Do you really like the song?

Love it! I’ve got it downloaded on my Xmas favourites ….alongside more traditional carols.

Love it. Great tune and poignant story.

I like it, both for itself but also because I was in the sixth form with one of the Pogues so I feel like I have a sort of relationship (which is ridiculous, we weren't close friends or anything, but still...)

I love it , the lyrics are gritty and sung from the heart ,better than cheesy Xmas songs released for Christmas just to make money. How sad the lead singers are dead.When it was played at Shanes funeral it was uplifting and a real tribute to him

I agree entirely with the OP. I cannot bear this 'song', and will switch off if it comes on the radio. To me it just sounds like a load of angry drunk people arguing in a pub.

The only other song I do this for is "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell - I cannot bear her voice!

Love It! My all time favourite Christmas song.

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At his funeral

Love it!

It's OK. Not too fussed either way. I prefer to listen to carols at Christmas, tbh.

If it's herd mentality then there was an extremely big herd in Dublin showing their approval.

Always been my fav Xmas song , but it’s like anything in life , folk like or dislike 🎄

HowVeryDareYou2

I like it, it's preferable to all those cheesy Cliff Richard ones

Oh absolutely! I turn the radio or Tv off till he's finished. I can't abide Cliff Richards & his god bothering lyrics.

Its ok I guess, I can't say that it falls into my list of Christmas songs but if its played then I listen. 😃

Iam64

MOnica - excellent post at 16.48

Yes, I agree with Monica on this one. People posting, posters don't really like the song but saying they do. Others saying it is herd mentality. Totally stupid I have loved this song for years.

It isn’t a song that I either like or dislike. But after I realised that a song I was playing at the time that something terribly sad happened to one of my neighbours I stopped listening to music at any time in my life when something sad happened. The tragic way that Kirsty McCollum died was so sad that it put me off the song I think. I’ve just dug out my Best of the Pogues cd and remembered that the track I love and play on a loop is Thousands are Sailing. Playing it now. Will probably play it over and over again (dog doesn’t like loud music so I don’t play cd’s much these days but she’s at my partners). I’d sing along to it but I’ve lost both my speaking voice and my singing voice ( which has always been awful but is now just a croak). Shane reminds me of something someone wrote about Courtney Love. A lousy singer but a great vocalist. What a wordsmith he was though….(bit weepy now…)

MOnica - excellent post at 16.48

People have had their views, and so have I. That’s what forum discussions are for and would be a funny old world if we all agreed.

Why would anyone over teenage want to be 'one of the crowd', by liking a song/ What a strange idea.

Like it, don't like it, it doesn't matter, but let people have their own views please.

I don’t seek anyone on here’s approval Monica and I think you protest too much tbh.
The only person flailing out wildly is yourself, honestly what a storm in a teacup.

This is getting ‘goady’ now.
Let’s all play nice. 😊

What could be more patronising than suggesting anyone who disagrees with you is 'possibly responding to a 'herd mentality'.

Herd mentailty in Christmas songs? Give us a break. The person suggesting this is just as likely to be making the suggestion because everybody whose approval they seek doesn't like it and is doing exactly the same thing.

Also looking at the names posting on this thread, they are the names of people who nearly all have track records of never being afraid to put their heads above the parapet and disagree with any one and everybody where there are disagreements, so to suggest that they might succumb to the herd mentality over a Christmas song, of all trivialities is really the sign of someone on their back foot and flailing out wildly.

To be ‘one of the crowd’ I guess Theexwife. I’m with Oreo, I have already said I don’t care for it. I can do without depressing tales of drink and drugs any time of the year, but particularly at Christmas. Each to their own!

Always been my favorite Christmas song, why would someone pretend to like it?

Even on that thread I would be a centrist. I like Tom Jones and loathe Cliff Richard.

growstuff

Maybe I'll start a thread about how much I hate Gilbert and Sullivan, Tom Jones and Cliff Richard - not to offend or wind anybody up, but just so you all know.

That would be fine, we can all come onto your thread and say we either liked them or didn’t.