To ask if Fairytale of New York is your favourite Christmas song?

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Just that really.

Is it a love it or hate it song?

Love it and yes, it's my fave.

My fave too!

No, don't really like it much, please don't come for me but I always found Kirsty MacColl very irritating, though I like The Pogues.

My favourite Christmas song is "Jack Frost and The Hooded Crow"

Brilliant.
"Hallelujah Noel, be it heaven or hell, the Christmas we get we deserve."

best song ever. Lyra's 'The Magic of Christmas' the one used in the ad for 'An Post' with the tinman is a new one that has stuck as well. Great song.

Also did she put on an Irish accent for the song? That is annoying.

I like it but Shaky is my fave, followed by Boney M and Cliff

I'm just so bloody happy that the original band aid "Do they know it's Christmas" is well on its way to being cancelled. Loathe the song with a passion. Of course they fucking know it's Christmas, there were Christians there long before there were in the UK! It's grossly inaccurate virtue signalling bullshit which has done more harm than good over the years. And its a shit song to boot.

And another vote for David Essex 'Winter's Tale' here too.

A winter song. Not a Christmas song.

Well at least none has mentioned whatever sausage roll bullshit it is that LadBaby grifter comes out with

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Another on for Wombling Merry Christmas!! A very under-rated song probably only known by a small section of society that was the right age in the mid 70s!

I know it's not popular, but I love Driving Home for Christmas. I believe it's about driving home in his mini to Middlesborough to see his family, which makes me love it more.

Hearing breathless girls destrroy songs I liked for John Lewis adverts is my personal bug bear.

FTON - I like .. I know she can do better and should, but I do still like it.

I think the reason a lot of people love this song is because its a passionate Irish ballade about an argument between two people who know each other very well. And there is a lot of us can understand with these drink fuelled festive arguments, which is, as far as i know, unique among the genre in capturing Christmas on an emotional level.

My 25 year old daughter was ranting about the video today. Turns out she was always terrified of Roy Wood and finds it creepy that he has a child on his knee and then kicks her!

And my favourite is Darlene Love's "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home" from the Phil Spector Christmas album. I hate other versions, especially the U2 one, with a passion.

Not my fave, but don’t hate it. Favourite is Last Christmas.

Me too!!

Cannot stand shaking Stevens one , it goes on forever and I think he's an arrogant git. I love Greg Lakes I believe in Father Christmas.

Who'd have guessed Christmas songs would be such an impassioned topic?

“And so, as Tiny Tim said, 'A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, everyone!” (whatever the musical taste)

(Waits for @MasterBeth to tell us that "A Christmas Carol" isn't really a Christmas book )

Bruce Springsteen murders Santa Claus is coming to town. Switch him off.

@Sonowimbackfromouterspace Haha yes must listen with caution! I also add in singing along of sorts with a 'do do do' and air guitar when that part comes up.

Don’t answer them .. they might hit us all with a candy cane and claim it’s just a regular stick

I like it, but it’s not my favourite. I kind of like it because it feels like a Christmas tradition now.

My favourite is “Christmas Time, Don’t Let the Bells End” by the Darkness, just because of the lengths they went to to make a rude pun.

This one gives me mixed feelings as my dd did actually have to have heart surgery at Christmas as a baby, well before the film with Emilia Clarke drew out that potential double meaning.