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Originally posted by Nurse Duckett View PostAbout the same number of televised football matches where they wait until the game is finished before asking the co-commentator to nominate the man of the match?
Lucky that nothing ever happens after the 88th minute - ask any Leeds or Norwich fans (other examples are available)...
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostI'm intrigued at this time of the year as to how few bands/artists have tried to cash in on what must be a market for "Happy New Year" records. The amount of money that Slade, or Shane Macgowan, or whoever must have made over the years by dint of having their songs on repeat for a month every single year must surely have convinced people that making a record for New Year would be an earner. Abba did it (and get endless airtime through it, at least over here), and arguably U2 did too, but almost no others that i can think of. And of course there are large swathes of the world where Christmas is not celebrated but New Year is.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostA bigger issue perhaps is that Lennon nicked the melody from this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hXdQB-mR4tg
As well as this, doesn't practically every tune ever written sound like another one? Evidence to the contrary gratefully received.
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If it did, then nobody would care to mention that a song sounds like another song.
Here are 24 songs which sounnd rather too much like other songs.
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Originally posted by G-Man View PostIf it did, then nobody would care to mention that a song sounds like another song.
Here are 24 songs which sounnd rather too much like other songs.Last edited by Jah Womble; 28-12-2018, 22:40.
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Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View PostThe New Year really begins on December 21st. So it's not inconsistent at all to get to that date, sigh 'another year over' and then 'and so this is Christmas'.
And this leads me on to Jah's musing on the lack of New Year songs - I think it's because of exactly that. Xmas songs start getting air play from mid-November through to the end of December. New Year's has a much shorter time span - maybe a week at most before everyone's sick to fucking death of the phrase, while already being sick to fucking death of the holidays, their family, drinking, everything being shut etc. From Jan. 1st on you're focused on your new gym membership, changing job, converting the attic, scaling Everest etc. Plus, the Xmas vocabulary is much wider - you've got Xmas, Yuletide, Santa, jingling bells, festive trees, lust-provoking mistletoe, inhibition-loosening mulled wine, lights and decorations and a whole lot more. With New Year you've got 'Happy New Year', and Abba pretty much wrapped up the market for good. Except for Lennon with his egregiously mendacious melody.
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- Mar 2008
- 3386
- at the edge of the sea
- Plymouth Argyle, Plymouth Gladiators, Seattle Mariners
- cream crackers spread with nutella
I heard the Altered Images Number 2 smash re-recoreded with Clare Grogan warbling Happy Christmas then switching to Happy New Year for the last few lines on Absolute 80s the other day for the first time ever. I've no idea when they updated it but they have got the entire holiday season covered.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostExactly. It's a pop song, therefore is going to be hard-pushed to dissect specific methods by which one might go about dismantling dictatorships within its three minutes..
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostWell sure. But it still irks me. Its not a simple solution - Lennon wasn't a dip, so he knew that - but that line makes it sound simple. Like if we really, really want it, we can stop wars.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostWell sure. But it still irks me. Its not a simple solution - Lennon wasn't a dip, so he knew that - but that line makes it sound simple. Like if we really, really want it, we can stop wars.
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