tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post7691498370167532898..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Christmas songs - like 'em or loathe 'em? by Eve EdwardsMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-84112572551958882352014-01-06T19:27:05.481+00:002014-01-06T19:27:05.481+00:00Fave loathe - 'Last Christmas I gave you my he...Fave loathe - 'Last Christmas I gave you my heart' closely followed by 'Do they know it's Christmas' unfair, because it comes from fund-raising for the hungry, but a woman in Waitrose applied it to her dog...<br />Favourite carol, nowadays: 'The Holly and the Ivy' and 'In Dulci Jubilo'. I like the first because it's dancy and about greenery.Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-11142777711230422022014-01-05T20:31:28.930+00:002014-01-05T20:31:28.930+00:00There was a perculiar version of Santa Baby that s...There was a perculiar version of Santa Baby that so far only Boots has ever played and I was ALWAYS in there just in time for this delight. I don't especially like this song to start with since it's all about cajoling something out of someone, but Eartha Kitt was such a brilliant diva I came round to liking her version and her version ONLY. The Boots one though..... *shudder* I've never heard such a smug, snide and horribly nasal version ever before. The epitome of the spoilt, simpering child, that song haunts me. <br /><br />That and Bing Crosby Dreaming of a White Christmas - dear Lordy that is dreary! I crave Whizzard when that one comes on the air!<br /><br />The one song I really liked was Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, where the singer added in an extra verse which was basically Rudolph saying 'Hang on a minute - weren't you lot taking the mickey out of me a second ago? How come you're so nice now, you backstabby lot?!'. The perverse part of me felt quite smug when I heard that one! Always felt poor Rudolph came out of that song badly...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-4425391822409527562014-01-05T20:31:27.384+00:002014-01-05T20:31:27.384+00:00There was a perculiar version of Santa Baby that s...There was a perculiar version of Santa Baby that so far only Boots has ever played and I was ALWAYS in there just in time for this delight. I don't especially like this song to start with since it's all about cajoling something out of someone, but Eartha Kitt was such a brilliant diva I came round to liking her version and her version ONLY. The Boots one though..... *shudder* I've never heard such a smug, snide and horribly nasal version ever before. The epitome of the spoilt, simpering child, that song haunts me. <br /><br />That and Bing Crosby Dreaming of a White Christmas - dear Lordy that is dreary! I crave Whizzard when that one comes on the air!<br /><br />The one song I really liked was Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, where the singer added in an extra verse which was basically Rudolph saying 'Hang on a minute - weren't you lot taking the mickey out of me a second ago? How come you're so nice now, you backstabby lot?!'. The perverse part of me felt quite smug when I heard that one! Always felt poor Rudolph came out of that song badly...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-81049777051363550722014-01-05T01:06:00.211+00:002014-01-05T01:06:00.211+00:00Hee. Always good to find the fun in a bit of mise...Hee. Always good to find the fun in a bit of misery. Sadly, for me it always seems the cure for one brain worm is just to suffer from another one. Hence the need for a little radio at my office!DLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08768285199864217885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-14229014216543000352014-01-04T17:49:44.096+00:002014-01-04T17:49:44.096+00:00DLM, your despair made me laugh! Sorry. Yes, ear-w...DLM, your despair made me laugh! Sorry. Yes, ear-worms are a vile affliction. I was once told that the only way to get rid of them is to replace them with another. The person who told me this recommended 'The Cat Came Back' as the replacement. It worms deeply in, but is usually much preferable to whatever it replaces.<br /><br />The cat came back<br />The very next day.<br />The cat came back - we thought it was a goner - <br />But it just wouldn't stay away...<br /><br />Not much help, of course, if you don't know The Cat...<br /><br />And Penny - complete agreement about Fairy Tale of New York! But I rather like Auld Lang Syne and plucking the gowans fine..Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-30963914459058968982014-01-04T05:24:58.615+00:002014-01-04T05:24:58.615+00:00DLM, I know about ear worms! I always have one, so...DLM, I know about ear worms! I always have one, sometimes the same song for weeks. I can only hope it won't be something truly awful.<br /><br />The Christmas music I most dislike is rock 'n roll Christmas music. I don't know why. Chuck Berry, Tom Petty, anybody. Christmas and rock 'n roll do not mix.<br /><br />I do like carolers, though. The kids in our neighborhood come every year. They don't sound fabulous but it doesn't matter, and they're so happy to have cookies and punch. <br /><br />This year we also had good, well-rehearsed carolers, unusual in my part of southern California. They were collecting for the Philippine typhoon refugees and seemed utterly sincere and so grateful for a bit of money to send home.Petrea Burchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13043950465171821852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-27982003726462686742014-01-04T02:39:17.515+00:002014-01-04T02:39:17.515+00:00Having recently started a new job where I don'...Having recently started a new job where I don't have a transistor radio at my desk (YET) and we can't listen online, I'm having awful issues with brainworms.<br /><br />Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad" has been the worst. I'm near slitting my wrists as it loops on repeat in my brain (and of *course* I know hardly any of the words!). The worst part is, I'm doing it to myself.<br /><br />Head, meet desk. *Bang bang bang bang*DLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08768285199864217885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-41907155963385639972014-01-03T15:56:25.404+00:002014-01-03T15:56:25.404+00:00Good post to read! I don't like cheery Christm...Good post to read! I don't like cheery Christmas songs at all - especially Hollywood ones - and think that's why the Pogues dark, raucous and drunken "Fairytale in New York" is such a welcome change at this time. <br /><br />For far too many years, Auld Lang Syne used to make me collapse in buckets of irrational tears of gloom. Maybe its time to try Sue Price's menacing? "She woz menacing 'im with carols, mlud!"Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-18558370375606834522014-01-03T15:01:42.745+00:002014-01-03T15:01:42.745+00:00And on menacing traditional songs.
Where I come fr...And on menacing traditional songs.<br />Where I come from, in the Black Country, there was a little ditty that went:-<br />We come to bring Noo 'Ear in,<br />T'owd un out and new un in -<br />A-pie-eye, a-pie-eye<br />A-pie-a-pepper-corn.<br /><br />So bring we summat to mek we glad,<br />An' we'll wish you good instead of bad - <br />A-pie-eye, a-pie-eye<br />A-pie-a-pepper-corn.<br /><br />This is probably my favourite seasonal song - though not necessarily this version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vteb3p1JQBk<br />Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-67351862822426942422014-01-03T14:52:22.016+00:002014-01-03T14:52:22.016+00:00I worked in shops in the 1970s, and can empathise ...I worked in shops in the 1970s, and can empathise with your grandmother! The supermarket used to be issued with three tapes every week, and that wasn't too bad. But one Christmas we got lumped with a single tape for three weeks. 8am-8pm some days, I was forced to listen to the same 'festive' songs, over and over and over... I felt irritation, boredom, irrational fury, despair. It was torture. I particuarly came to hate, hate, hate the one that goes 'it's a marshmallow world in the winter' to very smarmy music. I used to try all sorts of tricks to be in the store-room, or out the back, just to escape it.<br />Without trying, you learned the order of the songs, so you knew that the worst was coming... It was awful.<br />I was at a till recently, near one of those automatic ones that goes, brighly, 'Have you checked your club card?' And menacingly, 'Unauthorised goods in the packing area.'<br />I said to the woman on the till, I bet that drives you round the bend, doesn't it?" Her face said it all. She could find no words.<br />Honestly, something should be done.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-66943892533773027522014-01-03T12:41:20.014+00:002014-01-03T12:41:20.014+00:00Oh, definitely shop Muzak as my least favourite! A...Oh, definitely shop Muzak as my least favourite! And the fact that they start early. I really want to yell, "Bah! Humbug!" I quite like "Ding Dong Merrily On High" mainly because it's the tune to the Bransle "L'Officiale", a Renaissance dance which I have done with a couple of groups. Have to agree with you about all the Santa songs and the lie.Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.com