ARTIST: Cee-Lo Green SONG: What Christmas Means To Me First recorded by Motown and soul music legend Stevie Wonder back in 1967, 'What Christmas Means To Me' has been covered by many artists over the last five decades - some versions more brilliant than others it has to be said. https://youtu.be/t-7ZM9lYyao But former Gnarls Barkley … Continue reading Christmas Song Advent Calendar 2018: Day 15
ARTIST: Jona Lewie SONG: Stop The Cavalry Having hit the charts in 1980 with "You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties", Jona Lewie made an attempt for the festive top spot that year. With its suitably om-pom-pom Salvation Army brass band backing, 'Stop The Cavalry' is a song that is a Christmas classic … Continue reading Christmas Song Advent Calendar 2018: Day 14
ARTIST: The Vamps SONG: Hoping For Snow An interesting fact for you, pop pickers of the last oooh, five years. British pop rock scamps The Vamps - who've been the subject of interest again thanks to their guitarist James McVey's appearance in the I'm A Celebrity jungle for the last few weeks - released a … Continue reading Christmas Song Advent Calendar 2018: Day 13
ARTIST: Tom Chaplin SONG: Midnight Mass As we're just slightly at the halfway mark to the big day on our festive calendar of delights, I thought today might be an ideal place to stop for a reflective piece in amongst all the hustle and bustle and general madness of the season, and to remember the … Continue reading Christmas Song Advent Calendar 2018: Day 12
ARTIST: Gabriella Cilmi SONG: Warm This Winter Even if it was inevitable from the minute the still brilliant 'Sweet About Me' recieved saturation airplay over the whole of 2008, it's still a shame that Aussie songstress Gabriella Cilmi, for all her Xenomania produced soul pop stompers, came to be known by two songs alone. The … Continue reading Christmas Song Advent Calendar 2018: Day 11
ARTIST: Saint Etienne feat. Tim Burgess SONG: I Was Born On Christmas Day Now here's a fact for you. Bob Stanley from Saint Etienne was actually born on 25th December. (He also happens to be a self confessed NOW compilation enthusiast, but that's for another time.) So it seems appropriate that he, Pete Wiggs and … Continue reading Christmas Song Advent Calendar 2018: Day 10
ARTIST: Goldfrapp SONG: Winter Wonderland For a band more commonly associated with a frontwoman who's been known to wear a horse's tail on stage and have the lyrical mind of a lusty French madam, the idea of Goldfrapp doing a Christmas song, particularly such a well known one, sounds about as odd as a jacket … Continue reading Christmas Song Advent Calendar 2018: Day 9
ARTIST: Sugababes SONG: New Year It's a shame that whilst music channels will only ever seem to play "Too Lost In You", the single from the second incarnation of their lineup at Christmas 2003 from the soundtrack to Love Actually at this time of year, that people forget the first lineup of Sugababes - Keisha Buchanan, … Continue reading Christmas Song Advent Calendar 2018: Day 8
ARTIST: Billie Piper SONG: Last Christmas It's amazing what happens in the space of a few years. When we wrote about Wham's evergreen festive classic 'Last Christmas' back in 2015, it was in a playlist of what we believed to be the best five contemporary takes on the song. Since that time, one half of them sadly … Continue reading Christmas Song Advent Calendar 2018: Day 7
ARTIST: Busted SONG: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Rare is the pop band who chooses to cover one of the best loved seasonal carols that tells the story of the first Christmas. But then, Busted have never been most pop bands. After all, their biggest hit ('Year 3000') references Back to the Future, does it … Continue reading Christmas Song Advent Calendar 2018: Day 6
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