THE WINTER WONDER LAND BEST CHRISTMAS SONG EVER MAKESHIFT POLL THE VOTING THREAD DO IT QUICKLY BOTS AND GIRLS

You have until midnight on the 19th, Englisher time to vote.

It'll be a top 50, 50-41 revealed the 20th, 40-31 revealed the 21st, 30-21 the 22th, 20-11th the 23rd, the top 10 on Christmas Eve.

No nominations, we don't have time. Feel free to use this thread to encourage people to vote for your favourites.

Vote for a top 10. Points will be simple, 10 = 1, 9 = 2, 8 = 3... your #1 = 10

Dunno what happens if you get all butthurt and start nomming stuff from religions that don't recognise Santa or whatever, haven't had time to think it through. It's a Christmas poll though, don't be a nobhead.

MERRY SANTAS BIRTHDAY EVERYONE.

(Not just doing this because i'm bored and bed ridden, honest.)

Oh, ALSO IMPORTANT:

email to my ilx webmail. it is samuelpooley @ gmail .com

also lol at typo in the title, still, no time to lose.

http://commonfolkmeadow.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/low-christmas-ep.jpg

1. "Just Like Christmas"
2. "Long Way Around the Sea"
3. "The Little Drummer Boy"
4. "If You Were Born Today (Song for Little Baby Jesus)"
5. "Blue Christmas"
6. "Silent Night"
7. "Taking Down the Tree"
8. "One Special Gift"

^^ vote for these everyone, kthx

"Merry Muthaphukkin' Christmas" fuiud

well no-one has voted yet and ilx is full of lazy nadgers, so vote for it and it could end up #1 very easily

as a lazy nadger I take exception to yr tone

"Santa Claus is a Black Man" is #1.

well actually nothing is yet #1 although that is def a song title i couldnt help but approve being #1

If you're not aware of its genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a5a5sG0QZg

top 10

omfg that is amazing sean

first very annoying bump of many

mariah carey - all i want for christmas is you

destiny's child - 8 days of christmas
tom waits - christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis

Mariah is srsly in my top 5, maybe top 3

"God Rest You Merry Gentlemen" (traditional)

remember to actually vote by either webmail-ing me or emailing me at samuelpooley @ gmail .com [spaces removed obv]

vince guaraldi trio 'skating'

So good it has its own thread (well, more or less):

Waitresses - Classic or Genious?

bump 2: electric joke that annoys whiney

will accept songs off of tv shows, xmas parodies etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFtA7IHZgzw

VOTE!

quite a trrfic suit on kurtis there

This thread is worth checking out for Youtubes and stuff: C/D: Christmas music

OK I voted. One question, though: are you going to amalgamate votes for different versions of the same song? Some wobs 'standards' have equally worthy interpretations that may attract votes.

(oh what am I saying, the top ten'll be wall-to-wall Sufjan, won't it? Bah humbug)

considering i only have 1 vote so far, i dont think i need to worry about amalgamating votes. if people vote for just "white christmas" or whatever without a specific version noted then they will be treated in the same bucket as 'trad.'

hello?

I'm going to vote, don't worry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VzF3t07spI

I listened to this album for the first time in ages, had forgotten how good this song is.

posting in the right place this time:

1. White Christmas Darlene Love 2:52
2. Frosty the Snowman The Ronettes 2:16
3. The Bells of St. Mary's Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans 2:54
4. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town The Crystals 3:24
5. Sleigh Ride The Ronettes 3:00
6. Marshmallow World Darlene Love 2:23
7. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus The Ronettes 2:37
8. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer The Crystals 2:30
9. Winter Wonderland Darlene Love 2:25
10. Parade of the Wooden Soldiers The Crystals 2:55
11. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Darlene Love 2:45
12. Here Comes Santa Claus Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans 2:03
13. Silent Night Phil Spector and Artists 2:08

three or four of the above, + 6 or 7 more.

Waterson:Carthy - Jacobstowe Wassail

still only have 2 votes, one of which is myself.

i'll do it tomorrow i swear.

Nate Dogg - Be Thankful
Vince Guaraldi Trio - O Tannenbaum
Low - Just Like Christmas
Boney M - Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord
Cocteau Twins - Winter Wonderland
The Ronnettes - Frosty The Snowman
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
Ween - Roses Are Free
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Gayla Peevey - I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Hippo The Hero)

is that yr ten? send it in!

bump it.

Don't forget to vote for Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV8x7H3DD8Y

a whole 2 votes so far.

It's only been three hours, jeez man.

sent. sorry for blowing up yr poll & posting those.

nd w/ some friendly advice for the holidays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM1ZZvnx39w

:D any excuse to bump the thread

xpost to em

lol I sent mine to the wrong email

sorry sampooley, I hope you aren't too confused

I can only think of three I definitely want to vote for... What are the rules on voting for songs that aren't really Christmas songs but you listen to them at Christmas and they have thematic links? Like, could I vote for 'Listen, the Snow is Falling'?

lol if i end up with an ilm doppelganger its gonna be weird

songs about snow that sound christmassy and are played at christmas = fine. songs about christmas that don't sound christmassy (thinking that gza tune... cold world?) = fine. songs that aren't christmassy, about things associated with christmas like snow or presents and not about christmas, such as say Who Shot Ya or Yellow Submarine = not fine.

Cool?

3 voters, only 1 song to get on more than 1 list.

67 signed in ilxors, none of u voting?

If you're unsure what to vote for (and you've already included Santa Claus is a Black Man), try including these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO7-_xJz8CQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpP2JsGkwyc

Voted!

4 votes, 39 entries. If you want to win ilx polls this season, its v. v. likely that you could have yr #1 come in top at this rate.

listen to this the Cabbage Patch Christmas song everyone
-stream it

I am tempted to vote the Chemistry Experiment's Happy New Year at #1 if you think that'd be enough to get it in. (NB: this is my own band, and thus I am not actually going to vote for it at all. Was trying to find it online somewhere to rep for it but sadly it does not exist except in lists of our songs.)

I want to include "the elves are back to work on xmas day" from Futurama but I dunno who to credit it to - Chris Tyng the composer?

Just say Futurama - Song Title

Will send this in:

1. "Merry X-mas Everybody," Slade
2. "Linus and Lucy," Vince Guaraldi
3. "The Christmas Song," Nat King Cole
4. "Christmas Wrapping," Waitresses
5. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," Judy Garland
6. "Gee Whiz, It's Christmas," Carla Thomas
7. "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," Darlene Love
8. "Christmas Time Is Here," Vince Guaraldi
9. "Christmas Time Is Here Again," Beatles (more like a fragment than an actual song...)
10. "Bells of St. Mary's," Drifters

if everyone puts their votes on here before it kinda ruins a countdown dudes

the sonics "don't believe in christmas."

good song!

Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. No one nominated the only Christmas song that makes me cry every single time I hear it,
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
?
Also the new
Poly Styrene - Black Christmas
is shockingly great!

i am pretty sure that if i remember to vote and do 'just like christmas' as my #1 i can get it to top the chart. someone remind me tomororw, k?

OK is no one actually reading this thread? Poor hoy. DONT NOMINATE TRACKS YOU DOOFUSES. WRITE A TOP TEN AND EMAIL IT TO HIM.

PS did u get my list S?

i did t :)

yes NO NEED TO NOM, NO NEED TO PUT YR LIST HERE, JUST SEND IT TO ME

bump

I SENT YOU ONE DAMMIT STOP HASSLING US

polls are silly btw, always change my mind 2 minutes after voting

also was gonna refuse to participate in something where the flaming twatbag lips were considered a viable option but y'know fight the power

you may call me names sir, but my strategy worked a vote out of you and thats all that matter this christmas :)

http://www.circlesquare.ca/xmas/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izeEibCeosM

^^^^dope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCEdrnaFlY

jingle bump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcPS-J0HTg

"Do it quickly, bots and girls! OR ELSE"

http://th00.deviantart.net/fs38/PRE/f/2008/344/c/f/Benders_xmas_by_sanmonku.jpg

submitted the shit out of my list YEAAAAAAAAH.

3 of my songs were from christmas specials

bump.

just put the initial votes together. looooooooooooooool @ lack on cencensus without an initial list. i.e. your top 4 will almost certainly make it if you vote! show people what great taste you have folks!

you need to listen to all 42 minutes of the lindstrom lil drummer boy

xp
oooooo
can I spoil the surprise?
the cabbage patch song might make the top 50 lol

^^^^^he could be right.

VOTE PLEASE YOU BEAUTIFUL BOTS AND GIRLS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IXr1lUU_hY

This is awwwwwwwwwwwwwwesome.

Also, mega-lols at The Word:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2NJEAFX2pA

Not going to link or vote for them, but apparently there are two albums of Cthulhu-themed Christmas songs. Including 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-Sothoth'. Jesus H Christ.

loving this thread, the pestering factor is immense

Serious suggestion to work round the lazy thing - abandon the top 50 idea, allow four more days for voting, and just do a top ten or twenty on Christmas Eve?

hmmm, maybe. how about a top 50 with voting ending tuesday night with 20, 20, the big bad top 10 on ceve?

I wouldn't be averse to that. Especially a couple of days more to get my list better - I have ten now, but I know there are some great things I'm forgetting.

I've gotta go out in 15 minutes and probably won't get a chance to vote today after, so can someone give me a quick heads up as to whether we have extra time for voting?

Ah, sod it, I'll submit now.

tuesday midnight at the latest.

'Baby It's Cold Outside' is such a great record. All the more so because al-qaeda hate it so much.

Also, it was written by the same guy who did 'Sit Down, You're Rocking The Boat', which was one of my greatest pleasures from the 20th Century Poll process. How awesome to have both of those on your CV.

If you haven't voted listen to these first before doing so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDXZsydJU2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU8Jk9RusnE

Roland Kirk - We Free Kings
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Miles Davis - Blue Christmas
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Tim Fuller Experience - Silent Night
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Frogs - Here Comes Santa's Pussy
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Sorry

awesome idea dude id love kirk christmas and to embed all you have to do is c&p the youtube.com/blahblahblah and add nothing

Roland Kirk - We Free Kings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5DsAe7yFdc

Miles Davis - Blue Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnRmHszDaa0

Tim Fuller Experience - Silent Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKKxtY2te4A

Frogs - Here Comes Santa's Pussy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW7uDbIw4FU

http://www.bradblog.com/Images/SantaClausVotingBooth_BradBlog.jpg

Me, a moment ago. Sorry Band Aid, no space for you in the end.

you made geldof cry i hope you know that

^^^^dude would possibly be an even better choice of interior life fyi

Then I have done one good thing today (that and giving Chris de Burgh the only vote he will ever get in any ILM poll)

Half Man Half Biscuit needs your vote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqQtUQErhQ

Let's see that again, but lovelier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRDJgn68h1A

rly wanna give this song all 10 of my votes

you may or may not be alone in voting for it lj ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTNheCEUP_A

Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer - Baby It's Cold Outside

vote for this ffs, or you don't deserve Christmas

Do different versions of trad carols count as different songs? If I vote for the Bright Eyes version of Little Drummer Boy, does that get added to the Lindstrom version and the trad version in the count?

Good question. Lindstrom is obv too far out to be considered trad. dunno about Bright Eyes

So far I've not really had any overlap, crazy enough. Come Tuesday I'm going to youtube things with the same name titles, and if there is just no fucking difference, i'll call it trad but maybe incl. the specific version? Like remixes are sometimes done in normal polls?

I didn't vote for them, but three good ones from my childhood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7LW0Y00kE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFtb3EtjEic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up1t5siifEw

I searched on google for 'baxendale "christmas is great" ' and two of the three matches were for for here. Still, if it can poll anywhere...

stuck for something to do as you are snowed in, you beautiful 30 other people signed in? other than looking at boyparts-ws's? VOTE

vote

do it

just not for half man half biscuit

you can vote for half man half biscuit if you like

Are we allowed to vote for Half Man but not Half Biscuit?

hey everybody you should all vote to compensate for the fact that i already submitted a top 10 but can't be bothered with revising it to a top 50 as i really should.

Did you get my list okay?

i did :)

Cool. Although my friend just posted this song that I had completely forgotten about, and should've been top 5, really:

http://soundcloud.com/wolfram-wire/a-story-of-the-christmas-tree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcQJj7d18eA

wish I still had a copy of this one

dog of mystery - "I saw mommy kissing satan's claws"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98JrWm9IMMA

gratuitous bump.

Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer - Baby It's Cold Outside
^the only song I regretted not adding to my list

here's a good "Baby It's Hot Outside" version
stream it

if it weren't for the vote i just saw in my mailbox i'd be calling you guyz suckaz right now.

gratuitous bump.

Wait, is this poll still open?

YES UNTIL TUESDAY MIDNIGHT BUT VOTE NOW JUST IN CASE

B b but it says ends on the 19th. Its the 21st here. It cant possibly still be the 19th there can it?

someone with super mod powers oughta fix that

My ballot in a couple hours.

END OF TOMORROW NIGHT EVEN IF YOU ARE IN SOME WACKY LAND

Maybe fix the thread title then? ILX poll contributors do not generally like having to read entire threads in order to discover simple rules ime

For your consideration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FyCU87phGw

till the end of the day boys and grrrls

http://www.freealbumart.com/img/41DXKHEM4QL._SL160_/Various-Artists-XFM:-It

Everything on here, in short.

1. Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland - Grandaddy
2. Little Drummer Boy - Dandy Warhols
3. Every Day Is Christmas - Webb Brothers
4. Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas - Eels
5. Feliz Navi-nada - El Vez
6. Christmas In Waikiki - Morgan
7. Maybe At Christmas Time - Drugstore
8. O Come O Come Emmanuel - Belle & Sebastian
9. Thank You Dreaded Black Ice Thank You - Giant Sand
10. White Christmas (demo For Tom Waits) - Flaming Lips
11. My Christmas Prayer - Saint Etienne
12. Christmas Downer - Departure Lounge
13. I Believe In Father Christmas - Six By Seven
14. When I Get Home For Christmas - Snow Patrol
15. Spiritual Guidance - Titan
16. Christmas Boogaloo - Big Boss Man
17. Christmas Eve - Teenage Fanclub
18. Gift X-Change - Calexico
19. Hwiangerdd Mair - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
20. Just Like Christmas - Low
21. In The Bleak Midwinter - Laverne, Lauren

That honestly looks like the most insufferable compilation imaginable. The drippy indie Christmas cover version is the absolute worst.

don't think most of those are covers tbf, most likely some old pish the bands had lying around given an appropriate lyrical paintjob

FYI if I'd read this before now I would have voted for 'Christmas Time '99' by Gorse

1. Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland - Grandaddy
4. Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas - Eels
5. Feliz Navi-nada - El Vez
8. O Come O Come Emmanuel - Belle & Sebastian
20. Just Like Christmas - Low

These are decent songs to be fair.

Those are the best ones, yes.

I'd add :

10. White Christmas (demo For Tom Waits) - Flaming Lips
21. In The Bleak Midwinter - Laverne, Lauren

The rest I'm not so bothered about, but then again there's not one I would actively skip, I think.

can't see all the links on my work computer, so apologies if someone has already suggested:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/R0mRBLZ4MMI/AAAAAAAAFmQ/Og8N51dDF0E/s400/yobs

Ha, that reminds me of a freebie I got from Radio London, back when...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JUe__VLejWk/TQZXCBnktiI/AAAAAAAAAm4/-9G9wSIghEQ/s1600/slush.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6KyYKLIKyE

o_O

another vote :) merry christmas mike.

How many do we have so far?

18

not incl. myself as i haven't voted yet.

Vote, Grinches!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QITJK8ExG-U&feature=related

got another vote! only 6 hours left ppls!

This is my favorite holiday song about the 21st of December

Just reading Jody Rosen's book on White Christmas, which reminds me how good Otis Redding's version is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5owUdvwcQ0

Also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQVeKb0ywOw

less than 5 hours people.

cheers for yr vote d

Vote vote vote!

4 hrs, sort it out

Original carols >>> drippy indie versions - you get to sing them! In church! With other people! Even classics like Something Stupid & Cliched to be Cynical at Christmas would be improved if you got to do this.

Now is the time.

..to vote for Boney M!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxm1FlLSfe4

yah srs, not had a vote in ages! come on heathens, enjoy santa with us!

5 minutes plz vote people

forgot to vote for this

but someone else should

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkI66h1GVY

Can't believe this was overlooked:

Big Star - Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPLsJI3gPDg

http://www.eyeonspain.com/images/blogs/victormeldrew.jpg