Christmas Songs

[poliphilo]

Ugh- Christmas music!

I'm not talking about carols or even Christmas hymns- I like a lot of those. I'm talking about Christmas pop songs. Aren't they horrible?

And inescapable at this time of year: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Slade, Wizard, Cliff Richard.

The chingly sleigh bells, the fake bonhomie. Like being backed into a corner by a sentimental drunk with mincepie breath.

There are only two Christmas songs I can stand. The first is White Christmas. Well,  it's Irving Berlin and Irving Berlin was a mensch. And the second is the Pogues' Fairytale of New York.

"You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap, lousy faggot"- ah now, there's the true spirit of Christmas!  

Comments

[dadi.livejournal.com]

Couldn't agree more. And I like "real" xmas songs too, even not being christian. I sing them, and I like to listen to them. And now I have discovered Romanian "Colinde" which are xmas folk songs, some of them so eerily beautiful they truly bring tears to my eyes. But that pop stuff out of all the radios and the shop loudspeakers and EVERYWHERE.. GAH. If I weren't an emetophobe, I'd projectile vomit every time I have to be subjected to this torture...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

"Real" Christmas carols and folk songs touch on the archetypes.

The Watersons have just brought out a Yuletide CD called Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man- I couldn't get my order in fast enough.