Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

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Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by mkmel » Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:44 pm

For me it has to be Driving home for Christmas by Chris Rea

I don't know what it is about this song but I just hate hearing it

What about you?

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by TheFamilyCat » Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:45 pm

Band Aid

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by claretburns » Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:46 pm

All of them, looking forward to January :D
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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by HahaYeah » Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:51 pm

Hard to think of one I don't like apart from the one with Bing and Bowie. :?

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by AmbleClaret » Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:53 pm

Mariah Carey,played to death every bloody year,give it a break please.
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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by Bosscat » Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:55 pm

claretburns wrote:
Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:46 pm
All of them, looking forward to January :D
Just for you 😉
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Post by 4:20 » Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:58 pm

last Christmas by thingymebob

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by Steve1956 » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:03 pm

mkmel wrote:
Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:44 pm
For me it has to be Driving home for Christmas by Chris Rea

I don't know what it is about this song but I just hate hearing it

What about you?

https://youtu.be/DDt3u2Ev1cI
Driving home for Christmas is in the top ten of Christmas songs ever...brilliant Christmas ditty up there with Fairytale of New York and Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody.

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Post by jdrobbo » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:08 pm

Really like a number of Christmas songs, but the two that I can’t stand are The Little Drummer Boy and Troika

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by ElectroClaret » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:11 pm

Anything by Cliff sodding Richard.
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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by Steve1956 » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:11 pm

Cliff Richard was stinking the building out on something I watched today.....I instantly knew it was December the 1st
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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by Bosscat » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:17 pm

Steve1956 wrote:
Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:11 pm
Cliff Richard was stinking the building out on something I watched today.....I instantly knew it was December the 1st
Zoe Testicle was playing effin xmas songs this morning when my alarm went off at 8.29 ...


But at least they played the "BEST EVER" Christmas Song of all time "Fairy tale of New York" by The Pogues and Kirsty McColl 😁
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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by Cirrus_Minor » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:22 pm

Many of them remind me of boozy nights out running up to Christmas; parties, pub crawls, works do's, etc. Wandering around drunk with these songs on constantly. Hearing them now tends to make me shudder a bit.

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by Steve1956 » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:23 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:17 pm
Zoe Testicle was playing effin xmas songs this morning when my alarm went off at 8.29 ...


But at least they played the "BEST EVER" Christmas Song of all time "Fairy tale of New York" by The Pogues and Kirsty McColl 😁
FTONY is the greatest Christmas song ever by a country mile but my all time favourite is I believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake....beautiful song is that.
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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by Woodleyclaret » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:25 pm

Fairy tale of New York can't stand it
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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by Steve1956 » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:27 pm

Still havnt heard that Knob Jona Lewie yet....that song really grates my gears
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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by Bosscat » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:28 pm

Woodleyclaret wrote:
Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:25 pm
Fairy tale of New York can't stand it
Philistine 😠


😉 only pulling your leg Woodley 🙂
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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by gandhisflipflop » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:37 pm

AmbleClaret wrote:
Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:53 pm
Mariah Carey,played to death every bloody year,give it a break please.
This. This. And this again. I just picture a load of orange lasses screeching in a pub making a nuisance.
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Post by groove » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:48 pm

I'm another that can't stand Fairytale. I think it's just the most overplayed of the Xmas songs. I agree with the above poster about Greg Lake. A poignant, sardonic, bitter sweet lament and a truly wonderful song.
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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by aclaretinstevenage » Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:52 pm

Feliz Navidad......brilliant for the first minute then just repeats the same few lyrics endlessly,

Got to have it though!

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by Devils_Advocate » Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:11 pm

"Reet Petite" by the dart player Jocky Wilson, I bloody hate novelty songs.

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by bobinho » Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:24 pm

Most of em tbh, but those produced by Phil Spector have a chance of being accepted.

As much as I’d like the pogues and Kirsty to be respected, they can’t because it’s just bloody awful. It’s trying too hard to be edgy or cool or raw or whatever…. It’s fuckin **** because of that.

Slade hit the button for me. Everything else is just trying too hard.

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by bobinho » Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:25 pm

Amazing. Fuckin gets in but **** doesn’t.

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Post by claptrappers_union » Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:44 pm

Christmas songs I don’t mind in isolation, its just that there’s only about 9 of them and they are on constant loop from November until mid January.

Everyone loves them. I don’t get it. How can you enjoy the same songs every day, every year for three months?

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Post by karatekid » Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:51 pm

Elton John - Step into Christmas :x

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by Woodleyclaret » Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:16 pm

Favourite Xmas song, Stop the Cavalry Jonah Louie
Recorded in Reading.

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Post by Burnley Ace » Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:23 pm

Woodleyclaret wrote:
Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:25 pm
Fairy tale of New York can't stand it
It’s absolutely ****. Emperors new clothes!!

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by timshorts » Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:49 pm

Away in a manger and the lullaby Carol. Both cringeworthy and awfully boring to have to sing.

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by gtclaret » Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:50 pm

The one from The Pogues

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Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?

Post by Swizzlestick » Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:56 pm

Fairytale of New York, Step Into Christmas and Driving Home for Christmas are all great.

My favourite is probably Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Power of Love.

There’s a lot of crap too - really don’t like McCartney’s or Stop the Cavalry which I appreciate is tantamount to sacrilege. The Elvis rip off one is dour too - Mud?

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Post by sound and vision » Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:56 pm

Little drummer boy by Joan Jett - have a listen it's really quite good!

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Post by Bop » Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:58 pm

I absolutely hated those Bastards singing Noel Noel.
End of.
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Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Thu Dec 01, 2022 10:41 pm

AmbleClaret wrote:
Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:53 pm
Mariah Carey,played to death every bloody year,give it a break please.
She makes millions from that track every year and also makes millions miserable when they hear it.

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Post by EarbyClaret » Thu Dec 01, 2022 10:52 pm

I was in Sainsbury's earlier today and they had Dean Martin, Perry Como and Frank Sinatra on repeat. Genuinely feel for the people who work there

Good Christmas songs are at a premium - all very subjective but:

Last White Christmas - Basement 5
No Xmas for John Quays - The Fall
Christmas In Hollis - Run DMC
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Post by dougcollins » Fri Dec 02, 2022 6:46 am

If I had to listen to 'Felice Navidad' all the way through I'd probably require psychiatric help.
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Post by Ptangyangkipperbang » Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:27 am

Another good one by The Fall (we wish you) A Protein Christmas also check out Hark The Herald Angles Sing from Peel Sessions

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Post by 4midable » Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:41 am

All of em
Maria Carey is the worst

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Post by Im_not_Robbie_Blake » Fri Dec 02, 2022 10:49 am

See Him Lying in a Bed of Straw

Makes me clench my teeth!

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Post by Vino blanco » Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:46 pm

I’m another another one who can not stand that Pogues effort. It irritates me immensely. My favourite Xmas songs would be:
White Christmas.....Bing Crosby
Blue Christmas....Elvis
So this is Christmas....John Lennon

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Post by mkmel » Fri Dec 02, 2022 3:01 pm

Steve1956 wrote:
Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:03 pm
Driving home for Christmas is in the top ten of Christmas songs ever...brilliant Christmas ditty up there with Fairytale of New York and Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody.
You been on the ale Steve? 😁
How can you rate that horrible Driving Home for Christmas 🤮

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Post by Steve1956 » Fri Dec 02, 2022 3:52 pm

mkmel wrote:
Fri Dec 02, 2022 3:01 pm
You been on the ale Steve? 😁
How can you rate that horrible Driving Home for Christmas 🤮
I just love Chris Rea's forty fags a day voice MK :)
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Post by Middle-agedClaret » Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:07 pm

Never liked Happy Christmas - War Is Over

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Post by gsyclaret » Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:43 pm

Dominic the donkey :lol: :lol:

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Post by Stproc » Sat Dec 03, 2022 11:25 am

E17 is the worst song I’ve ever heard. And sadly, the Bowie & Bing song is tripe too.

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Post by BennyD » Sat Dec 03, 2022 12:38 pm

The Fairytale Of New York is my favourite Xmas song of all time. Any such song with swearing in it sums up my feelings towards this tacky time of year. Roll on January. Bah fuckin humbug.

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Post by pureclaret » Sat Dec 03, 2022 12:44 pm

two little boys ,xmas number 1 in 1969 used to like it until all the problems re Rolf. now if I hear it think bad thoughts about what he really meant when he sung it

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