......to want to rip out the speakers every time I hear this Christmas song?

[PutDownThatLaptop]

It's when that wretched song comes on... "Walking in the Air."
I can't stand it. It gives me Christmas aisle rage.

I agree it's far too early for Christmas songs. The one that gives me the rage the most is that stupid Chris de burgh one about an alien with the na na na na na na na na na naaaa bit in it. I can feel myself getting grumpy already.

Oh so glad it isn't just me then with the rage. I want to listen for those lyrics now hazeyjane but that would mean listening to the song again, which means more rage.
I'm caught in a Walking in the Air rage spiral. They were playing it in the supermarket today. On 10th November, which means that I might have to suffer it another few hundred times before the big day, when I will meander from the bedroom to the living room to find that one of the children has put The Snowman on just in time to hear That Song.

some hippy shite

Do you mean Gaudete?

Stop the Cavalry was never a Christmas song. It's a complete hijack just because one line says 'Wish I was at home for Christmas'. You could easily substitute Birthday/New Year. FAAAAKE!!

I may be in a minority here but I can't stand Mariah Carey's xmas song All I want for Christmas is you. Sets my teeth on edge.

Most Christmas songs give me the rage. One of the best things that ever happened was when The Darkness were beaten to Christmas number 1 by.... drumroll... Gary Jules singing "Mad World". Excellent! Chiefly because their lead singer memorably said "as if we are going to be beaten by some guy with a piano!" It was as if the nation got together and went "Oh really...."

My MIL was in a supermarket that was playing a Christmas song and heard the following...

Man..." why are they playing this shite?"
Lady.." its Christmasey int it?"
Man..." Not for I it fuckin ain't!"

Ah... the stuff of legend. (outs self completely!)

Wow! I've always liked Fairytale of New York, and, inspired by this thread, I've just had a listen..... Er, politically correct it AINT! Gosh, those are some lyrics...

I'll forgive Walking In the Air as it reminds me of my childhood (although it also vaguely reminds me of Briggs' 'When The Wind Blows').

Mariah Carey - no, no and nope. Ever.

Ah yes sparkling, nothing makes you hate Christmas music like working in a place which has them on a loop. I was in mothercare the other day and remarked to the assistant it's quite early to have the Christmas songs on, she just nodded mournfully.

I've spent the day making a playlist for a winter fair this weekend. It has most of these on except bloody Cliff. It has 2 versions of Gaudete and Carol of the Bells 😀 The stall holders will be jibbering wrecks by the end!

This one....!

Because every time you hear it you're usually stuck in the checkout queue at Boots in a coat and scarf, panic buying on Christmas Eve, while they blast hot air in your face from the door, carrier bags digging into your fingers until they turn purple, other elbow dead from negotiating overloaded basket, trying to work out if you put together the right 3 for 2 combinations and usually needing a wee...

Then this blasts its guitar solo right into your fillings....

At least these are all legitimate and fairly modern Christmas songs.

I am getting nervous as to when my place of work will turn on it's Christmas music. There are three songs on the selection that I hate, hate, HATE with a passion.

The Chipmunks
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas and
Dominick the fucking Donkey

I prefer singing;

Christmas time
Mum is pissed on wine
Children screaming, Christ how they whine
The turkey's on fire
The cat's in the tree
Time to rejoice?
Are you fucking shitting me?

I've hated all Christmas songs since I worked in Debenhams as a teenager and they were played on a loop from mid-November. That bloody John Lennon in particular used to wind me right up

I watched the Band Aid video the other day for a bit of 80's nostalgia and got a bit teary at the part where you see a glimpse of Paula Yates with her daughter Fifi.

I do love Proper Crimbo though

Lemonpledge

I have to agree with the poster who said that the Christmas hymns are the best....Silent Night, oh Little Town of Bethlehem, Away in a Manger, Onto Us a Child is Born, Once in Royal David's City and Oh Holy Night.....they really are just utterly beautiful. They resonate with me as a Christian, but also they are simply beautiful beyond words.

lemonpledge

That made me roar

This is the best version of All I Want For Xmas. Its by Lady Antebellum and I just love it, knocks Mariah Carey out of the fucking Xmas tree!

That awful Waitresses song Christmas Wrapping is bloody annoying. I don't give a flying figlet that you forgot cranberries too! Just do one!

Now, I love, love, love Tapestry Of Carols by Maddy Prior which I dismissed as hippy clap trap in my formative years but now stand corrected.

For me it's the patronising, ignorant nonsense that is "Do they know it's Christmas?" (the real one, not the pointless remake)

I was coming out of ASDA last year and a brass band from the Salvation Army were playing carols, I was totally overcome.

My loathed ones:
Santa Claus is coming to town
Away in a manger
Last Christmas
And that tear-jerking (but not well known) Christmas Shoes.

Re walking in the air: I don't mind it, but I'm annoyed that aled Jones always gets the credit for it, instead of choirboy Peter Auty who performed it in the first place.

I heard Pipes Of Peace today for the first time this year while I was in the bog at Asda. Lyrically it's not a Christmas song but the video is. A very small part of me died today. Heaven help me when I start hearing Mariah Carey and East 17. Bastards.

Santa baby.

It's just fucking creepy.

I like fairy tale of New York. I think it's overplayed to fuck and suffers from oversatuation. Don't think it was meant as a Christmas song either, but might be wrong on that.

Amused at Gaudete being hippyish shite though! that has given me a smile.

Christmas wrapping pisses me off. Ok, you've been chasing this guy all year (what, once every three months? And you can't even make those dates) but you're having Christmas on your own. And last minute, on Christmas Eve, you think 'oh shit, no cranberries!'....who makes homemade cranberry sauce when you're just cooking for yourself, and who could honestly be arsed to drag themselves out when it's cold, dark and late on Christmas Eve for cranberries?

You didn't like him enough to actually make an effort to go on a date with him, but now it's all happy endings because your eyes met over cranberries?

It's not Christmas until you have heard Slade over the PA in a supermarket.

I'm with you SpringBail I can't listen to All I want for Christmas!