Posted on 11/30/2010 7:40:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If you haven’t heard a rendition of Do They Know It’s Christmas yet this year, it’s only a matter of time.
But should you curse Bob Geldof for writing That Song, you’ll be in good company. He’s fed up with it too.
The single was released 26 years ago today as Geldof set up Band Aid to raise money for famine-hit Ethiopia.
And although it became the biggest selling single in the world at the time, it seems he’s had enough. He said: ‘I am responsible for two of the worst songs in history. One is Do They Know It’s Christmas? and the other one is We Are The World.
'Any day soon, I will go to the supermarket, head to the meat counter and it will be playing. Every ****ing Christmas.’
He said carol singers also include it in their repertoire when they visit his South London home each year, alongside the more traditional Silent Night.
The former Boomtown Rats frontman, 59, added: ‘Sometimes I think that’s wild because I wrote it. Or else I am thinking how much I want them to stop because they are doing it really badly.’ Geldof co-wrote the song with singer Midge Ure.
The campaign, which went on to raise more than £100million, was inspired by Michael Buerk’s BBC news report on Ethiopia’s famine.
Musicians including Sting, Bono, George Michael and Phil Collins sang on the Band Aid track.
Its success led to the release of U.S. charity single We Are the World months later.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Agree!!
It's still not a song no matter how many times Geldof says it is. His judgment in the matter is impaired.
Here are some of the words, these sung by uberlib Bono.
“And there won’t be snow in Africa this christmas time
The greatest gift they’ll get this year is life”
“Where nothing ever grows
No rain or rivers flow”
“Do they know it’s christmas time at all?”
I have to believe that since this is Africa where a large majority of the inhabitants of that continent are Mooselums, they don’t really care if it’s Christmas.
What a stupid song by a bunch of starry eyed, shrill voiced libs.
No! No! No!
That wretched little ditty penned by John Lennon - “So This is Christmas” is the absloute worst holiday dreck produced by the mind of man. It’s a vomitous little harangue to Christians intended to make them feel guilty for celebrating their faith and the birth of our Lord and Saviour.
It’s typical liberal white guilt writ large.
I think the worst is “Wonderful Christmastime” by Paul McCartney, though I have not heard this Elton John tune that I am aware of.
No, the worst song in the world is Mr Roboto, followed closely by the video of Mr Roboto.
Have worked at a college radio station for yrs and in the past we played a 12” single version of it which had an extended mix on the back. At least it was diff. from the version most people hear; various music celebs say hi during the instrumental break incl. Paul McCartney (”sorry i can’t be here today”), David Bowie (intoning a serious message about hunger) and Stu Adamson from Big Country. John Taylor from Duran Duran, etc. At the end of the inst. break Geldof is heard saying what day and time it was, “we’ve been here 24 hours and it’s time to go home now” before they all leap back in with 1! 2! 1, 2,
3, 4, FEED THE WORLD....”
Because everything’s on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOKwyNcVK2U
For some reason the DJ at my sister’s wedding reception figured we should all join hands and sing along with “we are the world...”
Novelty song spoof: “We are the worms, out on the sidewalk/ We are the ones who make a squishy sound, so watch where you walk. There’s a chance we’re taking...”
Agree 100% ---- I hate that song !!! The station cannot be turned fast enough when I hear that abomination comes on.
Well now, I could consider a tie vote. That is also one horrific Christmas tune.
http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/bandaidin19840.shtml
It’s payment time,
But the debts have not been paid.
In Africa, they welch on us,
So let’s have them flayed.
When it comes time for spending,
We can ill afford the dough;
Get your hands around their throats,
And strangle them!
Well, fair is fair:
They are the evil ones.
For their people, it’s hard;
Tyrants have all the guns.
There’s a lake outside of Heaven
And it’s prepared for racketeers
Who keep our foreign aid flowing while
They shed crocodile tears.
And the raging fire that burns there
Is prepared for singers too;
Keep provoking God,
He might be damning you.
So ignore Geldorf and all
This stupid Live 8 tripe;
Let’s stuff a nuke
Up Mugabe’s tailpipe.
(Oh...)
The music really blows,
And the blood like water flows.
Let’s rake all
these jerks across the coals!
To U2, send them coal for being dumb,
Mugabe, here’s a bomb for you, you scum!
Let’s rake all
these jerks across the coals!
[A brief and crummy instrumental follows.]
“OK, well this is Bono here, the old white guy from U2
ostentatiously denouncing war and poverty and hunger again.
What a wonderful person I am!”
“Hello, this is Michael Jackson.
I’m sorry I can’t be with you this time, kids.
Hee hee hee!”
“Hi, this is Dave Gilmour from Pink Floyd.
Our group’s album sales are way up.
Keep your hands off our stack, Jack!”
“I’m Slash from Velvet Revolver. We’re all old white guys too, Bono.”
“Hello, this is Youssou N’Dour.
I am the only actual African man here. Do you people even know who I am?
There is nothing we can do for you, my African brothers. You are hosed.”
“Hello, hello, this is Elton John. I’m being a jerk. Like, I am so drunk!
Hello, this is Elton John. Hello, this is Elton John. I’m being a jerk.
Like, I am so drunk! Uh, what am I saying? Whatever. I’m gay!”
“This is Joss Stone. I’m not a Spears clone, I swear!
Did you know that under Mugabe, millions of people in Zimbabwe are starving?
We’re not going to do anything about it, though.”
“This is Chris Martin from Coldplay.
I am a sensitive rock star. My songs are important.
I have an incredible talent: I can walk backwards.
Buy our albums, you fat greedy American capitalists!”
“Hello, this is Tom Chaplin from Keane. Please buy our albums. Please.”
“This is Francis Healy from Travis. Buy our albums!”
“Hello, I’m Madonna. Are you [bleep]ing ready, London!?”
“Hello, I’m Ms. Dynamite. I’m [bleep]ing ready, Madonna!”
“We Scissor Sisters are [bleep]ing ready for anything, Madonna.”
“Yo, this is Snoop Doggy Dogg! Buy me, you Union Jack-offs!
I need a big booty ho and some bling bling.”
“I’m Annie Lennox. Next concert, I swear we’re going to have some
live cows right up on the stage with us. Don’t ask why.”
“This is Robbie Williams, and I need a new gig,
so please watch me at Live 8. Come on, girls,
am I sexy or what?”
“This is Sting. Christmas comes in July this year.
Suicide bombers love their children too.
Please give a thought to all of us washed-up
old white guys and buy our albums, however crappy,
to keep our cocaine supplies steady. Cheerio!”
“This song was never recorded at all because it’s just a silly parody.
It’s now 9:20 in the morning of July 12th.
The death count from the terrorist attacks
here in London currently stands at 52.
Now, stop paying attention to important things,
and pay attention to us instead.
I’m Bob Geldorf. If you give each of us a million dollars,
maybe we’ll finally shut up and retire. Think about that. Bye.”
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed the jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
Bleed those jerks!
Rake them all across the coals this time!
[etc.]
It goes on forever, it's pointless, it's repetitive, it just sucks and it sucks for a very long time.
Obviously he's never heard "Santa Baby".
I'm Kilroy! ;-)
Good call! Lennon's song is far worse, in my mind, than Geldof's effort, which at least was intended to help feed some poor people. "So This Is Christmas" is so bad, lyrically and thematically that more than once I've almost lost control of the car trying to change the station when it suddenly comes on the radio.
Disagree. It’s a well-produced pop song with an infectious hook and a great bass line IMO. I find it infinitely more listenable than any of Geldof’s “serious” music which all dates badly. “DTKIC” still sounds good.
“We Are The World” on the other hand, is one of the worst songs ever recorded.
But there are a couple good spoofs of it, one by Bob and Doug McKenzie (”and a beer/In a tree”) and one by Bob Rivers
(”hangovahs/ riggin’ up the lights/ And finding a Christmas
tree”). Oh yes, and Allan Sherman too while I think of it
(”and a Japanese transistor radio”)
If you're talking about the remake by Madonna no problem. If your badmouthing Eartha Kitt them's fightin' words.
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