is the Killers Cowboy Christmas song the worst Xmas song of all time



It may be a charity single but it is so bad. Is this really the band that did Mr Brightside.

On a positive note i get to hear the 4 best Xmas songs a plenty

Silent Night by Sinead O'Connor
Gaudete by Steeleye Span
Xmas Wraping by the Waitresses
Fairytale of New York by Kirsty McColl and the Pogues

[iWhite Christmas[/i is the granddaddy of seasonal songs.

Band Aid takes the worst song ever. Not only is it an awful song, it lies.

Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie/Bing Crosby is my favourite.

In saying this though it's hardly a classic,like most Xmas songs.

My favourite is another Rock N Roll Christmas by Gary Glitter. Just because he's a paedo it's seen as non pc to play his music any more but I still enjoy it.

One bugbear of mine is why on Christmas LPs you have random songs with nothing to do with Christmas, that were released around Christmas, like that annoying stay another day song by East 17 and that Frankie goes to Hollywood song that goes "ayeayeayeaye feels like fire..."

Mud - Lonley this Christmas, best one.

Power of Love, not a Christmas song but the video is based around the nativity (purely to cash in on Christmas) so it tends to get trotted out by commercial radio and Music channels around this time of year.

Kevin Bloody Wilson,

its not Xmas till ive heard his song

Go to the vid share site that shall remain nameless and search.....
"i'm santa and i know it".... parody of LMFAO i'm sexy and i know it..

Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney is my favourite. It really gets me into the spirit of things

fairytale of new york, Lonely this christmas and Stop the cavalry are probably my top 3.

And the grandmammy must be Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas from the film you mentioned on the other thread about Christmas memories ... Meet Me in St Louis.
I love the song and the lyrics.
But perhaps sung by Sinatra rather than Garland.

Rubbish. Great song. Achieved a huge amount, probably holds a barrel of memories and emotions for anyone around at that time, and is about as intertwined with Christmas as you can get.


Probably because they were released with the Christmas No.1 in mind (East 17 were No.1 in 1994 and FGTH were only beaten to No.1 by Band Aid in 1984), and again, they probably hold memories and emotions for that reason. The FGTH single is a classic of the 80s with a brilliantly cheesy Nativity video (albeit with no connection to the lyrics!) - it brings back loads of memories and feelings for me of Christmases in the 80s with my family, and East 17 is seen similarly by kids of the 90s - my Mrs loves it for the same reasons.

That's what makes a Christmas song for me. Not the musical content, lyrics, chart success or whatever is considered 'cool', but what it means to you personally.

A song doesn't have to be about, or include the word Christmas for is to be a 'Christmas song'.