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Ok song, doesn't need to be played a dozen times a day in the lead up to Christmas.

I've managed to only hear it twice this year.

I hate the Bastille song with a passion.

I'm really, really, REALLY, sick of the endless repeat of Christmas pop this year. Only thing worse than the originals are the breathy remakes by whatever popstar is in the charts. Regretting finding the FunKids radio station and getting the kids excited about it.

A salve yesterday was needing to go back home to pick up some stuff, meaning two hours of just me in the car. There was metal, grunge and loud singing. It was bliss!

You know which Christmas song is most irritating when played repeatedly?

DeskJockey wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 10:40 am I'm really, really, REALLY, sick of the endless repeat of Christmas pop this year. Only thing worse than the originals are the breathy remakes by whatever popstar is in the charts. Regretting finding the FunKids radio station and getting the kids excited about it.

it just a shameless effort to get a bit of long term income isn’t it. Record some shit version of a song in the hope of selling it over and over again every year rather than just for the time the song is new.

Rich B wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 11:49 am

DeskJockey wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 10:40 am I'm really, really, REALLY, sick of the endless repeat of Christmas pop this year. Only thing worse than the originals are the breathy remakes by whatever popstar is in the charts. Regretting finding the FunKids radio station and getting the kids excited about it.

it just a shameless effort to get a bit of long term income isn’t it. Record some shit version of a song in the hope of selling it over and over again every year rather than just for the time the song is new.

Yup

RobYob wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 9:08 am Ok song, doesn't need to be played ever again!!

Fixed that for you...

dinny_g wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 12:20 pm

RobYob wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 9:08 am Ok song, doesn't need to be played ever again!!

Fixed that for you...

Indeed. Without some sort of counteragent I probably have had a lifetime's dosage of it.

Everything that is wrong about Christmas... and the Irish, in one song...

Hate it with a passion...

Rich B wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 11:49 am

DeskJockey wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 10:40 am I'm really, really, REALLY, sick of the endless repeat of Christmas pop this year. Only thing worse than the originals are the breathy remakes by whatever popstar is in the charts. Regretting finding the FunKids radio station and getting the kids excited about it.

it just a shameless effort to get a bit of long term income isn’t it. Record some shit version of a song in the hope of selling it over and over again every year rather than just for the time the song is new.

What’s even worse than this is retconning old songs to update for the metoo generation - like the update to Baby It’s Cold Outside

dinny_g wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 1:22 pm Everything that is wrong about ... the Irish, in one song...

Hate it with a passion...

He was born in Kent
His birthday today too.
Doesn't make it any better though.

It’s about how the Irish have collectively adopted the song as an anthem for excusing Christmas behaviour, not where MacGowan was born.

Kirsty, bless her, was for from Croydon too...

I’ll be honest I never knew the back story to “Do they know it’s Christmas” - always thought it had stupid lyrics and was generally a terrible song. Found out yesterday about that it was for raising money for famine which makes the lyrics a bit more odd but at least the feed the world line makes sense.

What the actual fuck...

Meh, I like Fairytale of New York.

dinny_g wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 9:10 pm What the actual fuck...

What is that aimed at

Mito Man wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 9:41 pm

dinny_g wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 9:10 pm What the actual fuck...

What is that aimed at

It's hard to believe that someone of reasonable intelligence cannot know the back story to that song