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harmoneygarxe · 2024-12-08T17:39:13+00:00

Just that really. Is it a love it or hate it song?

LineofTedLasso · 09/12/2024 09:42

It is my favourite Christmas song, but the older I get the more sick I get of all of them (in my 50's) same old shit every year.

PandoraSox · 09/12/2024 09:14

I really like Simon and Garfunkel's Silent Night.

Manchesterbythesea · 09/12/2024 09:09

What about this one? Another favourite of mine but it also makes me cry.
open.spotify.com/track/3wnutCRc2OAMOPul8EiPGQ?si=SQSJbzpmTlO_wEwd6_Vdrg

Pickingmyselfup · 09/12/2024 09:08

Jumpingthruhoops · 09/12/2024 03:24

I cannot bear all those 70s ones that are played ad nauseum every single year: Step Into Christmas, Wizzard's I Wish it Could Be Christmas Every Day, Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody and, my absolute worst, John and Yoko Merry Christmas (War Is Over).
But I love FoNY, a bit of Shaky and, of course, Wham's Last Christmas.

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I love all of them, brings back childhood memories of Christmas when Santa was real and it was all so magical.

PandoraSox · 09/12/2024 09:03

MasterBeth · 08/12/2024 18:37

Because it isn't. It was just a hit at Christmas. What's Christmassy about it?

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The video was pretty Christmassy!

Manchesterbythesea · 09/12/2024 08:59

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'...

Oh yes, I forgot about that one. A very powerful song. Gives me the shivers.

MinnieCauldwell · 09/12/2024 08:54

Dan Fogleberg - another old lang syne

Alibababandthe40sheets · 09/12/2024 08:47

MasterBeth · 09/12/2024 08:21

This post is everything that is wrong about 2024 in a handful of lines. You have outsourced your thinking to an notoriously inaccurate AI and it has failed you.

Listen to the song. Don't watch the video, listen to the song. The lyrics are not about the Christmas truce. Listen to it then come back and apologise. Wake up!

Wow that is hilariously aggressive for a thread about Christmas songs. Did the elf piss in your cornflakes this morning.

Funkyslippers · 09/12/2024 08:45

MasterBeth · 09/12/2024 08:21

This post is everything that is wrong about 2024 in a handful of lines. You have outsourced your thinking to an notoriously inaccurate AI and it has failed you.

Listen to the song. Don't watch the video, listen to the song. The lyrics are not about the Christmas truce. Listen to it then come back and apologise. Wake up!

How has it failed me exactly?

MasterBeth · 09/12/2024 08:21

This post is everything that is wrong about 2024 in a handful of lines. You have outsourced your thinking to an notoriously inaccurate AI and it has failed you.

Listen to the song. Don't watch the video, listen to the song. The lyrics are not about the Christmas truce. Listen to it then come back and apologise. Wake up!

Funkyslippers · 09/12/2024 08:01

MasterBeth · 08/12/2024 23:52

The song isn't.

The video is.

There's nothing in the song about the Christmas Day truce.

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Yes the song is. Plus PM cut his hair especially, for the video apparently 🤣

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

Funkyslippers · 09/12/2024 07:57

Sonowimbackfromouterspace · 08/12/2024 23:48

What I will never understand is why, in Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas time", he sings "The choir of children sing their song, they practice all year long" and then, when the children actually start singing, all they can manage is "ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong".

A year. For that. That's not a good use of anyone's time, not to mention the cost of heating & lighting the church hall for choir practice.

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They also do a bit of "ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh" too. Give the kids some credit! 🤣

Funkyslippers · 09/12/2024 07:54

MissConductUS · 09/12/2024 00:24

I'm a New Yorker and had never heard of it. It's not played here. "The rare old mountain dew"? Mountain Dew is a sweet fizzy drink, available everywhere.

It hasn't cracked my top 20.

Brilliant 🤣

UndeniablyGenX · 09/12/2024 07:03

Sonowimbackfromouterspace · 08/12/2024 23:48

What I will never understand is why, in Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas time", he sings "The choir of children sing their song, they practice all year long" and then, when the children actually start singing, all they can manage is "ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong".

A year. For that. That's not a good use of anyone's time, not to mention the cost of heating & lighting the church hall for choir practice.

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I always thought that was unrealistic. If it's one 'song' I doubt they'd need to start rehearsals until November at the earliest.

MixieMatchie · 09/12/2024 06:11

No, it's such a cliché.

Usou · 09/12/2024 05:54

Links appear not to work. They are:

Kate Bush - December Will be Magic - 1979 Xmas Special

Greg Lake - I Beleive in Father Christmas

Steeleye Span - Gaudete. Only song in Latin to ever reach the UK top 20.

Usou · 09/12/2024 05:43

Excellent song.

Kate Bush did a live version of December Will be Magic on some kids show in the late 70s that was utterly mind-blowing.

CottonCandyLand · 09/12/2024 05:37

I hate it. Sorry.

KittenPause · 09/12/2024 05:21

Not my favourite but I like it

Alondra · 09/12/2024 05:00

Vettrianofan · 08/12/2024 18:51

I prefer O Holy Night.

O Holy Night is my favourite hands down, specially if Sissel is singing it.

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Moro93 · 09/12/2024 04:01

It’s my favourite and has been for as long as I can remember, since childhood.

To me the music just sounds like the epitome of what Christmas should sound like. Especially just after Shane MacGowan’s intro and Kirsty MacColl starting to sing.

mondaytosunday · 09/12/2024 03:38

It's ok but there are loads I like more.

Jumpingthruhoops · 09/12/2024 03:35

toucheee · 08/12/2024 18:37

It has sort of become one after that famous advert.

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I actually prefer that version.

Jumpingthruhoops · 09/12/2024 03:24

Pickingmyselfup · 08/12/2024 17:44

No, my favourite is Step into Christmas by Elton John.

I like all of the others but this for some reason is my favourite.

I cannot bear all those 70s ones that are played ad nauseum every single year: Step Into Christmas, Wizzard's I Wish it Could Be Christmas Every Day, Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody and, my absolute worst, John and Yoko Merry Christmas (War Is Over).
But I love FoNY, a bit of Shaky and, of course, Wham's Last Christmas.

HashtagShitShop · 09/12/2024 02:54

I don't like it, same with Lonely This Christmas, Blue Christmas and Merry Christmas Darling.

I love Last Christmas and Step Into Christmas the most. Have a soft spot for Slade and Wizzard as they transport my memory back to primary school christmas parties in the school hall on the afternoon of the last day of school under pe hoops with kid made stars dangling from the ceiling.