[John_D]

Christmas playlists (a Cliff-free zone) : Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:54 pm  

Come on then, let's have yours. No Wizzard, no Slade and definitely no Cliff. Here's mine

Come on then, let's have yours. No Wizzard, no Slade and definitely no Cliff. Here's mine

Re: Christmas playlists (a Cliff-free zone) : Wed Dec 19, 2012 2:34 pm  

Good list of songs there, i will check the couple I've not heard before when I get home

Culturcide - Santa Claus was my Lover
Gruff Rhys - Post Apocalypse Christmas
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis

Sorry there all mainly jokey songs but thats what christmas is about isn't it?

[John_D]

Re: Christmas playlists (a Cliff-free zone) : Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:45 am  

I missed off Malcolm Middleton's We're All Gonna Die, but that's probably not appropriate for a hospital radio audience...

Then there are the great christmas number 1s: Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind, Human League - Don't You Want Me and The Scaffold - Lily The Pink

[Durham Giant]

Re: Christmas playlists (a Cliff-free zone) : Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:50 am  

Gaudete - Steeleye Span ( a nice bit of Latin. That is what an All Saints education in the 70s does for you).

Fairytale of New York - Pogues favourite band of all time captures that bitter sweet element of relatonships

Mediaeval Baebes - Adam Lay Ibounden a nice bit of middle English with a great Beat

I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake i love the start with the music ( Bells) from Lieutenant Kije.

Christmas Wrapping- The Waitresses. A nice song about the loneliness of christmas with a happy ending.

Silent Night. The definitive Hymn for Christmas. So atmospheric partcularly in a candle lit church.

[John_D]

Re: Christmas playlists (a Cliff-free zone) : Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:09 am  

Durham Giant wrote:

Silent Night. The definitive Hymn for Christmas. So atmospheric partcularly in a candle lit church.

The Tom Waits version, I presume?

And good shout on Gaudete

Re: Christmas playlists (a Cliff-free zone) : Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:56 pm  

John_D wrote:

The Tom Waits version, I presume?

And good shout on Gaudete

Hasn't Sir Christopher Lee just done Silent Night too ?

[John_D]

Re: Christmas playlists (a Cliff-free zone) : Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:09 pm  

Dead Man Walking wrote:

Hasn't Sir Christopher Lee just done Silent Night too ?

He has. And it is AWESOME

Re: Christmas playlists (a Cliff-free zone) : Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:34 pm  

John_D wrote:

He has. And it is AWESOME

I'll have to listen to it when I have the time.

Re: Christmas playlists (a Cliff-free zone) : Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:22 pm  

I Want An Alien For Christmas - Fountains Of Wayne

Re: Christmas playlists (a Cliff-free zone) : Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:03 pm  

John_D wrote:

The Tom Waits version, I presume?

And good shout on Gaudete

Spiritualised have done a cracking version of it also.

Glad you included "last of the melting snow" in your list. My favorite yuletide song by a long stretch.