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
More, please.
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
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!
... and a scrotnig new year, readers Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
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.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
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. Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
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.
Posted by ally (Member # 600) on :
Santa Baby, slip a sable under the tree for me, I've been an awfully good girl......
Either the Kylie Minogue version, or else Julie London's.
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
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.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
The best christmas song ever:
Kirsty McColl and The Pogues: Fairytale of New York Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
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!
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
stay now!
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
(l to r)Frozen solid, Don't eat the brown snow, I didn't get what I wanted for Christmas, Abominable Snowman
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
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.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
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.
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
I don't understand... why is NYPD wrong, and New York Police right? The only difference is the loss of "department". Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
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.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
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..
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
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.
Posted by Toilet Duck (Member # 801) on :
Weird Al's Christmas at Ground Zero and The Night Santa went Crazy are always in our Christmas medleys.
Posted by Good Fairy (Member # 479) on :
quote:Originally posted by ally: Santa Baby, slip a sable under the tree for me, I've been an awfully good girl......
Either the Kylie Minogue version, or else Julie London's.
Or Madonna's from Red Hot and Blue
Posted by Good Fairy (Member # 479) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
2. Merry Fucking Christmas 10. Christmas Time In Hell
Quite possibly the best 2 Christmas songs ever.
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
can't stop the cavalry.
oh fucking joyous.
blue christmas by elves. elvis imean.
did i really say dizzee jumped the shark? get me.
edits to add: christmas in hollis by run dmc and jingle bell rock. by someone else. 80s hip hop. with the lines "let the jingle bells rock". classic.
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Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
Hey, are we going to do Secret Santa this year? Shouldn't we get cracking on it?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
No, it was an astounding failure last year and we don't want a repeat
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
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?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
No, everyone forgot to send out presents. Not just one individual, but absolutely everyone Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
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!
[ 06.12.2005, 11:33: Message edited by: Uber Trick ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
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.
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
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
[ 07.12.2005, 03:57: Message edited by: Boy Racer ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
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.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Shut up Thorn, I'm getting two this year!
Posted by Endemic (Member # 821) on :
Last year my secret santa led to Gemini being outed as Gemini on another board, which made her flounce. That was entertaining.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Did you not get a gift last year then Ringo ?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I thought it was Veep who didn't get a gift, and therefore by inference it was Ringo who didn't send it?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
yeah
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
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?
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
O pllllleeeease can we do secret santa!!!!! It is so unfair that I missed it last year because, I don't know, I thought it was gay or something. And then I saw Lisa open her presents from Damo, which fucking rocked, like this Jesus Loves You mug and everything, and I thought, this sucks the root that I am not involved please let me be involved next year mummy I am sorry for everything. And now no fucking secret santa! This blows!
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
why don't you organize then?
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
For larger gifts it might be too late to post anything..
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: why don't you organize then?
Because I'll fuck it up or something.
That's a great attitude, isn't it?
ps - how hard is it? what do you have to do? check postal addresses, then give them to other people via email? that's not rocket science, is it?
[ 07.12.2005, 09:42: Message edited by: London ]
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
yeah, but the real reason is that never in a million years could you be a$$ed.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
Now, it's up to you to start a thread, to goad people into it, keep the enthusiasm going, and be the focal point for the project administration.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
Yeah but right, maybe the reason the scheme was such a roaring success last year was because the organiser was the affable, popular, and yet still neutral Dang 65. If an un-neutral, unpopular poster such as I were to attempt such a feat, I am sure it would fall flat on its ass. That, my friend, is the reason. Nothing to do with not being bothered. Not at all.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
you're right. I would assume that you'd rig it so everybody was your secret santa.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i have started one. you can send me your email adresses if you like. my email address is aliceDOTrooneyATgmail.com
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
You're so totally fishing there, London.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
also: SWEEEEEET! waytogo, ms. pracatan!
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i would like you all to bear in mind that i am so disorganised the last time i tried to put a pair of tights on i ended up wearing an extra pair of socks and some more pants entirely by accident, so you know. but i think i have help from the magickal elves, so i might be able to do it without sending all the presents to ringo. WHICH HE WOULD NOT DESERVE. actually, maybe i will set up a not- secret santa where everyone signs up to send ringo A LUMP OF COAL.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
I am not fishing! I am stating the facts. But if said facts stir a kindly response in your heart, that is very touching.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
SHUTTUP ALICE I WANNA DO IT I H8 U
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
you snooze you lose, shitelf.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i am greatelf. you are shitelf. everybody loves me. HAHAHA.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
...for $$...[wank]
eta: too slow...damn.
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Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
London, I wasn't saying that you do blowjobs for cash. That was h1ppy who suggested that you do blowjobs for cash. Not me.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
[Stevie]Hey, I included the requisite [wank], signifying [wanky], or [winky-wanky], or [ ]. So there.[/Stevie]
enuff alveddy with the square brackets Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Can Secret Satan has his own thread, if only so it can be more popular than that KNOB JOCKEY ZOMBIE THREAD.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
I don't do blowjobs for cash, but one time, this man did take me to a stately home for an entire weekend. Does that count?
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
was it for blowjobs? If so, yes.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: 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.
Thorn's right. Fairytale has become a real Paul Gambaccini kind of a song - selected by people who recoil from the whole, you know, tackiness of Christmas. Simon Mayo used to play it more or less every day in the run-up to Christmas on 1FM (what Radio One used to call itself).
Personally I can't wait to hear Bathtub Shitter's sure-to-be-classic Brown Santa, the idea of which appeals on many levels.
Posted by Luther (Member # 358) on :
There's another Half Man Half Biscuit one to add to your list: "It's cliched to be cynical at Christmas."
[ 08.12.2005, 08:30: Message edited by: Luther ]
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
AC/DC - Mistress for Christmas Shakin Stevens - Merry Xmas everyone (a perfect reason for hating christmas)
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Bad News - Cashing in on Christmas
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
The Kinks - Father Christmas
Posted by ExtensionsOff (Member # 16) on :
Picture the joy on the little kiddies' faces as they raise their sweet voices in a medley of Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas and Santa Claus Likes Rich Kids Better.
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]. So there.[/Stevie]