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tuzemec · Post by **tuzemec** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:40 pm

Lovesign wrote:But isn't it the point of a Christmas song to be cheesy ??

Dunno about the rest of the world but the UK has this sick obsession with the Christmas Number One. It used to be a blatant, all out cheese fest, with some really good songs, but now it's a race between some ringtone, some Irish boy band or the winner of X Factor

Which reminds me of...

Love Actually

Failed Muso · Post by **Failed Muso** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:12 am

I've just discovered this. Bookies have it at 2:1 apparantly....

The JCB Song by Nizlopi

(sounds like a novelty song, but it isn't)

Listen & Buy here:

http://www.jcbsong.co.uk/

Watch the superb video here:

http://www.jcbsong.co.uk/jcbvideo.asp

For those who don't know, a JCB is a make of excavator here in the UK

Now this would be a worthy Xmas No.1

advaya · Post by **advaya** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:32 am

I am surprised that no one has mentioned that BONY M Christmas album...

OK, maybe it isn't exactly true-to-the-definition of 'cheese'... But it has gotten extremely tiresome and irking over the years.

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:44 pm

That Boney M record is right up there with the McCartney atrocity for sheer, chew-your-leg-off-to-survive holiday trauma.

There's also a horrid version of 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' with some wailing/squeaking diva (who seems to have been assisted by those guys from 'Deliverance' to hit the high notes) that gets played everywhere around here.

funkychickendance · Post by **funkychickendance** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:01 pm

dystonia_ek wrote:
There's also a horrid version of 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' with some wailing/squeaking diva (who seems to have been assisted by those guys from 'Deliverance' to hit the high notes) that gets played everywhere around here.

Isn't that 'user friendly, plushy size Mariah Carey'?

I've always hated that song, from its first Phil Spector days -- when it sounded flat, and like it was sung by a choir of people with pneumonia -- and through every subsequent iteration. To me, the annually regurgitated Bruce Springsteen version is one of the worst, with him barking hysterically as though he's heralding the second coming of Christ.

Get a grip! It's only Xmas, a commercial winter solstice holiday invented by retailers, and pandering to adult guilt and childish greed...

Oh...I have a new candidate.

In our local supermarket, they were playing some Xmas tape, with a vile carol by Stevie Nicks. At first, I thought the tape was dragging....nooo...the woman at checkout commented: "it's the singing walrus"

/fcd

who's still wondering what he's gonna get, though...

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:16 pm

funkychickendance wrote: Oh...I have a new candidate. In our local supermarket, they were playing some Xmas tape, with a vile carol by Stevie Nicks. At first, I thought the tape was dragging....nooo...the woman at checkout commented: "it's the singing walrus"

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:25 pm

dystonia_ek wrote:...chew-your-leg-off-to-survive holiday trauma...

tommo · Post by **tommo** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:07 pm

Time for a classic:
http://www.lafferty.ca/stuff/misc/OHolyNight.mp3

tommo · Post by **tommo** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:27 pm

Time for a classic:
http://www.lafferty.ca/stuff/misc/OHolyNight.mp3

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:00 pm

tommo wrote:Time for a classic:
http://www.lafferty.ca/stuff/misc/OHolyNight.mp3

Fnucking amazing! At first it was reminding me of Lola Heatherton . . . but it got better

funkychickendance · Post by **funkychickendance** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:15 pm

emdot_ambient wrote:
tommo wrote:Time for a classic:
http://www.lafferty.ca/stuff/misc/OHolyNight.mp3

Fnucking amazing! At first it was reminding me of Lola Heatherton . . . but it got better

Early James ('Cnut') Blunt, is it?

It takes a special kind of talent...

really deserves a whole album of remixes to bring out the best in it...

/fcd

james0tucson · Post by **james0tucson** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:19 pm

"I'll Be Home For Christmas" was written in prison, by a guy who knew damned well he wouldn't be

munchkin · Post by **munchkin** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:33 pm

What about, 'Every Loser Wins', by Nick Berry. I hate that song and it seems to reappear at xmas in some guise or other. The reason I know so much about it is that my hatred for it has led to obsession which is ironic really.

munchkin · Post by **munchkin** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:37 pm

I can't believe no one has mentioned Sir Cliff. 'Mistletoe & Wine', has to be the all time worse. More cheese than Edam.

rockstar_not · Post by **rockstar_not** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:43 pm

I was going to comment on the Springsteen tune to break into this thread - then I realized I'm totally unqualified having come nearly in last place in the November KVR cheesy song contest.

-Scott, renamed by Knockman as Roquefort_not

Cheesiest Christmas Song?