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

They are talking about their favourite Christmas songs. And then you are arguing and telling them they aren't Christmas songs.

The East 17 one isn't really a Christmas song. But it always makes me think of Christmas.

This is some deep level existential argument you've got going on here.

You're arguing with me that I'm arguing that a song that isn't a Christmas song isn't a Christmas songs while at the same time agreeing that it isn't a Christmas song!

Stay Another Day is a song about fraternal suicide. It's a song that gets played at Christmas but, as you say, it's not a Christmas song.

Why is anyone getting upset to be reminded what is and what isn't a Christmas song? Why are you insisting that up is down and black is white and that East 17 were singing about Christmas?

Love it, but not as much as I love The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping.

I love a good Christmas clearout! 🤣

I love it but it's not my favourite, quite a way down the list actually. I prefer The Night Santa Went Crazy, Christmas at Ground Zero, Merry Xmas Everyone, Christmas at the Zoo, Christmas Clearout, there are loads that I like better.

I love the Home Alone one! Apparently it's called Carol of the Bells by John Williams.

Here it is. Lovely video too

They are talking about their favourite Christmas songs. And then you are arguing and telling them they aren't Christmas songs.

The East 17 one isn't really a Christmas song. But it always makes me think of Christmas. And almost The Sound of Silence by Disturbed which nearly made it to Christmas number one.

Incidentally Back for Good by Take That is an Easter for me. Because I listened to the cd on repeat whilst stuffing my face with Easter eggs one year.

Music can invoke very strong memories, causing some songs to have links to things they aren't really linked to.

There's also a nice version sung by the actress who was in Taggart and another Scottish male singer.

If you’re fed up with the original, here’s a lovely piano instrumental rendition

It’s not my favourite Xmas song but I like it. Definitely in the top 20. To be fair, there aren’t many Xmas songs that I don’t like. I was even listening to Heart Xmas on the radio in my car this morning.

I agree. If I hear a Christmas song on the radio before 25 December, I tend to find another station 😊

I love it. But I am a big Pogues fan, and pre kids we saw them just before Christmas every year so it holds some wonderful memories for me.

@TempestTost
It is one of the best songs ever
It has the line Its coming on Christmas
Therefore I am claiming it is the best Christmas song ever 😀
@MasterBeth I think there are some songs (and films) that are directly about Christmas and some that have become synonymous with Christmas. As a film example nobody would really say The Great Escape is a Christmas movie but it is on every single Christmas so for many people it is their favourite Christmas movie. Really not worth all the arguments people are perfectly aware of the difference.

I'm starting a petition to get the Wombles re-released immediately now there's 3 of us on the thread that like it

I don't want to argue with anyone. I want everyone to talk about their favourite Christmas songs.

@MasterBeth why do you want to argue with everyone? Very odd.

I do like it, if only because it was such a breath of fresh air when it came out and broke up the anodyne shopping centre soundtrack. I really loathe Mariah Carey's one and a lot that era's offerings. For the first time for donkey's years I heard Run Rudolph Run by Chuck Berry recently and that went straight on my Spotify list. Driving Home for Christmas resonates because we travelled from home to spend many very happy Christmases on Teesside, so it made it feel personal. For spine tingling, the one the church choir is singing in Home Alone (but I have no idea what it's called) and Gaudete by Steeleye Span.

That's hardly in the spirit of Christmas! 🎄

What more than all the cutesy alternatives about driving home to family, falling in love as the snow falls, presents, trees, santa, log fires and children sledging? Of all the songs to pick out for that criticism I'd say it had to come near the bottom of the list.

I'm glad you found it hilarious. You should consider that maybe I meant you to.

Yes. The video. Not the song. It's not a Christmas song.

By serving you with verifiably untrue information. Pipes of Peace is not about the Christmas truce in WW1. Listen to it. It's a song from the heart of the Cold War about peace (a long-standing McCartney theme) and specifically the fear of WW111.

"What do you say? (Do you say)
Will the human race be run in a day? (In a day)
Or will someone save this planet we're playing on?
Is it the only one?
What are we going to do?"

McCartney says:

"It was great fun making the video for this song. It was directed by a guy called Keith McMillan [....] He and I were talking about "Pipes of Peace" and I remembered a piece of film [....] about soldiers in the trenches greeting each other in No Man's Land and having a game of football on Christmas Day 1914. That's where we started visually..."

In other words, the video was not conceived until after the song was finished. The song is not a Christmas song and categorically not about the Christmas truce.