I just heard a Christmas carol for the first time this year. It surprised me how lovely it was and how much it made me connect with childhood feelings of Christmas, instead of adult hassle of Christmas. One so rarely hears Christmas carols these days because shops just endlessly play bloody awful compilation albums of bloody awful Christmas pop songs. Instead of “silent night” or other beautiful songs, we endure an endless loop of Slade and Yoko Ono singing “a velly melly Cleesemas.” Happy Christmas (War is Over) my arse, Mr Lennon. I really do want the wars in
Stop! Season of goodwill and all!
I do wish that it were easier to hear more of “O come all ye faithful!” and the like. They are simply more lovely songs than the pop trash. I should remind you that this statement comes from somebody who genuinely loves "STEPS", so I've no objection to pop music whatever! There's a time and a place though. Do we not hear them because shops are afraid somehow of upsetting non-Christians? If so, isn’t the mere mention of Christmas a problem?
I do like to hear “Stop the Cavalry” by Jona Lewie and the Band Aid song though. They can stay.
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I love all the old classics like Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby and Bowie. And as far as I'm concerned, the Band Aid song, with all its offensive sentiments and patronising lyrics can stay too, just because it's a little piece of my yoof.
Didn't Jona Lewie not get to number one because Lennon died that Christmas?
I detest Wham's 'Last Christmas' which seems very repetitive and lasts for three hours.
It seems that John Lennon's murder was about the same time as Jona Lewie, indeed. "Stop the Cavalry" got to number three, so I can't quite blame Lennon for keeping it from number one. The Christmas number one that year (1980) was "There's noone quite like Grandma", which is even worse than Happy Christmas (War is over). At least its saccharine nature is overt though.
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Know what you mean about Wham! and Last Christmas. A Czech friend of mine said he found it laughable how Mr Michael pronounces "someone special" as "someone spesssial". Once you've heard this, it will send you crazy. Or spesssial needs, I suppose.
I love carols too, and always go to a carol service. And I like "Stop the Cavalry".
We have the same taste in songs. I hope we don't have the same taste in men.
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