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five for Chrimbo
Choose three!
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Having to hear that Slade track is now the worst thing about Christmas, I must have heard it three or four times already this week.
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It was never much cop. It's got the most awful bawling chorus.
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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I went for the American Spector, the English Spector and Kirsty McColl. As, apparently, has everyone else.
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Only Kirsty cuts the mustard.
Nonsense to the aggressiveness, I've seen more aggression on the my little pony message board......I mean I was told.
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I can’t bear any of them apart from the Pogues. Xmas shopping is bad enough without this 70s shite assaulting us as we go.
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Pogues, Lennon, and Slade.
I haven't listened to any of them to choose though, because I never ever want to hear another Christmas song for as long as I live.
I haven't listened to any of them to choose though, because I never ever want to hear another Christmas song for as long as I live.
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Elton and Kirsty.
Although my two favourites are The Darkness, and 2000 Miles by the Pretenders.
Although my two favourites are The Darkness, and 2000 Miles by the Pretenders.
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Having to endure on a daily basis whatever goes on in the current decade for musical Christmas entertainment, I'd say 'bring on the seventies'.....
Of this lot the Pogues-one. I don't revere it as much as most of you do but the swearing in it reflects pretty well with my current lead-up to Christmas.
Of this lot the Pogues-one. I don't revere it as much as most of you do but the swearing in it reflects pretty well with my current lead-up to Christmas.
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'Fairytale of New York' followed by 'Happy Xmas' are the best as actual song's but 'Merry Xmas Everybody' is the best drinking song to bring in the Christmas season. Yeah, some cynical cunts might get sick of it, but with the right group of people nothing beats it, it IS fucking Christmas in many ways. The ultimate crowd pleaser.
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I haven't heard that Elton one in a long time and it sounded really good. Too bad it goes on for about a minute too long at the end.
Clicking around, I do like them all. I thought I was a bit burned out on the Roy Wood, preferring the less oft heard (by me) Slade, but when I actually sampled them each, it all came back: I do think that Roy Wood tune is great, and probably the best and most fun thing on here.
Clicking around, I do like them all. I thought I was a bit burned out on the Roy Wood, preferring the less oft heard (by me) Slade, but when I actually sampled them each, it all came back: I do think that Roy Wood tune is great, and probably the best and most fun thing on here.
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Slade. I love the video because 1973 looked like a fucking dreadful year.
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The Modernist wrote:Having to hear that Slade track is now the worst thing about Christmas, I must have heard it three or four times already this week.
It's MY Sophisti-pop.
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NowhereMan wrote:'Fairytale of New York' followed by 'Happy Xmas' are the best as actual song's but 'Merry Xmas Everybody' is the best drinking song to bring in the Christmas season. Yeah, some cynical cunts might get sick of it, but with the right group of people nothing beats it, it IS fucking Christmas in many ways. The ultimate crowd pleaser.
It's hardly cynical to get fed up of something that's being shoved down your throat all the time, I mean you literally can't escape from it.You hear it far more now than you ever did in the 70s.
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The last 20 or so years have seen a cynical recycling of the same dozen or so mainly 70s, mainly Spector pastiche glam era cash ins being force fed to you from mid or early November, in shops, on the radio, at Xmas parties, etc as a desperate shorthand for jollity. It has thoroughly eroded any positive feelings you may have residually had and at least 3 of the worst offenders are above. I don’t think pointing that out makes you the Grinch.
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No.
Mind, it is quite pleasing that something as beautiful as 'Fairytale' has become our (I mean nationally, not on BCB) favourite Christmas song. You hear it everywhere but I'm still not burnt out on it, and when it swings into the 'the boys of the NYPD choir' bit, I usually get a tear in my eye.
And although hatz may disagree, they never wrote a better song.
Mind, it is quite pleasing that something as beautiful as 'Fairytale' has become our (I mean nationally, not on BCB) favourite Christmas song. You hear it everywhere but I'm still not burnt out on it, and when it swings into the 'the boys of the NYPD choir' bit, I usually get a tear in my eye.
And although hatz may disagree, they never wrote a better song.
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Ranking Ted wrote:I can’t bear any of them apart from the Pogues. Xmas shopping is bad enough without this 70s shite assaulting us as we go.
That's it for me too.
Of them all though I think Lennon's effort is the worst. Nothing grates more than having a multi-millionaire berating you while his mrs squawks-away on backing vocals. Miserable finger-wagging dirge.
Elton's piss poor attempt has all the allure and compositional skill of a clucking hen.
And while I admire the cynicism of the Wizard effort, when piped through the average supermarket PA it is all turned to horrible grating mid-range sludge with the saxes rendered all the more farty by the medium.
The Slade track does whisk me straight back to listening to Junior Choice with Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart on Christmas morning circa '73/'74, which is nice, I really never need to hear it ever again.
Which leaves the Pogues - I can still enjoy Fairytale, but give it a couple of years and it too will be verboten.
I do like the not listed here, Kije-sampling I Believe In Father Christmas by Greg Lake though. It has a real lost innocence wistfulness; a true post Watergate, farewell to the hippie dream sadness about it.
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Dor-Relip Hotels and Bathings wrote:No.
Mind, it is quite pleasing that something as beautiful as 'Fairytale' has become our (I mean nationally, not on BCB) favourite Christmas song. You hear it everywhere but I'm still not burnt out on it, and when it swings into the 'the boys of the NYPD choir' bit, I usually get a tear in my eye.
And although hatz may disagree, they never wrote a better song.
I heard a Salvation Army brass band play it yesterday, and yes it was rather touching. Certainly a lot more moving than hearing Slade blasting away in the supermarket!
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The Modernist wrote:Dor-Relip Hotels and Bathings wrote:No.
Mind, it is quite pleasing that something as beautiful as 'Fairytale' has become our (I mean nationally, not on BCB) favourite Christmas song. You hear it everywhere but I'm still not burnt out on it, and when it swings into the 'the boys of the NYPD choir' bit, I usually get a tear in my eye.
And although hatz may disagree, they never wrote a better song.
I heard a Salvation Army brass band play it yesterday, and yes it was rather touching. Certainly a lot more moving than hearing Slade blasting away in the supermarket!
I heard a massed choir in Exeter Cathedral do it on Friday night - they changed faggot to blackguard though
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