Started now from the 1st of December, Slade, Kirsty McCall, Wizard, Mud, Cliff, I do like 60s and 70s music but why have the same re runs every Christmas ?

Slades Noddy Holder and Jim Lea take home a cool £500,000 annually each, from a song that was number one in the UK charts in both 1973 and 1989.

Cos there's no better stuff.

do not knock it in todays world of wanting to cancel christmas or change its name. as long as its not that durge mistletoe and whine i,ll put up with it.

I do actually have a favourite song Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea, reminds me of heading back to Hartlepool for Christmas after working away, least favourite one is Fairytale in New York.

Music today is abysmal in general….. there are some exceptions, but the past fifteen years have been dismal for the majority of music, basically it’s crap.

Rather have that than listen to Abdul’s flying horse.

So do i,but not ten times a day on our jobs radio ...nice little pension pot earners for those still around..

Used to work in Bilston ( Wolverhampton ) 1983/4 and a bloke I worked with was Noddy Holders friend & neighbour. The mates wife planned a surprise 50th for him at his house and arranged a minibus for his work mates to take us over as part of the surprise. Any way got there enjoyed a proper pisss up. The surprise was on us though because we walked in to be greated by Noddy Holder. Proper pisss head but one heck of a nice down to earth bloke. The funny thing was he dresses just like he did on stage its his normal day to day dress. If my memory is correct it was in Kidderminster on a nice but not extravagant housing estate and definitely not posh mansions. My mate later told me Noddy walks down to the end of the road to the off-licence at 7pm every evening and buys a bottle of Vodka & 8 tinnies I thought he would have been dead well before now.

Roy Wood always looks the part..

Remember you're a Poolie. Testicles freezing on a gone out fire. National League refs get up your nose.

It's to remind you how happy everyone is at Christmas and to forget the last 11 months of war, famine and increasing poverty!

I don’t think Christmas is a happy time for every one, not all kids get presents and have a Christmas Dinner. Personally I used to love Christmas when I was younger but grew to start disliking it when it started in October and now it’s all about shops making money and people getting debted up to buy presents they can ill afford.

So just another normal year since the year dot.

FFS I can’t get away from them,6000 miles away and one came on the music system in the supermarket, George Michael,Last Christmas !

I might go to Pakistan to get away from this shite.

better book early as there will be plenty of them going home just to avoid buying presents for there westernised kids. thats the reason they do not like it and nothing to do with the difference.in religeon. unless they own a shop that is as they have plenty of christmas crap as well for sale.

"Hey Mr Christmas" by Showaddywaddy was on the speakers in Peterlee Town Centre on Wednesday morning. That's a one you don't hear as much as the other 70s ones, shame as it's a canny tune.

The one you NEVER hear is "The Bionic Santa" by Chris Hill which was a big hit around 1974/5.

Oh, and of course Mr Glitter's offering from the 1980s.

Apparently BBC radio 6 plays few Xmas songs.

we had a singer at our local over 50,s christmas party yesterday who sang only 2 christmas songs at the start of her act and not another after. didn,t bother me too much but does show its the sign of the times. she looked to be in her late 20,s and from sheffield so possibly the type who wouldn,t.

I’ve noticed that religion is virtually excluded from Christmas at a corporate level.
Odd how the very source of the celebration has been airbrushed out….by the way, I’ve not been to a church since 1995 and that was a funeral so I don’t have a dog in the fight….but other religions are widely promoted.

and all those from other religeons i know do not give a damn about whether we celebrate christmas or not. just like most of us care sod all about the festivals of other religeons and curtailing there festivals. its some of our own who find it offensive in their twisted minds.

Thousands of miles away in a predominantly Buddhist country and they are playing them in the supermarkets

I fucking detest Wham and that song in particular
Absolute crock of shit - and the video where he's trying to bone that bird- to find out years later that he was 'Howards Way' all along (though I had my suspicions)!

Irony is that it's a few years now since George had his last Christmas - but we're still having to suffer that god awful tune.

My favourite Christmas Tune of years gone by, which incidentally I'm yet to hear this year is Jona Lewie's, Stop the Cavalry

I thought it was just a massive coincidence that the baby Jesus was born on Christmas Day!

if you heard your own favourite tunes played everywhere you went you,d end up finding other favourite ones quickly. nothing really wrong with em all but they are done to death.

Quiz question without googling, what was Jona Lewie other hit song ?

I can't stand that East 17 garbage "Stay Another Day" - which has as much in common with Christmas as Hitler did with gas-safety regulations.

Yes, it was a number one AT Christmas, but it's nowt whatsoever to DO with Christmas, not even a mention of it.

Now can you Bunkerites name any songs that I have not marked in red as PROPER Christmas tunes in the list below* that are likely to be heard very regularly on the radio in December other than that fucking awful Cockney-Wankers dirge...???



1952 Al Martino "Here in My Heart"
1953 Frankie Laine "Answer Me"
1954 Winifred Atwell "Let's Have Another Party"
1955 Dickie Valentine "Christmas Alphabet"
1956 Johnnie Ray "Just Walkin' in the Rain"
1957 Harry Belafonte "Mary's Boy Child"
1958 Conway Twitty "It's Only Make Believe"
1959 Emile Ford and the Checkmates "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?"
1960 Cliff Richard and the Shadows "I Love You"
1961 Danny Williams "Moon River"
1962 Elvis Presley "Return to Sender"
1963 The Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1964 The Beatles "I Feel Fine"
1965 The Beatles "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out"
1966 Tom Jones "Green, Green Grass of Home"
1967 The Beatles "Hello, Goodbye"
1968 The Scaffold "Lily the Pink"
1969 Rolf Harris "Two Little Boys"
1970 Dave Edmunds "I Hear You Knocking"
1971 Benny Hill "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)"
1972 Jimmy Osmond "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool"
1973 Slade "Merry Xmas Everybody"
1974 Mud "Lonely This Christmas"
1975 Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody"
1976 Johnny Mathis "When a Child Is Born (Soleado)"
1977 Wings "Mull of Kintyre" / "Girls' School"
1978 Boney M. "Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord"
1979 Pink Floyd "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
1980 St Winifred's School Choir "There's No One Quite Like Grandma"
1981 The Human League "Don't You Want Me"
1982 Renée and Renato "Save Your Love"
1983 The Flying Pickets "Only You"
1984 Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
1985 Shakin' Stevens "Merry Christmas Everyone"
1986 Jackie Wilson "Reet Petite"
1987 Pet Shop Boys "Always on My Mind"
1988 Cliff Richard "Mistletoe and Wine"
1989 Band Aid II "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
1990 Cliff Richard "Saviour's Day" 1
1991 Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" / "These Are the Days of Our Lives"
1992 Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You"
1993 Mr Blobby "Mr Blobby"
1994 COCKNEY WANKERS "S*** A****** D**"
1995 Michael Jackson "Earth Song"
1996 Spice Girls "2 Become 1"
1997 Spice Girls "Too Much"
1998 Spice Girls "Goodbye"
1999 Westlife "I Have a Dream" / "Seasons in the Sun"
2000 Bob the Builder "Can We Fix It?"
2001 Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman "Somethin' Stupid"
2002 Girls Aloud "Sound of the Underground"
2003 Michael Andrews and Gary Jules "Mad World"
2004 Band Aid 20 "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
2005 Shayne Ward "That's My Goal"
2006 Leona Lewis "A Moment Like This"
2007 Leon Jackson "When You Believe"
2008 Alexandra Burke "Hallelujah"
2009 Rage Against the Machine "Killing in the Name"
2010 Matt Cardle "When We Collide"
2011 Military Wives with Gareth Malone "Wherever You Are"
2012 The Justice Collective "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
2013 Sam Bailey "Skyscraper"
2014 Ben Haenow "Something I Need"
2015 Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir "A Bridge over You"
2016 Clean Bandit "Rockabye" ft. Sean Paul and Anne-Marie
2017 Ed Sheeran "Perfect"
2018 LadBaby "We Built This City"
2019 LadBaby "I Love Sausage Rolls"
2020 LadBaby "Don't Stop Me Eatin'"
2021 LadBaby "Sausage Rolls for Everyone" ft. Ed Sheeran and Elton John
2022 LadBaby "Food Aid"



*Except maybe "Mull of Kintyre" and possibly "Only You" by The Flying Pickets, and I could be wrong about the songs from 2009 - 2022 not being Christmas songs as I've never heard them.

You can add Last Christmas by Wham for 2023.

Well that should make Kettering Poolie's Chrimbo even more miserable than a lottery winner who can't find his ticket..!