Which Christmas song do you hate the most?

[Thomasina79]

I particularly loathe all I want for Christmas is you by Mariah Carey

Most are annoying but I HAAAAATE the Chris de Burgh spaceman one, it’s so bleak and depressing! Honestly just sounds like the soundtrack to the last glimmer of hope in the universe being extinguished. Also can’t bear that one by the waitresses, Christmas wrapping I think it’s called? Very grating and repetitive. I quite like the darkness one though.

Why do you hate it?

Do you actually hate the song for the songs sake or does it bring back bad memories??

There's not one in particular I hate, but I don't enjoy enjoy some of the new ones, I'll try to think of examples later.

There are a lot of CD's (showing my age!) in my Christmas stuff that zi skip skip skip through. But I like some in the CD. My mission is to see if they are on other CD's so I can get rid of some. But it's tedious, so I keep saying I'll do it but don't 😂😂

I've recorded a load of Xmas Weekend something or other station, that I enjoyed last weekend, but it's taking up too much Tivo space 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

SEND HELP!!

Is Saviour's Day by Cliff as heinous as M&W? I say almost but not quite.

I love most of them tbh, but my least favourite one is Fairly tale of New York. It's not v Christmassy at all!

Oh and that stupid sausage roll song, for charity, does that even count as a Christmas song?

FFS don’t tell me that song is TWENTY ONE years old. That’s honestly made me want to weep, I think of it as being relatively recent.

@Elderflower14 I’m so sorry to read of your loss 💐

Fairytale of New York, Mistletoe and Wine, Last Christmas are my 3 most hated!

It reminds me of one particular part of my family I got to spend Christmas with that year. They have all spread out or died now, so it'll never happen again. So special memories attached to it. Bitter sweet though.

i just have to focus on that & ignore the 'other stuff'. It happened, it's everywhere, no good would come of me shunning it now.

@TheTecknician I live Fairy Tale of New York. Each year Christmas Starts when I hear it 'in the wild' (radio/shp where I haven't had any control over it playing)🎄

I love A Winter's Tale by David Essex, even though it doesn't mention Christmas. I went to one of his shows years ago in November, and he introduced it by saying "in a few weeks you'll hear this in every supermarket"!

@EveryKneeShallBow

i guess because so many of us still want to. Surely you're not in a public space that often for it to impact you, or you could pop ear phones in & block it out.

sympathies though if you're in retail & not allowed to do that 🍷

I was in a toilet cubicle on the m4 reading services yesterday and it was blaring'I wish it could be Christmas everyday' by wizzard - the stuff of nightmares!

I've got a ticket for the "Step Into Christmas" concert in December, so no doubt I shall hear all these and more.

Definitely Fairytale of New York - just so overhyped and lauded as brilliant but actually just a bit sweary and inappropriate. I totally rated the late Kirsty Macoll so a bit sad this is the most played song with her.

All the ones by Cliff Richard and Paul McCartney

I agree! I say this as someone who loved his music in the pre -Yoko days. This song is awful, the tune is a dirge, war isn't over. "Yellow and red ones", I get that the sentiment is coming from a well intentioned place, but that lyric hasn't aged well, in a post - Vietnam, post cold war era.

And yes, Lennon was a marvellous musician (before he met Yoko) but come on, he was actually a bastard who treated his first wife appallingly. The deification of Michael Jackson annoys me too. I'm all for not banning his music and being able to appreciate it, but let's seperate the art from the artist a little, at least.

If they are played at Christmas then they are Christmas songs. Many are about snow or winter but we associate them exclusively with Christmas. Jingle bells for example doesn't mention Christmas at all but it's the most cliché Christmas song for kids. Sleigh ride, Let it snow, It's cold outside, Walking in a winter wonderland and many more don't mention Christmas and we call them Christmas classics.

I loathe the Mariah Carey song. It's hideous and seems to be played everywhere on a loop.

Unlike lots of people on here I absolutely love Fairytale of New York. There's something about the music and the 'boys of the NYPD choir still singing Galway Bay' that makes me feel a bit choked up. I also love Bruce Springsteen's Santa's Claus Is Coming To Town, purely for the bit where he tells the audience, 'You guys are in trouble out here'. Love his cheery voice - the sound of someone enjoying themselves.

You mean Bing Cosby??

if that's the one you mean, it's definitely not!!

watch this then tell me it should go. it's old, but I enjoy seeing them together.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI&list=RDlCpXMy5GalI&index=1&pp=8AUB

just curious, but how old are you?

I don't dislike the Cliff ones but he was much better in his Shadows, rock and roll era. Also, what is with the video of Mistletoe and Wine? What is his doing with his arms? To misquote the man himself slightly (from the Morecambe and Wise sketch) "that was (NOT) leg (arm) poetry!"

Don't get me started on how Paul McCartney lost his way in the Wings era. Yuk!

Mariah Carey, Cliff Richard, and John Lennon are all dreadful.

I love most of the rest of the ones mentioned, though. (I haven’t heard the Lizzo one).

They recorded themselves torturing and killing Lesley Anne Downey, and Little Drummer Boy was playing as she begged them to stop. Just horrendous and I can't listen to the song now.

The pah ruppapum pum one. I walk out of shops if it comes on, it actually makes me nauseous.

Baby It's Cold Outside, as I don't find rape culture particularly festive

Past Three O'Clock because it's so anal retentive and forelock-tugging, and reminds me of my stepfather.

I just put them on YouTube. I can't say I'd heard of them, not fussed on their singing, but love the music - good dance music ( don't worry shan't be dancing in public!! But it'll get the housework done quicker!!)

Fairytale of New York I would actually like if it didn't descend into the couple verbally abusing each other. It's a crackin' good tune.

As well as War is Over, I can't bear:

Chris De Burgh's bloody spaceman song. Makes me feel bleak and sad. Not Christmassy at all.

That one about being sold a dream of Christmas but it "just kept on raining." Gives me same feeling as the spaceman one.

Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt. No, you spoiled little madam, stop putting on a creepy little girl voice, you're a famous singer, go and buy your own baubles from Tiffany!

Fairytale of New York