What's your favourite Christmas song?

[SoundbiteBarmyArmy]

Paul McCartney's Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time and Shakin' Stevens' Merry Christmas, Everyone have always been mine - absolute classics.

Also, The Power Of Love by Frankie Goes To Hollywood is one of the most underrated songs ever, in my opinion. Goosebumps!

I was never a fan of Wham's Last Christmas, but it has grown on me and is an anthem.

[IDM]

Power of Love isn’t a Christmas song in my opinion - it was just out at Christmas..

I like most of the old classics like Happy Holidays and Santa Baby.. I also chuckle at Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo..

[Monkcaster_Rover]

Fairytale of New York.

Amazes me the amount of people who don't know about Kirsty MacColls demise.

[River Don]

Sliegh bells ringing, white Christmases, its Chriiiistmas! To be honest I get very tired of Christmas songs very quickly these days. Humbug.

If you pushed me I'd say, All I Want For Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit.

[IDM]

Sliegh bells ringing, white Christmases, its Chriiiistmas! To be honest I get very tired of Christmas songs very quickly these days. Humbug.

If you pushed me I'd say, All I Want For Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit.

I dunno RD, the festivities seem to be all over too quickly - for years now (not this year) there’s been no Christmas songs on the radio when I’m driving to Boxing Day footy.

Maybe it’s an age thing, but I don’t like the newer Christmas songs - by which I mean since Mariah Carey, and even then that was probably because of the very short Mrs Santa dress she wore on TOTP..

[River Don]

I didn't know there were new Christmas songs! Genuinely I had no idea.

I don't listen to Radio1, 2 much though or commercial music stations. I'm sure if there was a good new Christmas song I wouldn't be able to avoid it, so I assume there hasn't been a really good one.

A bit surprising really, Christmas songwriters get a windfall every year, so there is a decent incentive to write one.

[ravenrover]

Must be Santa Claus - Bob Dylan, yes really

Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa (Official Video) https://t.co/odjye8Zdje via @YouTube

[Filo]

Fairytale of New York, Kirsty McColl was an awesome singer


Wish it could be Christmas everyday, Roy Wood was awesome in every incarnation he had, The Move, ELO and Wizard

And the one by David Bowie and Bing Crosby, polar opposite singers that made a great song

[Glyn_Wigley]

Sliegh bells ringing, white Christmases, its Chriiiistmas! To be honest I get very tired of Christmas songs very quickly these days. Humbug.

If you pushed me I'd say, All I Want For Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit.

HMHB's 'It's Cliched To Be Cynical At Christmas' is much better for me.

[Axholme Lion]

The theme to the Odessa File. It was called Christmas Dream. It was a cracking film as well. Now i've thought of that I may watch the DVD again this weekend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXNvqeZpJY

[Prez]

Stop the cavalry, by Jona Lewie, just wins for me. I like Greg Lakes i believe in father xmas, but in truth there have been some great xmas songs lots to choose from.

[River Don]

Sliegh bells ringing, white Christmases, its Chriiiistmas! To be honest I get very tired of Christmas songs very quickly these days. Humbug.

If you pushed me I'd say, All I Want For Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit.

HMHB's 'It's Cliched To Be Cynical At Christmas' is much better for me.

I agree it is a better song but I like the lyrics of the Dukla song. Dodgy Scalextric transformers and football kits is so evocative of a childhood Christmas in the 1980s. It still makes me smile.

I actually don't think musically either are really great pop songs, which is why they never bothered the charts. I find though after you've heard a catchy song so many times you know exactly what it is and how it goes and even the lyrics after a second of play that it's a relief to hear something again that's more difficult to remember.

[Muttley]

Fountains of Wayne - I want an alien for Christmas

The Ramones - Merry Xmas (I don't want to fight tonight)

[Janso]

Shakin Stevens' for me, followed by Jona Lewie, Mariah and Band Aid.

[SoundbiteBarmyArmy]

Stop the cavalry, by Jona Lewie, just wins for me. I like Greg Lakes i believe in father xmas, but in truth there have been some great xmas songs lots to choose from.

Yes! Greg Lake - I forgot about that one. Love it. Up there with one of my favourites.

[River Don]

Maybe something cool and soulful?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oswkllz_Lvs

[SoundbiteBarmyArmy]

Really like Gary Glitter's Another Rock and Roll Christmas, too!   

[scawsby steve]

Power of Love isn’t a Christmas song in my opinion - it was just out at Christmas..

I like most of the old classics like Happy Holidays and Santa Baby.. I also chuckle at Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo..

That might have been true initially IDM, but it was certainly a Christmas song according to the video, which featured the Nativity and the visit of the Magi.

[IDM]

Yeah I know..  it’s a bit like that E17 track that keeps getting played as a Christmas song..

[Bentley Bullet]

This is quite a good one, written and performed by a couple of Doncaster lads too!

https://open.spotify.com/track/5pNvrvzMJHtUYY4MsL3aAU

[RobTheRover]

Another jolly one.  Actually, rather bleak and desperate, but Christmas can be like that for many.

Wedding Present - No Christmas

https://youtu.be/xhB6F0kYQsA

[turnbull for england]

My vote https://g.co/kgs/YmGGRF

[RobTheRover]

My vote https://g.co/kgs/YmGGRF

Great cover. I think it was the b-side to No Christmas in the year they released a single every month.

[Not Now Kato]

A couple of our ex players feature in this one....
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AxKgUKUpFc
 

[BillyStubbsTears]

Fairytale of New York wins by a country mile. It is THE all time perfect Xmas song. It gets everything about Xmas right. Fun, raucousness, partying, nostalgia, arguments, hope for the future, melancholy. All in 4 minutes. It's an absolute work of art.