Looks like nobody will, huh?

Sorry. As you all may or may not know, I don't have net access at home and my schedule either gives me LOTS of time with nothing better to do than sit around and post or NO time to do as much.

I will get back to collating as soon as I can, but I think you've all helped prove me wrong and right depending on your point of view.

There are certainly more than 40 songs that I'd consider for the list. The original stipulations were that my Patrol buddies had to think of them without the internet for help or they just had to write down the songs as we heard them on the radio there. That's the real thing, there could be hundreds of tunes, but if the ones we were getting tortured with were the same 20 over and over again, it proves a point.

At the same time, we are, here in the thread, at the point of noting REALLY obscure stuff that really doesn't count, but I'm loving it. I haven't had time to click on all the links and listen or look them all up, but it's certainly expanding my horizons, and thanks all around for that.

Keep it up, and while you're at it, ensure that you listen to The Mackenzie Brothers 12 Days of Christmas as well as Santa Claus and His Old Lady (not really a song I guess) because they are obligations as far as I'm concerned.

Freaking drunk people. Now I remember why I don't like to work on Saturday nights...

Are complaining about drunk people, or are you describing an action being done with them?

Yes.

Touchée...

Can't believe I haven't seen these. It's not Christmas without them as my Dad and I would listen to them. Though to get the full effect you need to have my Mom complaining about Leon in the background since she hated him.




But for me it isn't Christmas until I hear this exact version of this song. I swear stations who play holiday songs only play this one once a week and instead play 10,000 versions of The Rape Song (It's Cold Outside).

I hadn't noticed a couple of posts expressing ignorance of this, so here it is:



Merry Christmas yer arse.

Tom, my favorite version of the Rape Song is by Leon Redbone...

And a link to Christmastime is Here, too

Haven, can I get some insight into your logic?

You say you don't want to count novelty songs as Christmas songs, but among your top true Christmas songs you include Christmas At Ground Zero and/or The Night Santa Went Crazy. (as you name the one then quote the other, I'm not quite sure how that is breaking down), Santa Claus and His Old Lady, and the McKenzie Brothers 12 Days of Christmas.
It doesn't get much more novelty than those. Heck, I wouldn't even call the C&C one a song.
On top of that you specifically said that rewritten lyrics still count as only one song and 12 Days had been listed.

Did we list "Do They Know It's Christmas"?

This is one of the ones that I was thinking of, and I have had similar questions.

The conclusion I have come to is that it should be on the list. Yes, it's positively anachronistic now, but it deals directly with Christmas. That said, for some reason, I still don't feel one hundred percent about it; I'm trying to figure out why. But I guess the fact that I couldn't come up with a defensible argument for excluding it says enough.

There's another anachronistic song that hasn't been mentioned yet that I have my questions about, but I want to see if anyone's going to mention it.

I can totally understand where you might be confused.

I haven't had a chance to sit down with a good net connection and a chunk of time and totally update the list. During this period of time, the conversation that I have had the time to engage in has drifted around to stuff that I, personally, like and need to hear every Silly Season. Again, when I have more time, I'll straighten it all out; maybe tomorrow.

Interestingly, I'm at Patrol now. I'm holding down the Patrol Room, so I have some time to post. The radio has been playing the same stuff all day long. I'm tempted to keep track, as best I can, of what is actually played while I'm here, since that was the original point last year.

But just to clarify, Bob and Doug's 12 Days is totally a novelty "song" and it's also just a lyric change, so it doesn't really belong on the list anywhere, I guess. I just like it. I don't know that I even consider Santa/Old Lady a song at all, so it really shouldn't be anywhere but the List Of Junk Haven Likes, and not the official list.

But please, everyone and anyone, feel free to take issue with anything on the list. There's plenty of stuff that is borderline "novelty" like The Chipmunk Song.