Christmas Songs
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poliphiloUgh- 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!
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!
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Date: 2006-12-01 03:48 am (UTC)but i do agree with you-- when i think about it, the only christmas songs i like are the religious ones (o holy night, what child is this, etc), although i do really like "have yourself a merry little christmas". there's something very melancholy about it: "though the years we all will be together if the fates allow" always gets me; there are few christmas songs that acknowledge that 1) bad stuff happens and 2) there's nothing you can do about it