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?

No strong feelings about it either way.
definitely not my favourite.

It's associated with Christmas. It's not a Christmas song.

The singer and writer of the song say it's not a Christmas song in the article. The directors of the video say they'd never heard the song when they thought up the video.

Listen to the song. How is it a Christmas song?

I like fairy tale of new york, it's a love/ hate song about a love/hate relationship, maybe.

My favourite is St. Etienne I was born on Christmas Day. Love the video too.

I like it but my favourite song goes to Bing 🎶

Watched the making of Fairytale of NY on BBC iplayer last night it was a good watch. Sad at the end though when kirsty maccolls mum was talking about her daughters death.

Well, I do apologise for being "cliched and tedious" re Die Hard.

I'd have thought a full on dramatic recreation of the Nativity on the (much seen at the time, they were important back then) video might give a Christmas vibe, whatever the lyrics, but clearly not.

It’s regularly featured in top Christmas songs countdowns.

It may have not been written as a Christmas song but it is now accepted as one by many.

Whether you and I agree or not is immaterial.

Yes, but from personal bias because my late mum and I loved Kirsty MacColl. I think she was very undersung and was sad that there was barely a ripple in the media when she died.

In honesty the Pogues have never done much for me.

I like the old-school stuff mostly preceding that avalanche of Christmas dross that descended in the 70s and 80s. Andy Williams' 'Most Wonderful Time of the Year' and Nat King Cole's 'Merry Christmas Everyone' warm me from the inside like a tot of sherry!

If I had to name a favourite - Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' wins for me!

No, depressing dirge.

I love Kirsty MaColl but always felt that FONY was one of those annoying songs that thick people like just because it’s got swearwords in it.

Wow. You sound fun.

No. It's a fantastic song but if you listen to the words how can it possibly be a Christmas song? Or ever sung by children?

People wrongly calling it a Christmas song doesn't make it a Christmas song.

Listen to it. How is it a Christmas song?

I love it. But it's not my favourite.

Current favourite is Mary Did You Know. Pentatonix version.

If I had to name a favourite - Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' wins for me!

Not a Christmas song.

Not even a song!

It's a Christmas story.

And it's Christmas music. Pedants' corner is thattaway ... ➡

Love it. My favourite followed by the not Christmas but comes out every Christmas East 17.

Top 5 definitely and sound tracked some brilliant parties in my youth

Love it. And Slade!

OK, then my favourite Christmas song is mince pies. It's not a song, but it's Christmassy.

I never realised that there was a Christmas Song Definition Committee equivalent only to the Office for the Doctrine of the Faith, but I do now.

As you admit, nothing like a Christmas song. It's a song about suicide!

I mean, there isn't, but it's not unreasonable that a Christmas song is a) a song and b) about Christmas.

I love FoNY; it's authentic and speaks to me about disappointing Christmases—and let's be honest, who hasn't had at least one? Just see the post-Christmas posts on here! It's a song that knocks off the sickly sweet other offerings. It's the best.

No. Everyone likes to pretend it's the favourite Christmas song and that it "sums up their cynical feelings about Christmas". But they're just using it to give them credibility when you know they've had their tree up since early November and wear a Santa hat to work every day.

Plus it's quite an unpleasant song to listen to.