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

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 😆

I love all the terrible Christmas songs! I read once that every Christmas morning Noddy Holder wakes his wife up and yells "It's christmasssss!' I love Noddy Holder 😂

I don't like them, have muted the radio a few times, till in the end tuned if to R3.
Quite like a choral, or something classical though.

They make me sad as they remind me of good times I used to have with family. Things have changed so much now and I long for those happier days.

Not a fan, really. I loathe several of them most of all Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time. And the Waitresses one. That’s hideous.

However, I love River by Joni Mitchell and the whole album Midwinter Graces by Tori Amos. And Fleet Foxes’ White Winter Hymnal, but that’s not really a Christmas song.

Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea has always been a guilty pleasure, but DH and I now have to sing the Reeves and Mortimer version over it when it comes on.

I find them so boring.
The same old crap every year.
I love the classical music radio stations this time of year.

Nostalgia and the connections your brain makes between memories, emotions, sounds and smells are fascinating and it's not a surprise that you don't enjoy them.

One that's totally not to my taste but that I love is Mistletoe and Wine. No idea why but I love the feeling it evokes for me - has done the same since I was small.

I like a mix of songs but I find a lot of the more modern ones are clearly churned out with the aim of getting on some Christmas albums and making money - the older ones don't feel like that.
Plus a lot of the great Christmas films have 80s songs in them so I associate them with those.

YABU.

Love familiar songs from back in the day. Most people love a bit of nostalgia.

I don't really know why but I always feel a pang of sadness when I hear 'Last Christmas' by 'Wham' and 'I believe in Father Christmas' by Gregg Lake. Doesn't really make sense as I wasn't going through any sadness or trauma at the time they were around, actually on the contrary,I was pretty happy!

I don’t have any happy memories of Christmas really. As a kid, they were always awful. It’s a difficult time of year for me. The pressure to enjoy it is really off putting.
I have felt very flat about Christmas for a number of years. Before that I did get excited/ nervous/ happy/ sad (all at once). I feel inured to those kind of songs, they are like white noise or lift/ on hold type music. It doesn’t help that all the Christmas stuff starts in October now. I have a few songs I listen to myself around this time of year:
The Christmas Song by the Raveonettes
Snow Queen and I Could’ve been your girl by She&Him and
I missed your party by Camera Obscura
to name a few. The general vibe sums up how I feel this time of year, so I just go with it

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.

Wizard gives me the creeps too when I see the video. Do they know it’s Christmas… yes.

Your an old drunk… nice

I kind of know what you mean. Shortly after my dad died I saw an old Xmas TV ad break from the 90s on YouTube and it gave me such a jolt. I was sitting their crying watching silly ads for biscuits and toys from Argos, peering back in time. Almost painful to remember those happy childhood Christmases.

Yes piss off John and Yoko, you patronising gits

If you only heard them when you wanted they might be good but in every shop from mid November it's impossible to not hate them sacly

I love all of them, me and my sister had a Christmas tape when we were kids and we would listen to it on repeat, it had all the classics; Step in to Christmas, Wonderful Christmas time, Merry Xmas Everyone, I wish it could be Christmas everyday, Band Aid, The Power Of Love. They all give me a warm tingly feeling when I hear them.

I also like a couple of the newer ones, Leona Lewis and Ed Sheeran/Elton John

Oh I love them too

Our local radio station (who am I kidding they cover the whole country) have a protocol of not playing Slade until later on, if a week into December counts as later on. It's... too christmassy.

Pretty much hate them all. We stick to playing what few newer songs they are.

Don’t want to be depressed at Christmas geez.

My favourite is December will be Magic Again by Kate Bush. It never took off.

I like John and Yoko, and The Pogues.

I hate most of the others.

I love the golden oldies. Bing Crosby, Harry Belafonte, Eartha Kitt etc.

I love them and can’t imagine Christmas without a bit of Slade or Wizard

Original Band Aid is fine - the follow ups were absolute rubbish

More recently Kelly Clarkson and Leona Lewis’ songs are good (not her X factor one but her own single)

I absolutely hate most of them. They are on a loop every year and it gets earlier. I love music, most are not great songs. I think the real issue is they are so overplayed now from about mid-Novemer. Hearing bloody Slade 10 times a day is going to push people over the edge! No one brings out Christmas songs now (they are not a thing) except some really poor examples that mimic those big hits from another age. It must be lovely to make £000000s every year from one shite song though.

What about the winter of Fleet Foxes!