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| From | rob@splitsville.com |
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| Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:32:48 -0500 |
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>>Ain't none of 'em I get particularly excited about, frankly.
Me either, with the exception of the fantastically classic 'Father Christmas' by the Kinks.
Before the era of the CD, it was a rare b-side (can't recall the 'a'), and we would eagerly wait to hear it on the radio (nobody we knew owned it).
WBRU in Providence would play it often, and we'd go nuts when it came on.
>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: craigtorso@verizon.net
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Sent: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:47:56
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Drew MacDonald" <drewmacdonald1@gmail.com>
>> Which suggested a Scroogian thread: what are your
>LEAST favorite
>> holiday pop
>> songs?
>
>Ain't none of 'em I get particularly excited about,
>frankly. One of
>the local oldies stations in Boston switches to
>Christmas music 24/7
>every year, and by the first weekend in December,
>I'm usually sick of
>all of them. I admit to a certain perverse
>fondness for McCartney's
>"Wonderful Christmastime" simply because the synth
>sounds are so
>deeply odd, especially for what's clearly meant to
>be a holiday
>favorite for all ages. I dread the second hearing
>of it every year,
>though.
>
>But I think my least fave would have to be the Bing
>Crosby/David Bowie
>duet: near-death child-beater and coked-out
>sleepwalker...yeah,
>nothing says "Merry Christmas" like that. And of
>course, thanks to
>Preznit Daddy Issues and Lord Cheney of the War
>Profiteers, the
>Pretenders' "2000 Miles" gets harder to listen to
>every year.
>
>Give me Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band every
>time.
>
>S
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