What's the most recent Christmas song that you think is or will become a classic?

[SteveG]

davester wrote:
[quote=Steve G.]
[quote=davester]
I vote for "The Chanukah Song" by Adam Sandler (and I'm not even jewish!)

and Chanukkah isn't Christmas. In fact, this year it starts a month before Christmas. Not even remotely the same holiday.
Lighten up Steve! We know that. Ever heard of "humor"?
Sorry, I truly dislike Adam Sandler. I think his movies are the world's leading cause of anti-Semitism.

[DeusxMac]

None of the above.

[pdq]

There's that horrible dreck my kids call "Jesus shoes".

Wikipedia says released in 2000. Based on a previous '90's email glurge called "The Golden Slippers". Spent one week at number 1 on adult contemporary charts. Elected as "The Worst Christmas Song Ever" in 2011 by voters at Gawker.com.

Played at least once an hour, it seems, by the stations that switch to all-Christmas music during the season around here.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I am particularly fond of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" (featured in the film Love Actually). It's the one Christmas song I look forward to hearing on the radio during the season. They play the hell out of it, so I would have to say it is already well on its way to becoming a holiday classic.

EDIT: Apparently I'm not the only one to feel this way:

Critically, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has been lauded, with The New Yorker calling it "one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_I_Want_...mas_Is_You
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_I_Want_..._reception

[Sam3]

"A Soldiers Silent Night" (originally "Merry Christmas, My Friend")
Newsong's "Christmas Shoes"

[3d]

New to me was Sinatra's version of Jingle Bells.
Whenever it pops up on the radio it makes me smile.

[Lux Interior]

3d wrote:
New to me was Sinatra's version of Jingle Bells.

Sinatra's Christmas Waltz is one of my favorites.

[eustacetilley]

I'm going to get all Grinchy here- the last five decades have been _dreadful_ for Christmas music, very little qualifies as "Classic", in the sense that it will be listened to, a century from now.
There are exceptions of course; Bowie/Crosby, Geldof, The Pogues...

So I'll just leave a few reminders of some old Good Stuff:





And a fun little video from 1967, Lalo Schifrin's "Look Up (Joy To the World)":

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe44dz_...ossa_music

Eustace

(PS: The complete "A Baroque Christmas" is on YouTube.
Don't listen to it on headphones. It needs space. Also, the engineering is pretty bad, so I'm not surprised that it hasn't been re-released recently.)

[ka jowct]

eustacetilley wrote:
I'm going to get all Grinchy here- the last five decades have been _dreadful_ for Christmas music, very little qualifies as "Classic", in the sense that it will be listened to, a century

Agreed. I listen to very little Xmess music voluntarily, and the stuff that is played relentlessly in stores makes me long for ear plugs. If I listen to anything seasonal, it's the older traditional material, and absolutely not not not performed by pop stars.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Grinchette.