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What your favourite Chrimbler song?


Barry Sanchez

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Without a shade of doubt, if you are of a certain age I guess.

 

The Pogues & Kirsty McColl in 2nd place,

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q&feature=player_detailpage

 

and John Lennon with Happy Xmas (War is over)

 

 

 

Edit - how come everybody else gets a screen shot straight away and I just get a url?

Please bear in mind you are dealing with a comp novice so don't make it geeky.

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Driving home for christmas ... love the song

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Chris Rea ... hate the guy

 

Not a bad song, but thinking about Chris Rea, I heard him being interviewed on the radio after some massive operation he'd had. That gruff, growly singing voice disappears when he's talking, and he sounds exactly like Johnny Vegas, in fact when I switched the radio on I thought it was Johnny Vegas and wondered why he was talking about his new blues album.

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This debate comes along every year and I maintain that Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin' Stevens is the ultimate Christmas song. It's cheesy, it's fun, it's upbeat and it's about Christmas. It's hard not to like it.

 

My wife's favourite is Jona Lewie, Stop The Cavalry.

 

Our favourite as a couple is It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Andy Williams. We have a good dance around the lounge whenever we hear that. :blush:

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This debate comes along every year and I maintain that Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin' Stevens is the ultimate Christmas song. It's cheesy, it's fun, it's upbeat and it's about Christmas. It's hard not to like it.

 

My wife's favourite is Jona Lewie, Stop The Cavalry.

 

Our favourite as a couple is It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Andy Williams. We have a good dance around the lounge whenever we hear that. :blush:

 

Shaky does the business in that song. It's really hard not to like. I'm with you. And it's better than all those 70s glam Christmas hits.

 

My personal fave is Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses. Dumb fun. Or Nat King Cole doing The Christmas song. Pure class.

 

Isn't it a bit dull everyone saying the Pogues and Kirsty these days? We know already.

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This debate comes along every year and I maintain that Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin' Stevens is the ultimate Christmas song. It's cheesy, it's fun, it's upbeat and it's about Christmas. It's hard not to like it.

 

My wife's favourite is Jona Lewie, Stop The Cavalry.

 

Our favourite as a couple is It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Andy Williams. We have a good dance around the lounge whenever we hear that. :blush:

 

you cant argue with that 1980 if I remember correctly

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Shaky does the business in that song. It's really hard not to like. I'm with you. And it's better than all those 70s glam Christmas hits.

 

My personal fave is Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses. Dumb fun. Or Nat King Cole doing The Christmas song. Pure class.

 

 

 

Isn't it a bit dull everyone saying the Pogues and Kirsty these days? We know already.

 

 

 

 

Ah the Welsh Elvis, his skin tights and slip ons rounded off with a ****e jumper and white socks

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This debate comes along every year and I maintain that Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin' Stevens is the ultimate Christmas song. It's cheesy, it's fun, it's upbeat and it's about Christmas. It's hard not to like it.

 

My wife's favourite is Jona Lewie, Stop The Cavalry.

 

Our favourite as a couple is It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Andy Williams. We have a good dance around the lounge whenever we hear that. :blush:

 

Your wife has good taste, one of my favourites too. Shaky is good too.

 

"I believe in Father Christmas" by Greg Lake and "Don't let the bells end" by The Darkness are 2 more I like.

 

I think we can conclude though that The Pogues trump the lot.

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Y"Don't let the bells end" by The Darkness

 

Missed opportunity in my opinion. It was a good idea to get "bellend" in a Christmas song but he should have took it further and made it more ambiguous if he is actually singing bout Christmas or bout his knob. The rest of the lyrics is unarguably Christmas which ruins the whole joke! I might rewrite the lyrics tho and get Ben Goddards to record cover version. We could release it as Saintsweb charity single!

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Da f**k is Chrimbler?

 

Housemartins - I Smell Winter

 

Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

 

The Housemartins is not essentially a Christmas track but it has got Winter in the title. It also makes no reference to the festive period. I also really like Greg Lake's -I Believe in Father Christmas, even though I know he's not real.

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When you are so far away from friends and family, it's Drivin home for Christmas

 

A Spaceman came travelling is a classic favourite as is Greg Lake.

 

The first time you hear Slade - ah Christmas is coming, trouble is hearing it from 2 or 3 months non stop gets a bit wearying.

 

And then of course Billy Mack. Christmas is all around me.....

 

Always raises a smile

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Vl2vX229e1A

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When you are so far away from friends and family, it's Drivin home for Christmas

 

A Spaceman came travelling is a classic favourite as is Greg Lake.

 

The first time you hear Slade - ah Christmas is coming, trouble is hearing it from 2 or 3 months non stop gets a bit wearying.

 

And then of course Billy Mack. Christmas is all around me.....

 

Always raises a smile

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Vl2vX229e1A

 

 

Classic

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I never understand why some tracks are classed as Christmas songs. What exactly has Stay Another Day by East 17 got to do with Christmas? Not a single reference to Christmas or Winter in the whole song. It's a bit tenuous with Stop the Cavalry too, I mean he does mention Christmas once, but it's not about Christmas is it?

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I never understand why some tracks are classed as Christmas songs. What exactly has Stay Another Day by East 17 got to do with Christmas? Not a single reference to Christmas or Winter in the whole song. It's a bit tenuous with Stop the Cavalry too, I mean he does mention Christmas once, but it's not about Christmas is it?

 

The Human League topped the Christmas charts in'81, some songs it seems are not just for Christmas. Also did I miss the meeting where we start calling it Chrimbler? Who the f**k thought that was a good idea?

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I never understand why some tracks are classed as Christmas songs. What exactly has Stay Another Day by East 17 got to do with Christmas? Not a single reference to Christmas or Winter in the whole song. It's a bit tenuous with Stop the Cavalry too, I mean he does mention Christmas once, but it's not about Christmas is it?

 

 

 

E17 song has got bells jingling all over it FFS. And was a Christmas No 1. It is, however, utter sh ite.

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Wouldnt you have to leave some time in November?

 

:lol:

 

Actually not far from the truth if you want to get a Christmas Flight home out of here!

 

 

Probably not my 'favourite' Xmas song but it's up there in the top-5, check out Clarence's vocal and sax, gone but not forgotten.

 

Oh yes.

 

Going back a few years, I staggered into a Karaoke bar down here after the (most of the day) works party (where I met FMDP). We were shredded but decided to sing every Xmas song they had on their books..

 

And we hit Band Aid... Which, TBF is not a bad song. Oh the horror of singing it though "Oh my God NOOOOO I can't be Boy George" followed by "Noooooo you can't let the Drunk b1tch be Bono......"

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Julian, Chrimbler is a far nicer word than Julian, that name sounds like you should be the God of Hairdressers or Leisure suits........................

 

Quite right Barry, I used to be The Arch Drude of Rock n' Roll but now I own a chain of beauty salons in Milton Keynes. We get lots of Barrys you know. You know?

 

Saint Etienne & Tim Burgess - I Was Born on Christmas Day.

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