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Which Christmas song can you not stand?

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User135644 · 23/12/2021 15:51

Everyone probably has one that does their head in when they hear it?

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day is one I find annoying when it comes on.

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Thursa · 23/12/2021 22:15

Fairytale of New York
Do they know it’s Christmas?

Anystarinthesky · 23/12/2021 22:17

Fairytale of New York

DisforDarkChocolate · 23/12/2021 22:18

@ouchmyfeet

Baby it's cold outside - particularly the Tom Jones and Cerys matthews version. Hard to articulate how much I hate it
For a song that makes me feel unclean whenever I hear this version takes that and magnifies it. Tom Jones is sleezy anyway but this, yuck.

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User135644 · 23/12/2021 22:19

I think they should have a trial next year. No Christmas music post 1970.

We could get to hear all the lovely older songs rather than all the ones listed many times over in this thread that have been played to death.

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HarrisMcCoo · 23/12/2021 22:24

@WildRosie

Since when was Brown Girl In The Ring a Christmas song ? Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord is.
Sorry I am going to have to blame Alexa for this 😂
HarrisMcCoo · 23/12/2021 22:27

I do love Mary's Boy Child, tbf.

WildRosie · 23/12/2021 22:30

Good old Alexa!

Ietthemeatcake · 23/12/2021 22:48

I don't really like any, but I hate "Stop the Cavalry" in particular for some reason.

in2dagroove · 23/12/2021 22:51

It"ll be lonely this Christmas.......... such a miserable downer of a song

PurpleThursdays · 23/12/2021 22:57

Beach boys - little saint nick - God awful
Paul McCartney - anything by him is shite really
Elton - step into Christmas
The waitresses - no idea what it's called but they just talk all the way through
The pretenders - warble warble, something about 2000 miles

littlemisslozza · 23/12/2021 23:00

The new Gary Barlow and Sheridan Smith one. Pure cheese and makes me cringe. I say that as TT and Gavin and Stacey fan too!

mydogisthebest · 23/12/2021 23:01

Fairy Tale of New York. Everyone raves about it but I hate it. I hate his voice and I hate her voice and it's just a stupid song

kwiksavenofrillsusername · 23/12/2021 23:04

I can’t stand that Darkness song. Tee hee they said bell end, yeah very funny. Now repeat the same joke 50 times.

Do They Know it’s Christmas Time is worse though because, as Bob Geldof was told before he released it, giving a bunch of money to a dictator was a terrible idea. It allowed a dictator to buy a whole bunch of weapons and feed nobody. But I suppose Geldof got an ego boost.

Timeisavirtue · 23/12/2021 23:13

I like most of them to be honest.... my least favourite is probably mistletoe by Justin bieber

Timeisavirtue · 23/12/2021 23:14

@PurpleThursdays

Beach boys - little saint nick - God awful Paul McCartney - anything by him is shite really Elton - step into Christmas The waitresses - no idea what it's called but they just talk all the way through The pretenders - warble warble, something about 2000 miles
Waitresses song is called Christmas wrapping.... I love that song 😂😂
BashfulClam · 23/12/2021 23:16

Fairytale of New York.

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, yeah teaching kids it’s ok to bully others for being different the change your mind once their star is flying high! I hope he told those reindeer cunts to fuck off!

WildRosie · 25/12/2021 11:07

I'm in a coffee shop this morning (yes, it's open!) and I've just heard the Mariah Carey one. Now, it's the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl oneAngry. No escape.

WildRosie · 25/12/2021 11:08

It's tempting to drop the speakers into the coffee grinder.

Mackmama · 25/12/2021 11:48

I’ve revised my earlier response which was basically, I hate all of them. I’ve heard two this year I don’t mind so much - When the Thames Froze (Smith and Burrows) and Winter Song by Sam Fender, the rest can go in the bin.

madnessitellyou · 25/12/2021 12:30

Anything sung by Michael Buble. Cannot stand him.

I love most carols (I sing and am a soprano - I love a good descant!) but get the rage with Gabriel's Message: "Most highly favoured laaaayyyydeeeee" with massive slide from first to second syllable of "lady". Just - no!!!

There's a horrendous one by Gary Barlow that I've heard on the radio a few times. I normally quite like him but that's awful.

madnessitellyou · 25/12/2021 12:32

Whenever they say "2000 miles" by the Pretenders is coming up on the radio I always think it's "I would walk 500 miles" by the Proclaimers and get annoyed Grin

ginandbearit · 25/12/2021 14:02

Just heard an appalling version of "Christmas Wrapping " by the Spice Girls ...re written, duff lyrics and Mel C surprisingly bland ..the original by the Waitresses is fab ...
Also KimWyld and Mel Smith doing some carolling in an old fashioned way while eating pumpkin pie makes me boak .Merry Christmas one and all 🎅

MrsMop1964 · 25/12/2021 14:12

Fairytale of New York. I've never understood the love for it.

Strokethefurrywall · 25/12/2021 14:16

Last Christmas by Wham

Urgh, I’ve managed to avoid it this year but fuck I hate this track!

TheHuntingOfTheSarky · 25/12/2021 14:18

Merry Christmas (War is Over). I have an irrational but nonetheless intense dislike of Yoko Ono.

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