Posted on 12/03/2017 10:56:19 AM PST by Simon Green
I found a funny article that was trying to decide which was worse: So This Is Christmas or Wonderful Christmastime. There was a lot of hate for both. I think it was wrong to conclude McCartney’s was worse. Musically it may have been worse, but for missing the spirit of Christmas Lennon wins. Not that Wonderful Christmastime was spiritual; it just wasn’t as smarmily secular as Lennon’s.
That one also...
...has negative atmospheric pressure.
And “Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire”
And “Funny Fat Man in a Silly Red Suit Stuck in the Smoke Hole of Our Tipi”
I didn’t even know Belize had a Navy.
The first two suck but the last three I love.
So this is Christmas, I’ll change the channel.
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) is so hackneyed and beyond lame. Please kill it.
No one should ever "unpack" anything when they mean "analyze" or "parse."
A few more:
Donde esta Santa Claus?
Little Saint Nick
Marshmallow World
I agree with the five on the list except for Rudolph - I prefer the Burl Ives version but there's some decent covers out there.
As for "Do They Know It's Christmas" - it's a good melody but the lyrics are awfully cloying and sanctimonious. Especially the Bono lyric that goes "And tonight thank God it's them, instead of you." That just grates on me every time.
At least Bono made up for it later with "Miss Sarajevo" which in my opinion is the greatest U2 song of all time. Even though it never appeared on a proper U2 album (it was on the "Passengers" album which was a soundtrack for "imaginary movies")
While not intended as a Christmas song, I always considered "Miss Sarajevo" very Christmasy and I only play it around this time of year. Judge for yourself and make sure you wait for the Pavarotti part - he takes the song to a whole different level.
“Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire” is a El Rushbo classic; it was part of a spoof infomercial on holiday uses for chipmunks, including “Mom Limbaugh’s Festive Chipmunk Party Mix”. Rodent screams were heard as each dish was introduced.
>5. ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’
Let me stipulate right from the get-go that I have absolutely nothing at all good to say about the lyrics to this song or the sentiment portrayed by them, but I must confess that the repeating melodic line of the last chorus is an absolute wonder to my ear, combing an ostinato musical pattern with subtly evolving harmonies within the fixed structure of the melody.
Theres a Christmas movie made around the song Christmas shoes...,
and yes I’ve often wondered if the little boy ever made it back home in time to say Goodbye before Mom died...
Snow turned into rain, all wrong, 2 people both miserable living a lie and NOTHING to do with Christmas. P.s. I take it Christmas shoes criticism is for humor sake? The song is not about the boy, it’s about the guy singing the song about the boy and to focus on the things that matter in life.
And McCartney’s is Wonderful Christmas Time
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you cut a big fart
I despise that movie and have no idea what is great about it.
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