The worlds gone mad.. Ban all Xmas songs

[Punksnotdead]

1 hour ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

On a slightly related note, fuck that Mariah Carey one. It's awful.

Yep, she can do one - worst xmas song ever! (yes even worse than  Cliff!)

[MrHew]

I'm ready and willing to get Christmas going but Mrs Hew is insisting we wait. 

I went to a garden centre for Doggy Hew supplies a couple of weeks ago and got very excited walking around the Christmas display. They had the tunes going too, it was ace. Although in my excitement, I forgot some of the dog supplies.

If I worked there and had to listen to the songs all the hours of every shift for 8 weeks, I might change my mind. 

[Ryan1984]

Every year...

The Pogues had their say:

https://twitter.com/poguesofficial/stat ... 94817?s=21
“the word itself being in Fairytale Of New York doesn’t bother or offend me, but straight people being so angry & outraged at its removal and literally fighting and arguing for the right to sing it bothers me deeply”

[fatyeti24]

7 minutes ago, maelzoid said:

On another note, I generally dislike the Chirstmas songs, not because they're bad, but just because the same ones get overplayed. Hearing Slade while struggling through an oppressively-decorated  and overcrowded shopping centre is my idea of hell.

Not gonna be so much of an issue this year, I reckon!

[SheffJeff]

This ones for for @Wellyboot,not only is our tree up but Buddy's been released from the cellar.

 

[Wellyboot]

5 minutes ago, SheffJeff said:

This ones for for @Wellyboot,not only is our tree up but Buddy's been released from the cellar.

 

❤ I love it!! I never have any bloody upvotes left, ill be back in a bit for this!! Elf is one of my favourite Christmas films 😁 

So glad you have your tree up i bet it looks fab 😍

[Wellyboot]

Just now, Wellyboot said:

❤ I love it!! I never have any bloody upvotes left, ill be back in a bit for this!! Elf is one of my favourite Christmas films 😁 

So glad you have your tree up i bet it looks fab 😍

Do you really have a full size Buddy??? 😮😁😁🎄

[nikkic]

9 minutes ago, Wellyboot said:

❤ I love it!! I never have any bloody upvotes left, ill be back in a bit for this!! Elf is one of my favourite Christmas films 😁 

So glad you have your tree up i bet it looks fab 😍

What’s your fave? 

Hope Alone for me! 

[maelzoid]

It seems like the right thread for it, so here's my top 10 (in the order I remembered them...)

• Santa Claus go straight to the Ghetto - James Brown
• Another Lonely Christmas - Prince
• Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas - Eels
• Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
• Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
• Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - U2
• Winter Wonderland - Harry Connick Jr
• Please Come Home For Christmas - Southside Johnny
• What Christmas Means to Me - Stevie Wonder
• Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town - Brice Springsteen

I also like all the music from the Charlie Brown Christmas special.

[Wellyboot]

1 minute ago, nikkic said:

What’s your fave? 

Hope Alone for me! 

Oh I love Home Alone! Elf, Polar Express, Klaus, Love Actually,  Christmas Chronicles.. ok so any Christmas film I love 😂 just the mention of it turns me into a 7 year old again!! 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

It's been done before, by the looks of things;

 

https://www.itv.com/goodmorningbritain/articles/radio-stations-are-banning-baby-its-cold-outside-for-promoting-rape-culture

[Wellyboot]

1 minute ago, maelzoid said:

It seems like the right thread for it, so here's my top 10 (in the order I remembered them...)

• Santa Claus go straight to the Ghetto - James Brown
• Another Lonely Christmas - Prince
• Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas - Eels
• Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
• Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
• Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - U2
• Winter Wonderland - Harry Connick Jr
• Please Come Home For Christmas - Southside Johnny
• What Christmas Means to Me - Stevie Wonder
• Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town - Brice Springsteen

I also like all the music from the Charlie Brown Christmas special.

All over this!! Christmas playlists here we come 😁

[SwedgeAntilles]

Muppet Christmas Carol wants a word with some of you.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

1 hour ago, Wellyboot said:

Who doesn't love Mariah this is crazy!

I'd just like to point out that I have never 'knowingly' heard any of her music. Now, no doubt I must have done so, but as I mostly pay no attention to who's singing what then I can rarely pinpoint anything musically. So, to conclude - I don't know whether I like her or not.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

56 minutes ago, fatyeti24 said:

I'm also not arsed one way or the other about which version of Fairytale of New York they play, and like many of us, yesterday had to google the word 'herrenvolk'.

I'm completely losing the plot on this thread now. Where does the (also new to me) word 'herrenvolk' come in to things?

[Wellyboot]

1 minute ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

I'd just like to point out that I have never 'knowingly' heard any of her music. Now, no doubt I must have done so, but as I mostly pay no attention to who's singing what then I can rarely pinpoint anything musically. So, to conclude - I don't know whether I like her or not.

Here you go Yog, she's so lovely 😁

 

I'd like to dedicate this to Swedge 😊

[nikkic]

8 minutes ago, maelzoid said:

It seems like the right thread for it, so here's my top 10 (in the order I remembered them...)

• Santa Claus go straight to the Ghetto - James Brown
• Another Lonely Christmas - Prince
• Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas - Eels
• Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
• Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
• Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - U2
• Winter Wonderland - Harry Connick Jr
• Please Come Home For Christmas - Southside Johnny
• What Christmas Means to Me - Stevie Wonder
• Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town - Brice Springsteen

I also like all the music from the Charlie Brown Christmas special.

No Chris Rea? Macca? Bing Crosby? Wham?!

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

53 minutes ago, maelzoid said:

Is it the case that most people getting upset at the removal of a homophobic slur from a popular song are hetero? I think so.

 

Oh no. That's it complete for me now. I haven't got a clue at all. What's the homophobic slur, and which song is it from?

[maelzoid]

Films as well...?

 

10. Christmas Vacation (i know it's rubbish)

9. Miracle on 34th st

8. Lethal Weapon

7. Muppets Christmas Carol

6. Home Alone

5. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

4. Gremlins

3. Trading Places

2. Die Hard

1. It's a Wonderful Life

 

[maelzoid]

3 minutes ago, nikkic said:

No Chris Rea? Macca? Bing Crosby? Wham?!

Yes, I like all those, but just not as much as the ten I did list.

Could live without Macca's one tbf.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

3 minutes ago, Wellyboot said:

Here you go Yog, she's so lovely 😁

 

I'd like to dedicate this to Swedge 😊

I'd like to thank you for that Wellyboot - as in, I would if I could. I'm afraid that I found that so intolerable that I 'broke' before the end and had to turn it off. Soz.

[maelzoid]

4 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

Oh no. That's it complete for me now. I haven't got a clue at all. What's the homophobic slur, and which song is it from?

"faggot" from Fairytale of New York

This same stink happens whenever Dambusters is on too, but it's always white people complaining.

[SwedgeAntilles]

Also, after y'all are finished talking to Muppet Christmas Carol, Scrooged also wants a word

[Homer]

29 minutes ago, Wellyboot said:

❤ I love it!! I never have any bloody upvotes left, ill be back in a bit for this!! Elf is one of my favourite Christmas films 😁 

So glad you have your tree up i bet it looks fab 😍

Have donated one of mine for you (consider it a Christmas present).

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Just now, maelzoid said:

"faggot" from Fairytale of New York

This same stink happens whenever Dambusters is on too, but it's always white people complaining.

Thanks for the info maelzoid. I did actually try to search for the answer myself beforehand but for some reason my search skills really aren't up to much this morning - hence my sort of afore mentioned freefall bewilderment. Not that that isn't my normal day to day MO anyway"!