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

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

I'll listen to great choral works at Christmas. But I draw the line at what I heard last night in JC Penneys: A fifties crooner (Bing, I think) remixed with trance drums.

No. No. No. No. Trance is trance. Bing is Bing. The two should not ever mix.

:still getting the nastybad taste out of my hears and brain...:

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'll be listening to traditional folk. Specifically, The Watersons.

Poor old Bing. Do you remember when he sang little Drummer Boy (yuk) as a duet with the young David Bowie?