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The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl singing Fairytale of New York.

What Christmas tune will you have to be subjected to while out and about this festive period?

In reply to The Lemming:

then you've got cloth ears and no soul, lemming....

not just the best christmas song, by a country mile, but one of the best songs...

In reply to no_more_scotch_eggs:


Like a competition for the prettiest turd.

In reply to The Lemming:

I thought I'd escaped Christmas music this year until I noticed it in the bike shop. Upon enquiring as the why on Earth they were playing it I was informed that the staff felt it made people less likely to ask for discounts.

No discount was offered on my two 26" tubes...

In reply to The Lemming:

When I worked in retail, in the days before Christmas, I would swap out the Christmas CD for The Beatles hits. I noticed all the Christmas shoppers in a good mood would bop along. Same feel good, almost Christmass-y, feeling but less painful. Also, you haven't hated Christmas songs properly until you've worked in retail in December.

In reply to The Lemming:

In my teens I had a Saturday job in a local supermarket; in the run up to Christmas they had one Christmas album, "Twelve Songs of Christmas" by Jim Reeves which was played on repeat all day. It still makes me shudder to think of it.

In reply to The Lemming:

I think I'm with you on this. It's been sold as the only christmas song it's ok to like, but it's a really bleak song about mutual abuse with no redemption or light at the end. Fine as far as that goes, I've got lots of Roger Waters , but it's not on my christmas playlist.

Ok, Slade aren't there either, but Greg Lake and Wizzard are, and so is Kate Bush

especially this video, which I may have posted here before, but I think is silly and uplifting and ace.
Teenagers making the most of a fragment of snow on an anonymous estate somewhere

vimeo.com/33483126

PS Greg Lake has to be the full fat orchestral version, not the one from Works Vol2

youtube.com/watch?v=Lqwqknq7nuI&

In reply to The Lemming:


The same one! I pretty much loathe it too.

In reply to The Lemming:

Slade.

In reply to The Lemming:

Not a big fan of it either.

Have to admit to being partial to a bit of 'Driving home for Christmas'...

In reply to toad:



well, yes, but those lyrics...

"I could have been someone"

"Well so could anyone"

and the way they are delivered- hairs rising on the back of my neck recalling it, and i've heard it dozens of time. it tells a truth about the world in the way that good art does- and that's what i think this is. the fact that its wrapped in shiny christmas paper makes the contrast and emotional depth of the song that bit greater- a masterpiece

but in keeping with Lemming's spirit, my nomination for christmas songs i just don't like would be the one by McCartney- smug, loaded with cliches, and devoid of any real emotion, or point.

In reply to The Lemming:

Someone in The Guardian was arguing that Mistletoe and Wine is the best christmas song and y'know I think it just might be.....

No. Wait. It isn't.

In reply to toad:

Santa Rap from Beat Street...

01:40 if you get bored of the 80's cheese - the night club scene is about as convincing as the crowd scene on Jossy's Giants

youtube.com/watch?v=tT5noclsXS4&

In reply to The Lemming:

Of all the Christmas songs to hate and you pick that? What is wrong with you man!

Last Christmas- Wham. That is a loathsome tune if ever I heard one.

In reply to The Lemming:

i hope to god i don't have to hear the version of it at number one in this list though. unutterably, soul-suckingly grim beyond description...

http://louderthanwar.com/the-10-worst-cover-versions-of-all-time/

In reply to gavmac:



yes, but the video was filmed on the Saas Fee lift, and I've been on that!

In reply to toad:


I see a lot of critisism of the Guardian on the forums, but that is probably the most damning!

In reply to The Lemming:

Little St Nick - Beach Boys.

Whatever the one was by Jackson 5

Mariah Carey

Michael Bublé

In reply to The Lemming:

McCartney.


Awful.

In reply to The Lemming:

I hate ALL christmas pop songs.

Can´t wait until November(ish), though, when it becomes OK again to put on the Christmas Oratory or the Messiah.....

CB

In reply to plyometrics:



+1

So good.

In reply to The Lemming:

I love it!

In reply to The Lemming:


The only one I like! It's one of the few Xmas pop songs that actually has some artistic merit, and isn't just cheap schmaltz.


I loathe them all, at this time of year I have to put headphones in when entering a shop. But, the worst of all are the Slade and Wizard ones. I live in hope that those guys will be exposed as paedos, so I never have to hear those songs again.

In reply to Hooo:

Had me laughing at the last sentence. Quality!

In reply to Hooo:
That's true.
You rarely hear Gary Glitter's Christmas record these days.

In reply to The Lemming:

Up there has to be 'all i want for christmas is a hippopotamus' shirley temple - nearly as catchy as 'Easy street' darryl's sleep deprivation song on The Walking Dead

In reply to bouldery bits:



Don't you go shattering one of my childhood dreams with such noncsence.

In reply to The Lemming:


At last, Someone with some taste. unutterable shite. I'd rather listen to mull of Kintyre. At least Linda McVeggieburger was worth a look.

In reply to The Lemming:

A few years back, you were grumbling because TOTP2 played the airwaves-approved version of that song.

T.

In reply to The Lemming:

If anyone has heard that new Sainbury's christmas song by James C*rd*n, you have my sympathies.

In reply to The Lemming:

How do you feel about Steel Panther?

youtube.com/watch?v=LMQgzc3tw1c&

In reply to plyometrics:


Oh the disillusionment as a smoggie on first hearing this from the composer of Steel River and Stainsby Girls...

In reply to davidbeynon:

A bit tame for the mighty Panther...

In reply to aln:

The curse of christmas music.

In reply to The Lemming:

Pretty much all of them! Hate them all. Wham, slade, wizard, Poges, live aid, Cliff Richard. Same CD playing in every single bloody shop.

Bah humbug