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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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JaffaCake70 · 08/12/2024 19:39

My fave Christmas songs:

  1. Fairytale Of New York - Kirsty & Shane
  2. Last Christmas - Wham
  3. The Power of Love - FGTH
  4. Stay Another Day - East 17
  5. Merry Christmas - Ed Sheeran/Elton John
Crikeyalmighty · 08/12/2024 19:37

@NeedABabelFish - I work in music - you have very good taste!!

Mine are

Greg lake- I believe in Father Xmas
Steelye span - Gaudette
A spaceman came travelling- Chris de Burgh
Jethro Tull - ring out solstice bells
Wombles- we wish you a wombling merry Xmas

12345mummy · 08/12/2024 19:33

I love it but Step into Christmas is my No1.
I don’t like the Shakin Stevens one!

BulldogMumma · 08/12/2024 19:32

Yep it's my favourite!

Thatwouldbeme · 08/12/2024 19:31

Funny it was on the radio tonight while I was in the car, I was just saying how much I enjoyed it 😊

Leavealightonformehey · 08/12/2024 19:30

@MasterBeth Oh stop being silly 😂

ShortColdandGrey · 08/12/2024 19:30

Nope, and to be honest, I don't get what all the fuss is about.

Crikeyalmighty · 08/12/2024 19:27

That should be Greg lakes!

Luddite26 · 08/12/2024 19:27

Can't stand it and never have liked it.

Crikeyalmighty · 08/12/2024 19:27

I like it but my favourite is Greg Jake's- I believe in Father Christmas!!

Q2C4 · 08/12/2024 19:26

MissFancyDay · 08/12/2024 17:48

No I dislike it. I prefer happy, hopeful Christmas songs.

I was about to say the same.

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harmoneygarxe · 08/12/2024 19:25

CurlewKate · 08/12/2024 19:12

No. It's a fantastic song but if you listen to the words how can it possibly be a Christmas song? Or ever sung by children?

Because the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day?

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DemonicCaveMaggot · 08/12/2024 19:25

I can't stand it. The only song I hate more is 'All I want for Christmas' by Mariah Carey. I even prefer The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins and the Skoal Dip Song to either of those, and I only got through The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins by gritting my teeth and using great determination.

The Skoal Dip Song is quite catchy though.

Sonowimbackfromouterspace · 08/12/2024 19:24

MasterBeth · 08/12/2024 19:12

People wrongly calling it a Christmas song doesn't make it a Christmas song.

Listen to it. How is it a Christmas song?

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Neither was "Stop The Cavalry" but irlt's become known as a Christmas song. It happens 😃

UndeniablyGenX · 08/12/2024 19:24

Alibababandthe40sheets · 08/12/2024 19:16

Love it. My favourite followed by the not Christmas but comes out every Christmas East 17.

Hate that one. Particularly hate the pathetic attempt to grab the Christmas market by jingling a few bells at the end.

tobee · 08/12/2024 19:24

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 😁

This has put it much better than I did!

toucheee · 08/12/2024 19:23

MasterBeth · 08/12/2024 19:18

OK, then my favourite Christmas song is mince pies. It's not a song, but it's Christmassy.

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Good choice Master!

tobee · 08/12/2024 19:23

No. Everyone likes to pretend it's the favourite Christmas song and that it "sums up their cynical feelings about Christmas". But they're just using it to give them credibility when you know they've had their tree up since early November and wear a Santa hat to work every day.

Plus it's quite an unpleasant song to listen to.

twistingmymelons · 08/12/2024 19:22

I love FoNY; it's authentic and speaks to me about disappointing Christmases—and let's be honest, who hasn't had at least one? Just see the post-Christmas posts on here! It's a song that knocks off the sickly sweet other offerings. It's the best.

MasterBeth · 08/12/2024 19:22

Uricon2 · 08/12/2024 19:18

I never realised that there was a Christmas Song Definition Committee equivalent only to the Office for the Doctrine of the Faith, but I do now.

I mean, there isn't, but it's not unreasonable that a Christmas song is a) a song and b) about Christmas.

MasterBeth · 08/12/2024 19:19

Alibababandthe40sheets · 08/12/2024 19:16

Love it. My favourite followed by the not Christmas but comes out every Christmas East 17.

As you admit, nothing like a Christmas song. It's a song about suicide!

Uricon2 · 08/12/2024 19:18

I never realised that there was a Christmas Song Definition Committee equivalent only to the Office for the Doctrine of the Faith, but I do now.

MasterBeth · 08/12/2024 19:18

SerafinasGoose · 08/12/2024 19:15

It's a Christmas story.

And it's Christmas music. Pedants' corner is thattaway ... ➡

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OK, then my favourite Christmas song is mince pies. It's not a song, but it's Christmassy.

whiteroseredrose · 08/12/2024 19:17

Love it. And Slade!

lollylo · 08/12/2024 19:17

Top 5 definitely and sound tracked some brilliant parties in my youth

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