# Best Christmas songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037 "2010-12-22T03:39:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037/1 "2010-12-22T03:39:31Z")
Last year, someone on this board introduced me to the joy that is [Straight No Chaser’s 12 Days of Christmas](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kYEK-pxs_A), which is now my favorite Christmas song of all time, I think. What’s yours? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037/2 "2010-12-22T15:54:50Z")
A favorite of the boyfriend and mine is "The Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth "as performed by David Bowie and Bing Crosby. And though not technically a Christmas song, I’ve really come to Love “Baby It’s Cold Outside” since someone on this board was kind enough to turn me onto \*it \*last year. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037/3 "2010-12-22T16:06:24Z")
**Carol of the Bells** , I always loved how a boys choir could make a Christmas song sound so menacing. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037/4 "2010-12-23T03:26:11Z")
Thanks **DB**! Loved it! ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037/5 "2010-12-23T21:03:11Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > **Carol of the Bells** , I always loved how a boys choir could make a Christmas song sound so menacing. Yeah, same here. This has been my favorite Christmas carol for as long as I can remember. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037/6 "2010-12-23T21:11:26Z")
My favorite has alwas been White Christmas by Bing but a very close second is [This Time of Year by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzXAMfxe2iw&feature=youtube_gdata_player) ---
**Author:** ![whereismymind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/49beb7/32.png) [@whereismymind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whereismymind)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037/7 "2010-12-23T21:19:50Z")
Shit is fucked up… courtesy of the Offspring! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037/8 "2010-12-23T21:41:49Z")
Bob & Doug’s “Twelve Days of Christmas” – the full album version, not the abridged radio version. “Quiz for Doug!” “I’ve got my thinking toque on.” “What are the 12 days of Christmas?” “Well, there’s Christmas, Christmas Eve, New Year’s, New Year’s Eve, Wrestling Day…there’s two Saturdays and Sundays in there…” ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037/9 "2010-12-23T23:21:28Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Last year, someone on this board introduced me to the joy that is [Straight No Chaser’s 12 Days of Christmas](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kYEK-pxs_A), which is now my favorite Christmas song of all time, I think. > > What’s yours? I never heard this until _this_ year, but I _love_, love, love it! > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > A favorite of the boyfriend and mine is "The Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth "as performed by David Bowie and Bing Crosby. But this is my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Goofus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Goofus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goofus)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037/10 "2010-12-23T23:35:50Z")
“Don’t Shoot Me Santa” by The Killers gets my vote for being both a Christmas song and a murder ballad. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037/11 "2010-12-24T19:21:56Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Bob & Doug’s “Twelve Days of Christmas” – the full album version, not the abridged radio version. > > “Quiz for Doug!” > “I’ve got my thinking toque on.” > “What are the 12 days of Christmas?” > “Well, there’s Christmas, Christmas Eve, New Year’s, New Year’s Eve, Wrestling Day…there’s two Saturdays and Sundays in there…” “That’s only 9.” “Well, I believe there are also 3 mystery days, so that makes 12!” Family tradition at my house is to play “Star Wars: Christmas in the Stars” and “A Muppet Christmas”, so my sentimental favorites are the Muppet’s rendition of _Little Saint Nick_ and C-3PO’s _What Do You Get A Wookiee For Christmas (When He Already Has A Comb)_. ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-christmas-songs/565037/12 "2010-12-25T04:16:05Z")
Coming from a non-Christian perspective, my favorite is this little ditty entitled [If We Believed](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH33NQCXOxE&feature=&p=6AF92187AA5B6FCA&index=0&playnext=1), written and performed by occult author, Lon Milo DuQuette.