For those who don't know, Fairytale of New York starts out as what could be a poignant ballad starting with Christmas in the drunk tank... until the male and female lead start slinging horrible insults at each other. Very un-P.C. for our day.
I guess someone dared Jon to do it... for the craic.
I prefer Frank Sinatra’s version of “Mrs. Robinson”, so I might prefer Mr. Jovi’s, if I had any idea of what the song was.
Jon has lost his voice. Used to be a hell of a singer, but listen to recent shows and he can’t do it. Also, too in your face politics from him...so I am really turned off. Check out Richie Sambora’s stuff!
“The song is often noted by British critics as the best-ever Christmas single.”
Never heard of it,
... the song is often noted by British critics as the best-ever Christmas single. ...Which critics might these be? Probably those that praised Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade and I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day by Wizzard twenty years earlier until the public got sick of hearing those two every December.
Had to look it up on YT just so I could give it a thumbs down. Comments are worth a good laugh!!
ping
This idiot started his career with a Christmas record
R2D2 We Wish You A Merry Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AcZaoFrLOw
A friend of mine and I used to do this at Karaoke, but she would sing the male side, me the female. It was hilarious. Even the old vets in the ANAF (Cdn version of the VFW) used to laugh about it.
It used to be a lot more common for American Entertainers to make jokes about being drunk. I recall Foster Brooks and Dean Martin as just two of them.Red Skelton had Willie Lump Lump, Carol Burnett and Tim Conway had several drunk personae.
Oh, and Otis, the town drunk on the Andy Griffith show.
Otis was known to break into jail and sleep off his nightly drunk.
"To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?" - Kevin Alfred Strom
Have heard faggot goes back to a term
for a group of sticks...’group’ etc also
turned into word fascist. It has been
applied to cigarettes (Kinks:”and he likes
his fags the best”) but it became a
slur because of the association with
something or someone being burned.
The Pogues’ Shane McGowan btw is missing
more than a few teeth or something
and inspired the ditty Shane’s Dentist
by Mojo Nixon, in Irish pub song
style:
Shane’s dentist don’t work too hard
Always at the pub
Shane says he ain’t comin’ back
Till they’re down to a nub
As a songwriter, Bon Jovi isn't fit to tie McGowan's shoes, and Bon Jovi's presumptuousness in rewriting lyrics to fit his politically correct worldview is nothing but a sign of a horribly inflated ego.
Bon Jovi’s people have had enough - comments on YouTube for this dumpster fire have been disabled.