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Has anyone heard it yet? Last year I made it to about the 10th of December before I got a snip of it in the shopping centre one evening. Pretty good going I thought though disappointing nonetheless.
I was gritting my teeth in the shops this morning, just waiting for it to kick in...
It was on telly in the pub last night.
Heard it today on the local radio station. Apparently, they've a rule that says no Xmas tunes until December.
kormoran broadway is waiting for you I promise.
[i]Has anyone heard it yet?[/i]
How does it go?
Touch wood, not yet.
That said, we've got some 80s station on the radio in the office and we've already had Do They Know It's Christmas so it's 'when' not 'if'...
EDIT: It's on now!
It came on shuffle play in the car a couple of days ago from a Pogues compilation album. I don't mind it at all.
I avoid any programmes about Christmas, don't really spend much time in shops and tend not to listen to the radio a great deal so I rarely feel bombarded with Christmas songs which makes hearing one occasionally alright.
Not heard it yet. I'm sick of it though... over rated and vastly over played.
You scumbag you faggot, is now singing in my head. Thanks, thanks a lot.
(logs back in again, suspect that I've been booted out of my other devices too)
Yes, I heard it earlier. It's the only song I really like to hear over the Xmas period..
Appart form this:
I don't effing believe it, I just caught the end of the Radio 4 play and it was on there! No spoiler alert, nothing. The utter ****.
I was going all out for the 10th and now this
At least it was only a few seconds of instrumental I suppose. Even so I feel my chips have been pissed on.
The ironing.
[i] faggot[/i] - maggot, I believe
faggot - maggot, I believe
Yep.
You scumbag, You maggot, You cheap lousy faggot, Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God It's our last
[Fondly remembers Kirsty McColl slapping her arse on Top Of The Pops]
The original lyrics were 'Happy Christmas you arsehole' but they were changed because it was suggested it wouldn't get any airplay like that.Happy Christmas your arse
Shame really.
It's also a bloody brilliant rollicking novel by J.P. Donleavy. A good accompaniment to the song 🙂
Yup, in October grrr
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faggot - maggot, I believeYep.
You scumbag, You maggot, You cheap lousy faggot, Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God It's our last
What, so have they changed it to [i]"You scumbag, You maggot, You cheap lousy maggot?"[/i] or am I missing something?
Everyone knows this is the best chrimble song anyway:
But Tory^
🙁
But they kept the radio friendly "You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed"
🙂
Personally I love it!
Just had my first exposure, Mrs. Jay is blasting out with the youngest in the bath, can't complain they're both singing along happy as larry.
Slade now though, less forgiveable,
I love it. Just googled the lyrics for a proper read. It really is outstanding.
For the sweet love of Jesus Why?
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Best Christmas song ever. In fact, the best thing about Christmas as well.
I prefer the Ronan Keating version
Ha
Not yet. Fabulous song imo.
I've been on holiday this week so on Wednesday I went to the Christmas market in Edinburgh. The alternative would have been to go there on a weekend closer to Christmas, so it was the lesser of two evils.
While I was there I heard 3 identifiable Christmas songs over the PA - Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses, Everything's Gonna Be Cool this Christmas by Eels and Fairytale of New York. Could have been much worse.
Both heart and magic FM have had Xmas stations going on dab for quite a while now, heard all the "classics" enough times already!!
For all the shenanigans, the drinking, the teeth, Shane McGowan has written some of the best lyrics of his generation. Some of them read like poetry without the music.
From the song itself, the lines:
[i]You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you[/i]
say so much in a few words. Awesome song, even if over-played.
Wednesday night, called at the Handmade Burger Co for a snack before we went to the cinema. It was playing when we went in and was played again halfway through the meal.
Agree.
It won the annual first Christmas song to be played on CFM contest today (much to the disappointment of local 'super DJ' Robbie D...)
In fairness it has won for last umpteen years too. Great song!
There’s a sing-a-long at Newcastle tonight for it.
🙄Not heard it yet. I'm sick of it though... over rated and vastly over played.
Hardly overrated when it’s one of the best Christmas songs ever written.
Unless, of course you prefer Wham, East 17, Bros and the like.
I also like Greg Lake’s [i]I Believe in Father Christmas[/i], The Waitresses [i]Christmas Wrapping[/i] and a few other less obvious Xmas songs.
As I've got older, I've learned to appreciate Christmas songs, and this is one of my favourites. I like Christmas Wrapping too just for the relentless upbeat plasticness. I also like:
The Phil Spector ones
12 days of Christmas- the muppets (when they were good)
Anything Christmassy that Elvis did
Likewise James Brown
Christmas at the Zoo - Flaming Lips
My son started playing it on his flute last night - shame it wasn't one of his grade 7 exam pieces on Monday!
I love Christmas songs and this is definitely one of the best. Also really like...
River - Joni Mitchell
2000 Miles - Pretenders
A Spaceman Came Travelling - CdB
Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade
I wish it could be Christmas every day - Wizzard
Little Drummer Boy - Bing & Dave
Is it time for me to post this again?
Oh good.......
See how we yawn
At your bile and your scorn
It’s a beautiful day
Peace on Earth has been played
Make a noise with your toys
And ignore the killjoys
‘Cos it’s cliched
To be cynical
At Christmas
Fairy-tale of New York is a Christmas classic.
Other half hates My First Christmas as a Woman by the Vandals but she can't help singing along. Her enthusiasm is a little disturbing now I think about it
Chop if off! Chop if off! Chop if off!
My penis, chop it off
It's no use to me.
Cut it off!
Chop it off! Chop it off!
My penis, cut it off so I can finally be
A Woman...
Awesome. The Christmas Song of Christmas Songs
Yes and that hmhb one, because, it is.
Which is odd as they are so cynical about everything else
I think that's what makes it so brilliant.
🙂
Even got a mention on Radio 5 last week.
Fairytale of New York is a stone cold classic though and DD is spot on about Shane McGowan - boy's a genius.
"When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne
And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone
Frank Ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid
And you decked some ****ing blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids
At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair...."
Arsehole doesnt rhyme with "last" so that's a lie.
CZ done a rolly eye. Ha, someone's wrong 😆