Do you actually enjoy those Christmas songs from the 70s-90s?

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The only Christmas music I can listen to is classical/choral.

I find those 80s/90s childhood Christmas songs so painful. And it's because I had lovely Christmasses as a kid!

It was a time back when anything was possible for my future life. But here I am, late thirties, single, childless (or childfree? I don't know...), with no romantic relationship history at all, friends all married off playing their happy families all year.

Make sense?? They get increasingly difficult to listen to each year. 2016 was when I first got a knot hearing one in Tesco and panicked thinking "oh shit what if this is the status quo forever"

It's the end of another year I guess...always tricky. They're all over the bloody airwaves though

Yes piss off John and Yoko, you patronising gits

I kind of know what you mean. Shortly after my dad died I saw an old Xmas TV ad break from the 90s on YouTube and it gave me such a jolt. I was sitting their crying watching silly ads for biscuits and toys from Argos, peering back in time. Almost painful to remember those happy childhood Christmases.

Wizard gives me the creeps too when I see the video. Do they know it’s Christmas… yes.

Your an old drunk… nice

There are some true bangers. The only one I really dislike is the Paul McCartney song. Mariah is also a bit overplayed.

The opening bit of Fairy Tale of New York still gives me the feels.

I don’t have any happy memories of Christmas really. As a kid, they were always awful. It’s a difficult time of year for me. The pressure to enjoy it is really off putting.
I have felt very flat about Christmas for a number of years. Before that I did get excited/ nervous/ happy/ sad (all at once). I feel inured to those kind of songs, they are like white noise or lift/ on hold type music. It doesn’t help that all the Christmas stuff starts in October now. I have a few songs I listen to myself around this time of year:
The Christmas Song by the Raveonettes
Snow Queen and I Could’ve been your girl by She&Him and
I missed your party by Camera Obscura
to name a few. The general vibe sums up how I feel this time of year, so I just go with it

I don't really know why but I always feel a pang of sadness when I hear 'Last Christmas' by 'Wham' and 'I believe in Father Christmas' by Gregg Lake. Doesn't really make sense as I wasn't going through any sadness or trauma at the time they were around, actually on the contrary,I was pretty happy!

YABU.

Love familiar songs from back in the day. Most people love a bit of nostalgia.

Nostalgia and the connections your brain makes between memories, emotions, sounds and smells are fascinating and it's not a surprise that you don't enjoy them.

One that's totally not to my taste but that I love is Mistletoe and Wine. No idea why but I love the feeling it evokes for me - has done the same since I was small.

I like a mix of songs but I find a lot of the more modern ones are clearly churned out with the aim of getting on some Christmas albums and making money - the older ones don't feel like that.
Plus a lot of the great Christmas films have 80s songs in them so I associate them with those.

I find them so boring.
The same old crap every year.
I love the classical music radio stations this time of year.

Not a fan, really. I loathe several of them most of all Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time. And the Waitresses one. That’s hideous.

However, I love River by Joni Mitchell and the whole album Midwinter Graces by Tori Amos. And Fleet Foxes’ White Winter Hymnal, but that’s not really a Christmas song.

Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea has always been a guilty pleasure, but DH and I now have to sing the Reeves and Mortimer version over it when it comes on.

They make me sad as they remind me of good times I used to have with family. Things have changed so much now and I long for those happier days.

I don't like them, have muted the radio a few times, till in the end tuned if to R3.
Quite like a choral, or something classical though.

I love all the terrible Christmas songs! I read once that every Christmas morning Noddy Holder wakes his wife up and yells "It's christmasssss!' I love Noddy Holder 😂

I never liked this song but I like it even less now I know that Yoko couldn’t stop swearing at the Harlem Children’s Choir until even John was scandalised and told her off 😆

Do you actually enjoy those Christmas songs from the 70s-90s?

No, I am utterly, utterly bored of hearing the same old songs played every December year after year after year etc etc etc.

Merry Christmas Everybody came out when I was 15. It has been played umpteen times every December for the last 51 years!

I just don't listen to the radio in December.

Ha!

It is ‘fucking pie’ we have listened every time and it’s a definite lol

I think everyone has music they find difficult to listen to, for whatever reason. I certainly do. The fact that yours is Christmas music is unfortunate when Christmas songs are ubiquitous.

I think you're almost building it up in your head as an issue, though, and therefore possibly making it worse? I do understand your problem, but I also think you've almost told yourself it's always going to be difficult and now you're anticipating it every year and overthinking it.

I'm guessing you'd like Johnny Mathis and Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra then.

I've turned the radio down in the car this month, zone out at supermarket music. It's too early.

Not in November, no.

I don't listen to music radio, so the only place I hear it is in Tesco 😁
Aldi and Lidl don't play music.

I used to work in a shoe shop
And in December all of those songs were torture.
Step into Christmas 😒

I feel sad and uneasy when I hear certain Xmas songs and I genuinely don't know why

Wombling Merry Christmas and Prokofiev's lieutenant kije make me smile at this time of year. Plus the frog chorus because it reminds me of the miner's strike.