While we love a classic carol settling us into the festive season, popular Christmas songs are, to many, some of the worst things to happen both to Christmas and to songs, infecting shopping malls, cafes and every public space with naff tunes played ad infinitum until your ears bleed and your teeth are ground down to dust.
That doesn't have to be the case, and while they may be vastly outnumbered, there are some brilliant not-often-played gems to celebrate with this time of year. If only every radio station in town and your Aunt Deborah had the sense to play them instead of endless Wizzard and Paul McCartney. The horror.
