I can understand the irritation with people in The UK getting sick of the many times re-issued Slade X-Mas hit, but over where I live, in The States, it's certainly not even known and is a refreshing change of pace from the usual crap that gets played - at least it's fun in my opinion.
Many of the regular radio stations in the US play outright garbage, especially the useless "Last Christmas" in it's many versions many times over enough for me to "Wham!" a wall. Plus, while I still like John Lennon's song in it's original form, the covers seriously have to go...although the original is getting too overplayed for my taste as well (I remember it when only the Rock stations had it all to themselves! I'm certainly showing my age, but there you are)
The Phil Spector stuff is still great, although I have a little bit of an eerie feeling no thanks to the events of a few years back (Lana Clarkston).
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