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

No they are AWFUL. I am in my 50s and that awful, screechy "it's christmas" song has been played every december for my entire life.

Radio utterly un-listenable at this time of year, and it's starting earlier and earlier. Mariah Carey can fuck right off, as can the rest of the shite. Podcasts all the way.

I don’t like the John and Yoko one and Silver Bells by Bing Crosby makes me cry as it reminds me of my dad.
other than that, I LOVE Christmas songs and listen to the constantly as soon as the calendar reaches 1/12!

And the next line which makes no sense 'another year over, and a new one just begun'

That's the thing about nostalgia, it's bittersweet. I do love that hit of nostalgia when I hear them but always with an underlying sense of deep sadness at the people I've lost.

But then Carols have the same effect on me. In The Deep Midwinter was my mum's favourite Carol, it's inevitably the first one of the season I hear and it cuts me like a knife! We lost her 9 years ago, it just never seems to get easier.

This is one of the few I love. But only in December! It was one of my dad's favourite songs & we played it at his funeral

I hate all Christmas music until at least halfway through December. And even then it's only a selection few. I love Pipes of Peace, Winter's Tale, When a Child is Born & for some reason A Spaceman Came Travelling! Oh and the one by The Darkness

I love them - not keen on the pogues one.

I quite like most of them - even the ones that make me maudlin, I don't mind. They trigger fond memories and I don't want to forget those things and feelings.

But there is one song that tormented me the year I worked in a shop over Christmas as a teen. If "Christmas Island" comes in the tannoy when I'm shopping, I get out ASAP. I spent days in those cold dusty dingy bright backroom passages ripping the plastic and packaging off stock while listening to that song on a loop. No fond memories 😤. Fuck you Guy Lombardo and your Royal Canadians, and The Andrews Sisters can fuck off too.

I agree. I think us older mumsnetters have got sick and tired of hearing the same songs every December for over 50 years (in my case)

@LadyAmroth
Me too

Yes I absolutely love them and genuinely listen to them on repeat round Christmas time.

You'll see me scowling at anything Christmas pre-December but after that it's a free for all, I love it.

The 70s and 80s ones would have felt fresh at the time. The only real 90s one is the Mariah Carey and that was 30 years ago.

Anything since then just feels flat. But then look at the state of the Christmas number 1 every year. It's no wonder people stick with the nostalgia given the state of popular music.

Love them! I know Christmas has arrived when I hear Slade on the radio 😂

"Are you hanging up your stocking on the wall?" 🎶 🎄

Gosh, when & where I was a kid (1970s) all we could hear on radio on Xmas day were the ancient choir type songs, carols. We went caroling many years so I like those carol songs, but they got very tired.

I LOVE modern Christmas songs for rescuing us from all those hyper traditional sometimes dirge like no variation too twee frozen in time tunes.