Do you really like the song?

I am so pleased.

I read yesterday that the song has been voted the best ever Christmas song in a week long poll by the Radio Times. The results are here..

www.radiotimes.com/audio/fairytale-of-new-york-best-christmas-song-ever-vote-exclusive-newsupdate/#

As an aside, re music in shops. As I was wandering round Lidl yesterday, I became aware that something was different. No music at all. Not a jingle bell to be heard. It was so refreshing.
I like Fairytale as an alternative Christmas song as I certainly do not wish that it was Christmas every day.

It isn't the words it is the music and performance, it would be a great song even if it was in a language I didn't know praaising something I hatee.

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No no no! I have just looked at the lyrics! More suited to a drunken Friday night than a "suitable" Christmas song. Everyone is entitled to their preference and opinion though. I definitely DON'T like it at all.I totally agree with op.If it was playing in a shop I would leave.So far thankfully that hasn,t happened.There seem to be more than a few of us "haters"!

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Yep, you got it, more suited to a drunken maudlin late Friday night in an Irish pub.
Each to their own as they say.😄

I'm not fond of noise: talking, tv, or music, I lose concentration.

However, in a Bernkastel-Kues market several days before Christmas I was totally amused by 3 of our young GC rocking out to 'Santa Claus is coming to town'. But it had been a good ski trip, I was happy to be heading home.

I'm not saying you haven't, M0nica . Just that a song wouldn't drive me out.

I can assure you Doodledog that i have been driven from shops by the music, usually the volume and, at this time of the year, the sheer repetitiveness of the same limited range of tunes usually in excreble cover versions.

On Tuesday this week we dived for the car when the muzak that our local French municipality was booming into the streets consisted of traditional British Christmas carols - Hark the Herald Angels Sings, and others rendered in a schmalzy style more appropriate for 'Baby its Cold Outside' and in a very American American accent.

Agreed, OldFrill. I dislike anything by Cliff, and find When A Child Is Born irritating, but neither would drive me from a shop, (in the unlikely event that I was in one ).

I cannot imagine leaving a shop because of the music playing although Jingle Bells and the like drive me nuts. You are sensitive souls indeed.

I was in a charity shop yesterday. It was mobbed, Fairytale of New York came on and almost everyone in the shop joined in when it came to the chorus whilst rummaging through the baskets or rails. It was very nice to hear.

More likers than haters, I think. But, hey, each to their own.
We are all different.

No no no! I have just looked at the lyrics! More suited to a drunken Friday night than a "suitable" Christmas song. Everyone is entitled to their preference and opinion though. I definitely DON'T like it at all.I totally agree with op.If it was playing in a shop I would leave.So far thankfully that hasn,t happened.There seem to be more than a few of us "haters"!

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Love it

Most of us like Fairytale of New York, and we are on page 9 discussing it, I dought we would be doing that with some of the cheesy Christmas songs around.

The only Christmas song I actually like.

It’s one of my all time favourite songs

It's my favourite Christmas song. A bit different

Meh. But if anything drove me out of a shop it would be music in general, not one particular song.

Like it .👍

Love the song, its one you can belt out at the top of your voice but.......I just dont see ( or hear) it as a Christmas song.

I’ve never liked it, but then I don’t like ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ either!

Can’t stand the song. He seemed to be permanently drunk or on something (or both). New York isn’t on my bucket list!
I really miss the great Christmas songs from the 70s and 80s, Slade, Elton John, Wizzard, etc. I can’t think of a good recent Christmas song.

It is about somebody feeling miserable while everybody else seems to be having a good time. He then thinks about a relationship, which hasn't been ideal, but - despite everything - he's in love.

He's positive about the future and the relationship:

"I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true"

"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 can't be the only one who's had some horrendous Christmases, which have been a far cry from the "happy families" in the Christmas TV adverts.

I can’t stand it. The beginning in particular evokes someone out in the cold feeling miserable, like a homeless person. I expect Christmas songs to feel more uplifting