NFR Best and worst Xmas songs

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One of my favorites is "Merry Christmas from the Family" by Jill Sobule. Along with the "Christians and the Pagans" by Dar Williams. And an odd Christmas song, "Stop the Calvary" by the Cory Band. And on the not so light side, every year I play "Christmas in the Trenches" by John McCutchen, and it often brings a tear to my eye. Perhaps it's especially relevant this season with respect to Ukraine.
 
You can probably figure out which category this fits into....

 
Jesse said:
Easily the family favorite
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I know many people would put it on the "worst" list. But that's a family favorite around here too. Always makes me smile.... well, at least the first few times I hear it!
 
“I’ll Be Home For Christmas” is on my list.
After my dad passed away, I got a letter from an older distant cousin. She recalled as one of her early memories singing that song a bunch of times with dad when she was 4yo in Chicago…Christmas 1943…before he shipped out with the Army to Europe in WWll. He was still singing it years later when my siblings and I were finally around.
 
Jojo said:
The worst: That f@*&ing Mariah Carey song!
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You mean the one they play on Xmas radio every hour on the hour from Thanksgiving to News Year Eve? Seems like its in every other Xmas movie since 1994/5? The number 1 rated Xmas song basically every year since its release? The classical Aria? The ultimate Christmas song?
Love Actually? :ROFLMAO:🥴
 
Jojo said:
My favorite….The River by Joni Mitchell.
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Such a beautiful but sad lament of loss and loneliness at Christmas, with no happy ending :cry:. But where does she turn? Ice skating.
I hope this doesn't take the thread too far off track...
I could never really skate but when I was in the USAF some airmen from my shop who lived in the barracks and I would go to a local ice rink during the holidays. I couldn't make hockey skates work but found that I could use the serrations at the tip of figure skates like XC skis to going and then it really was kinda similar to XC skiing. And unlike roller skating if; no, when I went down the key was to relax and slide along to absorb the energy of the fall. Boy it was fun! Unfortunately it's been many, many years since I've skated. And now with an artificial hip I am cautious about engaging in potentially contact sports and pastimes ;) .
To contrast ice skating in sadness, here is one of my (many) favorite scenes from The Bishop's Wife that begins in sadness. But like most Christmas themed movies there is restoration amidst the backdrop of the Christmas season (reminding me of a working Mom who always "knew how to keep Christmas well" for her disabled husband and 3 small children).


Sorry for my digression, carry on with best and worst 🎄🎵🎶 🎅.
 
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