Every year, I think it’s not officially Christmas until I’ve heard the raucous tones of
Noddy Holder and Slade singing Merry Christmas Everybody. 
Well, Chris Evans played it first this very morning so it’s now Officially Christmas! 
axletramp:
Every year, I think it’s not officially Christmas until I’ve heard the raucous tones of
Noddy Holder and Slade singing Merry Christmas Everybody.
Well, Chris Evans played it first this very morning so it’s now Officially Christmas!
Yeh,it’s got to be a candidate for ■■■■■■■■ song ever written…up there with the likes of Cheryl ‘couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket’ Cole…
For me it’s been officially Christmas for about a week.
For me it’s when I get the constant nagging to buy presents week after week after week then end up buying everything in one go and crying while logging into my online banking!! 
That happened last week.
For me it starts when I first hear Shane & Kirsty - the proper version, not that muffled crap they play on MTV. That, or Jona Lewie anyway
Gary
Well have 3 family birthday this week so not christmas till after that
When I hear this I dig out the red hat and coat:
You’re a bum, You’re a punk,
You’re an old ■■■■ on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scum bag, You maggot, You cheap lousy ■■■■■■
Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God It’s our last.
The boys of the NYPD choir still singing ‘Galway Bay’
And the bells were ringing out for Christmas day
Santa:
When I hear this I dig out the red hat and coat:You’re a bum, You’re a punk,
You’re an old ■■■■ on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scum bag, You maggot, You cheap lousy ■■■■■■
Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God It’s our last.The boys of the NYPD choir still singing ‘Galway Bay’
And the bells were ringing out for Christmas day
+1 
That song still gives me a nervous twitch from the time I worked at a large electrical retailer over Christmas. From about mid November the CD went in with the Christmas songs on, in total four of them; Slade, Wizzard, George Michael and Band Aid. Total playing time was about 15 minutes. For customers that was probably ok, but for Staff on a ten hour shift it meant hearing the same songs four times an hour, every hour. How none of us went on to murder loads of people is a minor miricale!
dew:
That song still gives me a nervous twitch from the time I worked at a large electrical retailer over Christmas. From about mid November the CD went in with the Christmas songs on, in total four of them; Slade, Wizzard, George Michael and Band Aid. Total playing time was about 15 minutes. For customers that was probably ok, but for Staff on a ten hour shift it meant hearing the same songs four times an hour, every hour. How none of us went on to murder loads of people is a minor miricale!
I’m the same but with that god awful Mariah Carey song. Worked briefly at a fast food place at weekends whilst at college, over christmas was a CD of maybe 8-10 songs played on repeat all bloody day, sadly The Pogues was not one of them.
I’m quite the Scrooge though, so for me it’s Christmas when I start to play these.
