Tons of songs about winter get played during the $mas (well, that’s my abbreviation…) season: “Let It Snow,” “Sleigh Ride,” “Frosty the Snowman,” “Winter Wonderland,” etc. Only natural that they’d be associated with the holidays.
I’ve always thought Eric Johnson’s Cliffs of Dover sounded like Christmas music.
I think it’s the “Hear the Salvation Army band” line followed by the brief brass quote in the original version.
Linger by the Cranberries always makes me think of Christmas, even though it is not a happy song.
Maybe the main theme, but I highly doubt that if you heard the entire piece that you’d think it’s Christmas music. Plus, the main theme doesn’t have tubular bells in it anyway - and they definitely do sound Christmas-y to me.
Also, I’m one of those people who heard the song well before they ever saw the Exorcist, and heard it without knowing at all that it had been used in a major motion picture. I was quite jolted by its appearance as incidental(?) music in the movie.
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I’ve seen “I Believe in Father Christmas” on at least one Christmas compilation, and find it to be somewhat like the use of Born in the USA as a patriotic song.
That’s not as bad as mine: the opening riff to the Colbert Report sounds like the intro to a rock-out version of O Come All Ye Faithful.
I think it was written specifically for the Christmas special.
The Dickies’ “Whack The Dalai Lama” always puts me in a holiday mood.
Tasmin Archer’s Sleeping satellite
Spice girls: When two become one.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who realizes that.
You mean this one?
Old thread, I know, but I started it. Nyah!
Anyhow, I said …
And the past couple of weeks, on radio stations that have switched to all-Christmas music formats, mixed in among the caroling crooners and 1970s novelty songs, I’ve been hearing … Viva La Vida. So, radio stations, make up your mind! Is Viva La Vida a Christmas song or not?
The first movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4.
And a few more from the classical repertoire that sound like actual Christmas songs:
Bach, Gavotte from Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D. Major BWV 1069: “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing”
Bach, Fugue in B-Flat Major BWV 560 - “Feliz Navidad”
Shostakovich, Prelude in D-Flat Major Op. 87 - “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”
The theme from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home has always sounded Christmassy to me, in the sense that it reminds me of other Christmas-themed music. Listen here, especially to all the bellwork. The descending four-note riff at 2:07 may as well be hummed by elves.
Rather O/T – but can anyone clarify to me what the lyrics of this song (I find said song, quite catchy) mean, or are about – or are they just surreal blather, not intended to have any meaning? My best guess, is the words being the supposed sentiments of some poor sod in the German army in World War II, in Russia in very inclement weather late in the year, begging the Allied leaders (“please, Mr. Churchill…”) to come to terms with his country and end the war, so that he can be “home for Christmas”. Or maybe that’s way off the mark…
I was listening to the radio recently when Grapefruit Juicy Fruit was playing and my SO thought it was a Christmas song at first, because of the melody.
Um, that’s my favorite Christmas song. Strip away the hype and the snow and the freebies, and you are left with hope and faith, in the future at least, if not in a specific deity.
I love that song.