......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.

Hate the mc cartney song, same words over and over and over. Really annoying.
I like Shakin'Steven though. Slade is boring, Wizard isnt too bad.

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

That would have made me cry. We get live brass bands in our local shopping centre on the last weekend before Xmas and that really gives me the feeling of Xmas.

A couple more:

So here it is, merry Christmas; especially that screeched line "it's Chriiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaaaaas!"

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire... because it's SLOW, so the torment lasts longer.

I hate lonely this christmas!!

"Simply Having" has to be the worst. So irritatingly disingenuous. I just picture Paul McCartney with a mullet and a big fucking annoying grin on his face.

When I'm shopping and 'sleigh ride' comes on it makes me feel manic when the key changes from 'ding a ling a ling a ling aling dong ding' then 'DINGALINGALINGALINGDONGDING' , I get all tense waiting for it

My hated Christmas songs are Fairytale Of New York and Driving Home For Christmas.

My favourite is Last Christmas - the Wham version, not Whigfield . I also like the "it's christmaaaaass........" one!

I absolutely fucking hate the lot of them.

Apart from Waitresses Christmas Rapping and Fairytale which makes me cry [since I spent Christmas in New York one year]...and most of the ones that get played on 6 Music which are not the run of the mill shite. Try it this year if you haven't in the past, it really is quite exceptional.

It's the best excuse for shopping online and never going into shops from mid November ever.

Fairytale of New York is a beautiful poem about two damaged people redeemed by the meaning of Christmas. Of course the lyrics aren't politically correct, but they're true to the characters who sing them.

Mistletoe & Wine is awful. Makes me want to punch cliff in the face.
Love Fairytale of New York.

I forgot DD's favourite

Fucking HATE Fairytale of New York. Don't like the words and the bloke's voice makes me want to vom.

I LOVE THEM ALL!

YANBU. Walking in the Air is a pile of shit.

Fairytale of New York is a poetic piece of genius & I love it. It's beautiful

My other favourites are Christmas In Hollis by Run DMC & I Was Born On Christmas Day by St. Etienne

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you

I find that bit very moving.

But I love the cheesy ones too!!!

I can't stand Wizzard "I wish it could be Christmas Every Day,"
WTF?
NO NO NO!!!

Laughing at the outrage for Fairytale of New York. Whoever wrote that never visit Ireland you would faint at the common parlance. An argument conversation would not be complete without a few choice swear words. It adds colour. I know of absolutely no one here who does not use a good swear word now and then to brighten up an otherwise dull conversation.

The song is obviously old now and the words unsuited to the modern selection of swear words but that is the same with anything literary it dates. I would not expect James Joyce's swear words to be updated either and he loved a good swear word too.

That's the one Slarti

lemon pledge

You are all so funny *
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I wish I could write funny posts

Apart from the Mariah Carey outrage, the songs that get up my nose are those which aren't Christmas related but get bracketed in nonetheless. For example, FGTH The Power Of Love. In actual fact I like it but it has bugger all to do with Christmas. Then there is that East17 dirge which I unashamedly loathe. Church bells do not make a Christmas record.

At least we are now absolutely spared the possibility of more Bowie-Crosby duets.

Oh I love all of them! Fairytale of New York reminds me of prechildren christmas eves drunk down the pub, Mariah Carey reminds me of singing into a hairbrush with my sisters, walking in the air is probably my least favourite but doesn't stop me singing it in my best Aled Jones voice. I just love all of it, I don't protest to Christmas songs coming up on my play list in July 😂

The only Christmas song I switch off is 'Feliz Navidad'. 5 minutes of the same two lines repeated over and over gives me the rage.

As far as the rest of them go, for me it's usually the singer rather than the song and I can sing loud enough to drown out the singer, even Mariah Carey.

Cliff Richard never crossed the pond so I don't know his music. Off to google Mistletoe and Wine.

I like Rockin' around the Christmas tree.

So there

I love them all!

Fairytale isn't supposed to please you, it's about a dysfunctional, codependent relationship FFS it's supposed to be like that. I can't hear the line "and the boys from the NYPD choir still singin' Galway Bay" without getting a lump in my throat, but a lot of Pogues lyrics get me that way.

I have to leave a shop when I hear Noddy say "It's Chriiiiiiistmaasss!" though.

I think Wizzard has held up really well, but don't start me on Paul McCartney or Cliff.

I like the mid-20th century American songs best apart from Santa Baby which people sing when they're trying and failing to be sexy.