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Christmas songs? Bah humbug!

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  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Do they know it's Christmas?
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    McBobbin said:
    Do they know it's Christmas?
    Correct.  Band aid, 84 & 89.  Then again in 2004
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    edited December 2020
    I remember being in a dingey bar in Rochester many moons ago one Xmas, DJ wasnt upto much, cheesy songs, until the last record of the night, got my fingers wet with some chav slapper 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    rananegra said:
    My daughter's been trying to get me to like Christmas songs too. She's done me an advent calendar with a spotify link a day. They're all been obscure so far and not the sort of thing you'd hear on the radio but I've generally liked them: so far I've had 
    Nice Time by Toots and the Maytals, Christmas is going to the dogs by Eels, Space Christmas by Allo Darlin, Someday at Christmas by Jack Johnson, This Christmas by The Whispers, Lonely Man of Winter by Sufjan Stevens. So obscure, but I can't fault the effort (or most of the songs TBH).

    The one well-known one I quite like apart from the Pogues is Christmas Rapping by the Waitresses
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nud2TQNahaU

    Funnily enough, as I've got older and mellower, I'm a lot more relaxed about traditional carols, but you won't hear them on the radio normally. 

    Your daughter sounds great and well done you for being willing to give them a go. 

    I’m a big fan of The Waitresses’ one. 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,827
    Spice girls 3 years in a row 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,827
    2 Bohemian rhapsody- queen
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,827
    MrOneLung said:
    Spice girls 3 years in a row 
    Beatles as well
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    MrOneLung said:
    Spice girls 3 years in a row 
    Yes, can you give me the years and the songs?
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    MrOneLung said:
    MrOneLung said:
    Spice girls 3 years in a row 
    Beatles as well
    Didn’t know that.  Thanks 
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    MrOneLung said:
    2 Bohemian rhapsody- queen
    Correct.  75 and 91.  91 of course being the year Freddie passed :-(
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  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    How are you for that last one @MrOneLung?  Same song, but two different artists.  
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,827
    Struggling with that one cabbies. 
    You could say Do they know it’s Christmas as wasn’t it Band Aid 2 who released the later song 

    spice girls was 2 become 1 , goodbye and one other one. No idea re which Beatles songs though 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    edited December 2020
    johnnybev1987 said:
    Christmas (Baby please come home) - Michael Buble version

    Feck off with your Buble. 
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    MrOneLung said:
    Struggling with that one cabbies. 
    You could say Do they know it’s Christmas as wasn’t it Band Aid 2 who released the later song 

    spice girls was 2 become 1 , goodbye and one other one. No idea re which Beatles songs though 
    Good work.  Spice girls were 96,97 & 98 and the songs were 

    19962 BECOME 1
    1997TOO MUCH
    1998GOODBYE

    The Beatles were 

    1963I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND
    1964I FEEL FINE
    1965DAY TRIPPER/WE CAN WORK IT OUT   

    They also had number one in 1967 with Hello Goodbye

    The other one is tough, it’s actually Mary’s Boy Child, sung by Harry Belafonte in 1957, and then again by Boney M in 1978
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,827
    MrOneLung said:
    Struggling with that one cabbies. 
    You could say Do they know it’s Christmas as wasn’t it Band Aid 2 who released the later song 

    spice girls was 2 become 1 , goodbye and one other one. No idea re which Beatles songs though 
    Which was the only act to be on both Band Aid and Band Aid II versions of Do the know its xmas
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    MrOneLung said:
    MrOneLung said:
    Struggling with that one cabbies. 
    You could say Do they know it’s Christmas as wasn’t it Band Aid 2 who released the later song 

    spice girls was 2 become 1 , goodbye and one other one. No idea re which Beatles songs though 
    Which was the only act to be on both Band Aid and Band Aid II versions of Do the know its xmas
    Geldof?
  • Ross
    Ross Posts: 4,408
    MrOneLung said:
    MrOneLung said:
    Struggling with that one cabbies. 
    You could say Do they know it’s Christmas as wasn’t it Band Aid 2 who released the later song 

    spice girls was 2 become 1 , goodbye and one other one. No idea re which Beatles songs though 
    Which was the only act to be on both Band Aid and Band Aid II versions of Do the know its xmas
    Bono
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,827
    No to both
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    AshBurton said:
    My family is giving me grief because I have announced that I basically can’t stand the vast majority of Christmas songs. As soon as one comes on the radio, I start moaning and groaning like an old Scrooge.

    So far I’ve admitted to liking only three Christmas songs ever made:
    - Fairytale of New York by the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl (much discussed already this year)
    - 2,000 miles by the Pretenders
    - Stop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie

    Surely there are some others out there. What am I missing? Or am I just being a miserable sod who should lighten up and sing along to Wham and Cliff Richard? 

    AshBurton - a band called Bah & The Humbugs "Ruining The Holiday Season Since 1985" should be right up your street.  I can particularly recommend Inadmissible (about Santa failing to get past the US Border Force); Christmas Tree From Hell and Santa Pulled Down My Icicle Lights.  Listen to the full repertoire here: http://fjordstone.com/bah/download.html
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    DA9 said:
    I remember being in a dingey bar in Rochester many moons ago one Xmas, DJ wasnt upto much, cheesy songs, until the last record of the night, got my fingers wet with some chav slapper 
    Did she spill her drink?
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  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,676
    https://youtu.be/89rgBcx4Luw
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    Really surprised that this one doesn't get the airtime it deserves.

    By far the best Christmas song ever written.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7LwnA913g&has_verified=1
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    Big_Bad_World said:
    Really surprised that this one doesn't get the airtime it deserves.

    By far the best Christmas song ever written.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7LwnA913g&has_verified=1
    Awful.  Commits the crime of being a comedy song without being funny.  Why am I not surprised a Spanner liked this?
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    AddicksAddict said:
    Big_Bad_World said:
    Really surprised that this one doesn't get the airtime it deserves.

    By far the best Christmas song ever written.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7LwnA913g&has_verified=1
    Awful.  Commits the crime of being a comedy song without being funny.  Why am I not surprised a Spanner liked this?
    You sound like a right giggle to be around.

    The fact you say it's a comedy song means it's subjective. Not awful, just not for you. That's it.

    It was also posted in jest, which you massively missed. Why am I not surprised you missed it?
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    Perhaps this is worthy of a complementary thread but I'm getting back into the carols this year. For me, the GOATed carol is the Harold Darke setting of In The Bleak Midwinter (rather than Gustav Holst's more familiar setting): 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3FwwnLvELw

    Any opinions are welcome. I'd also like to give a shoutout to the Elizabeth Poston setting of Jesus Christ The Apple Tree:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPJBFYuUWvY
  • JohnnyJoeyDeeDee
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee Posts: 1,040
    MrOneLung said:'
    MrOneLung said:
    Struggling with that one cabbies. 
    You could say Do they know it’s Christmas as wasn’t it Band Aid 2 who released the later song 

    spice girls was 2 become 1 , goodbye and one other one. No idea re which Beatles songs though 
    Which was the only act to be on both Band Aid and Band Aid II versions of Do the know its xmas
    Bananarama
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,456
    MrOneLung said:
    MrOneLung said:
    Struggling with that one cabbies. 
    You could say Do they know it’s Christmas as wasn’t it Band Aid 2 who released the later song 

    spice girls was 2 become 1 , goodbye and one other one. No idea re which Beatles songs though 
    Which was the only act to be on both Band Aid and Band Aid II versions of Do the know its xmas
    Dizzee Rascal?
  • Dave Rudd
    Dave Rudd Posts: 2,865
    "Crackerdile Shoes"?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    Big_Bad_World said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    Big_Bad_World said:
    Really surprised that this one doesn't get the airtime it deserves.

    By far the best Christmas song ever written.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7LwnA913g&has_verified=1
    Awful.  Commits the crime of being a comedy song without being funny.  Why am I not surprised a Spanner liked this?
    You sound like a right giggle to be around.

    The fact you say it's a comedy song means it's subjective. Not awful, just not for you. That's it.

    It was also posted in jest, which you massively missed. Why am I not surprised you missed it?
    Obviously I missed that it was posted in jest.  I'd never considered that because all the Spanners I know think "irony" means made of iron.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,914
    Lonely this Christmas by elvis 

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