I've just been searching iTunes for festive tracks and I need a little help people...
I'm putting together a Christmas playlist and I want your input. Here's your chance to dust off those favourite tunes of the season and shaaaare.
Here's how I'm doing so far:
Merry Christmas Everybody- Slade (Obviously) I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard (The Song Christmas Was Invented For) White Christmas - Otis Redding Let It Snow - Dean Martin Baby It's Cold Outside - Dean Martin Christmas Is Going To The Dogs - The Eels Christmas In Prison - John Prine The 12 Drugs Of Christmas - Tenacious D Christmas - The Big D There's No Lights On The Christmas Tree, Mama - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over - Jack White All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit Judy Garland's Christmas Special - Strikeforce Diablo I'm Dreaming Of A White Noise Christmas - 65 Days Of Static There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evening Stage - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - The Ronettes Buddy Holly - Weezer
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No Christmas For John Keys ( = Junkies-ah! ) -- The Fall
I Was Born On Christmas Day -- St Etienne
2000 Miles ("It felt like Christmas time") -- Pretenders
White Christmas -- Bing Crosby
Snow, from White Christmas ("I long to clear a path and lift a spade of snow Snow Oh, to see a great big man entirely made of snow") -- Crosby, Kaye, Clooney & Stevens
Little Drummer Boy -- David Bowie, Bing Crosby
Lonely This Christmas -- Mud
how about Black Mask burns the Greatest TMO Compilation CD, and sends it to all his friends on here!
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If you can find it, get Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band doing Coventry Carol. It highlights the more depressing side of Christmas in that splendidly morose medieval way. Maybe a good one for Boxing Day.
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Just Like Christmas - Low Let's not fuck around - best indie Christmas record ever. By Mormons.
Step Into Christmas - Elton John "Step into Christmas - the admission's free" - greatest ever lie in a Christmas song.
Rock n Roll Christmas - Gary Glitter The exiled king of Rock n Roll returns for one last time.
Stay - East 17 Finest boyband song ever. Shows up Take That for what they were - ie. shit.
Hoppipolli - Sigur Ros If Grandaddy were transformed into cats by an Icelandic witch and, in order to lift the curse, had to perform in an igloo for forty nights in an orchestra conducted by Brian Wilson the result would sound much like this.
I Believe in Father Christmas - Rick Wakeman Good sleighbells.
Merry Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love/Phil Spector Plangent, epic, stupendously Christmassy classic. If you don't have Spector's 'A Christmas Gift For You' please buy it TODAY and play until Boxing Day. Consider it a Christmas gift. From me.
Neighborhood #4 (Kettles) - Arcade Fire What could be more Christmesque than Montreal in the snow and time creeping through the neighborhood "killing all the old folks?"
Let Them Know It's Christmas - Band Aid 20 (feat. Dizzee Rascal) Transfixingly ill-advised retread - highlights = Chris Martin, Sugababes and Dizzee, in Damo's accurate characterisation, 'jumping the shark'. The video's highlight is when all the 'stars' are shown famine porn by Bob Geldof and dutifully adopt solemn/disressed faces. Also: yet more proof that Robbie Williams cannot sing and is basically Chico 'Chico Time!' avant la lettre.
A Spaceman Came Travelling - Chris de Burgh Manger, baby Jesus, eyebrows, cringing embarrassment. nuff said.
Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) - The Darkness "Feinging joy and surprise at the gifts we despise" - lol. Should have been dreadful but actually fun and affecting - unlike most of the rest of their stuff, this will last.
Straight to You - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Keeping it real with the dark lord this Christmas: Cave's best love song and a nicely yule-sounding hammond organ/snare drum combo from the Bad Seeds. Trust me on this one.Posts: 8657
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My favourite christmas song is 'Baby it's not your sleigh ride' by Badly Drawn Hat. Other than that I can't really think of anything. Maybe rocking around the christmas tree by Mel (smith) and Kim (wilde). That was a real high point in Christmas music. Carter USM did a nice cover of 'It'll be lonely this Christmas'. I liekd that.
Best Christmas music moment ever, I think was when I took my Dad to see The Wildhearts at The Astoria in December 1996 as "his" birthday treat (he paid, drove and bought all the drinks - basically the treat was me allowing him to be seen in public with me). A great show, with the second half being taken up with Xmas songs. That was a great night.
I noticed the other day that someone had recorded a version of the JCB song that appears on TMO's front page. Pointless.
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quote:Originally posted by ben: Merry Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love/Phil Spector Plangent, epic, stupendously Christmassy classic. If you don't have Spector's 'A Christmas Gift For You' please buy it TODAY and play until Boxing Day. Consider it a Christmas gift. From me.
The Christmas biscuit barrel is being scraped in these posts, but the above choice is BANG ON. I was trying to think of it for my own contribution and I must get the album as Ben says.
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Christ, Mask, you've missed off the greatest: Last Christmas by Wham. It is actually my favourite Wham song, and I listen to it all year round, when it's not even Christmas!
It also has the best video for any Christmas song. Whenever I decorate a Christmas tree, I try and replicate the "look" the floppy-fringed Greeky gives his evil ex as they gently dangle baubles from the branches.
You gaaaaave me awaaaaaay!
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quote:Originally posted by Kira: The best christmas song ever:
Kirsty McColl and The Pogues: Fairytale of New York
Christy Moore did a version of this, oddly as a solo rather than a duet , but it has one detail which improves on the original, and that's when he sings "And the New York Po-liss Choir was singing Galway Bay" instead of "And the NYPD Choir..." In fact, he may have done the cover purely to correct the error.
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I'm actually kind of completely sick of that fucking Pogues song. It seemed to get a lot of fuss because of the bit where she calls him a 'cheap lousy faggot', and - haha! - that's not the kind of thing you normally expect in a christmas song but mostly it's just a lurching, nauseating load of old shit.
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quote: It seemed to get a lot of fuss because of the bit where she calls him a 'cheap lousy faggot', and - haha! - that's not the kind of thing you normally expect in a christmas song but mostly it's just a lurching, nauseating load of old shit.
I understand where you're coming from Thorn - I think its just one of the few christmas themed songs that I'm not completely sick of...though I'm sure I'll not be saying that come january.
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1. Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo (Early 50's Recording) 2. Merry Fucking Christmas 3. O Holy Night 4. Dead, Dead, Dead 5. Carol of the Bells 6. The Lonely Jew On Christmas 7. I Saw Three Ships 8. It Happenned In Sun Valley 9. O Tannenbaum 10. Christmas Time In Hell 11. What The Hell Child Is This? 12. Santa Claus is On His Way 13. Swiss Colony Beef Log 14. Hark the Herald Angels Sing 15. Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel 16. The Most Offensive Song Ever 17. We Three Kings 18. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Played so often at Christmas my daughter thinks they're traditional Christams songs..
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quote:Originally posted by kovacs: I don't understand... why is NYPD wrong, and New York Police right? The only difference is the loss of "department".
It's just the pure Irishness of the way he sings "po-liss" instead of "NYPD". It just sounds right, and "NYPD" sounds wrong. But only once you've heard Christy Moore sing "po-liss". Untill then, "NYPD" is fine.
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Was it a failure? I thought the Guidebook to Chav that I received was particularly good. Though I still haven't been compelled to buy Burberry pants or anything; maybe I need to read it again and take notes this time.
Anyone else want to try it again?
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Psst froopy, I think whoever got Ringo forgot to send his present. Father Dangmas didn't want him to get upset so he told him everyone else forgot to send presents too. I got great gifts from damo!
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I would volunteer to do it, but I'm actually genuinely and pathetically busy this year.
It's reasonably simple to organise though if someone else happens to feel the Christmassy spirit upon them. You have to make sure Ringo gets two presents though.
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A Christmas Gift for You is worth having if only for the inner sleeve photo of crazy Phil wearing a 'Back to Mono' badge on his Santa suit and looking for all the world like the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang dressed up for the festive season. Deeply creepy.
Xmas Rap - The Treacherous Three and Doug E. Fresh The Jackson 5 - Frosty The Snowman The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song
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quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: Psst froopy, I think whoever got Ringo forgot to send his present.
Actually I think it was Ringo who forgot to send a present. Or, to put it another way, it was Ringo who forgot to send out a present.
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Last year my secret santa led to Gemini being outed as Gemini on another board, which made her flounce. That was entertaining.
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quote:Originally posted by Endemic: Last year my secret santa led to Gemini being outed as Gemini on another board, which made her flounce. That was entertaining.
That was entertaining, wasn't it? But not nearly as entertaining as your current flounce. Will she ever come back? And if so, will she wield her admin powers for evil, banning everyone who stands in her path?
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, but it has one detail which improves on the original, and that's when he sings "And the New York Po-liss Choir was singing Galway Bay" instead of "And the NYPD Choir..." In fact, he may have done the cover purely to correct the error.
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