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

[jfs.livejournal.com]

The thing I like most about "Fairytale ..." is that it is blatantly obvious that most people don't listen to the lyrics. At all.

Either that or (even more heartening) that the majority of the population of Britain, including whoever programmes the music for shopping malls in December is cynical enough to play it day in, day out, in the festive season.

Either way I'm happy. Whenever I hear it in the shops, I smile.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I like to think we Brits are all secretly punks at heart.