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The official Christmas FM thread

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    #2372
    Caranica
    Registered Users Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    I love the 12 days of Christmas mash up that has Africa (Toto) in it. It was on a lot a few weeks ago but haven't heard it lately



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    #2373
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,120 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Driving down to dunnes at 7am for the grocery shop and whats the first song on the radio.... nearly crashed the car 😡🤬

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #2374
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341139#Comment_118341139

    I love Straight no Chaser!!



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    #2375
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,873 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    On the general christmas song front... Fairytale wins Irish poll in landslide.

    The nation’s second favourite Christmas song is Driving Home For Christmas by Chris Rea, with just 9% of people choosing it as their preferred song.  Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas and Bing Crosby’s White Christmas follows in joint third place, with 7% of the vote each. 

    https://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-favourite-christmas-song-fairytale-of-new-york-5630813-Dec2021/

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #2376
    Autosport
    Registered Users Posts: 22,225 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341384#Comment_118341384

    Sorry but that made me laugh 😂 Dolly’s Holly jolly Christmas seems to be on at least twice an hour 🤔 And you all give out about Christmas shoes 😂😂 I still haven’t heard it



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    #2377
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,727 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118344966#Comment_118344966

    I’ve only heard Christmas shoes once this year and by heard I mean I switched it off as soon as it came on 😂



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    #2378
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,727 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    ChristmasFM really has become the soundtrack to my Christmas.

    Two years ago it kept me company on the late night and early morning doggo walks.

    Last year it kept me company while working from home.

    This year it’s keeping me company during the baby feeds and nappy changes. It’s such a constant throughout my Christmases. I really hope it never goes away!



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    #2379
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    No Shakey on that list! Bah, rigged 🤣



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    #2380
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 5,991 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341139#Comment_118341139

    I heard it last night - first time I heard it this year!

    Today Robbie Irwin signed off with Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Folgelberg. I love that song. It's my first time hearing it this year. I think I hear it played a couple of times every year. I believe I heard it played much more in the first few years of Christmas FM.

    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #2381
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,120 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    I'm finding I'm hearing less songs this year. Seem to be hearing the same ones over and over. Last year there seemed to be a much wider variety of songs. Now that could be just unfortunate timing but there's been times I've had it on for hours and it's the same... all the same not long left now, it seems to go by so quickly and I'm in the stage where I'll listen less and less now.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #2382
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Finally heard Little Drummer Boy from Bing and Bowie.

    Agree DvB, seem to be hearing a lot of the same half dozen song this year for some reason. Maybe it's just the times I'm listening or something.



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    #2383
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 5,991 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118350193#Comment_118350193

    Now that you mention it I still haven't heard that song on Christmas FM. I did hear it on some other station.

    By the way, I did not hear Dolly Parton's Holly Jolly Christmas at all yesterday. Maybe they are finally getting the message!!

    Over the weekend, I heard a presenter saying that one of the acts coming up would be In Tua Nua. I did not hear them, but I would imagine it was their cover of Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody. If it was, I'm glad I missed that song so far this year! Their version is horrendous. I grew tired of the original version years ago, but it's still infinitely better than In Tua Nua's rendition!

    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #2384
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,727 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118350116#Comment_118350116

    Have to say I felt the same. Dolly Parton, and my grown up Christmas list, I want a hippopotamus for Christmas seem to play every half hour. It’s like getting To the end of a tub of sweets, the good ones are getting harder and harder to find.



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    #2385
    dubstepper
    Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭dubstepper


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118342610#Comment_118342610

    Sorry, but they will never be forgiven for "Text me Merry Christmas"



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    #2386
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,727 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Dolly is on again 😡😡😡



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    #2387
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,727 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118353641#Comment_118353641

    Followed by Christmas shoes. This dj hates us on boards 🙁



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    #2388
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 5,991 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118353649#Comment_118353649

    Emily Brew I believe. I have not heard Christmas Shoes so far this year and I would not mind if I did hear it. This is two days in a row I managed not to hear Dolly!

    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #2389
    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users Posts: 3,916 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118350116#Comment_118350116

    I'd like it to go back to the way it was when it first started.

    They had a much bigger playlist then split it into 3 different stations through the app. CFM, Classic and Carols I think it was.

    A mixture of everything on the one station again would be better than the same 10 - 20 songs over and over again.



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    #2390
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 5,991 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118354162#Comment_118354162

    They tended not to play classical music or actual carols on Christmas FM when it was just one station. However, I have just had a look at the playlist for Christmas FM Classics. It does contain quite a few that they still play on the regular Christmas FM as well - the likes of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams and Peggy Lee, but there are some that you would not normally hear on Christmas FM like Perry Como, Louis Armstrong (although I heard him yesterday on Christmas FM!) and the Andrews Sister. I was surprised to see Little Drummer Boy by Bing and David Bowie on the playlist for Christmas FM Classics.

    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #2391
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,120 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    I really enjoy listening to the classical and carols at different times throughout the year but generally enjoy the switch to normal Christmas FM on Nov.28th

    Only got to listen in for a half hour or so today on the drive to and from the blanchardstown sc but in that time heard the best mix of tracks in a short space of time so far this year.

    Hard to believe we're into the last week of it for 2021 though. The 4 weeks or so really do go by so quickly.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #2392
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    I think I've only heard Bing and Bowie once on Christmas FM this year. 😔



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    #2393
    tscul32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭tscul32


    I haven't heard them at all yet, one of my favourites.



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    #2394
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,120 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118358189#Comment_118358189

    Once more than I have.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #2395
    Caranica
    Registered Users Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    It's like they have a playlist for a week and then change half of it. If I hear In Tua Nua butcher merry Christmas everybody one more time this week 🤬🤬🤬



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    #2396
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Bad covers of great classics have no place... anywhere!



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    #2397
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,120 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Yeah, they seem to have gone back to the dodgy covers this year after a couple of years of not using them much. Shame as I'd much prefer to hear the originals over and over than even the once have the covers.

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    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #2398
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    I have a confession......I changed channels in the car last night, couldn't listen to Dolly again. Found 'Last Christmas' on a different station......shhh don't tell anyone.



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    #2399
    Aisling(",)
    Registered Users Posts: 6,379 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    I've never heard Dolly on Christmas FM and I've been leaving it on during work the last few weeks.

    I do have I want a hippopotamus for Christmas stuck in my head though.Hate Christmas shoes,what a dire bit of grimness and misery for a Christmas song.



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    #2400
    dubstepper
    Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭dubstepper


    Not sure how accurate this is as not listening to radio (I'm allegedly working at the moment). https://irishradiolive.com/christmas-fm/playlist


    The search works to see how often something is played



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    #2401
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,120 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118360042#Comment_118360042

    I have no idea how you've managed to avoid it, genuinely. It's usually played within 10 minutes of me switching it on. Have definitely heard it more than any other track this year.

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    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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