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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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Screamingabdabz · 27/11/2024 20:39

No I friggin’ hate them. Nothing nostalgic - they’re just derivative shit and brain drillingly repetitive. I have to leave any shop playing them.

AnnaDelvorkina · 27/11/2024 20:38

OMG I forgot East 17! A classic.

And 2 Become 1 !

AnnaDelvorkina · 27/11/2024 20:37

Love almost all of them! Band Aid, Wham, Slade, Mariah Carey, Brenda Lee, Bobby Helms, the Beach Boys are some of my favourites.

I don’t like the Pogues song.
Not a big fan of John and Yoko either.

Edingril · 27/11/2024 20:37

I love some hate others but am yet to hear a decent one that has come out since then

SprigatitoYouAndIKnow · 27/11/2024 20:36

Yes, love them! Up to Mariah Carey wrote the last good Christmas song until The Darkness came along about 20 years later. Modern songs generally seem more about making a seasonal repeat earner than being actually good. Coldplay should be banned for their everyone get depressed Christmas dirge.

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.

MaroonyBalloony · 27/11/2024 20:33

Sorry to double post, but I was recently googling this very thing as I suddenly couldn't bring myself to watch a 90s Christmas film that some years makes me feel festive, and it's called Nostalgic Depression - lots of people get it from various triggers

Createausername1970 · 27/11/2024 20:32

Love them for their cheesy nostalgic glory.

I get the controversy around Do They Know It's Christmas, and I don't disagree, but times change and at a basic level it was song with good intentions and at that time it did raise a lot of money and a lot of food and other items were supplied to people who needed them. The first time I hear it every year I get very emotional. It's one of the few songs that makes me cry.

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.

MaroonyBalloony · 27/11/2024 20:31

I get this sometimes. It's easy to forget nostalgia can go either way, some years the old music brings back the magic and excitement, other years they make me feel hollow and sad.

I think if you're feeling discontented with your life right now it is only natural, but you won't always feel like that as life ebbs and flows. It's fine to not want to hear them now, and maybe in a few years you will, or maybe you'll replace the old happy memories with new happy memories with a different soundtrack!

LadyAmroth · 27/11/2024 20:30

Yes I like most of them not Wings

Kaleidoscopic101 · 27/11/2024 20:27

Once I hear 'step into christmas' it's a worm in my ear for basically weeks and weeks...argh

Falseshamrok · 27/11/2024 20:26

I love them. Nostalgia and all that

ZippyLilacStork · 27/11/2024 20:22

I love them all except ‘I believe in Father Christmas’ that one makes me so sad because I associate it with someone I’ve lost.

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