Until recently, while driving, I mostly listened to my iPod, either music or books. What's changed? Christmas music, y'all! Hey...I can say y'all, I loved (and lived) down south for a couple years. Ahem. Anyway, a local station, Oldies 103.3, is now all Christmas music all the time...or at least until after Christmas. My top 15 Christmas songs (not in any particular order) are as follows:

1. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting) - Nat King Cole
2. Skating - A Charlie Brown Christmas Soundtrack
3. Silent Night
4. Mele Kalikimaka - Jimmy Buffett
5. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
6. Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt
7. Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies
8. Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Bruce Springsteen
9. Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses
10. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
11. Jingle Bell Rock - Hall & Oates
12. Father Christmas - The Kinks
13. Santa Claus and His Old Lady - Cheech & Chong
14. The First Noel
15. River - Joni Mitchell

It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on...

What are your favorites?

I love the Grinch, Rudolph, Frosty, Silent Night, and I saw mommy kissing santa clause. There's just so many!!

First of all, you can use y'all because you can spell it correctly. I live in the damn South, and I see ya'll enough to make my eyes bleed.

I like "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and, of course, Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". Oh, and Sarajevo 12/24.

Okay here you go, get it out of your systen now before Thanksgiving.
My favorite song is
"Wonderful Christmas Time" by Paul McCartney. I know, gag, gag, but I really love that song. Makes me feel happy.

I have been listening too!! I love it!

-Away in a Manger
-O' Holy Night
-Santa Claus is coming to town (Bruce's version)
-Happy Christmas (war is over)
-Aspen Glow (John Denver)
-Come home for Christmas (U2)
and all the traditional ones as well!!!!!

I like a lot of the traditional ones, like O Holy Night, O come o come Emanuel. Or maybe I like ones that begin with 0. But I like a lot of the ones on your list too!!

O wait. Hehe. I don't really like O come o come all ye faithful tho. So throw out that O rule!

*Oh Holy Night (several different versions - it's my favorite traditional carol)
*Santa Baby (Earth's version - very earwormy!)
*The First Noel (EmmyLou Harris' a capella [sp???] version)
*White Christmas (gotta go with Bing on this one)
*Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Vince Gill's version)
*Do You Hear What I Hear (several versions, but I'm rather partial to Martina McBride's)
and because I'm a little bit twisted I also REALLY like:
*The Restroom Door Said Gentlemen (no idea who sings it)
and *Drag Queen Christmas (one I wrote myself to the tune of Deck the Halls)

i'm kind of partial to Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, but no Christmas music until after Turkey Day!

BANG, ahem, okay, thank you.

I like Silent Night, and I want a Hippopatumus (spelling???) for Christmas is fun the first couple times you hear it! Good post, Janet!

I LOVE Christmas music. I have gobs of it, on CD's and now on my iPod. We also have XM radio at home and in the car so I can get Holiday tunes anytime.

I thought I was the only one who liked Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses! LOL

There are too many songs I love to pick just a few. One fun one is the "Jingle Bells" version done by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters.

Now don't think I am bah humbug girl BUT--can't we at least get through THANKSGIVING before having to deal with CHRISTMAS? Used to be the tradition that the decorations and music started the day AFTER Thanksgiving -- I am so freakin confused now? As for favorite song -- "GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN" Bare Naked Ladies and Sarah McLaughlin

i love the waitresses christmas song and the one from the pogues (totally blanked on the name)

but still... it's TOO early for christmas music!

I <3 Christmas music. Which is astonishing considering I have worked retail with the attendant Christmas - music barrage that brings. Strangely, the one seasonal song I absolutely CANNOT stand is "Baby, It's Cold Outside" which, one traumatic afternoon, played four times in a row on our randomly - shuffling CD player.

I love a lot of the old carols. ("In the Bleak Midwinter", "O Little Town of Bethlehem", "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" etc.) The really classic or obscure ones that deserve to be sung a capella and have lovely harmonies that can give you chills if done right. (They have the added bonus of being fun to sing. I know all umpty - gazillion verses of "Good King Wenceslas"! Being a soprano I used to get to be the page all the time. ;))

"Deck the Halls" is of course classic, and something about the house - that - Jack - built flavor of "Do You Hear What I Hear?" and "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is fun.

I will also confess to a weakness for some more modern songs, like the one by the Waitresses, and let's not forget the Muppets Christmas album. I giggle like a maniac listening to Beaker piping in on "The Twelve Days of Christmas." ;)

I know what changed ! Now you listen Christmas songs per Ipod, before it was the radio ! Am I clever !

When I hear these songs already now, then by Christmas I have an overdose !

I love the Joni Mitchell one and it meant a great deal to me when I lived in Texas where it was hot at Christmastime. I also love John and Yoko's And So This is Christmas.

PS I love the sink shot I posted. It made up for not getting the one of the sad cushion and made me feel better.

"Carol of the Bells" is my all time favorite!!!.....:-)

I love Christmas carols...and I especially love Handel's Messiah.

"holly Jolly Christmas"
"I'll be home for Christmas"
"I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
(any holiday songs by Nat King Cole, Andy Williams and Johnny Mathis.. and even toss in John Denver)

Oh I forgot!.. hbo had Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on Sunday did you see Snape?? huh? huh? huh?

We had the Christmas tunes going on Rhapsody over the weekend.

I like Josh Groban's version of O Holy Night which may just be my favorite Christmas song. For contrast I of course love Adam Sandler's Happy Hanukah song. Nat King Cole's Merry Christmas is a great one. I love Pachabel's Canon, White Christmas (and pretty much any song) by Bing Crosby. One of my all-time favorites is Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong singing 'Baby, Its Cold Outside'.