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The title seems to hint at it, and the lyrics support the thesis. One could support the thesis that X-Mas is a McGuffin, but I'd say the positioning of the message around the theme of Christmas makes it a Christmas song. Lennon could have made it more explicit by incorporating Christian imagery of the birth of the "Prince of Peace", but that wasn't really Lennon's thing.
Put it like this: Die Hard or "Stop The Cavalry" would have worked just as well without references to Christmas; the Lennon/Ono song hinges on Christmas and New Year.
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I was tempted to find or start a thread about Lyrics You Could Fix but this seems as good a place as any to say this :
It always annoys me that the otherwise excellent 'One More Sleep' by Leona Lewis has the clunky (and surely inaccurate) lines "Now I don't think I can remember, a cold and lonelier December" when the far more elegant "...as cold and lonely a December" would have scanned just as well.
It really mars what is probably the best Xmas song of the last decade.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostLists nicked from another site. I have bolded the ones I like:
Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post10 - LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
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I only came across it recently but Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbard's cover of Lonely This Christmas is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzm4DoMCPA
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I don't recall the astonishingly talented and prolific Jacob Collier being mentioned before on OTF, so here's an opportunity to remedy that with his version of 'The Christmas Song', complete with trademark multi-tracking and an arrangement of unbelievable complexity, all performed and self-produced in his bedroom/studio at home in London.
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I will reprise my assertion that "Stop The Cavalry" by Jonah Lewie is the outright winner (despite not technically a Christmas song) followed by "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses and "I believe in Father Christmas" by Greg Lake. I quite like the Hives/Cyndi Lauper one that was upthread in that it is seems to be the "Fairytale In New York" that is OK to like.
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I like the Ride song. Thanks for sharing that. Their first few EPs and that first album were really good. Doesn't look like they added this song to any CDs, which is disappointing. Only a rare 7".
This is a new discovery for me: Hard Skin, "Ding Dong Merrily, Oi, Oi" (if the last talking parts weren't there you could play it for the kids. Haha)
And I probably posted this Material Issue song in this thread already, but a great power pop song that almost holds up outside the Christmas Season.
And The Humpers with a nice garage rock version of "Run Run Rudolph"
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Originally posted by Bordeaux Education View PostI will reprise my assertion that "Stop The Cavalry" by Jonah Lewie is the outright winner (despite not technically a Christmas song) followed by "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses and "I believe in Father Christmas" by Greg Lake. I quite like the Hives/Cyndi Lauper one that was upthread in that it is seems to be the "Fairytale In New York" that is OK to like.
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Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View PostNo mentions for Showaddywaddy?Last edited by Jah Womble; 13-12-2020, 09:56.
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Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View PostIn Pizza Express in Harrow earlier, a James Brown Merry Christmas song was being played. Loved it, but I have no memory of having heard it before.
You must be close to having your own slates behind the counter, Pete Beale style, at the Harrow Pizza Express.
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