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Jacktheman
04/12/2007, 11:38 AM
Is there no bloody other Christmas song than this one its on every radio station
i use to like this songs now it just totally overplayed :mad:
noby
04/12/2007, 11:56 AM
By 'now', you mean Christmas time, yeah?
Dodge
04/12/2007, 12:07 PM
Agree. have despised that song for a couple of years now.
DaveyCakes
04/12/2007, 12:50 PM
I never liked the song, now I completely hate it. One of the 10 most annoying things about Christmas.
max power
04/12/2007, 12:55 PM
i have to play it at every gig from the middle of nov, but at least it means the end of the night and i can go home !
citizenerased
04/12/2007, 1:45 PM
great song love it..never gets old
Ash
04/12/2007, 1:52 PM
Despise the song to be honest.
Gets played too often and when its played in a niteclub it causes a cattle
like stampede of women trying to get on the dance floor to sing along to it.

Funny Christmas song story was 2 years ago at our work Christmas Party.
It was a big formal meal with all the trimmings, and as the main courses
were being brought out what was being softly played in the background???

Band Aid - Feed The World :D
Green Tribe
04/12/2007, 1:58 PM
Despise the song to be honest.
Gets played too often and when its played in a niteclub it causes a cattle
like stampede of women trying to get on the dance floor to sing along to it.



LOL :D
citizenerased
04/12/2007, 2:17 PM
it causes a cattle
like stampede of women trying to get on the dance floor to sing along to it.



Shouldnt you like it for this reason...:D
Sligo Hornet
04/12/2007, 2:19 PM
Shouldnt you like it for this reason...:D

He should do......................unless...:o
Ash
04/12/2007, 2:27 PM
Shouldnt you like it for this reason...:D

Usually the cattle comparison does not end at the stampede :eek:
Maz
04/12/2007, 2:29 PM
Usually the cattle comparison does not end at the stampede :eek:
Thats awful :p

Love the song, never one to rush for the floor to sing to it, usually rushin to the bar if it means the night is almost over.
Great song though
anto1208
04/12/2007, 2:32 PM
Dont mind the song but i hate when it comes on in a pub or club as the fat smelly ****ed up idiot beside you takes his cue to put his arm around you and start swaying shouting out the words and spitting all over your face.
noby
04/12/2007, 2:36 PM
Dont mind the song but i hate when it comes on in a pub or club as the fat smelly ****ed up idiot beside you takes his cue to put his arm around you and start swaying shouting out the words and spitting all over your face.

Some might find it an honour to be serenaded by the writer of the song.
MojoPin
04/12/2007, 4:42 PM
:D cheese
Risteard
05/12/2007, 10:12 AM
Whingers.
It's class.
The best Christmas songs have a separate story going on.
A la Last Christmas.
Another classic.
Stop whingeing.

Dont mind the song but i hate when it comes on in a pub or club as the fat smelly ****ed up idiot beside you takes his cue to put his arm around you and start swaying shouting out the words and spitting all over your face.
Pleased to meet you.:)
DaveyCakes
05/12/2007, 11:44 AM
Since when has saying that you don't like a song been "whinging"?
cheifo
05/12/2007, 12:02 PM
God help us it could have been a lot worse, remember Ronan Keating recorded a cover but due to popular outcry never released it.Great song in its time but so overplayed.Maybe we should have a best Xmas song thread instead.
stann
05/12/2007, 12:39 PM
Nah, 'cos it'd be Silver Bells by Bing Crosby, and that'd be it, thread over, end of! :cool: :D
beautifulrock
05/12/2007, 12:49 PM
a class song but perhaps overplayed at this stage, heard it live last Christmas in the Brixton Academy, amazing.
Angus
05/12/2007, 12:57 PM
Could be worse, boys - anybody still in therapy after that incubus keating "covered" it ?
Risteard
05/12/2007, 3:13 PM
Since when has saying that you don't like a song been "whinging"?
eh ........... fair enough.:o

God help us it could have been a lot worse, remember Ronan Keating recorded a cover but due to popular outcry never released it.Great song in its time but so overplayed.Maybe we should have a best Xmas song thread instead.
Christ ya.
It still managed to get on my Christmas cd here in work.
"You're blind and you're haggard."
:mad:
Torn-Ado
05/12/2007, 3:25 PM
My burd thought the line 'Singing Galway bay' was 'Singing all the way'

Feckin Swedes :(
osarusan
05/12/2007, 3:45 PM
Every year, when I first used to hear it I'd think - "ah yes, thats a good song" but within 48 hours I'd hear it 48 times and I was sick of it,still weeks short of Christmas.
Thunderblaster
05/12/2007, 7:22 PM
I doctored the words on it last year and put it on the Christmas post on foot.ie as The Fairytale of Old Cork.
Paddy Garcia
07/12/2007, 8:17 PM
I'ts nowhere near played enough.
Lionel Ritchie
07/12/2007, 9:42 PM
Great song and, like other great Christmas songs like Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade, the fact that it's actually surprisingly difficult to play/perform generally stops every tosspot with a six string or who used be in a boyband from dragging it through a hedge backwards. The odd one slips through but they usually just utterly disgrace themselves. I know Ronan Keating fans who turn away in disgust at the mention of his and Dearbhlas version. Proper order too.

One of my favourite facts about the actual recording of 'Fairytale...' is that the whole intro thing with the piano and Shane on his own was an afterthought. It was recorded in a completely different session, different studio etc... to the "rest" of the song which originally started at the point where the whole band join in. They literally taped two different two-inch reels together (no Adobe Audition, Audacity, Cubase, Pro-tools etc back in them days).
Block G Raptor
11/12/2007, 8:37 AM
Never tire of hearing it TBH deffo the best crimbo song ever
Sligo Hornet
11/12/2007, 11:13 AM
My burd thought the line 'Singing Galway bay' was 'Singing all the way'

Feckin Swedes :(

Couldn't agree more....also hate turnip and parsnips.....devil's food!

p.s I still like the song!
gustavo
11/12/2007, 11:17 AM
It's a good song which has been overplayed so it kinda loses a bit of its special appeal , My favourite bit is the extended instrumental at the end for some reason , I think its wonderful
eamo1
11/12/2007, 12:06 PM
Bah Humbug.
theworm2345
14/12/2007, 3:50 AM
I hate New York, don't much care for the song either
DmanDmythDledge
15/12/2007, 4:55 PM
Love this song, it is overplayed but not sick of it at all.
Green Tribe
15/12/2007, 6:26 PM
great along with wham - last Christmas and Roy with "lonely this christmas"
and anything by the king- elvis :D
Lionel Ritchie
16/12/2007, 9:07 AM
great along with wham - last Christmas and Roy with "lonely this christmas"
and anything by the king- elvis :D

:confused: ... Roy Wood? He sings "I wish it could be Christmas every day". Isn't it Mud sing "Lonely This Christmas".
gunner1
16/12/2007, 10:41 AM
i have to play it at every gig from the middle of nov, but at least it means the end of the night and i can go home !

agree 100%,i do the same,but try playing christy moores version at the start of the night,happy x/mas,
Green Tribe
17/12/2007, 8:05 AM
:confused: ... Roy Wood? He sings "I wish it could be Christmas every day". Isn't it Mud sing "Lonely This Christmas".
apologies, was a bit merry at this stage on saturday night:eek:
NeilMcD
17/12/2007, 4:33 PM
Best Christmas song by far.
Pauro 76
18/12/2007, 6:56 AM
Great song. Its up to No. 8 in UK Charts. A Facebook group is getting behind it to make No. 1 this Christmas.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20778141304

I hope it does. If only to stop the X-Factor gimp Leon making his jazzy bluesy sh!te making it.
osarusan
18/12/2007, 11:51 AM
On a related topic here on the BBC, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7149525.stm) the song has been edited for BBC radio listeners. Some lyrics have been deemed too risque.

Check out the picture of McGowan. Priceless!
OwlsFan
18/12/2007, 12:45 PM
Check out the picture of McGowan. Priceless!

One of his better ones I would have thought ;)
Sligo Hornet
18/12/2007, 1:08 PM
One of his better ones I would have thought ;)

makes Peter Beardsley look positively handsome!:D
paul_oshea
18/12/2007, 2:59 PM
i thought for a while that mcgowan almost put it on some of the time. then i walked into the boogaloo one day during the summer for a couple of pint bottles, and he was fast asleep on the couch. woke up about 2 hours later and was completely incoherent ( or whats that word where ye cant make out in any shape or form what someone is saying.