"Stop the Cavalry" (Jona Lewie)

Perhaps this is a bit too topical this year, so like Countess Richard I'll go with "Fairytale of New York". I'm also fond of "Ring out, Solstice Bells" (Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson), and some of the old favourite hymns, especially "O come, O come, Emmanuel".


However, and this should really be on a separate thread, I have a long list of most hateful Christmas songs, those which shops blast out non-stop from the end of October to Christmas Eve. Slade's "Merry Christmas, everybody", tops the list. Wizzard's "I wish it could be Christmas every day", trails by a nose, the Jackson 5's "Santa Claus is coming to town", is a close third. No doubt I shall add others to the list next month. It isn't necessarily that any of these songs are instrinsically bad, but if I hear the volume of Slade's ditty being turned up to drown out the Salvation Army Band again, I will be tempted to violence.