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Day 10 Mel & Kim – Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree

This is just a classic song and I do love the original too by Brenda Lee (who was just thirteen when she recorded it! What a pair of lungs on her for someone of that age!) I have chosen this version, though, because it adds a huge element of fun to the song due to the comedic elements from Mel Smith. These little things make it exceptionally cheesy but that’s what Christmas is about! The music video is fantastic too – it just screams ’80’s’ at you! It’s a fantastic song and a great cover. I love how upbeat it is.

R.I.P Mel Smith.

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Day 9 S Club 7 – Perfect Christmas

Cheese alert! I make no effort to hide the fact that even all these years later, I still love S Club 7. It’s not only the fact that they were the soundtrack to my childhood, the songs just still make me smile and I still listen to their songs from time to time. Their albums also still reside proudly on my CD shelves!

This is one I only found through owning a Christmas compilation album that was bought for me around eleven years ago or so. It’s cheesy but it’s perfect. It’s so smooth, so Christmassy and just a beautiful little song. Beautiful!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umt3x_LEwgk

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Day 8 Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire)

Apparently the most performed Christmas song ever, this one’s definitely iconic. It’s just such a laid back song and one that captures the essence of Christmas perfectly. Whilst it’s been recorded by so many artists, Nat King Cole’s is the definitive version for me. He had one of the greatest voices and he just sounds perfect on this song. My family own one of his Christmas albums and it gives me plenty of warm memories and is still a firm favourite album to be played on Christmas day!

Beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5s8h2d1RK8

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Day 7 John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

I love everything about this song. The fact it’s essentially a Christmas rock song, its guitar based instrumentation, the use of the choir and of course its message. It’s a song I’ve grown to love more every Christmas as I hear it more. Definitely one of the greatest Christmas songs ever written.

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Day 6 Elton John – Step Into Christmas

Another classic Christmas song, I used to particularly love this when I was younger! It’s such a happy, feel-good song and it’s just an example of Elton at his best.

The middle eight breakdown is one of the most Christmassy parts of a song ever (the ‘la’s’ and the sleigh bells!)

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Day 5 The Beach Boys – Little Saint Nick

This is an absolute classic and one I can’t fault at all. It’s so catchy, simple and Christmassy. It’s another one I’ve grown up listening to every Christmas but I’ve only fully appreciated what a fantastic song it is in the last few years. I love The Beach Boys with their dreamy harmonies and this is one of those songs that never fails to make me feel festive when out and about!

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Day 4 Slade – Merry Xmas Everybody

Another classic Christmas tune! This is just awesome – a blend of glam rock with Christmas and one that always gets everybody on their feet. I like the fact this song was reportedly written by using lots of old discarded melodies and song ideas to create this belter of a tune.

Like the first two days of my Christmas playlist, this is another one I’ve heard every Christmas for as long as I can remember. It’s full of happiness and captures the Christmas spirit perfectly. It has perhaps the best sing-along chorus for a Christmas song ever written.

The ‘music video’ is also highly entertaining due to the drummer going slightly mental in the last minute…

And who hasn’t had a go at yelling “IT’S CHRISTMAAAAASSSSSSSSS!”? 😉

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Day 3 George Michael – December Song

December Song is likely to be George Michael’s attempt to write a Christmas song he was proud of (he publicly shunned much of Wham’s material once he went solo, including ‘Last Christmas’). Not that releasing this was a necessity. ‘Last Christmas’ is a perfect Christmas track and one which is loved by many. But in 2008, this appeared as a free download on George’s website before he finally released it in 2009. Interestingly, this was apparently originally written with the Spice Girls in mind, followed by Michael Buble although George ended up keeping it for himself.

There’s no denying it’s not the most upbeat of Christmas songs, its melancholic tone and lack of instrumentation definitely ranks as perhaps one of the saddest Christmas songs ever but it’s a gorgeous song. The chords, the harmonies, the lyrics and the slight jazz tone to it makes it one of my firm favourites. The use of the sample from the Frank Sinatra track at the beginning is also genius. Christmas is a happy time but negative emotions/bad days don’t just willingly disappear over the Christmas period so we need songs like this in addition to the pop cheese blasted from the radios! The music video is a beautiful work of art too.

I just wish this had reached a top 5 position.

Underrated song by far.

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Day 2 Paul McCartney & Wings – Wonderful Christmas Time

Another song that I’ve grown up listening to every Christmas! I love its simplicity and the electronic tone of it. It was pretty ahead of it’s time with its sound and its just an all round great song, one that definitely captures the spirit of Christmas! Love the guitar solo and the fade out instrumentation too.

Check back tomorrow for Day 3 of my 31 Days Of Christmas :’)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1-sXrdQtog

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So as you all know, today is the first day of advent where we all have the opportunity to dig out our chocolate advent calendars and allow ourselves to break the diet all the way up until/after Christmas.

As a massive fan of Christmas and Christmas music, I thought it would be fun to share with you some of my favourite Christmas songs between now and 2014. I will share a song each day with a reason why I love it!

So keep an eye out on here and on twitter and I will post some songs you’ll know and some more obscure ones. Who knows, I might even be able to introduce you to some new Christmas tunes 😉

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DAY 1 Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

Ah, such a feel-good song and one that I’ve heard over and over again since I was very young. These days barely any original Christmas songs are released and if they are, they rarely chart which is sad. Songs like this really capture the spirit of Christmas and it never fails to bring a smile to my face! And Roy Wood’s beard is extremely impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoxQ4Ul_DME