DON'T DO THIS ON XMAS!!! Americans React "The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York ft. Kirstie MacColl"

The greatest xmas song ever, when Kirsty sings “well so could anyone” it always sends shivers down my spine, sadly missed but so happy we have her voice on this song RIP Kirsty

This song is loved in Ireland and the UK. It’s not Christmas unless you hear this at least 50 times over the Christmas period. No other Christmas song sums up the frailties of the human spirit but also how love transcends our faults.

I bid anyone that’s not from the UK to go to a pub in December and hear this song. Watch everyone get emotional and sing their heart out. This is a very special song for us and especially the Irish. God bless you Kirsty & Shane. RIP ☘️💚💚💚🙏🏽✨

As a middle aged Irish American Gay, I label this as the only Christmas song that can bring a tear to my eye. Rest in power Shane & Kristy. May you slow dance in that dingy bar together forever.

It’s not Christmas in the uk without hearing this five times a day 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍

Glad you got to listen to Fairy Tale of New York. It means a lot to people in the UK and Ireland. I saw the Pogues a few times - great music and drunken revelry. You should watch the video of the Pogues singing it. Another Christmas song that is not the usual bells bullshit is Jona Lewie's song: Can You Stop the Cavalry, which you should also watch the video to fully understand the song.

This is the most honest Christmas song. Sometimes Christmas is great, but for a lot of people, it is a stressful time with a lot of arguments. That's why people love this song so much. It's very relatable.

One of the most beautiful lyrics ever written, "you took my dreams from me, when I first found you... I kept them with me babe, I put them with my own. Can't make it all alone, I built my dreams around you" 💔

This is the real Christmas. Families fighting, tension, hurt. It’s not Mariah Carey Christmas. Pogues nailed it

It's bitter sweet to hear it now. Kirsty died just before Christmas 2000. She was scuba diving with her kids when a millionaire steered his boat in their path. She managed to push her son away from danger but got sliced by the outboard prop. The fact that it happened days before Christmas must be hard for her sons even after all these years.

Nothing better than being in a crowded pub at Christmas, singing insults at each other at the top of your voice in a semi joking way!! 😆

I've always loved Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody, but nothing touches this. 100% the greatest Christmas song there is.

Considering that this song was written as a response to a challenge/bet to The Pogues that they couldn't write an xmas song, it is a hell of an achievement. The music has a real melodic xmas feel, while the lyrics bring home the realities of life. For many people life is hard. Shane MacGowan is a fantastic lyricist. Please check out their song 'Rainy Night In Soho'. It's beautiful!

Interesting fact! Kirstie MacColl - the woman singing on this track - was the daughter of the great English folksinger/playwright/songwriter Ewan MacColl who wrote "Dirty Old Town" BTW, Ewan also wrote the greatest love song ever written: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"

Loved this song and blessed my good fortune I wasn't on duty that week to shoot the Top of the Pops Christmas Edition at BBC TV Centre! When McGovern came in to film, as ever, he was - how shall I put this - "somewhat unwell" after a heavy morning becoming so. The recording, (according to my colleagues from Crew 3, who could barely stop laughing at the spectacle) was "Interesting" to say the least, Shane being one of our more 'Lively' Studio Guests to 'Perform'. Apparently, he objected strongly to miming (the studio wasn't equipped to do live recorded music, artists mimed for the cameras) and insisted on singing the song live - even when he was having great difficulty speaking! The VT Editing Crew deserved a medal for what they managed to splice together! a Mop & Bucket was also required, I believe, after our 'guest Artist' felt a little unwell.. all over the studio floor! I miss the 1980s, great times and I had so much fun working at the best lunatic asylum in the UK, TV Centre, Wood Lane, West London...! Sadly, the wonderful building has been criminally rebuilt into poncy apartments for wankers with too much money and too few brain-cells...such is life. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Shane MacGowan gave a great interview on the infamous line where he essentially said that if people couldn’t see the integrity and gritty reality of the discourse between the man and woman and how truly representative it was for the line then that’s their problem. He is happy for the word to be bleeped or replaced and doesn’t want to get into the argument of whether he should be allowed to keep it but “cancelling” the song is just silly. Also, the “f word” in question doesn’t have the same meaning as it now takes. Bearing in mind this song was set some time around the 30’s/40’s I’d imagine maybe, language has evolved a lot since then and then word in question even predates the songs setting. It’s all about context when you look at these things- people are far too quick to shout without thinking intelligently.

The music, the lyrics... absolute genius. RIP Shane and Kirsty, you brought us joy.

12 months on, just gotta say, The Fairytale of New York still heralds the start of Christmas, and yes, we still sing it in pubs, clubs, in its entirety 😄🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

The best Christmas song ever written and performed. Anyone 'offended' by a word needs help. RIP Kirsty MacColl.

Kirsty was tragically killed in a boating accident 18th December 2000, so this song is very poignant to us who saw her as a unique talent, RIP Kirsty, we still love and remember you!