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This song is not to be confused with Slade's perennial "Merry Xmas Everybody", which is only more annoying by virtue of the fact that it's played in more shops around Christmas time. This effort, from someone who seems to regard himself as "Wales's answer to Elvis Presley", has it all: sleigh bells, chimes, continual references to children playing, "the old songs we love to hear", and the wish that "every day was Christmas". (Er, also not to be confused with Roy Wood and Wizzard's perennial "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day".)

Anyone who knows anything about shit music – and after compiling this website, I consider myself something of an aficionado – can tell that there's a rancid truck driver's gear change just around the corner, when all the singing disappears and it goes back to the song's introduction. Clearly, the only way is up.

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Shaky – real name Michael Barratt – thought this tat was so good that he re-released it in 1989. And then put out an album of the same name in 1991. Not that he's a one-trick pony or anything: he's also done songs like "Blue Christmas", "White Christmas", "The Best Christmas Of Them All", "I’ll Be Home This Christmas" and of course the inventive "Merry Christmas Everyone (Extended Version)". I could go on.