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?

Excellent song.

Kate Bush did a live version of December Will be Magic on some kids show in the late 70s that was utterly mind-blowing.

Links appear not to work. They are:

Kate Bush - December Will be Magic - 1979 Xmas Special

Greg Lake - I Beleive in Father Christmas

Steeleye Span - Gaudete. Only song in Latin to ever reach the UK top 20.

No, it's such a cliché.

I always thought that was unrealistic. If it's one 'song' I doubt they'd need to start rehearsals until November at the earliest.

Brilliant 🤣

They also do a bit of "ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh" too. Give the kids some credit! 🤣

Yes the song is. Plus PM cut his hair especially, for the video apparently 🤣

This post is everything that is wrong about 2024 in a handful of lines. You have outsourced your thinking to an notoriously inaccurate AI and it has failed you.

Listen to the song. Don't watch the video, listen to the song. The lyrics are not about the Christmas truce. Listen to it then come back and apologise. Wake up!

How has it failed me exactly?

Wow that is hilariously aggressive for a thread about Christmas songs. Did the elf piss in your cornflakes this morning.

Dan Fogleberg - another old lang syne

Oh yes, I forgot about that one. A very powerful song. Gives me the shivers.

The video was pretty Christmassy!

I love all of them, brings back childhood memories of Christmas when Santa was real and it was all so magical.

What about this one? Another favourite of mine but it also makes me cry.
open.spotify.com/track/3wnutCRc2OAMOPul8EiPGQ?si=SQSJbzpmTlO_wEwd6_Vdrg

I really like Simon and Garfunkel's Silent Night.

It is my favourite Christmas song, but the older I get the more sick I get of all of them (in my 50's) same old shit every year.

By serving you with verifiably untrue information. Pipes of Peace is not about the Christmas truce in WW1. Listen to it. It's a song from the heart of the Cold War about peace (a long-standing McCartney theme) and specifically the fear of WW111.

"What do you say? (Do you say)
Will the human race be run in a day? (In a day)
Or will someone save this planet we're playing on?
Is it the only one?
What are we going to do?"

McCartney says:

"It was great fun making the video for this song. It was directed by a guy called Keith McMillan [....] He and I were talking about "Pipes of Peace" and I remembered a piece of film [....] about soldiers in the trenches greeting each other in No Man's Land and having a game of football on Christmas Day 1914. That's where we started visually..."

In other words, the video was not conceived until after the song was finished. The song is not a Christmas song and categorically not about the Christmas truce.

Yes. The video. Not the song. It's not a Christmas song.

I'm glad you found it hilarious. You should consider that maybe I meant you to.

What more than all the cutesy alternatives about driving home to family, falling in love as the snow falls, presents, trees, santa, log fires and children sledging? Of all the songs to pick out for that criticism I'd say it had to come near the bottom of the list.

In what sense?

Can you honestly just go away? Hijacking the thread with your weird nonsense. Are you that starved of attention?

That's hardly in the spirit of Christmas! 🎄

I do like it, if only because it was such a breath of fresh air when it came out and broke up the anodyne shopping centre soundtrack. I really loathe Mariah Carey's one and a lot that era's offerings. For the first time for donkey's years I heard Run Rudolph Run by Chuck Berry recently and that went straight on my Spotify list. Driving Home for Christmas resonates because we travelled from home to spend many very happy Christmases on Teesside, so it made it feel personal. For spine tingling, the one the church choir is singing in Home Alone (but I have no idea what it's called) and Gaudete by Steeleye Span.