Christmas Toons

Jamie

You have already got one of my favourites - the wonderful Christmas Wrapping. "You've forgotten cranberry too........". Wonderful stuff. I guess my other is the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl's Fairy Tale of New York. "You scum bag you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot, merry Christmas my arse, pray god it's our last........"

I see that Diana Krall has a Christmas album out - perhaps it comes with a free bucket.

Nigel

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Well, you've given me the perfect opportunity for some shameless self-promotion ... I have a new solo piano track on the newest Windham Hill Christmas sampler, The Night Before Christmas. It's my arrangement of the beautiful and haunting theme song Walking In the Air from the short children's film The Snowman, composed by Howard Blake.

Y'all pick one up today!


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Will we see all those cool Windham Hillies with satsumas for noses?

Nigel

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Originally posted by hungryhalibut:
Will we see all those cool Windham Hillies with satsumas for noses?

Nigel

My nose knows no satsuma, but I can't speak for those noses.

Fred

P.S. What on earth are you talking about?


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Stop The Calvary

Shome mishtake surely?

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Shome mishtake surely?

Yeah, 'aving an l of a time with daughter on my lap as I type

Ella needs to come over!

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My nose knows no satsuma, but I can't speak for those noses.

Fred

P.S. What on earth are you talking about?

Fred

Have you never seen 'The Snowman'? He has a satsuma for a nose!

Nigel

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Originally posted by hungryhalibut:

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My nose knows no satsuma, but I can't speak for those noses.

Fred

P.S. What on earth are you talking about?

Fred

Have you never seen 'The Snowman'? He has a satsuma for a nose!

Nigel

Oh ... now I knows whose nose goes there ... you threw me off with the "Windham Hillies."

Sure I've seen it, many times. Always thought it was a tangerine ... but it could be that he has a satsuma for a nose, I suppose.

Fred


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Xmas Toons

Blah blah blah blah - utter shite, blah blah blah blah - he we go again.

Yours in Atheist and Commercialism hell.

John.

I agree with your sentiment John - this will be my 49th Christmas and I am dreading the ubiquitous crimbo musak I know will be forced to hear. I particularly detest that simply having a wonderful Christmas time abomination. It redefines the meaning of the word "inane" and sits alongside that chant of "I know a song that will get on your nerves!!"

!gubmuH haB

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Originally posted by J.N.:
Yours in Atheist and Commercialism hell.

Amen.

I kinda like it when it's cold outside and I am driving in my car and I hear Chris Rea. It's sad, I know. Oh, and Wham! does it for me too!

Early 70's Moody Blues, when they got melancholic.

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Originally posted by bhazen:
Early 70's Moody Blues, when they got melancholic.

When didn't they get melancholic?

Actually, I know just what you mean. My first serious girlfriend in highschool turned me on to Moody Blues, and just hearing one of those tunes is an instant Proustian madeleine back to incense, ice patterns on the window, and a mattress on the floor.

Fred


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My favourite Xmas toon i s

It's Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas - which I think says it all when al I want for Xmas is that Dukla Prague away kit.

Though I quite like Santa Doesn't Like You

He's got a list of who's been naughty and nice
And you're the only one who's on the bad list and he's written you down twice

Best Christmas song for Dutch speakers has to be:

Youp van't Hek - Flappie

They are advertising those same old christmas classics on tele yet again. They gone and lobbed another one of those best ever christmas albums ever

so it is refreshing to come across some alternatives as apposed to cliff richard, slade, wizard, ect...
and i shall definitly use an ipod for when i go shopping, and wear a pair of shades

regards

Although amongst others G4 will be flogging someone else's old Christmas songs soon, best general-purpose CD collection for me/mine is still original 1996 'The Best Christmas Album In The World ...Ever!' Virgin VTDCD103. I have several of these when sold off for £1.99 to make way for last/current version which drops some songs I like in favour of a few newer singles.

Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band have quite a few Christmas CDs now (new one with DVD option next Monday).

Muppets/John Denver nice.

The Roches one jolly good.

Elvis Presley full-list versions fine, but not all at one sitting.

Mr Blobby in 1993 was No. 1 twice at Christmas-time.

"Father Christmas"(?) by the Kinks;
I suppose I'd be being obvious to mention
"So This Is Christmas" by John Lennon...

I have a Mike Oldfield EP, Take Four and "In Dulcio Jubilo" always gets me in the mood.

regards
Richard S

I don't observe Xmas but I spin this once a year for the ocasion:
Patti Austin 'This Christmas'.