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

[methodius.livejournal.com]

I like Tom Lehrer's

Christmas time is here, by golly
Disapproval would be folly
Deck the hall with hunks of holly
Fill the cup and don't say "When".

But they never play that one in the shops.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It would be good if the shops drew from a larger repertoire.

It's having the same old, not very good songs played over and over again that is so debilitating

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Transubstantiate,
that is.

From the Vatican Rag.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Two, four, six, eight--
Time to transubstantiate.