Christmas songs that aren't shit...

hollywoodrox

Bionic Santa 76 Virtually uncoverable but clever worth a watch  it was so popular on the jukebox 
  Twiggy had a huge hit 

https://youtu.be/7Woe3bjgrNM?si=h-CtCPgyvbP6u3Hx

Whitecat

Ooh thought of another tenuous one -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96GCrZec5u8

barnstorm

Won't be any use to @Gulliver unless he's in fact a millennial girl, and it's not very cheery, either, but this brand new one is well crafted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1di9lh38IfU

KKJale

For a spot of truly joyous cheese, here's the first in what became a long Letterman tradition - the fabulous Darlene Love with Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Note house band having the time of their lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCC64Q07CQA

PolarityMan

digitalkettle said:

PolarityMan said:

If by "not shit" you mean featuring vikings and robot jesus then absolutely. I suggest you start with...

Awesome commentage: "Best 5/4 section about a snowman..."

the highest of all accolades in prog. dream theater can do one!

MartinBush

This one and this one only:

Christmastide - YouTube 

but this as well:

X-Mas At Bob's - YouTube

hollywoodrox

https://youtu.be/EM2Fnp_qnE8?si=wIgFLC-Dl_aE2fkZ

I reckon this could be covered well even in a lower key 

Shrews

KKJale said:

For a spot of truly joyous cheese, here's the first in what became a long Letterman tradition - the fabulous Darlene Love with Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Note house band having the time of their lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCC64Q07CQA

Great song, great performance, and yeah the house band loving it!

icu81b4

Rocker said:

icu81b4 said:

Silent Night on Acoustic 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=62Z6tPKzw_k&si=OAna2dU-gvTSKd3Q

When I suggested Silent Night, this kind of interpretation was exactly what NOT to play.  Sing it accompanied by simple finger style chords, the simpler the better.

Hmm, I quite like it, but then again that’s me playing it. 

Eljo Haselhoff does a lot of Xmas tunes, this is one of his simpler ones. 

Teyeplayer

Might upset the odd member of the audience, nothing like bringing a little punk attitude (song couldn’t be less punk btw).
Jesus the reindeer:  https://youtu.be/yjzbtUcI2Nc?feature=shared

RocknRollDave

I think starting from the hugely erroneous claim of ‘most Christmas songs are s***’ is your biggest problem.

chickenbonejohn

Not worked out the chords yet, but the seasonal sentiment is just right.

Mattharrier

KKJale said:

For a spot of truly joyous cheese, here's the first in what became a long Letterman tradition - the fabulous Darlene Love with Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Note house band having the time of their lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCC64Q07CQA

It's a belter of a tune, and Darlene Love is a consummate professional and a fabulous performer. Possibly my favourite Christmas song, and unlike Ebenezer Grinch the OP (just kidding), I don't think that Christmas music is almost all shit. I love it, and while it's great to find new festive songs that are good (A Little Bit Of Christmas by Juliet Brown is this year's discovery), it's the classics that always feature most heavily.

RocknRollDave

Mattharrier said:

KKJale said:

For a spot of truly joyous cheese, here's the first in what became a long Letterman tradition - the fabulous Darlene Love with Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Note house band having the time of their lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCC64Q07CQA

It's a belter of a tune, and Darlene Love is a consummate professional and a fabulous performer. Possibly my favourite Christmas song, and unlike Ebenezer Grinch the OP (just kidding), I don't think that Christmas music is almost all shit. I love it, and while it's great to find new festive songs that are good (A Little Bit Of Christmas by Juliet Brown is this year's discovery), it's the classics that always feature most heavily.

Possibly my favourite Christmas song…Sacrilegious, but I actually prefer the U2 version…

Kurtis

Christmas songs are meant to be shit.

Taking it too seriously is maybe more shit? 

Jeremiah

How about this?

The only Christmas song I'll willingly listen to.

jpfamps

dcg said:

Charles Brown: Merry Christmas Baby... great song IMHO, with fab Johnny Moore guitar. 'Well, I haven't had a drink this morning, but I'm all lit up like a Christmas tree...'

We do this at any gigs we do in December.

jpfamps

hollywoodrox

jpfamps said:

I think I have a version of this by Bon jovi 

wesker123

Julian Casablancas - I wish it was Christmas today