25 Days of Christmas | A Christmas Soundtrack...

It's astonishing to realize that most of the best Christmas songs around are still the ones recorded by Frank, Dean and Bing back in the 1940s and 1950s... But every now and again I stumble upon some really good - and slightly more recent songs - that make a nice addition to an already splendidly repertoire of Christmas songs... This is a short list of the songs upon which I stumbled this year...

 1) These Bells Will Ring 

Stumbled upon this one in a collection of Indie Christmas songs of the year... It was the very first song and it just struck me as beautiful...

 

2) Christmas in 1915 

 Christmas in 1915 is about that Christmas, during the First World War, in which both sides agreed to a truce and soldiers from both sides spent Christmas together, exchanged gifts and sang Carols as brothers. The song is beautiful, and the boys dressed in World War I uniforms might as well be soldiers at the front...

 

3) Hallelujah 

 This is an old song that was brought to my attention when it appeared on the Christmas Special of Sense 8 yesterday... The lyrics are very powerful, out of this world... These two versions are the best I could find:

 

4) Thank God It's Christmas 

I knew a year ago that this would be the soundtrack of this Christmas... What can I say? It's been a long hard year... Thank God it's Christmas :)