Deck the hall with hunks of holly
Dec. 13th, 2004 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaIt is the time of year where one is obliged to give thanks to Shane McGowan and Kirsty MacColl. When shops are playing Frosty the Snowman and Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree on some kind of homicide-inducing loop, there is exactly one non-execrable Christmas Song.
And, owing to checking a spelling there, I have just learnt that execrable and excreable are different words.
And, owing to checking a spelling there, I have just learnt that execrable and excreable are different words.
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Date: 2004-12-13 02:39 am (UTC)by London after midnight
Solstice Bells
By Jethro Tull
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Date: 2004-12-13 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 02:48 am (UTC)I don't imagine LAM gets played in shops much, though Jethro Tull might plausibly.
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Date: 2004-12-13 02:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 02:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 02:55 am (UTC)Though I'll settle for non-execrable songs which could plausibly be played in toyshops.
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Date: 2004-12-13 03:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 03:59 am (UTC)Going off on a different but related tack - how do you decide what makes a Christmas song? Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" obviously is. But what about Christmas hits? A Christmas compilation I have has on it "Only You" by the Flying Pickets - a novelty hit at Christmas, but not a Christmas song. And if you allow that, should you also allow others such as "All Around My Hat" by Steeleye Span (in my mind that is a Christmas song because it was a hit at Christmas in 1975 and they did have a genuine Christmas song - Gaudete - a couple of years earlier)? Or Human League's "Don't You Want Me" which was the Christmas number one in 1981, but is otherwise completely un-Christmassy?
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Date: 2004-12-13 04:09 am (UTC)Er, is it about Christmas ? Is it about Christmassy things - snowmen, presents, chestnuts, feuding relatives, etc ? So no, "Only You" doesn't count even if it is on your Christmas compilation.
Prompted by Onebyone, I'd just gone off and googled for a list of Christmas Number Ones (http://www.ccl4.org/xmasno1.html). Most of them aren't (in my view) Christmas songs.
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Date: 2004-12-13 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 04:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 05:20 am (UTC)Sure it mentions christmas but is it really about christmas? Or do the events happen at christmas.....
However I also agree with you, it chears my heart to hear it playing in shopping centeres. I sometimes stop and wait for the lines "you scumbag, you magget, you cheapy lousey fagot" before carrying on my way......
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Date: 2004-12-13 05:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 05:30 am (UTC)'s probably an alligator. You get them in songs. And in New York. Well known fact.
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Date: 2004-12-13 05:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 06:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 06:31 am (UTC)(Anyway, that's just a handbag, or a pair of boots. I guess, you do find them in songs.)
What you really want to do is cite song references, and I don't think Flanders and Swann will help you on this one ;-)
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Date: 2004-12-13 06:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 06:35 am (UTC)Like "See you later, alliogator" ?
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Date: 2004-12-13 06:44 am (UTC)And surely there are plenty of songs about alligators.
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Although I prefer the tree sort myself.
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Date: 2004-12-13 07:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 07:30 am (UTC)oh wait, you did.
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Date: 2004-12-13 10:47 am (UTC)Top Tunes
Date: 2004-12-14 03:31 am (UTC)Okay... That wasn't very funny of me at all... Quite disturbing in fact...
Re: Top Tunes
Date: 2004-12-14 03:34 am (UTC)Re: Top Tunes
Date: 2004-12-14 06:16 am (UTC)IMHO the single is basically girlie, cash-in, bubble-gum stuff. But then that sort of thing does tend to end up on Christmas compilations by the shedload!
[Marjory's Note to Self: Cut down on lowbrow pop-culture references here.]