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Yeah, like a lot of you...I love Mariah Carey's, "All I Want For Christmas Is You." I used to dream about having a boyfriend when I heard that song...now I don't have to anymore. 
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Lets see...my favorite Christmas songs...okay, so this isn't all of them, but here are a few that come to mind: I love Bing Crosby, my favorites being White Christmas, Mele Kalikimaka (the Hawaiian Christmas song), and Christmas in Kilarney Run,Run, Rudolph (not sure who it's by)-- it's just such a fun song!  Santa Baby- the Eartha Kitt rendition Jingle Bell Rock Rockin' around the Christmas Tree Drummer Boy by Jars of Clay My friend has a ska cd that is by a group called Insyderz that I love called ska la la la la and it is really cool... I don't know the names of any of the songs though. Well, there's a lot more I like as I am a sentimental softie and a major sucker for the holidays, but these are the ones that come to mind right now. Marcy EDIT: How could I forget Elvis???? I love Elvis!!! Any Elvis Christmas song works for me.
(Elrond's blessing at the departure of the company from Rivendell)
"Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.
May the stars shine upon your faces!"
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Wish I had time to add my own list! That I don't seems a tad ironic really. But I see that a few of my own favourites have been listed already, so just off the top of my head, quickly: Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You Winter Wonderland Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (always reminds me of Die Hard <G>) Anything remotely Christmassy by Nat King Cole. You just gotta love the voice. The Christmas Song, especially. Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt (just love that sultry, teasing rendition) Have Yourself... - The Pretenders Bing Crosby's White Christmas <snuffle> Theme from The Snowman (Walking In the Air) Jingle Bell Rock I hadn't heard Grown Up Christmas List until I played Diane's MV the other week, but I love it, too. Rocking Around The Christmas Tree - although I've never managed to get beyond the Kim Wilde/Mel Smith comedy version that was done for one of our telethons, since I heard that version.  And, Sara, I'm so with you on Fairytale of New York. It just doesn't seem like the holiday season without it. In fact - going to go play it now. I just love the melody on it and: And the boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing Galway Bay
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas Day Never fails to get me right...here. (In the words of Fraiser Crane, "I'm pointing to my chest now." ) Since the untimely and tragic death of Kirsty MacColl, it's become even more poignant to listen to. But I still don't feel Christmassy without it. There must be a ton more... LabRat 
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I have another to add to my list... I heard Winter Wonderland by Annie Lennox. I LOVE that version! 
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I've another to add, too. How could I have forgotten Slade's Merry Christmas Everyone! A classic. LabRat (who's just spent a fun afternoon with LimeWire, compiling a Christmas song list.  )
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How could I have forgotten Slade's Merry Christmas Everyone! Rat, I have only one word for you: ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But how about Wham's 'Last Christmas'? Always gets my toes tapping. Yvonne (feeling very mellow, having made mince pies, wrapped Christmas presents, and listened to Christmas carols all afternoon )
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LOL. Yes, it's terribly tacky, but still a classic. And, yes, Last Christmas is also on my playlist. I know it seems to irritate lots of people, but I always liked it. LabRat (who also spent her afternoon offsetting the horror of Christmas card writing with Christmas music.)
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people here like anuna! people here like anuna! people here like anuna! people here like anuna! people here like anuna! people here like anuna! *pant* *pant* *pant* not that i'm excited about that or anything, but I sure could keep a thread going all by myself! wheeee! i posted a message in the whining about christmas topic that should probably go here--sorry. didn't know this one existed until now.  oh yes! and muppets too! wheee! i like this crowd! wheeeee!
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LOL. Yes, it's terribly tacky, but still a classic. Ahem.<embarrassed cough> Course, it was only earlier this evening that I suddenly realised I was talking about Wizzard's I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day. Well, I was close! LabRat
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Yes!!!!!!! Anúna is *awesome*! They do so many *awesome* songs . . . Winter, Fire and Snow is a lovely Christmastime one, and I like their Gaudete as well. And they do one of the best versions of Coventry Carol that I've ever heard--I wrote out the music for it once--SSAA. (Psst--get on the IRC channel sometime so we can discuss our favorite Anúna songs. )
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Originally posted by Doranwen: (Psst--get on the IRC channel sometime so we can discuss our favorite Anúna songs. ) I WOULD LOVE TO!!!!!! (bowls Doranwen over quite inadvertently) oh! Terribly sorry! (picks Doranwen up and brushes her off [right?]) but the way my computer reacts to New Things, you'd think it's an old dog. I was weak the other day and tried to view one of the many videos on this web site. it locked my computer up so badly I actually had to go over to the wall and unplug it. yeah. that was the only way I could get any response out of it. I just had julie S help me resize a picture for an avatar. it took me 10 minutes of work to figure out how to separate the picture from the message in my non-standard email program, and then when I uploaded it to my pic-pile account in order to link it in, pic-pile auto-tragically resized julie's perfect lil 100 X 100-pixel creation into...160 by 160 pixels. grrr..... I'm betting if I tried IRC, my computer would start smoking.  and double grrrr... favorites: cynara i think is the fav album, by narrow margins! igitur servus, riu riu, incandations, amarque cum scuto, cynara, fuigfidh Mise'n Baile Seo, victimae, christus 2000, pie jesu. Invocation: Eiri N greine the last rose, hin barra, heia viri, song of Oisin, quis est deus. Omnis: gaudete, codail a linbh, beati quorum via (big soft spot for this one---my original favorite), st nicholas (my joannie (sister's) favrit!), geantrai (which goes through my head for days at a crack), dulaman, maria matrem virginem, ave generosa/o viridissima, salve rex gloriae, suantrai, bean phaidin/an poc ar buile, jerusalem, fionnghuala, si do mhaimeo i. Deep Dead Blue: Deep dead blue (This. Is. Bruce. Wayne's. Song.) nobilis humilis, dicant nunc, the green laurel, island, the fisher king, kyrie, when i was in my prime. hm.....did i get everybody?......feel like i missed someone.... oh, baby, i could go on non-stop. if there's one here I didn't put in (like winter, fire, and snow) it means that I am merely madly in love with it instead of leaping into bed with it. oo! oooooo! Behind the closed eye! only reason I missed it was cause it's currently in my cd player! (runs to go get the booklet) LICK THE SPEAKERS ON AUGUST. TESTOSTERONE ON A STICK, ANYONE?  the great wood (fabulous boogie music!), from nowhere to nowhere (just based on sound, another bruce wayne piece), gathering mushrooms (o my! the words!  )
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iiii'm sorry, i seem to have shocked this topic into a standstill. I guess it *is* my specialty... ok, keep it moving! any other fav'rit christmas ones out there? i'm curious---no one else besides me has mentioned the winter solstic series. what are they up to now, 28 or something? i've only got a couple of 'em, but i like 'em.
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iiii'm sorry, i seem to have shocked this topic into a standstill. I guess it *is* my specialty... LOL. Actually, I think it just died a natural death. LabRat
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well white Christmas by Bing was always my favorite but lately the drummer Boy by David Bowie and Bing together really gets me misty. Laura
Clark: “If we can be born in an instant, and die in an instant, why can’t we fall in love in an instant?”
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Another one to add to the list: "Christmas In The Northwest." It sums up Christmas here in the Pacific Northwest!
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Did I mention Elvis? I love "Blue Christmas"...I loved Elvis before LnC but it was one of the reasons I loved their Perry White. How could you not love a diehard Elvis fan? Okay, don't answer that if you don't like him. And also, the Beatles. My family has a tradition of playing "Twist and Shout" at their New Year's Party pretty quickly after Midnight. Not sure why. But Beatles, to me, just go with the holidays.  Marcy
(Elrond's blessing at the departure of the company from Rivendell)
"Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.
May the stars shine upon your faces!"
-Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Definetely "Last Christmas"!! ...and Merry Christmas to everyone! 
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I love "Christmas Carol" and "Three Little Pennies" and "A New Kid in Town" and "Christmas Shoes" and "A Soldier's King" and "Kentucky Homemade Christmas" and "A Christmas to Remember" and I really loved Conway Twitty's Christmas album when I was a child and still like it now. I just really like Christmas music.
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I love the Christmas messages the Beatles used to leave for their fans. I wish I was alive during that time, that's for sure! Another song to add to my list is Wynonna's version of "Blue Christmas." I also love the soundtrack to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer! I used to wear out the record I had of that as a kid. I can also still sing to the songs to this day.
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Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree -the version from the Home Alone soundtrack! I want a Hippomanamus for Christmas. There is a Christmas song I like but I have no idea who sings it or the name. . . it's a big band/swinging type of sound. She just belts it out! I love it. Adam Sandler - Hanukkah Song Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
-the version from the Home Alone soundtrack! Me too. Something by the Pogues. I can't think. . . .
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