We have mentioned before how we all feel differently about Christmas on Squeamish Bikini, but whatever our attitude can we resist a Christmas tune? Before the tinsel festoons the shops, before the supermarkets trundle out the adverts and stockpiling goose fat, before the shopping centre elves have their outfits sized up, you hear the Christmas music. You might feel a wave of panic, you might feel excitement or dread but goshdarnit you also immediately think 'I hope they play [INSERT FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG HERE]'. Because there is a seasonal song you can't get enough of. Face it. Admit it. Embrace it. Just don't play it post December. Here are the Squeamish Bikini teams favourite Christmas tunes (turns out some of them are curmudgeons) (well one is).
Here it is, the picture disc
1. When I was in my early 20s I had a brief obsession with that well-known Suffolk glam rock band The Darkness. (OK, OK, i still think Permission to Land is a fantastic album. I'm sorry if this dents your image of me as unimaginably cool, but worse is to come). When Christmas Time (don't let the bells end) came out I really wanted it to reach Number One, so of course I had to go out and buy a copy of the single. And if you're going to do that, you might as well buy the limited edition picture disk, even if you've never owned a record player.
Yes, I still have it, and yes, I still find an excuse to play the song every year. Yes, the song is a blatant (and failed) attempt to join the ranks of the glam rock christmas choons. And yes, the video is pretty terrible. But if I don't play it, who will? Squeamish Louise
2. Christmas songs are a guilty pleasure of mine. No, not guilty, I like Christmas music, and I'm rather discerning about it. I haven't liked anything Christmassy recorded post 1990. I was most irked when in 1998 The Spice Girls covered Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses. I've never even heard the cover, I just know it will be inferior. That's how strongly I feel about the Christmas song that isn't even my favourite. Carol of the Bells is my favourite. Try getting your chops round that one Geri. Squeamish Kate
3. Having worked in a supermarket over Christmas and listened to the same 10 songs played on repeat from early November onwards there's only one Christmas song that I'm happy to listen to - and that's the Pogues. Everything else just makes me want to punch Santa. John Lennon's Happy Xmas (War Is over) is ok, i guess, but its a bit too cheerful for my liking. Gareth
4. I could listen to this song on a loop, actually, I have listened to it on a loop. Third year at university I took it upon myself to make Christmas happen over night, so in the glow of the TV, while watching a rather harrowing episode of ER I put up all the decorations I could find. When my flatmates woke up the next day, the roast was in the oven, the tree was in the corner and Mariah was blasting out of the laptop. On repeat. All I want for Christmas [click the link, CLICK THE LINK it's cute] starts off soft and the reaches the giddy heights of glass shattering at the end. You are all chirpy and excited when it gains momentum the first 20 times but once you hit 40, you don't feel so cheery. All I want for Christmas is for you to not sing any more! Squeamish Nicola
5. I hate Christmas music. I hate many things to do with Christmas, partly because I am a cantankerous old thing, and partly because I used to work in retail and anyone who has done that is within their rights to hate every public holiday there is. But ones with associated music are SO MUCH WORSE. The best shop I ever worked in was the Brighton branch of Lush, where we instituted a no Christmas music policy for the month of December. Mostly we listened to Blondie instead. So my favourite Christmas earworm is the somewhat less than traditional Heart of Glass. Take your Little Drummer Boy and shove it, David Bowie! F1 Kate
Yes, I still have it, and yes, I still find an excuse to play the song every year. Yes, the song is a blatant (and failed) attempt to join the ranks of the glam rock christmas choons. And yes, the video is pretty terrible. But if I don't play it, who will? Squeamish Louise
2. Christmas songs are a guilty pleasure of mine. No, not guilty, I like Christmas music, and I'm rather discerning about it. I haven't liked anything Christmassy recorded post 1990. I was most irked when in 1998 The Spice Girls covered Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses. I've never even heard the cover, I just know it will be inferior. That's how strongly I feel about the Christmas song that isn't even my favourite. Carol of the Bells is my favourite. Try getting your chops round that one Geri. Squeamish Kate
3. Having worked in a supermarket over Christmas and listened to the same 10 songs played on repeat from early November onwards there's only one Christmas song that I'm happy to listen to - and that's the Pogues. Everything else just makes me want to punch Santa. John Lennon's Happy Xmas (War Is over) is ok, i guess, but its a bit too cheerful for my liking. Gareth
4. I could listen to this song on a loop, actually, I have listened to it on a loop. Third year at university I took it upon myself to make Christmas happen over night, so in the glow of the TV, while watching a rather harrowing episode of ER I put up all the decorations I could find. When my flatmates woke up the next day, the roast was in the oven, the tree was in the corner and Mariah was blasting out of the laptop. On repeat. All I want for Christmas [click the link, CLICK THE LINK it's cute] starts off soft and the reaches the giddy heights of glass shattering at the end. You are all chirpy and excited when it gains momentum the first 20 times but once you hit 40, you don't feel so cheery. All I want for Christmas is for you to not sing any more! Squeamish Nicola
5. I hate Christmas music. I hate many things to do with Christmas, partly because I am a cantankerous old thing, and partly because I used to work in retail and anyone who has done that is within their rights to hate every public holiday there is. But ones with associated music are SO MUCH WORSE. The best shop I ever worked in was the Brighton branch of Lush, where we instituted a no Christmas music policy for the month of December. Mostly we listened to Blondie instead. So my favourite Christmas earworm is the somewhat less than traditional Heart of Glass. Take your Little Drummer Boy and shove it, David Bowie! F1 Kate
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