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Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:38 pm

Yeah, Yeah,
so this time of year, all the old crap gets wheeled out again - yer Mud's, yer Wizzard's, yer Slade's, yer Paul McCartney's and the rest of the garbage.

But does any seasonal tune stand out for you personally and why?

Mine HAS to be John and Yoko - Merry Xmas (War Is Over) just because the sentiments are spot on, the song itself is pretty emotional and because it's giving out a different message to most of the other commercialised 'celebration' type songs. (Notable exception to this: Mud - Lonely This Christmas. Crap, yes, but at least ONE year it struck a chord and took me down lower than I already was. Xmas isn't always happy for everybody.

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So what, if any, is your favoured seasonal tune?
Silent Night does count, by the way.

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:45 pm

pogues - fairytale of new york
jonah lewie - stop the cavalry

(and ... and im going to be ridiculed for this one i think)

david bowie / bing crosby - little drummer boy / peace on earth

slainte

rob

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:47 pm

Slayer - Jesus Saves

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:57 pm

Paper Sun.

What? Wrong season? Oh well.

Meffy

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:02 pm

pHz wrote:jonah lewie - stop the cavalry

slainte rob

well, my intention wasn't really to critisise other peoples taste (on this occassion

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but -
jonah lewie??

Derek up North · Post by **Derek up North** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:14 pm

pHz wrote:pogues - fairytale of new york

That is, for me, the definitive Christmas song, made even more poignant by the untimely death of Kirsty McColl.

On a lighter note I am partial to The Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping".

Worst seasonal song - Chris de Burgh's "A Spaceman Came Travelling" - makes "I Believe in Father Christmas" look like a PhD philosophy thesis submission

Regards,

Derek.

tetraplan · Post by **tetraplan** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:55 pm

The Residents - Season's Greetings
Oh, and the Slade one.

Groet, Erik

danbroad · Post by **danbroad** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:05 pm

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. Heard an arrangement of it sung once by a choir with this ethereal soprano hum over the basses' melody. Could have been an excerpt from an Indiana Jones movie! Super...

And the Pogues, of course.

wrench45us · Post by **wrench45us** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:05 pm

from Phil Spector's Christmas album
Darlene Love's 'Christmas(Baby Please Come Home)'
just the power in that woman's voice, gives me chills every year.

otherwise Low's Christmas mini CD rendition of 'Blue Christmas' -- despite what all my friends say is beautiful and not depressing and yes the lithium prescription is renewable.

on another note James Brown doing 'Let's Make Christmas Mean Somthing This Year' is pretty good as well

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:09 pm

kirsty and the pogs as has already been said,and the christmas number one everyone forgets,iron maiden-bring your daughter to the slaughter

Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:19 pm

A sprig of holly on the industrial turbine by Butcher Claws

Top piece of Industrial scaryness from the VVM folks

griels · Post by **griels** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:20 pm

Troika by ELP... Or Yoko/Lennon or the Pogues... I'm a sucker for yuletide pop

soulata · Post by **soulata** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:44 pm

that sting song with

"she could be all four seasons in one day" lyrics.

how true.

does that count?

k

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:48 pm

and for something more traditional you cant beat any rendition of in the bleak midwinter ...

slainte

rob

speccyteccy · Post by **speccyteccy** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:56 pm

wrench45us wrote:from Phil Spector's Christmas album
Darlene Love's 'Christmas(Baby Please Come Home)'
just the power in that woman's voice, gives me chills every year.

As soon as I saw this thread's title I was going to say Phil Spector's Christmas Gift for you, and that song is probably my favorite.

I remember buying it at a trendy record shop where my mate worked - he started taking the piss out of me, but the guy whose shop it was (who was worshipped by my mate) came over and started singing the album's praise.

I have to listen to it at least once every Christmas.

What's Your Favourite Seasonal Tune?