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Do you actually enjoy those Christmas songs from the 70s-90s?

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OnlyHerefortheBiscuits · 27/11/2024 20:12

The only Christmas music I can listen to is classical/choral.

I find those 80s/90s childhood Christmas songs so painful. And it's because I had lovely Christmasses as a kid!

It was a time back when anything was possible for my future life. But here I am, late thirties, single, childless (or childfree? I don't know...), with no romantic relationship history at all, friends all married off playing their happy families all year.

Make sense?? They get increasingly difficult to listen to each year. 2016 was when I first got a knot hearing one in Tesco and panicked thinking "oh shit what if this is the status quo forever"

It's the end of another year I guess...always tricky. They're all over the bloody airwaves though

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sometimesmovingforwards · 28/11/2024 07:04

It’s certainly not my cup of tea and I’m in my 40s.
Luckily BBC Radio 1Xtra doesn’t play much of it! 😁

RampantIvy · 28/11/2024 07:03

Fairy Tale of New York makes me feel sad as Kirsty McColl went to my school, and it always reminds me of the tragic way she died.

Mummyratbag · 28/11/2024 06:57

I hadn't really thought about it, but yes so many memories!

Wham! - I'm 14 again with all the insecurities and hope that brings.

Jonny Mathias' When A Child is Born, East 17's Stay Another Day and David Essex's Winter's Tale all make me sad.

Fairy Tale of New York - late night pressie wrapping on Christmas Eve (why...every bloody year??)

Chris Rea's Driving Home for Christmas makes me happy.

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas now makes me think of Lockdown.

Nat King Cole - one of my first jobs (played on a loop in the restuarant)

KimberleyClark · 28/11/2024 06:34

MorrisZapp · 27/11/2024 20:32

I agree. Who the fuck decided that the eighties got to have a choke hold on Christmas forevermore.

Nostalgia literally means pain. I had lovely Christmases as a child and teenager, and nobody can go back there. In the right mood, I can get behind a Stop the Cavalry or a Last Christmas, but sometimes they feel like a tiny, piercing arrow.

Last Christmas makes me feel painfully nostalgic for 80s Christmas work dos when I actually enjoyed them.

augustusglupe · 28/11/2024 06:26

Yes, I love them.
The power of love is my favourite, but I like them all.
Merry Christmas Everybody & I wish it could be Christmas everyday, make me very nostalgic.

NellePorter · 28/11/2024 00:08

Yes, LOVE them, they bring me a lot of joy. Maybe it's an age thing? (I'm 50).
Btw
@SprigatitoYouAndIKnow only 9 years between the Mariah and Darkness songs!

TofuTart · 28/11/2024 00:06

I absolutely love all the classic Christmas songs!
Reminds me of the magic and excitement of being a kid, waiting for Father Christmas, going to the kids Christmas parties at the local working men's club....
Christmases past and it just makes me feel warm and childlike again, bring on the excitement!
Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens and Jonie Lewie (?) Stop The Cavalry being my two particular faves 🌲⛄❄️🎅

SocksAndTheCity · 27/11/2024 23:49

I love them all (except the Pogues one which reminds me of a bar job I had and having to hear it non stop on the jukebox all through December complete with pissed English people singing along) and the golden oldies too.

My favourites are Christmas in Hollis and Macy Gray doing Winter Wonderland 😊

Illegally18 · 27/11/2024 23:36

Bluelane · 27/11/2024 20:57

There are some true bangers. The only one I really dislike is the Paul McCartney song. Mariah is also a bit overplayed.

The opening bit of Fairy Tale of New York still gives me the feels.

Mariah shrieks her way through that song!

MrsMoastyToasty · 27/11/2024 23:16

I'm totally fed up with Noddy Holder screaming "It's Christmaaaaasss!" every year from mid November until its all over.

A friend wrote a Christmas song , which got a small amount of airplay on local radio, but trying to break into the charts as an unsigned band was impossible.

DuesToTheDirt · 27/11/2024 23:06

I am just so so bored of them all. They have no good/bad associations for me, but after 50+ years of some of these songs, I just want them to stop.

lavendarwillow · 27/11/2024 23:01

A Winters Tale by David Essex gets me every year. It's a lovely video.

mrlistersgelfbride · 27/11/2024 22:56

Stay another day by East 17 makes me sad as the Christmas day it was number one was perfect .

It was 1994, I was 9. We were watching Top of the Tops.
I was building my new Lego set with my brother who was building his. My mum was making Christmas dinner and my dad asked who these strange men were on the TV.
It was peak life and I didn't even know it as was just a kid 😅 but everytime I hear it I'm aware how much time has passed.

Samandytimlucypeterolivia · 27/11/2024 22:46

Yep total nostalgia fest when it comes to the 70s/80s music. As an 80’s baby it’s was all that you’d hear back then. My fave song is I believe in Father Christmas by Greg lake followed by fairytale of New York. I can only put up with driving home for Christmas and mistletoe and wine until a certain extent,..

rumred · 27/11/2024 22:26

Wombling Merry Christmas and Prokofiev's lieutenant kije make me smile at this time of year. Plus the frog chorus because it reminds me of the miner's strike.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 27/11/2024 22:26

I feel sad and uneasy when I hear certain Xmas songs and I genuinely don't know why

RubyRooRed · 27/11/2024 22:25

I used to work in a shoe shop
And in December all of those songs were torture.
Step into Christmas 😒

Justleaveitblankthen · 27/11/2024 22:21

I don't listen to music radio, so the only place I hear it is in Tesco 😁
Aldi and Lidl don't play music.

User135644 · 27/11/2024 22:21

Not in November, no.

justasking111 · 27/11/2024 22:20

I've turned the radio down in the car this month, zone out at supermarket music. It's too early.

justasking111 · 27/11/2024 22:16

MorrisZapp · 27/11/2024 20:46

Oh I love them too

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I'm guessing you'd like Johnny Mathis and Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra then.

ItGhoul · 27/11/2024 22:12

I think everyone has music they find difficult to listen to, for whatever reason. I certainly do. The fact that yours is Christmas music is unfortunate when Christmas songs are ubiquitous.

I think you're almost building it up in your head as an issue, though, and therefore possibly making it worse? I do understand your problem, but I also think you've almost told yourself it's always going to be difficult and now you're anticipating it every year and overthinking it.

BashfulClam · 27/11/2024 21:48

LostTheMarble · 27/11/2024 20:36

Sorry but I love them, right up until X Factor ruined Christmas music forever. Fairytale of New York, Stay Another Day, Spaceman Came Travelling, Merry Christmas Everyone, I can even listen to Cliff Richards (not Millennium Prayer though). Only one that’s painful is Do They Know It’s Christmas, it gets worse with every year and rerelease.

How can Rocking Around the Christmas Tree with Mel and Kim not spark joy? Especially as I always hear ‘have some fucking pie’ every time, just brilliant.

It is ‘fucking pie’ we have listened every time and it’s a definite lol

InWithThePlums · 27/11/2024 21:47

girljulian · 27/11/2024 21:40

I never liked this song but I like it even less now I know that Yoko couldn’t stop swearing at the Harlem Children’s Choir until even John was scandalised and told her off 😆