Christmas music

This sounds crazy but I feel it's like it's for everyone else and not me. A reminder of people being sociable and happy while I feel awkward and anxious.

I wish I had a bigger social battery!

David Essex's A Winter's Tale is curiously undervalued, it never seems to get as much of a spotlight as many other tracks and yet few songs and musical arrangements (that exquisitely mournful oboe? -clarinet?) hit quite that snowy/hearthside melancholy with that kind of effortless precision. That will get a few spins before the25th...

Or... Erasure. Really liked their version. 

This is literally me. I actively despise "All I want for xmas is you" for how often every single Radio Station or Store feels the need to play it. It's so inescapable that I even heard it at the xmas party I was at with work colleagues on Saturday. So many xmas songs are absolutely endemic, and I would love nothing more than for us to make some new songs to enjoy rather than rinsing 20 year songs over and over again.

Love Christmas music, with few exceptions. And I have some Christmassy Doctor Who audios I play every year in the run-up to Christmas Eve, the spiritual/atmospheric  epicentre of the holiday for me, and the musical score in those is wonderful too. 

I love most carols, the vast majority of the old favourite pop songs (especially 1980s ones)  of the season, and so on. And I like a few more obscure ones like Low's Christmas Album and the woozy arrangement of Frosty the Snowman done by Cocteau Twins. Al, part of the heady uniqueness of the season. 

One very particular tradition I have: listening to the nativity part of my old BBC vinyl record (from 1978) of the BBC Watch (programme for Schools) album as I decorate my 40-something year old tree with its equally aged lights and decorations! Analogue bliss as I step back in time with one foot very much still in the present. One more trip around the sun, and into the blissful deep dark of those early nights and magical soft coloured lights. A cosy soundtrack to the cosiest of seasons...

Gaude De Te, either by Steelye Span or the Medieal Babes

I quite like it. I try to avoid it in the shops etc so that I don't get bored of it.

My wife and I will put some of the classics on when we are having our annual party food and decorations day in early December to get us in the mood. I never get bored of John Lennon "Happy Christmas the War is Over", Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime", Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas" and lots of over 70s ones that take me right back to my childhood.

Ooooh thats quite a tough one. In terms of traditional carols, my favourite would be In the Bleak Midwinter. I also like those jazzy Christmas songs such as Most Wonderful Time of the Year.

I like Christmas music. I own too many Christmas cds really.

I don't have a favourite Christmas song, I like too many to have a favourite. One of my favourites is Last Christmas by Wham! I used to wiggle all over the floor when my dad played it when I was a child. I can also remember having to sing it at a school concert when I was 8, which was fun once I got over the initial anxiety.

What's your favourite Christmas song?

Aaah, I see. That's completely ok if you don't like it, and I really appreciate that you were brutally honest. I'm definitely with you on those tiresome Christmas pop tunes. I especially don't need to hear Mariah Carey again. Hahaha xxx

Well, you did ask if we liked it....

No, I hate it. The same old songs every year - raucous pop tunes, over sentimental ballads, boring carols. 

If rather just listen to some soothing classical music at Christmas myself.I

But then I'm a bit Bah, humbug!