While I'm doing lists:The Best Christmas

[Footstomper]

Films:
Love actually (by a mile)
The Snowman
Songs:
1. Slade:Merry Christmas
2: Pogues: Fairytale of New York
3; ?: Santa Claus is a black man
4: ?: Here come fatty with his sack of shit
5: Wizzard: I wish it could be Christmas every day

My daughter says i should include 'I wish you a wombling merry Christmas'. I disagree, but it deserves a (dis)honourable mention

[northbankbar]

I rate number 4 as my all time favourite christmas song - Toots and the Maytals version wins it for me.

And it really isn't Christmas in my family without gathering round the old joanna for a family rendition of "santa is a black man" - remember Aled Jones singing it on Christmas Songs of Praise a few years back? - pants round his ankles, tears streaming down his face...

[Footstomper]

I rate number 4 as my all time favourite christmas song - Toots and the Maytals version wins it for me.

And it really isn't Christmas in my family without gathering round the old joanna for a family rendition of "santa is a black man" - remember Aled Jones singing it on Christmas Songs of Praise a few years back? - pants round his ankles, tears streaming down his face...

must have been a good few years ago, coz it was about 15 years ago he threw me out of the bar at ucl

[northbankbar]

was that during his fat welsh bouncer years?

[Footstomper]

No. It was definately during his lean and mean 'I'm a seriously hard welsh git and head of the student union, you bastard' years. Sounding like the worlds favourite castrati for most of your teenage years does not lead to a placid temperament. But I'd love to see him sing Santa claus is a black man

[northbankbar]

sounds like it actually happened - did he really escort you out of a student bar? He's got 2 feathers to his bow then.

[pething101]

Films:
Love actually (by a mile)


The wife and I's Christmas Eve tradition, Love Actually and Chinese Takeout.

[Footstomper]

sounds like it actually happened - did he really escort you out of a student bar? He's got 2 feathers to his bow then.

No. He threw me out. Note the words 'seriously hard'.

[norwaytips]

I do like the irish kisses (pogues) fairy tale of new york. I also like John Denver's Please Daddy don't get drunk this Christmas and best of all....The Berverly sisters singing 'The Little Drummer Boy' Lovely song and a version that has never been bettered.:D

I am also a little pissed.....Red wine and Whisky.

Film? Snowman.

Poem? That 'twas the night before Christmas and all through the house thing.

Carol? The Holly and the Ivy.

[Footstomper]

I do like the irish kisses (pogues) fairy tale of new york. I also like John Denver's Please Daddy don't get drunk this Christmas and best of all....The Berverly sisters singing 'The Little Drummer Boy' Lovely song and a version that has never been bettered.:D

I am also a little pissed.....Red wine and Whisky.

Film? Snowman.

Poem? That 'twas the night before Christmas and all through the house thing.

Carol? The Holly and the Ivy.

'I am also a little pissed'
Me an all; very satisfactory. 15 year old Glenlivet, I'm a fussy bugger!
We're all missing the real song. Steeleyed Spam. Whats the damn thing called? its in latin!

Gaudete!
Gaudete!
guadete christus est natus
ex Maria virgine
Gaudete!

they dont write them like that anymore.

[Footstomper]

The worst? David Bowie duet with the late Bing Crosby on 'drummer boy'

[northbankbar]

ba rumpapum more coke please ange

i like the childs christmas in wales - dylan thomas?
and "little donkey"

[norwaytips]

'I am also a little pissed'
Me an all; very satisfactory. 15 year old Glenlivet, I'm a fussy bugger!
We're all missing the real song. Steeleyed Spam. Whats the damn thing called? its in latin!

Gaudete!
Gaudete!
guadete christus est natus
ex Maria virgine
Gaudete!

they dont write them like that anymore.

Not my whisky Stomps. I prefer McAllan, Dalwinnie,or a single speyside malt.

As for the Steeleye song. Yep, it was a goodun and Maddy will kill me when, and if, she finds out that I forgot her.:o
I once , no twice, played with Steeleye Span. In the UK (a pub in Hertfordshire)and in Sweden, when Tim Hart was sick and I stood in for him. Rythm guitar and vocals, with Rick Kemp, the bass player, standing behind me and whispering the chords out of the corner of his mouth. 'Oh, up and come, come along with me...Thomas the rhymer' and 'All around my hat, I will wear a green willow' Nobody noticed that there was a stand in. :cool:

[Footstomper]

I'd love to know how one busks an acapella song in 7/8 time, in latin.

[norwaytips]

Counting to eight isn't difficult Stomps. Even in Latin:D

[Footstomper]

Counting to eight isn't difficult Stomps. Even in Latin:D

True. Its the stopping at seven I find difficult:rolleyes:

[norwaytips]

True. Its the stopping at seven I find difficult:rolleyes:

Well.........When you are singing, you find that you have run out of words. When playing? Just play when you are singing. There, cracked it. :p

[hasselbrad]

As much as my avatar says Love Actually, I'd have to go with A Christmas Story. It's just not Christmas without it.

"Be sure...to drink...your Ovaltine...
...Ovaltine?
A crummy commercial?


Sonofabitch!"