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Post by daz on Dec 26, 2016 12:12:17 GMT
Not sure if on here already, but The Darkness Xmas song from about 2003, is a terrible song, it was on the radio yesterday, but to be fair they were a terrible group. Have to say I have avoided Xmas music this year.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Dec 26, 2016 12:29:27 GMT
Not sure if on here already, but The Darkness Xmas song from about 2003, is a terrible song, it was on the radio yesterday, but to be fair they were a terrible group. Have to say I have avoided Xmas music this year. I think Christmas songs are rubbish. This year in particular has been bad. I don't know why but this year more so than other years they've particularly got on my nerves.. I genuinely cannot see the appeal of listening to the same dogsh!t being played over and over repeatedly. Even some Christmas songs I quite like, have started to irritate me. And now it's become some sort of modern tradition to play this cack endlessly. Why not next year just not play any? I know I'm not on my own either because I asked this old biddy who was working the checkout at Tussco if she found this repeated barrage of Christmas songs annoying.. And she replied 'Yes, rather.'
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Post by daz on Dec 26, 2016 12:34:31 GMT
6 Music doesn't do much Xmas music, usually a litle different if it is, but when in the car I change stations whenever a Xmas song comes on the radio. Don't get 6 music in the car
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Post by flyingsquad on Dec 26, 2016 13:14:27 GMT
Not sure if on here already, but The Darkness Xmas song from about 2003, is a terrible song, it was on the radio yesterday, but to be fair they were a terrible group. Have to say I have avoided Xmas music this year. I think Christmas songs are rubbish. This year in particular has been bad. I don't know why but this year more so than other years they've particularly got on my nerves.. I genuinely cannot see the appeal of listening to the same dogsh!t being played over and over repeatedly. Even some Christmas songs I quite like, have started to irritate me. And now it's become some sort of modern tradition to play this cack endlessly. Why not next year just not play any? I know I'm not on my own either because I asked this old biddy who was working the checkout at Tussco if she found this repeated barrage of Christmas songs annoying.. And she replied 'Yes, rather.' I agree Arch. Even Christmas records I liked when they first came out irritate me now through being overplayed.
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Post by Portland Road on Jan 2, 2017 9:35:15 GMT
I think that music was probably on a downward spiral in 2003. The various strands of 90s music were fizzling out. The affluent indie of the mid 2000s (Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs etc) had yet to emerge.
Into this came the novelty of The Darkness, who were a cabaret in comparison. As such, they were able to have a popular Christmas hit to whatever standard.
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Post by daz on Jan 2, 2017 9:42:49 GMT
In the latest copy of Private Eye there is a story about Slade and Merry Xmas everybody and within it, it claims Jim Lea and Noddy Holder earn £500k, a year from Merry Xmas Everybody! I think the story is something to do with the BBC referring to it as a Noddy Holder song and Jim Lea wanted to be known that he wrote it also if discussed on TV or Radio. If it earned me £250k a year I wouldn't give a hoot who thought wrote it as the royalty cheque would be the only proof needed. The other two members of the band don't get a share apparently.
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Post by thecraftyleek on Jan 6, 2017 21:13:30 GMT
I am proud to say that I'm the one person who voted for Slade.
Why? Well, not because it's a bad record. But it would be nice to have just one Christmas where I don't hear Noddy Holder screaming ''IT'S Christmas!!!' i.e. in a shop, on a radio or on the telly. 'Merry Xmas Everybody' is like a Class A drug and I want a five year detox. Just try it. See if you can go an entire Christmas without hearing this record once. It's impossible.
Most of the others songs I agree with. The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl is one record that I never tire of hearing. 'Fairytale of New York' is easily the best Christmas record ever made, if not one of the greatest songs of all time. Sadly, it never gets the crédit it deserves as it's not exactly a children's record for the festive season.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jan 7, 2017 8:28:28 GMT
I am proud to say that I'm the one person who voted for Slade. Why? Well, not because it's a bad record. But it would be nice to have just one Christmas where I don't hear Noddy Holder screaming ''IT'S Christmas!!!' I completely agree Crafty. This year (2017) it would be really refreshing not to have any Christmas Songs at all. Of course you'd get loads of people moaning that this increasingly modern phenomena is a long standing tradition (it isn't!) but if we said people were only aloud to listen to Christmas songs in the privacy of their own homes I think this would be a fair compromise.. Obviously if they tried to play them in public those individuals would be crucified in mass crucifixion chambers in honour of the festive traditions they so love.. But hopefully it wouldn't come to that, because I would like to think that people would really get into a one year amnesty, and would appreciate that absence often makes the heart grow fonder, in a grown up and mature fashion. Christmas songs aren't traditional (unless they are some ancient hymn or pagan winter solstice ritual), they aren't necessary, they aren't fun, they aren't nice to listen to repeatedly on a loop for 5weeks, they are just sh1t.
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Post by jno on Jan 7, 2017 8:37:01 GMT
Arch Stanton for president!
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jan 7, 2017 9:06:14 GMT
Arch Stanton for president! I dunno why man but this year Christmas songs have really cut me deep! I think it's just the constant repetition. I really disliked ALL Christmas songs this year. I didn't want to listen to a single one. Every time one was played another pot hole opened on the motorway of my soul. I dunno why? I'm not sure it's because of the kinds of people who like them and get excited by them and want to play them over and over and over, or whether it's just the consumerist brainwashing of it all. As deeply depressing as this statement is, I can now never envisage a Christmas without them.... some people out there need them and because of this I believe they have given birth to a living breathing institution capable of autonomous thought and self replication. Like some festive tulpa, a hideous abomination of mankind's psyche. If we don't exorcise these things immediately, we, the human race as we know it, are doomed. In fact we may already be too late!...... .....................Here, do you think if I join up with ISIS over the yuletide period this year at one of their Syrian training camps I'll get to avoid listening to Slade?
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jan 7, 2017 9:23:01 GMT
Some say "If I didn't hear Slade at least once it wouldn't be a proper Christmas."
See what I mean.Yes it would be a proper Christmas. It would be a proper Christmas just without Slade. You have been brainwashed that's all...
I have seen victims like you before Lee, you have become host to this beast and are defending it's presence using the standard phrase 'But it wouldn't be a proper Christmas without..' That's like saying they're tradition Lee. It's not true.. It's not a tradition, you're just trying to make out like it is in order to give it more gravitas than it deserves, make it special, make it personal.............. Don't fall for it Lee... Slade is just using you, it doesn't care about you or your family or your Christmas. It's just doing it to stay alive, because it knows that without listeners it wont exist! Don't allow yourself to be used like this Lee, your festive supplications toward it are destroying you and your loved ones will and independence.
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Post by thecraftyleek on Jan 7, 2017 15:52:17 GMT
It would be a proper Christmas just without Slade. You have been brainwashed that's all... I have seen victims like you before Lee, you have become host to this beast and are defending it's presence using the standard phrase 'But it wouldn't be a proper Christmas without..' That's like saying they're tradition Lee. It's not true.. It's not a tradition, you're just trying to make out like it is in order to give it more gravitas than it deserves, make it special, make it personal.............. Don't fall for it Lee... Slade is just using you, it doesn't care about you or your family or your Christmas. It's just doing it to stay alive, because it knows that without listeners it wont exist! Don't allow yourself to be used like this Lee, your festive supplications toward it are destroying you and your loved ones will and independence. Having lived in two Muslim countries in December, I can tell you that it is possible to go one Christmas without Slade...until some twit plays Noddy Holder at a bl*ody Xmas Party! Then I have to wait another 12 months to avoid being infected once more.
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Post by rjc77 on Sept 18, 2017 14:24:39 GMT
I know it's still only mid-way through September (at the time of writing this post), but obviously with the festive season shortly on the horizon I am already in many ways dreading the thought of being in shops and the like (especially from about early November onwards) where we have the annual ear-torture (IMHO) of the same old Christmas hits forced on us by the managements of said establishments.
I still thoroughly acknowledge and respect the wishes of those who still actually enjoy listening to said tunes in whatever situation they are in, but I am also aware that I am not alone with my chronic aversion to the (bore)-festive numbers from the likes of Slade, Lennon, Wham, Elton John, Chris De Burgh, etc, even though I actually quite enjoyed most of them when I was a kid.
Don't get me wrong. I am not in any way anti-Christmas, nor dislike any of the actual artists in general that I have mentioned above, nor do I even see myself as a boring old fart!!
Any thoughts?
RJC
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Post by billymedhurst on Sept 18, 2017 16:27:39 GMT
In the days when Woolies still existed, the end of the 6-week holidays signalled the start of the Xmas season, so they had ample opportunity to sell us as much cheap tat as possible; and lots of Xmas decs withit !
Those days are over (like many) but as for Xmas songs, I loathe Slade and Wizzard.
However, as for Xmas songs I turn UP:-
The Greedies - 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas' The Dickies - 'Silent Night' Kate Bush - 'December Will Be Magic Again' Jona Lewie - 'Stop The Cavalry' (still a classic)
....................oh and Cliff, ofcourse !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by jno on Sept 18, 2017 17:16:34 GMT
Why don't we ever hear Gary Glitter's 'Another Rock n Roll Christmas' played on the radio any more? You should move abroad - Gary Glitter stuff still ok to talk about here.
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Post by jno on Sept 18, 2017 17:31:19 GMT
Certainly at Christmas I have heard him in shops, whether that's radio or not I have no idea. He was no 27 on Top of the Pops countdown last week!
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Post by alf on Sept 18, 2017 17:33:40 GMT
Shakin just got my vote.
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Post by chopper on Sept 18, 2017 17:49:14 GMT
After placing East 17 comfortably on the list sometime ago,I've added - Cliff's Millennium Prayer & the utter plop of Renee & Renato to make my 3.
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Post by rjc77 on Sept 18, 2017 23:18:17 GMT
My first vote would most certainly have to be 'A Spaceman Came Travelling' by Chris De Bleurgh. Probably the saddest and most depressing song I have ever had the misfortune to hear. That poxy 45, burn it, toss it into hell, drive a truck or a double decker bus over it, (YUK!!! YUK!!! YUK!!!).
Second is that dreaded ear torture from Slade 'IT'S CHRRISSSTMAAAASSSS!!' Temptation for a severe meltdown in public and inadvertently risk being carted off to the funny farm by men in white coats!! (EEEEEEKKKKKKKK!!!).
Third has to be that Lennon/Ono dirge. (YIIIIIIIIKES!!!).
RJC
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Post by alf on Sept 18, 2017 23:43:05 GMT
Be extra poignant Last Christmas by Wham this year won't it?
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Post by jno on Sept 19, 2017 2:21:16 GMT
My first vote would most certainly have to be 'A Spaceman Came Travelling' by Chris De Bleurgh. Probably the saddest and most depressing song I have ever had the misfortune to hear. That poxy 45, burn it, toss it into hell, drive a truck or a double decker bus over it, (YUK!!! YUK!!! YUK!!!). Second is that dreaded ear torture from Slade 'IT'S CHRRISSSTMAAAASSSS!!' Temptation for a severe meltdown in public and inadvertently risk being carted off to the funny farm by men in white coats!! (EEEEEEKKKKKKKK!!!). Third has to be that Lennon/Ono dirge. (YIIIIIIIIKES!!!). RJC When I lived in Cornwall many years ago, one of the last things I did was train to become an English language teacher for foreign learners at Cornwall College Language Centre in Pool. As part of the course one of the teachers (some old bird who clearly just loved Spanish and had worked in Spain for years) - thought it wise to use this song as part of 'including music as part of your teaching'. Obviously being an 80s fan I knew it and granted, the lyrics are a story but to trying to find any positives from this cackfest I thought was non-starter. Then, to further expose this tripe to foreign listeners, I thought simply (like Chris De Blurgh) "na, na na na, na na na, na na na" i.e. pull this out if your music collection if you want your students to think you're a sad old muppet who needs to get a life - nothing else. As for Noddy, that song has undoubtedly made him a pretty packet over the years but has probably overshadowed anything else Slade did for the casual listener. 'Cum on Feel The Noize' I play with my band (leaning more towards the Quiet Riot version) and other than this, 'Mama We're All Crazee Now', 'Far Far Away' , 'My Oh My' and 'Run Runaway' even an anorak like me is struggling to name any more Slade hits. Fair play to Noddy though, he looks like a clown but his voice is almost right up there in the screech hall of fame. Be extra poignant Last Christmas by Wham this year won't it? I really get the feeling if 'Last Christmas' does make it to number 1 again this year clearly someone is on an earner based on the death of its author.
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Post by KarinB on Sept 19, 2017 12:23:49 GMT
Hmm I can't decide if it is good economy to revive a 2015 Christmas thread for 2017 or maybe a little lazy. Does this mean I can vote again for the worst songs. Well for me the worst songs will always be whatever my workplace decide to continually play to entertain the customers. The customers get to walk out. Staff have to stay and hear it on autoplay.
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Post by jno on Sept 19, 2017 16:47:30 GMT
You may always change your vote KarinB.
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Post by pr1 on Sept 22, 2017 21:44:03 GMT
I am happy to say I've never heard some of these. Most of the ones on this list I do know are practically vomit inducing making it tough to pick only three.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Sept 22, 2017 22:02:01 GMT
Hmm I can't decide if it is good economy to revive a 2015 Christmas thread for 2017 or maybe a little lazy. It's like the gift that keeps on giving.
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Post by daz on Dec 22, 2017 14:06:37 GMT
Seems as good a place to post this as any, but whilst carrying out my extreme sport of last minute Xmas shopping, I noticed that Xmas songs, in Aberdeen at least, have not been blasting out of every shop I went into, in fact I cannot remember a single shop playing XMas music at all. Have they finally realised that whilst we don't mind the songs there is a limit to how much we want to hear them, anyone noticed elsewhere of a decline in Xmas music being played?
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Post by Arch Stanton on Dec 22, 2017 17:56:55 GMT
Seems as good a place to post this as any, but whilst carrying out my extreme sport of last minute Xmas shopping, I noticed that Xmas songs, in Aberdeen at least, have not been blasting out of every shop I went into, in fact I cannot remember a single shop playing XMas music at all. Have they finally realised that whilst we don't mind the songs there is a limit to how much we want to hear them, anyone noticed elsewhere of a decline in Xmas music being played? No. I've still heard the same shyte as usual.
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Post by felixdeburgh on Dec 22, 2017 19:27:29 GMT
Never one to shy away from going against the grain, my most hated Xmas song is the dreadful Fairytale In New York. I like Kirsty Macoll and some of The Pogues’ stuff is OK but this is utter tuneless bilge and I’ll turn it off if it comes on the radio. I absolutely detest it and would love nothing better than to avoid it for the rest of my life. If I could have voted for it three times, I would.
My other votes went to the St Winifred’s Choir and East 17. Both tedious cr@p.
Oh, and Greg Lake rules. That’s easily the best Xmas song IMO.
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Post by jno on Dec 22, 2017 19:52:11 GMT
Can we add Michael Bubble to most hated Christmas celebs list?
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Post by bensonrad on Dec 29, 2017 9:17:11 GMT
Band Aid 20 for me on that list, there have been a number or rubbish xmas songs over recent years, but as they were so rubbish I've not committed them to my memory.
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