Snapshots #272: A Top Ten Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Songs

It's Christmas morning. What better way to celebrate than ten versions of one of the very best Christmas songs ever written... and they're all worth a listen. 

10. ...Brutus? 

Et tu, Brutus? 

U2 - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Because it's Christmas, I'm going to say something nice about U2. They did a cracking version of this track.

9. Hairy camera.

Anagram! And a very young...

Mariah Carey - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

8. Like Manchester, and a Brummie goalie.

Like Melissa Manchester and Neil Etheridge, the Birmingham City goalkeeper... who I had to google, because clearly I had no idea who he was.

Melissa Etheridge - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

7. Brilliant lugholes.

The Lumineers - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

6. Someone's going to make you pay your fare.

"Someone's going to make you pay your fare" is a repeated refrain at the end of the song Death Cab For Cutie by the Bonzos.

Death Cab For Cutie - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

5. Pubescent ringers.

Anagram!

Bruce Springsteen - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

4. Top guns.

The Mavericks - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

3. Enjoy a more disorganised muddle.

"Enjoy a more" is a disorganised muddle of...

Joey Ramone - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) 

2. Keep it up, lads.

Arab Strap - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

1. Roseanne's daughter failed to score at tennis.

In the sitcom Roseanne, she had two daughters: Becky and Darlene. No score at tennis is Love.

Happy Christmas to everyone who's ever visited this page, whether you're here every day or you just strayed here by accident and couldn't get away. Every visit, every comment, keeps me going. In more ways that you'd think. Take care of yourselves. Have a good one (whatever that might mean to you).