The Best Ever Christmas Songs Only Thread.
Posted by: Gale 501 on 18 December 2014
... and then there is of course this one
On the back of this I discovered Chris Squire's Swiss Choir which is choral music with a contemporary injection of Chris's bass and Steve Hackett's guitar.
That record is appalling. But it has one of the very best album titles ever devised. On a related note, Squackett - an aesthetically disastrous collaboration between Mr Squire and Steve Hackett - is one of the best, and simultaneously one of the worst, group names in pop history.
Fairytale of New York. Pogues/Kirsty McColl
Game over. Unsurpassed IMHO. The only Xmas song I ever play.
Bruce
That is not only the WORST Xmas song ever, it's in the Top Three Most Abysmal Records Ever. A complete abomination, the aural equivalent of tramp flatus.
Its central conceit, endlessly repeated by its devotees, is that Xmas records are twee and sentimental, and that "FTONY" is a gritty pearl. Bollocks. It is a dismal dollop of sentimentality and Oirishisms, and listening to it is like being stuck in a lift with a maudlin dosser, a "wacky" student and a shrieking girl from Clapham on her way to a hen party.
The King recorded a lot of Christmas music, some of it dreck, but this one is a stormer:
Otis Redding's version is really cool as well.
I've noticed Kevin's always a touch wooly on what he likes Mr Wat, but I'm tending to think in his heart he really loves this one.
Aw you got me Tony, along with Astral Weeks it's rarely off my turntable.
Fairytale of New York. Pogues/Kirsty McColl
Game over. Unsurpassed IMHO. The only Xmas song I ever play.
Bruce
That is not only the WORST Xmas song ever, it's in the Top Three Most Abysmal Records Ever. A complete abomination, the aural equivalent of tramp flatus.
Its central conceit, endlessly repeated by its devotees, is that Xmas records are twee and sentimental, and that "FTONY" is a gritty pearl. Bollocks. It is a dismal dollop of sentimentality and Oirishisms, and listening to it is like being stuck in a lift with a maudlin dosser, a "wacky" student and a shrieking girl from Clapham on her way to a hen party.
+1
steve
Have any of you been watching Brian Pern?
Marc Park split up a few years ago.
Be thankful he left us with this classic.
They should of fookin done a real christmas album.
Non of this world music shite stuff.
Brian had two weeks to record it.
Have any of you been watching Brian Pern?
Yep. Genius.
A great Australian Xmas song. Lovely weather here!
white wine in the sun by Tim minchin
Another great Aussie Christmas Classic from Paul Kelly
Have any of you been watching Brian Pern?
Who he?
steve
Have any of you been watching Brian Pern?
Who he?
steve
Thotch's lead singer and founder.
Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht mit den Wiener Sängerknaben und dem Tobi Reiser Ensemble aus Salzburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...ge&v=NHs3ba-P9Yk
Merry Christmas
(Sorry, I don't know how to post the actual YouTube window like the above posts)
Fairytale of New York. Pogues/Kirsty McColl
Game over. Unsurpassed IMHO. The only Xmas song I ever play.
Bruce
That is not only the WORST Xmas song ever, it's in the Top Three Most Abysmal Records Ever. A complete abomination, the aural equivalent of tramp flatus.
Its central conceit, endlessly repeated by its devotees, is that Xmas records are twee and sentimental, and that "FTONY" is a gritty pearl. Bollocks. It is a dismal dollop of sentimentality and Oirishisms, and listening to it is like being stuck in a lift with a maudlin dosser, a "wacky" student and a shrieking girl from Clapham on her way to a hen party.
+1
steve
+2
The Pogs Tooth Fairy in New York really is the worst festive seasonal assault on the eardrums.