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the holidays are comming very soon. i'm going to have a little christmas party over at my kids mom's house and i was wondering what would be some good 80's christmas music? oh let's say something like george michale or the waitrisses or something like that. any ideas?

Not necessarily 80's, and not all ideal for kids, my holiday favorites include:

"Thanks For Christmas" by The Three Wise Men (XTC)
"One Christmas Catalog" by Captain Sensible
"2000 Miles" by Pretenders
"Christmasland" by Spongetones
"Christmas" - Dillon Fence
"Christmas" - Buzz Of Delight
"Christmastime" - Smashing Pumpkins
"Snoopy's Christmas" by The Royal Guardsmen
"Christmas Time" - Chris Stamey Group
"Home For The Holidays" - dB's
"Fairytale Of New York" - Pogues
"Father Christmas" - Kinks
"I Believe In Father Christmas" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Aimee Mann & Michael Penn - Christmas Time (1996)
~ from the 'Just Say Noel' cd, and also 'Hard 8' movie soundtrack -- great song.

Happy Christmas (War Is Over) by the The Alarm 1990
Do They Know It's Christmas by "Band Aid" 1984
Frosty The Snowman by the Cocteau Twins 1993, also Winter Wonderland
She Won't Be Home by Erasure 1988
Christmas Is Coming by the Payola$ 1983
Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses 1982
You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch by the Whirling Dervishes 1992

"Santa Clause is Coming to Town" - The Mysteroids (The Rezillos)
"Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer" - The Smithereens
"Last Christmas" - Wham!
"All I Want For Christmas" - Timbuk 3
"Christmas Day" - Squeeze
"Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" Bowie & Bing
"Little Drummer Boy" - Joan Jett
"Christmas Time" - Bryan Adams
"Another Lonely Christmas" - Prince
"Red Lights (Merry Christmas) - Dreams So Real
"Christmas Song" - Bodeans
"Merry Christmas" (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) The Ramones

Chris Stamey did an album too.

Silent Night-Robert Fripp (Frippertronics)
Silent Night-Mike Oldfield
Hergest Ridge-Mike Oldfield
Dingo Bells-Telex

Eurythmics take on 'Winter Wonderland'

If you can believe it, Sting's "the Angel Gabriel"....

That Pogues/Kirsty MacColl song, 'Fairytale of NY' is a beauty, too.

Merry Christmas ( I don't want to fight tonight)~ The Ramones

There is no other holiday song, well, maybe the Waitress' song comes a close second.

The first thing I thought about was also Ramones "Merry X'mas (I don't want to fight tonight)"... [:)] Makes me laugh at the theme too. [:)]

What came to mind was:

Baby please come home-U2
It Dosen't often Snow at Christmas- THe Pet Shop Boys
Thanks For Christmas- Three Wise Men (aka-XTC)
Nik-Nak Paddy Wak- The Snowmen


I never heard Aimme Mann and Michael Penn- Christmas time. I would like to hear that one. Also I love the Cocteau Twins. I have to track down their version of Frosty the Snowman and Winter wonderland.

The first song I though of was The Pogues/Kristy MacColl song Fairytale of NY. That has to be one the most un-Christmas, Christmas songs there is! (but I love it) [:)]

Blue Christmas[Danielle Dax]
We Three Kings[Book Of Love]
Silent Night[The Dickies]
2000 Miles[The Pretenders]
Frosty The Snowman/Winter Wonderland[Cocteau Twins]
Red Wrapping Paper[The Creatures]
December Will Be Magic Again[Kate Bush]
Christmas At Ground Zero[Weird Al]

j0hn.......

Rhino and VH1 teamed up to release "Big 80s Christmas" a couple years ago, it's still in print. Has a lot of the songs mentioned here, along with Hall & Oates, Billy Squier, and some others.

Rhino also did a volume of "Just Can't Get Enough" dedicated solely to new wave Christmas songs, but it's OOP and not easy to find these days. Great songs by Timbuk 3 and Captain Sensible, among others.

"Rock and Roll Christmas" - George Thorogood & the Destroyers
"Things Fall Apart" - Christine
"Christmas on Riverside Drive" - Kid Creole & the Coconuts

"Christmas Rapping" - Waitresses
"(There Ain't No) Sanity Clause" - Damned
"Winter Wonderland" - Eurythmics
"White Christmas" - Stiff Little Fingers
"White Christmas" - Patti Smith
"Punk Rock Christmas" - The Ravers

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence- Ryuichi Sakamoto