Bazza Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 Maybe Pariah needs to create a complement thread for Christmas songs/carols we like/love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 Wierdly enough, the original All I Want for Christmas by Vince Vance and the young lady that sang a lot of his material- that version is wonderful, but you don't hear it anymore. Even wikipedia states Carey wrote this song, so I am wonderibg if she did an Elon /Tesla and bought the rights to claim it's her creation.... it's kind of a shame, because the original had sort of grown on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjack Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 12 hours ago, DShomshak said: Beat me to it. "Little Drummer Boy" is just such a tiresome, monotonous song. Dean Shomshak As much as I dislike Little Drummer Boy, my favorite Christmas song is the Bing Crosby & David Bowie duet/counterpoint of that song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steriaca Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 I kinda love all Christmas songs, but when they chain countless covers of Rudolf and Frosty back to back is enough to sower anyone's childhood memories of Rudolf and Frosty. But I really hate "Santa Buddy". "Santa Baby" is bad enough, but trying to make a 'no homo but guys can be gold diggers also' song out of it is borderline spooky. Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 8 hours ago, Pariah said: Michael Bublé actually does a pretty nice version of that Mariah Carey holiday song. I don't really mind that Mariah Carey song, to be truthful. For one thing, it's one of Lady P's favorites, and there's a certain tolerance and understanding that goes with that. And for another thing, I was working for an electronics store (colloquially known as Circuit Sh***y) when this song first came out, so it only took me a shift or two to become completely desensitized to it. The only song that I didn't become desensitized to was "Just What I Needed", which the store manager had put in continuous play for a day and a half when the company bought the rights to it for advertising. That disc suffered a plasma discharge in the break room microwave when the store manager left for lunch on the second day. It took me the better part of a decade to be able to listen to the song again. The company I work for now streams music into the casino and back of house, and usually switches to holiday music some time around Thanksgiving. It didn't this year, so the playlist last week included "The Boys of Summer", "Paradise By the Dashboard Lights", and "Bark at the Moon" (which are, unfortunately, now "oldies"). Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cancer Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 Me, I'm waiting for "I Drink Alone" to receive the anointment as a regular Christmas song. Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 Fortunately, Christmas is now over. I dont get what happened in the retail world, but foe the past fidteen years, Christmas crap goes up before Halloween and is gone- as well as the sales- by the second week of December. Wife wanted to browse Christmas stuff last night. We wenr to nine places and couldnt find a hint of Christmas. Same thing for the past few years: just about the time,I start to feel,festive, the rest of the country moves into business as usual. Nice selection of shorts, swimwear, and lawnmowers, though. Idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 2 hours ago, Tjack said: As much as I dislike Little Drummer Boy, my favourite Christmas song is the Bing Crosby & David Bowie duet/counterpoint of that song. This is the version that I dislike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 54 minutes ago, Cancer said: Me, I'm waiting for "I Drink Alone" to receive the anointment as a regular Christmas song. I have detailed the nightmare that the holidays are in my family, particulalry when the prim and proper former southern aristocracy in-laws have to intemingle with my big-personality former southern rum runner family. as a result, I Drink Alone, while a very silly song, has become a perennial favorite of mine. aylwin13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 12 hours ago, Duke Bushido said: To make up for the ranting, let me hit you with a cute one I haven't heard since I was maybe six or seven years old. Honestly, I didn't think I'd find it, but evidently the lady that recorded it was quite famous. Who knew? Just discovered Miss Peevey last night as a matter of fact. She sings the Christmas Hippo Song. Found a vid of her singing it in 1953 which has her at 72 years old singing at the end just to show it's her. Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Duke Bushido said: I have detailed the nightmare that the holidays are in my family, particulalry when the prim and proper former southern aristocracy in-laws have to intemingle with my big-personality former southern rum runner family. as a result, I Drink Alone, while a very silly song, has become a perennial favorite of mine. My extended family is really sparse. Mom was the only child of an only child and an orphan. My father's family is/was more numerous, but they were never close, and when Dad (and us) moved out of California for good in the mid-1960s contact diminished to near nothing. (A spectacular almost physical fight between my dad and his brother may have had something to do with that; the occasion was a backyard get-together in San Jose when Dad returned from Viet Nam in the summer of 1968, and in retrospect he was clearly affected by PTSD and completely disenchanted with what was going on there, while his brother was a hardcore Nixon supporter and persisted in overriding his little brother's just-back-from-there experiences of what actually was going on.) My own travels had me meet up with several after I was out on my own in the 1980s, but the last time I saw any of my relatives in the flesh in the mid-1990s, and last I heard from any of them was in 2010, when the last of the generation before mine passed away. (All that omits my siblings and their kids, and I see my brother approximately weekly -- he's in the gaming group -- and my sister a few times a year.) Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted December 15, 2021 Report Share Posted December 15, 2021 When I get tired of the Mariah Carey version of "All I Want for Christmas," I cleanse the palate with the Google Translates version. DShomshak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2021 Hey, can somebody please explain to me why "My Favorite Things" is a holiday song? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted December 16, 2021 Report Share Posted December 16, 2021 For my part, I really dislike "Last Christmas." We don't even call it that in our family - we call it "The Heart Transplant Song." And "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." Absolute dreck. Pariah, Duke Bushido and Cancer 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 16, 2021 Report Share Posted December 16, 2021 “The Heart Regifting Song”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 16, 2021 Report Share Posted December 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Pariah said: Hey, can somebody please explain to me why "My Favorite Things" is a holiday song? Not with any degree of accuracy or without a lot of marketing lies; no. I tend to feel "My Favorite Things" is a holiday song the way Diehard is a Christmas movie: you either see it, or you're right. aylwin13 and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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