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To ask if Fairytale of New York is your favourite Christmas song?

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harmoneygarxe · 08/12/2024 17:39

Just that really.

Is it a love it or hate it song?

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Karaokequeenie · 08/12/2024 18:17

ScrambledSmegs · 08/12/2024 17:52

My favourite is I Believe In Father Christmas by Greg Lake. Prog-rock anti-capitalist classic.

Me too! The best Xmas song!

NewGreenDuck · 08/12/2024 18:16

Love it. Always been keen on Shane McGowan/ The Pogues. It's different.

Inextremis · 08/12/2024 18:15

I love it. Shane was a friend of a friend and I'm honoured to be able to say I got drunk with him many years ago, and he paid me £5 for my phone number (this was before The Pogues). Bugger never used it though (the phone number). Fond, mad memories :) My next favourite is Gaudete, but I never met any of Steeleye Span ;)

SomewhereInMyHeart · 08/12/2024 18:15

I love it but feels a bit too sad now they are both gone. There’s a ‘Making of…’ programme from a few years ago on iPlayer.

Soozikinzii · 08/12/2024 18:13

I love it but My favourite is Bruce Springsteens Santa Claus is coming to town. Plus another vote for Elton' s Step into Christmas probably because of Gavin and Stacey and Donny Hathaway's This Christmas .

MissJoGrant · 08/12/2024 18:12

I don't like it. I can't stand fiddle-dee-dee Irish music.

toucheee · 08/12/2024 18:11

harmoneygarxe · 08/12/2024 18:01

What’s chavy about it?

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The lyrics.

Screamingabdabz · 08/12/2024 18:11

I hate it. A miserable depressing dirge. Ugh. Just thinking about it makes me enraged that they still play the shit.

toucheee · 08/12/2024 18:11

LucyLocketLovesPollyPocket · 08/12/2024 18:09

Not a favourite but definitely one that holds memories. I enjoy Carol of the Bells the most, always gives tingles.

Thats my favourite too.

Uricon2 · 08/12/2024 18:10

Hatty65 · 08/12/2024 17:57

Love it - saw them live several times.

But my favourite is 'The Power of Love' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Best lyrics ever 'I'll protect you from The Hooded Claw'...

"...keep the vampires from your door"

LucyLocketLovesPollyPocket · 08/12/2024 18:09

Not a favourite but definitely one that holds memories. I enjoy Carol of the Bells the most, always gives tingles.

thesunisastar · 08/12/2024 18:09

I do love it, but for me it feels intertwined with the tragedy of her death when her sons were just young teens. The sadness comes from that, rather than the lyrics, which are make believe.

Uricon2 · 08/12/2024 18:09

Late DH's favourite Christmas song. Always find it a bit poignant after Kirsty, him and now Shane but it is utterly brilliant.

allfurcoatnoknickers · 08/12/2024 18:09

I live in New York, and while it's not my favorite, I love the lyrics. They're very evocative of moving to the city and being swept up in...well everything.

"They've got cars big as bars, they've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you, it's no place for the old" gets me a bit every time.

ginasevern · 08/12/2024 18:08

Looks like Shakey wins the vote so far. I still really like Fairy Tale of New York and loved it when it came out. It was very different and gritty whilst also being so poignant, more so now both protagonists are dead. My favourite though is Slade, Merry Christmas Every One. I was 16 in 1973 so I suppose it takes me back to my glam rock (and misspent) youth.

SocksAndTheCity · 08/12/2024 18:06

Hate it with the fire of a thousand suns. The Plastic Paddy anthem for arseholes who only go out drinking twice a year and then try to sing along to it.

*former barmaid 😁

ReignOfError · 08/12/2024 18:06

I’m in the ‘I like it but it’s not my favourite’ camp.

ShodAndShadySenators · 08/12/2024 18:06

My Christmas playlist is 79 songs long, mostly old favourites, some really old ones and a few newer ones that I've stuck on the end in the hopes I'll get used to them and they'll make me feel all Christmassy, like Boney M, Jonah Lewie and Shakin' Stevens do...

I think I've left off Fairytale of New York for now, it's not a favourite of mine (but not as bad as Chris Rea's Driving Home For Christmas, it just rubs me up the wrong way)

twinsufficient · 08/12/2024 18:03

It's not my favourite but it has special meaning for me as it was playing in the operating theatre as my twins were born

SometimesCalmPerson · 08/12/2024 18:03

Love it

TheHateIsNotGood · 08/12/2024 18:03

It's okay, in the same league as Slade and Silent Night really.

Feelingstrange2 · 08/12/2024 18:02

It's my all time favourite Christmas Eve song.

My favourite
Early December - A Spaceman Came Travelling
Nearing Christmas - Driving Home For Christmas
Christmas Day song is - Mary's Boy Child

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harmoneygarxe · 08/12/2024 18:01

toucheee · 08/12/2024 18:00

I don’t like it at all, it sounds chavvy, for want if a better word.

What’s chavy about it?

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NotAScoobyDoo2 · 08/12/2024 18:01

Love it. It's on my playlist.

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harmoneygarxe · 08/12/2024 18:00

UndeniablyGenX · 08/12/2024 17:52

It is probably my least favourite Christmas song, or perhaps joint worst with Mariah Carey's All I What for Christmas.

There's something really false about it, a sort of double-bluff sneery pretentiousness - it's a Christmas song - but the singers are calling each other names - but it's still a Christmas song.

It's even worse now they have pandered to people who don't understand British and Irish English by removing the word 'faggot'.

Ok I 100000% agree with All I Want for Christmas.

But I don’t think FONY is pretentious, I think it’s just the anti traditional Christmas song of everything being perfect and the most wonderful time of the year.

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