How do you feel about Christmas music? I like it (don’t love it-couldn’t listen to it for more than one month out of the year) but my girls love it! And so, for roughly 25 days, we hear a lot of the same songs over and over and over (and over).
And so, in the spirit of the season, here are my top ten Christmas song faves:
- Mary’s Boy Child (which is not played nearly enough on the radio!)
- Feliz Navidad (my siblings and I have a gift exchange each year and we have named the yearly event “Feliz” because of the song).
- Merry Cherry Christmas (a lesser-known Neil Diamond Christmas song that my younger loves. I always wonder, what is a Cherry Christmas anyways?)
- It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (When my older was just about two, this song was playing on the radio and after Andy William sings, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year” I hear a little voice say “It really IS the most wonderful time of the year”)
- Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Can I be a child of the 80s and not love this song? Best line, of course, is when Bono sings “Well tonight thank God it’s them instead of you.”
- Christmastime by Smashing Pumpkins (my sister-in-law put together put together a Christmas CD and this was on it-first time I had heard it. We listen to the CD when we bake cookies, so this reminds me of cookie baking).
- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (I know you are surprised a U2 song didn’t rank higher on my list.)
- Christmas Cannon (I just think it’s a very pretty song)
- Auld Lang Syne (For years I didn’t really consider this a Christmas song-guess I still really don’t-but I like it and it gets played a lot during the Christmas season)
- Silent Night (Beautiful and sums up the true meaning of the season)
And the worst? That song about the boy who wants to buy his mom Christmas shoes. So depressing!
What are your faves?