VoicesinJapan have your say What are some of your favorite Christmas songs or carols? Dec. 20, 2022 06:00 am JST Dec. 20, 2022 | 07:00 am JST 22 Comments ©2023 GPlusMedia Inc. Get the Perfect Car Loan in Japan! No permanent residency needed. Complete your easy loan application with Suruga Bank online. Learn More Teach English in Japan Join the leaders of English Education for Children in Japan! Apply Now Sort by Oldest Latest Popular 22 Comments Login to comment Aly Rustom Dec. 20, 2022 08:00 am JST Grandma got run over by a reindeer- by Elmo and Patsy 2 ( +5 / -3 ) Toshihiro Dec. 20, 2022 09:17 am JST let it snow 5 ( +6 / -1 ) Derek Grebe Dec. 20, 2022 09:58 am JST Adeste Fideles God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Wonderful Christmastime Gaudete. 5 ( +5 / -0 ) Vreth Dec. 20, 2022 10:16 am JST I don't care how over played it is, when I start hearing Last Christmas I feel excited. -1 ( +2 / -3 ) GBR48 Dec. 20, 2022 11:46 am JST AKB48 - Noel no Yoru. 2011. (A coupling song on 'Ue Kara Mariko'). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnYkRU2K914 AKB48 - Totteoki Christmas. 2012. (A coupling song on 'Eien Pressure'). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlDJ9r-2bRI Midori Karashima - Silent Night. (But not the one you are thinking of). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cknuQVvF05o Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day. 1973. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJPc7esgvsA Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody. TOTP 1973. Noddy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpfHSqLXePI Queen - Thank God It's Christmas. Much missed Freddie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu7r5Xsg6dc Malcolm McLaren feat. Alison Limerick - Magic's Back (Theme from 'The Ghosts of Oxford Street'). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnGww67WwlU Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas. HD version. 1984. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fSknbR7Y4 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York. 1987. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8 John Lennon - So This is Christmas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMH_wMvMy_8 Mireille Mathieu - Petit Papa Noël. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=27&v=-kK5lPSO37A 1 ( +3 / -2 ) Tom San Dec. 20, 2022 01:40 pm JST Any of the ones by Twisted Sister. -4 ( +0 / -4 ) piskian Dec. 20, 2022 04:35 pm JST 'Excuse My Christmas' by the indomitable Jan Terri. It has to be heard to be believed. 1 ( +1 / -0 ) Algernon LaCroix Dec. 20, 2022 06:21 pm JST How to make gravy - Paul Kelly The night Santa went crazy - Weird Al 1 ( +2 / -1 ) blue in green Dec. 20, 2022 07:42 pm JST "A Charlie Brown Christmas" entire LP The Vince Guaraldi Trio "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" Bill Evans "Greensleeves" John Coltrane "Baby It's Cold Outside" Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery "Do You Hear What I Hear?" Gladys Knight and the Pips 2 ( +3 / -1 ) fatrainfallingintheforest Dec. 20, 2022 10:01 pm JST Christmas in Hollis by Run DMC. The Pogues' Fairytale of New York. The Royal Guardsmen's Snoopy's Christmas. Merry Christmas (I don't wanna fight tonight) by the Ramones. And since it was cancelled, Baby, It's Cold Outside has joined the rotation. I'm also quite partial to a big orchestral version of The Twelve Days of Christmas. 3 ( +4 / -1 ) agondocz Dec. 20, 2022 10:33 pm JST Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses Father Christmas by The Kinks Run, Run Rudolph by Chuck Berry 3 ( +3 / -0 ) Tim Sullivan Dec. 20, 2022 11:11 pm JST Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) [Top of The Pops Dec 1987] - YouTube 1 ( +2 / -1 ) purple_depressed_bacon Dec. 20, 2022 11:15 pm JST Dolly Parton's Hard Candy Christmas. I love a good melancholic Christmas tune and this hits the spot. Other great Christmas tunes I enjoy include: The Friendly Beasts O Holy Night The First Noel Old Toy Trains Mistletoe and Wine City of Silver Dreams I'm Trimming My Christmas Tree With Teardrops Blue Christmas Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Winter Dreams (Brandon's Song) Make You Blue Blood Oranges In The Snow Hot Buttered Rum 1 ( +2 / -1 ) ThonTaddeo Dec. 20, 2022 11:43 pm JST Good King Wenceslas God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Gaudete 2 ( +3 / -1 ) theResident Dec. 21, 2022 08:50 am JST December Will Be Magic Again. Kate Bush. Fairytale of New York. The Pogues. 1 ( +2 / -1 ) kohakuebisu Dec. 21, 2022 08:46 pm JST The indie kid in me says the Waitresses and "2000 Miles" by the Pretenders. Coolest one is Kurtis Blow "Christmas Rappin", 1979 old school, back in the day when rap songs were eight minutes long. 0 ( +0 / -0 ) Tom San Dec. 22, 2022 01:05 pm JST 12 days of Christmas by Doug and Bob Mckenzie. -2 ( +0 / -2 ) Yrral Dec. 24, 2022 04:42 am JST This Christmas beat them all 0 ( +0 / -0 ) dmacleod Dec. 25, 2022 10:35 pm JST "Nutcracker Suite" by the Brian Setzer Orchestra "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" - Andy Williams "Happy Holidays" - Andy Williams "Holly Jolly Christmas" - Burl Ives "Please Come Home for Christmas" - The Eagles "Sleigh Ride" - Johnny A. "Feliz Navidad" - Jose Feliciano "2000 Miles" - The Pretenders "Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You" - Billy Squire "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" - Rubber Band (a Beatles Tribute Band) "I Believe in Father Christmas" - Greg Lake "The Nutrocker" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer The entire "Carpenters Christmas" album 0 ( +0 / -0 ) Login to leave a comment Facebook users Use your Facebook account to login or register with JapanToday. By doing so, you will also receive an email inviting you to receive our news alerts. Facebook Connect Login with your JapanToday account Remember Me Forgot password? User registration
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Aly Rustom
Grandma got run over by a reindeer- by Elmo and Patsy
Toshihiro
let it snow
Derek Grebe
Adeste Fideles
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Wonderful Christmastime
Gaudete.
Vreth
I don't care how over played it is, when I start hearing Last Christmas I feel excited.
GBR48
AKB48 - Noel no Yoru. 2011. (A coupling song on 'Ue Kara Mariko'). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnYkRU2K914
AKB48 - Totteoki Christmas. 2012. (A coupling song on 'Eien Pressure'). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlDJ9r-2bRI
Midori Karashima - Silent Night. (But not the one you are thinking of). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cknuQVvF05o
Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day. 1973. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJPc7esgvsA
Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody. TOTP 1973. Noddy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpfHSqLXePI
Queen - Thank God It's Christmas. Much missed Freddie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu7r5Xsg6dc
Malcolm McLaren feat. Alison Limerick - Magic's Back (Theme from 'The Ghosts of Oxford Street'). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnGww67WwlU
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas. HD version. 1984. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fSknbR7Y4
The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York. 1987. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
John Lennon - So This is Christmas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMH_wMvMy_8
Mireille Mathieu - Petit Papa Noël. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=27&v=-kK5lPSO37A
Tom San
Any of the ones by Twisted Sister.
piskian
'Excuse My Christmas' by the indomitable Jan Terri.
It has to be heard to be believed.
Algernon LaCroix
How to make gravy - Paul Kelly
The night Santa went crazy - Weird Al
blue in green
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" entire LP
The Vince Guaraldi Trio
"Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"
Bill Evans
"Greensleeves"
John Coltrane
"Baby It's Cold Outside"
Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery
"Do You Hear What I Hear?"
Gladys Knight and the Pips
fatrainfallingintheforest
Christmas in Hollis by Run DMC.
The Pogues' Fairytale of New York.
The Royal Guardsmen's Snoopy's Christmas.
Merry Christmas (I don't wanna fight tonight) by the Ramones.
And since it was cancelled, Baby, It's Cold Outside has joined the rotation.
I'm also quite partial to a big orchestral version of The Twelve Days of Christmas.
agondocz
Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses
Father Christmas by The Kinks
Run, Run Rudolph by Chuck Berry
Tim Sullivan
Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) [Top of The Pops Dec 1987] - YouTube
purple_depressed_bacon
Dolly Parton's Hard Candy Christmas. I love a good melancholic Christmas tune and this hits the spot.
Other great Christmas tunes I enjoy include:
The Friendly Beasts
O Holy Night
The First Noel
Old Toy Trains
Mistletoe and Wine
City of Silver Dreams
I'm Trimming My Christmas Tree With Teardrops
Blue Christmas
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Winter Dreams (Brandon's Song)
Make You Blue
Blood Oranges In The Snow
Hot Buttered RumThonTaddeo
Good King Wenceslas
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Gaudete
theResident
December Will Be Magic Again.
Kate Bush.
Fairytale of New York.
The Pogues.
kohakuebisu
The indie kid in me says the Waitresses and "2000 Miles" by the Pretenders.
Coolest one is Kurtis Blow "Christmas Rappin", 1979 old school, back in the day when rap songs were eight minutes long.
Tom San
12 days of Christmas by Doug and Bob Mckenzie.
Yrral
This Christmas beat them all
dmacleod
"Nutcracker Suite" by the Brian Setzer Orchestra
"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" - Andy Williams
"Happy Holidays" - Andy Williams
"Holly Jolly Christmas" - Burl Ives
"Please Come Home for Christmas" - The Eagles
"Sleigh Ride" - Johnny A.
"Feliz Navidad" - Jose Feliciano
"2000 Miles" - The Pretenders
"Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You" - Billy Squire
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" - Rubber Band (a Beatles Tribute Band)
"I Believe in Father Christmas" - Greg Lake
"The Nutrocker" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The entire "Carpenters Christmas" album