I enjoyed running the game show eliminator earlier this year and thought it might be fun to do one for Christmas songs.
As we are only 2 weeks or so away from Christmas Day, I think we should keep this to a more manageable number of nominations rather than 100. And so please only nominate
two songs. I'll probably let people pick extra ones if we're low on songs after a few days.
I'll keep the definition of a Christmas song relatively loose, pop, rock, classical, hymns are all acceptable. But it has to have something to do with the festive period, an X Factor number 1 isn't a Christmas song for instance.
There are songs that have been sung by more than one artist. This is about songs not artists and so a song will only be allowed on the list once. I'll add extra artists to the song nomination if there is demand.
I'll be looking to get around 25 songs for this one. But can expand that if loads of nominations come in, that might mean some days where there will be double/triple eliminations as I doubt anybody wants to be voting for Christmas songs in February.
Ok, let's open up the nominations! I'll start us off with my two:
1. Wham - Last Christmas (Moggy)
2. John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Happy Xmas (War is Over) (Moggy)
3. Darlene Love - Nobody Wants To Be Alone On Christmas (Godzilla)
4. Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas (Curls)
5. Low - Just Like Christmas (Curls)
6. Run The Jewels - A Christmas strawberry floating Miracle (Knoyleo)
7. Jona Lewie - Stop The Calvary (Knoyleo)
8. Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Qikz)
9. Bing Crosby - White Christmas (Qikz)
10. Bad News - Cashing In On Christmas (rinks)
11. Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone (rinks)
12. Kelly Clarkson - Underneath The Tree (Vermillion)
13. Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas (Vermillion)
14. Band Aid - Do they Know its Christmas (mcjihge2)
15. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York (mcjihge2)
16. Wizard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (Ploiper)
17. Slade - Merry Christmas (Ploiper)
18. Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis (Ironhide)
19. Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas (Ironhide)
20. The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) (Cuttooth)
21. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (Cuttooth)
22. The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping (Puppetboy)
23. Taylor Swift - Christmas Tree Farm (Floydfreak)
24. Freiheit - Keeping the Dream Alive (hamm sandwich)
25. Tim Wheeler and Emmy the Great - Home for the holidays (hamm sandwich)
26. The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride (Ste)
27. Mew - She Came Home For Christmas (more heat than light)
28. Electric Six - You're A Mean One, Mr Grinch (Puppetboy)
29. Mavis Staples - Christmas Vacation (Ste)
30. Hanoi Rocks - Dead By Xmas (Mommy)
31. The Pretenders - Blue Christmas (Cora)
32. Blink 182 - I Won't Be Home for Christmas (Cora)
33. Christopher Lee - Jingle Hell (floydfreak)
34. Twenty One Pilots - Christmas Saves The Year (Yoshimi)
35. The Furureheads - Christmas Was Better In The 80s (Yoshimi)
36. Tim Minchin - White Wine In The Sun (satriales)
37. Chris de Burgh - Spaceman Came Travelling (Mommy)
38. David Bowie/Bing Crosby - Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy (Ad7)
38. Joni Mitchell - River (Lotus)
39. Coldplay - Christmas Lights (Lotus)
40. Mike Oldfield - In Dulci Jubilo (Octoroc)
41. Sergei Prokofiev - Troika (Octoroc)
42. Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (Tomous)
43. Kermit - One More Sleep 'til Christmas (Robbo-92)
44. Ghost of Christmas Present - It Feels Like Christmas (Robbo-92)
45. The Killers - Joseph, Better you than me (Hypes)
46. The Killers - Joel, the lump of coal (Hypes)
47. Elton John - Step Into Christmas (Moggy)
48. José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad (Moggy)
49. Smashing Pumpkins - Christmastime (Ste)
50. The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Comfort And Oi)! (rinks)