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 - fave xmas song by a country mile

My favourite is I Believe In Father Christmas by Greg Lake. Prog-rock anti-capitalist classic.

It is probably my least favourite Christmas song, or perhaps joint worst with Mariah Carey's All I What for Christmas.

There's something really false about it, a sort of double-bluff sneery pretentiousness - it's a Christmas song - but the singers are calling each other names - but it's still a Christmas song.

It's even worse now they have pandered to people who don't understand British and Irish English by removing the word 'faggot'.

It is mine
But to be fair its a low bar as I hate most Christmas songs

It's not my favourite favourite but I have wonderful memories of seeing Shane and Kirsty sing it live on the Pogues 1988 tour so it will always be special for me.

Same

Best Christmas song ever!

This year they're all getting on my nerves, but I normally like Mariah Carey's😳

His mural in the town close to where I live & where his funeral was held. He was a regular at the pub in my village, where his parents lived and close to where he spent a lot of his childhood. UBOI for you there.

Hate it. Don't really have a favourite but I am partial to a bit of Shakey. I even like Michael Buble.

Nope, it's mawkish shite. And overplayed.

Tbh though I hate most Xmas songs, except Stop The Cavalry by Jona Lewie and Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.

I hate Christmas songs but make an exception for the FoNY it’s a total banger

Love it - saw them live several times.

But my favourite is 'The Power of Love' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Best lyrics ever 'I'll protect you from The Hooded Claw'...

No mention of wizard yet. My fav

Yes it is.

It's one of my favourites, but not the favourite. Last Christmas is my favourite.

ETA Sorry I've no idea why I quoted you, won't let me delete.

Love it, Dh and I like to sing/yell it at each other.

I don’t like it at all, it sounds chavvy, for want if a better word.

Ok I 100000% agree with All I Want for Christmas.

But I don’t think FONY is pretentious, I think it’s just the anti traditional Christmas song of everything being perfect and the most wonderful time of the year.

Love it. It's on my playlist.

What’s chavy about it?

It's my all time favourite Christmas Eve song.

My favourite
Early December - A Spaceman Came Travelling
Nearing Christmas - Driving Home For Christmas
Christmas Day song is - Mary's Boy Child

It's okay, in the same league as Slade and Silent Night really.

Love it

It's not my favourite but it has special meaning for me as it was playing in the operating theatre as my twins were born

My Christmas playlist is 79 songs long, mostly old favourites, some really old ones and a few newer ones that I've stuck on the end in the hopes I'll get used to them and they'll make me feel all Christmassy, like Boney M, Jonah Lewie and Shakin' Stevens do...

I think I've left off Fairytale of New York for now, it's not a favourite of mine (but not as bad as Chris Rea's Driving Home For Christmas, it just rubs me up the wrong way)