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What's your least favourite Christmas song?

122 replies

fenellavonspurtz · 23/12/2022 11:42

Mine is White Christmas cos when Bing starts whistling it really gets on my nerves!! I know it's a classic blah blah blah but it's so simpery. Anyone else a Grinch about a certain Xmas song?

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Spenn · 23/12/2022 11:44

Driving home for Christmas. I hate it, it has to be turned off - I think it's his voice, gravelly and nasty. Also a spaceman came travelling - complete shite 😁

darkwinterdays · 23/12/2022 11:45

Slade. I wish it could be Christmas every day.

Andsoforth · 23/12/2022 11:46

It was oooooooonlu a winter’s tale
just a whiny winters tale
but whhhyyyy should the world take no-o-tice

why indeed?

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cinnabongene · 23/12/2022 11:47

Wizard. I think it’s the creepy 70s video

WouldJudasLeaveIt · 23/12/2022 11:47

Driving home for Christmas 😣

WordtoYoMumma · 23/12/2022 11:49

I hate Fairytale of New York. Everyone loves it and I don't know why. It comes on and everyone starts shouting it. The lyrics are problematic and it's not well sung. It annoys me that everyone loves it so much which makes me hate it even more 😂

LosingTheWill2022 · 23/12/2022 11:50

Another one for Driving Home For Christmas. Boring and droning.

BrewandBiscuit · 23/12/2022 11:50

That bloody Stay Another Day. It is not a Christmas song!

Snoopysimaginaryfriend · 23/12/2022 11:53

2000 Miles by the Pretenders.

To my ear they have just written some random Christmassy lyrics, found a random tune and tried to combine the two. Well it doesn’t work! You just sound like a drunk who’s forgotten what they are trying to say!

loverofpants · 23/12/2022 11:54

Driving home for Christmas, it's awful

MrsMorrisey · 23/12/2022 11:57

Santa Baby by Kylie Minogue 🤮🤮

gettingolderbutcooler · 23/12/2022 11:58

Current Lizzie one

DialSquare · 23/12/2022 11:59

Snoopysimaginaryfriend · 23/12/2022 11:53

2000 Miles by the Pretenders.

To my ear they have just written some random Christmassy lyrics, found a random tune and tried to combine the two. Well it doesn’t work! You just sound like a drunk who’s forgotten what they are trying to say!

It makes more sense once you know that it was written about James Honeyman-Scott who was a founding member of the band. He died aged 25 in 1982.

ReformedWaywardTeen · 23/12/2022 12:00

I have two: there's a really old song called The Little Boy Who Santa Claus Forgot. The first time I heard it, it made me cry cos this poor lad gets sod all for Christmas. The song also says he doesn't have a daddy, although it doesn't give this as the reason for the lack of Christmas gifts. He's not supposedly naughty as it doesn't say that either. He just gets forgotten. Bloody awful

And the other is Band Aid. Purely for the 'tonight thank god it's them, instead of you" bit. How bloody awful and selfish is that? I do believe Midge Ure has since said he regrets that line himself.

HarrietSchulenberg · 23/12/2022 12:01

Mariah Carey's one. Makes my ears bleed. I'm not a fan of Chris Rea grunting about his commute either.

Strokethefurrywall · 23/12/2022 12:03

Wham. FML I hate that song.

ApplePippa · 23/12/2022 12:04

Last Christmas.

Hate hate hate it! It sounds like a 15 year old's music GCSE composition. That awful keyboard "riff" in the middle, that it just quite literally just the first five notes of a scale...

Sapphire387 · 23/12/2022 12:04

Mud - Lonely This Christmas. Genuinely terrible.

Snoopysimaginaryfriend · 23/12/2022 12:05

DialSquare · 23/12/2022 11:59

It makes more sense once you know that it was written about James Honeyman-Scott who was a founding member of the band. He died aged 25 in 1982.

I’m sorry, I still don’t like it. At least write a tune to fit the lyrics instead of dragging out random syllables.

Each to their own though!

Badbadbunny · 23/12/2022 12:06

Absolutely hate the vile Fairytale of New York. I just can't see any redeeming features of it at all.

MyKidsAreKnobsInDecember · 23/12/2022 12:07

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas. Didn't mind it until everyone used it to tag their social media photos of them doing anything remotely Christmassy for the last week of November and all of December. Compounded by Channel 4 using it at the start and end of the ad breaks of any Christmas food programmes.

Mittens1717 · 23/12/2022 12:07

Mud It'll be lonely this Christmas, depressing drivel

Derrymum123 · 23/12/2022 12:08

Baby it's cold outside, by Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews for the obvious reasons of the lyric content.

Also Band Aid - all versions. "Do they know it's Christmas time at all?" " Thank God it's them instead of you." Inappropriate on all levels.

shinynewapple22 · 23/12/2022 12:10

darkwinterdays · 23/12/2022 11:45

Slade. I wish it could be Christmas every day.

That song is by Wizzard not Slade .

FuzzyPuffling · 23/12/2022 12:11

The Paul McCartney/Wings one. " Simply having a wonderful Christmastime"
It sounds to me as though it was written by a collective of 8 year olds. Even that wouldn't excuse it.