If Mull of Kintyre was a Xmas no 1, how come it never gets played at Xmas?

[ManWithARash]

or am I just listening to the wrong stations?
I've only just discovered that it was number one in Xmas 1977, I think.

For the same reason that they don't play Mr Blobby...not Christmassy.

and Mr Blobby is just bloody awful

There's loads of Xmas no 1's that aren't Xmas songs. X Factor winners and stuff

But 'Stay another day' is not Christmassy and it gets played

I think it might be partly due to the video which looks like it was made in summer.

@ManWithARash

But 'Stay another day' is not Christmassy and it gets played

It's got a jingly sort of sound though.

And there are big coats and fake snow in the video

Oh, and Mull of Kintyre is just plain shit.

I'll start the campaign to get 'Ernie, the fastest milkman in the west' played every year. Christmas no. 1 in 1971 and never played since.
(I'm old 😁)

Cause it's shit?

We've suffered enough this year without mull of kintyre blasting out from the radio, thank you very much.

Because it's crap

It has been played quite a few times on our local radio station, theough thye have a very weird selection

Because it’s a tedious dirge?

More to the point why do they play stop the cavalry? It is not at all Christmassy, it has one line wishing to be home for Xmas.

If anything it's a protest song.

It might be a celebration of the place but it has a sadness about it

It’s a brings the mood down song

@ArosGartref 🤣🤣

There is no rhyme or reason really. The Power of Love by Frankie is a (fantastic) song, deemed to be a Christmas song by virtue of the video, but doesn't mention Christmas at all.

Because it is shit

Yet to me Stop the Cavalry sounds very festive, with the bells and brass band.

Because it was played to death in the 70s, and all its usages have been used up.

What happened in the 70s stays in the 70s!

I used to walk around the house in my brown dungarees and orange polo necked tops singing "Mull of Kintyre oh mist rolling in from the sea", over and over and over and over again... I was 4 I think.

Oh, I love Stop the Cavalry, not sure why, it's just so jaunty.

@NowellSingWe

Because it was played to death in the 70s, and all its usages have been used up.

What happened in the 70s stays in the 70s!

I used to walk around the house in my brown dungarees and orange polo necked tops singing "Mull of Kintyre oh mist rolling in from the sea", over and over and over and over again... I was 4 I think.

Is there a Slade exemption to the 1970s usage quota

The exemption is based upon using the word "Christmas" in the song's title so yes, sorry, Slade may still be played. And Wizzard, and Elton John's "Step Into Christmas" (or "Daredevil Christmas" as I may have rendered it...)

And Wizzard? And Mudd? And Johnny Mathis? And Boney M?

It's too dirge like, more a lament than an uplifting Christmas song.

It’s shit.

Pet Shop Boys Always on my Mind was Christmas number one in the late eighties. Same year we first heard Fairytale of New York IIRC.