To find a lot of Christmas songs quite depressing

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Do you like Christmas songs? Every time I'm out now and they're on quite loud I feel like leaving the shop. I was thinking that 'it will be lonely this Christmas' and 'so this is Christmas' both of which I heard today are quite depressing anyway. I think a lot of them are quite depressing and I don't really like them. AIBU?

Or is it hallelujah? It might be hallelujah. Leonard Cohen did it originally, then Jeff Buckley, then some lass from the x factor.

Agreed that we didn't think it would be elevated to the status of Xmas Classic. In fact, I can remember me and all of my friends (aged 11) saying that it wasn't very good but we should buy it because it was for charity.

The Leona Lewis one makes me cry like a baby

I love It Came Upon The Midnight Clear, miserable words & all

Band Aid came on the radio today and I nearly started crying explaining to my DD why they’d made it.
Patronising pish or not, that ‘dummm dum dummm dum’ at the start gives me goosebumps. It came out when I was 3 and in hospital and it makes me think of my DM as a skint single parent trudging through the city to come visit. 😢

Hallelujah is a bleak song really. And it shouldn't have a key change!

YANBU! They suck any joy out of me every fecking year. I find Christmas depressing, ever since I started adulting. Its all about spending, stressing and trying to keep others happy. Wish Christmas was just a time to do nothing and spend £300 on yourself in the sales

Fairytale of New York is the only decent Xmas song I can think of.
Christmas is generally a bit shit and depressing to be honest isn’t it?

Ha I love that pogues song - reminds me in a not sad way of childhood Christmas’s - my parents would always get drunk and shouty but it was at the level of banter.

The Coldplay 2010 otoh is the middle class equivalent, I do find that depressing!

Ariana Grande is awesome, I love that song. Also cold December night and the little mix love me like you do Christmas remix!

I've had 6yo DS songing I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas for an hour in the car today all the way to visit a medieval town. Then he woofed Jingle Bells around the 11th century castle (it was big, so loooooots of singing). The Singing Dogs woof Jingle Bells on a Christmas CD he was given last week. Thanks Grandad

I'm abroad and don't get to hear the British Christmas Shopping Classics of Wham, Band Aid and Lennon, so i rather like them when they pop up on my playlist.

Sinead O'Conner's Silent Night is nice. Doesn't anyone play that in shops?

For me it Have yourself a merry little Christmas by Judy Garland, despite the title it can have me crying buckets.

I hate the faux sentimentality of hallelujah, agree about band aid - and then you get into the whole Santa Claus gives presents to every child bollocks - of course we do Santa Claus but in a way it’s a terrible lie when you find out some kids will be eating maize if they’re lucky on christmas day

I loathe Fairytale of New York

No i don't smother kittens or kick puppies etc. Just hate that song!

I’ll be home for Christmas if only in my dreams, now that is a sad one bit isn’t remembering lost ones also an important part of Christmas? You’ve got to embrace all the emoting!

Agree with Boney M being very cheerful - shame they were later found out to be lip-synching mud of their stuff!

I remember watching them on Top of the Pops, the women all serene & beautiful & the bloke bobbing about with skinny little legs & a big furry jacket

elQuinto my dh tells me the lead singer of the pogues was a mc lad from Royal Tunbridge Wells - I eh not to dwell on that!

• much of their stuff, not mud FFS

Oh I forgot that I need to add Wham Last Christmas to the list now; it just makes me think of George Michael, who I adored, who is no longer with us. My mum reminded me of that when it came on in the car this morning

YY to hating Band Aid. All of them. What, are we on four now?

It's not Christmas until you've told Bob Geldof to fuck off.

See, I find hallelujah oddly uplifting. As I do most of Cohen in general. Not sure what that's says about me .

It's NOT a Christmas song though.

My question is, why are most "classics" 30 years old or so. Has nothing remarkable and christmassy come up since?

Heather a PP said about carols not being PC made me think. Aren't they? The thought hadn't occurred to me.

*Heather PP = What a PP

Carols aren’t pc at dd’s school - any mention of Jesus has been frowned upon for the last n years. We have ‘carol’ services that don’t include a single carol for the last 3 years. There are lots of songs about snow which I find amusing since it almost never snows properly here!

Stop the cavalry is about WW1, ( he was on top of the pops dressed in WW1 outfit) yet mentions a nuclear bunker? I never have understood those lyrics. I am not a fan of that song. Lonely this Christmas is another sad one. Yes, some are v depressing.

I don't like most Christmas songs

I love the Jethro Tull Christmas Album

Posted too soon!

I love the Jethro Tull Christmas Album

My favourite Christmas song ever is Jethro Tull's "Jack Frost And The Hooded Crow"

It's all about how not everyone has Family round them or money to spend on gifts and fancy food

It resonates with me, and means far more to me personally than Merry Christmas or any other mainstream Christmas song