Come on then, let's have yours. No Wizzard, no Slade and definitely no Cliff. Here's mine

Come on then, let's have yours. No Wizzard, no Slade and definitely no Cliff. Here's mine

Good list of songs there, i will check the couple I've not heard before when I get home

Culturcide - Santa Claus was my Lover
Gruff Rhys - Post Apocalypse Christmas
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis

Sorry there all mainly jokey songs but thats what christmas is about isn't it?

I missed off Malcolm Middleton's We're All Gonna Die, but that's probably not appropriate for a hospital radio audience...

Then there are the great christmas number 1s: Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind, Human League - Don't You Want Me and The Scaffold - Lily The Pink

Gaudete - Steeleye Span ( a nice bit of Latin. That is what an All Saints education in the 70s does for you).

Fairytale of New York - Pogues favourite band of all time captures that bitter sweet element of relatonships

Mediaeval Baebes - Adam Lay Ibounden a nice bit of middle English with a great Beat

I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake i love the start with the music ( Bells) from Lieutenant Kije.

Christmas Wrapping- The Waitresses. A nice song about the loneliness of christmas with a happy ending.

Silent Night. The definitive Hymn for Christmas. So atmospheric partcularly in a candle lit church.

The Tom Waits version, I presume?

And good shout on Gaudete

Hasn't Sir Christopher Lee just done Silent Night too ?

He has. And it is AWESOME

I'll have to listen to it when I have the time.

I Want An Alien For Christmas - Fountains Of Wayne

Spiritualised have done a cracking version of it also.

Glad you included "last of the melting snow" in your list. My favorite yuletide song by a long stretch.