about post 21 - I misread the thread title -
as 'terrible Christmas songs'..........

[Bassassin]

Here's a cracker for the old folks' home:

[media]http://youtu.be/C-CUSIK7-Gs[/media]

[lowdown]

[quote name='kendall' timestamp='1507280984' post='3384414']
This.... the best Christmas Number One that never was.

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH2umxtA_sc"]https://www.youtube....h?v=wH2umxtA_sc[/url]
[/quote]

Ahhh, bless 'em...

Edited October 6, 2017 by lowdown

[LeftyP]

Joni Mitchell's "River" is a great song. Whisper it quietly but Barry Manilow does a pretty good version of it too!

[Thunderbird]

All Xmas songs are tacky and crap imo

[tauzero]

Spaceman came travelling by Chris De Burgh. There's a quite impressive version by Celtic Woman on Youtube.

[pete.young]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR4a5GSgK34

[KevB]

Greg Lake's xmas song is excellent. Saw Mostly Autumn do a belting version of it a year or two ago.

[Spoombung]

'Driving home for Christmas' is a lovely song.

[lowdown]

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1507400344' post='3385270']
Greg Lake's xmas song is excellent. Saw Mostly Autumn do a belting version of it a year or two ago.
[/quote]
[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1507400673' post='3385272']
'Driving home for Christmas' is a lovely song.
[/quote]

Agreed, nothing wrong with these two, especially compared to that drivel above from "The Showcase Showdown". ..... (IMO of course).

Edited October 7, 2017 by lowdown

[Hamster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVXp4NGRRlI

The Greedies!

[Freddy Le Cragg]

I wrote my own

[stingrayPete1977]

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1507326222' post='3384860']
Xmas is tacky and crap imo
[/quote]

[taunton-hobbit]

Actually, after listening to that Snowman thing,
Mustang Santa ain't that bad an idea..........

[MattM]

Only if you’re North of the border and drink has been taken...

http://youtu.be/vkpOfHW75ck

[BobVbass]

Duh! Wombling Merry Xmas of course!

[ead]

I saw Panic Room do a version of Enter Sandman re titled as Enter Santa that was very entertaining. This was a few years ago but not heard them do it since.

[jacko]

Just been listening to Kate Rusby's second xmas album 'Sweet Bells' and I will happily listen to it several more times

[alyctes]

Thanks all - some useful suggestions there, much appreciated. Now to convince the others...

[Phil Starr]

Slade, it does have a good bass line, genuinely fin to play IMO.

[dmccombe7]

[quote name='T-Bay' timestamp='1507271152' post='3384326']
The slade and wizzard classics are a laugh to play and will get any crowd going (well possibly apart from one at a retirement home, but short of a wheelbarrow full of amphetamine it may be a struggle).
[/quote]

Yep love hearing those at Xmas.

[12stringbassist]

XTC

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DBJRSMP8Uw[/media]

Edited November 5, 2017 by 12stringbassist

[12stringbassist]

The Waitresses
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzjDOk_u9I[/media]