C30 C60 C90 – Christmas Playlist/Festive mix tape

Is it just me, or does it not actually feel like Christmas this year?

Thoughts you, the nagging be concerned that I’m just not receiving Yuletide like I utilised to seems to surface every year now, so maybe it actually feels dead Christmassy but I just do not want to admit it.

It’s just me is not it?!

Anyway, existential crisis to one particular side, here’s a Christmas playlist to get even the most curmudgeonly into the festive spirit…

Slade – Merry Xmas Everybody

1973 was the year that gave us the 3-day week, VAT and Slade’s Merry Xmas Everyone. And although the 3-day week remained in the mid-1970s, the other 2 have carried out their utmost to ruin several a Christmas shopping trip ever considering that – why does it have to be on in each and every single shop?

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Wham! – Final Christmas

A cautionary tale about not purchasing a dead expensive Christmas present for a person you’ve not been seeing that lengthy.

I presume George Michael’s wrapping up, sending and providing of his heart was purely metaphorical. Either way, it ended up in a box at the back of the cupboard with an unopened fondue set and a box of dominos.

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Half Man Half Biscuit – All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit

A song about that mate who often had greater stuff than you. It’s not truly a festive season song – there’s no mention of Christmas in the lyrics – but it qualifies due to the title and the truth that it is dead excellent.

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Jona Lewie – Stop the Cavalry

Envision. You have penned a song that is not only got Christmas quantity 1 1980 written all more than but is also a Trojan horse, containing an anti-war protest message in amongst the mentions of Christmas and Salvation Army-sounding brass arrangements.

You release it, it is headed straight for the top – and that month some idiot goes and shoots John Lennon, prompting not one but 2 reissues which push your Christmas number a single to number 3.

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The Jackson 5 – I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

A song about infidelity and crushed childhood innocence as the poor kid on the stairs is not only left questioning why on earth his mum has copped for Father Christmas but also has no concept where his dad is (pub, almost certainly).

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Kylie Minogue – Santa Infant

This is what happened moments prior to the kid in I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus crept down the stairs…

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John Lennon – Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

Not only did John Lennon beat Jona Lewie to the Christmas quantity 1 spot in 1980, he also beat him in the Christmas-hit-as-protest-song stakes – releasing this in 1971.

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Shakin’ Stevens – Merry Christmas Everyone

The Welsh Elvis, a man who had it not been for his pointing and gyrating would certainly have just been plain, old Stationary Stevens, put back the release of this by a complete year so it didn’t clash with the release of Band Aid’s Do They Know it’s Christmas – presumably because the guilt of keeping a charity record off the quantity 1 spot would have been also considerably to take.

And it worked as Band Help bagged the 1984 Christmas number 1 and then Shaky bagged 1985’s festive top spot. Job accomplished.

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Cliff Richard – Little Town

This O Tiny Town of Bethlehem/Twinkle Twinkle Little Star mash-up gets the nod more than all of Cliff’s other Christmas hits purely due to the fact it sounds like he’s undertaking that factor where you try to place words to Tv programme theme tunes.

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C30 C60 C90 – Christmas Playlist/Festive mix tape