Do you really like the song?

I too love it - always top of my playlist.

I love it, always have since it was first released.

Brilliant lyrics, love it.

I love it. It has long been a tradition in my family that Christmas ony starts when you have heard Fairytale of New York. This has been a bit OTT this year of course, but I did hear in on the regular tape at the supermarket yesterday.
RIP Shaun McGowan

The song is OK but the accompanying video was pretty foul.

I love it, I always have loved it and always will. perhaps it is my Irish heritage.

It is probably the only commercial Christmas song I like.

Shane McGowan, was highly intelligent and gifted man but pursued and almost consumed by demons of addiction.
He went to Westminster School, a highly expensive private school, that he could only have got to if he had one a scholarship or bursary. He was later expelled.

nanna8 This thread is about the song Shane McGowan wrote and sung with Kirsty McColl. No one (except you) has mentioned carols.

It's a favourite here too.
I'd quite happily put Maria Carey in room 101 though.

I love it.

So poignant.

“I could have been someone”.

“Well, so could anyone!”

So true.

Yes I do. Dislike CR and all that quasi religious stuff. A good dose of reality is much more preferable

I do! More so now since his sad death.

It seems we are in the minority polomint but I absolutely loathe it!

nanna8

That guy in the Poges just died, didn’t he ? I don’t mind that song, a bit sentimental late night drunk sort of thing but I don’t think of it as a Christmas Carol, just a folk song.

yes it is a folk song, absolutely brilliant words. Life is not hunky dory for some and the words reflect that. The actual tune is wonderful and very much suits the words. The man was a genius poet

HowVeryDareYou2

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

Hear, hear. And CR’s songs are very “ear worm” material, unfortunately!

NotSpaghetti

I have always loved it for its gritty poetic honesty.

This sums it up for me too @NotSpaghetti

It's the first song on my Christmas playlist.

Louella what an odd thing to say.

Oldfrill what happens in marriages?

I’m another who loves it, wonderful lyrics and a great tune. It was lovely watching the piece on the news about Shane MacGowan’s funeral cortège going through Dublin.

That guy in the Poges just died, didn’t he ? I don’t mind that song, a bit sentimental late night drunk sort of thing but I don’t think of it as a Christmas Carol, just a folk song.

"Horses for courses but I bet there's a lot who claim to love it don't really."

I think that just happens in marriages

... There's a bit of herd mentality going on

What a strange comment.

I thought people either liked it or they didn't.

i've always disliked it, because it sounds so rough and rude.
the irish people whom i knew when i was young would have hated it too, because they would have said it gives the irish a bad name.
they were gentle, friendly people with a kind of old time courtesy in their manners and address; it was painful for them to be characterised as always fighting, drunken, riotous, uncouth.
so that's why i don't like the song. it sounds like that to me.

Ive always hated it. I hate christmas songs as a genre but this scrapes the bottom.

I can't stand it. I loathed it when I first heard it. Then came those who wanted to be different and said they loved it.

Horses for courses but I bet there's a lot who claim to love it don't really.

There's a bit of herd mentality going on

What an odd thing to say. It’s like someone who likes the song saying “Louella just pretends to hate it to be different but she secretly loves it”

Surely we all have different tastes and that’s normal.

I can't stand it. I loathed it when I first heard it. Then came those who wanted to be different and said they loved it.

Horses for courses but I bet there's a lot who claim to love it don't really.

There's a bit of herd mentality going on

I’m with you polomint. I don’t like it at all.

I like it.