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Post by jno on Dec 14, 2015 6:00:42 GMT
Saviour's Day - a diabolical piece of mock piousness by Cliff with video to match. Another candidate for burying in a landfill and then carpet bombing just to be on the safe side. Clearly not in the Clifford fan club then ltd.
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Post by ltd on Dec 16, 2015 19:04:59 GMT
Clearly not in the Clifford fan club then ltd. I like his early stuff.
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Post by I used to think I was a parrot on Dec 18, 2015 13:17:45 GMT
How about Christmas in the Sun by Rolf Harris with that blond one from Status Quo. I remember this one because Harris was interviewed during the cricket in the summer of 2009 and talked about his Christmas song he had written. I did not hear anything more of the song. The video is on Youtube if anyone wants a look, a Rolf is not spending this Christmas in the sun.
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Post by jno on Dec 18, 2015 19:00:04 GMT
..a Rolf is not spending this Christmas in the sun. Just reading about himself in it.
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Post by plasticpenguin on Dec 19, 2015 13:55:38 GMT
Just reading about himself in it. Did no-one suss Rolf years ago? With songs such as 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport' and 'Two Little Boys'... the clues are there. Complete basket weaver! I loved drawing cartoons after watching his 70s/80s programmes. He was a major inspiration to draw.
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Post by I used to think I was a parrot on Dec 19, 2015 23:38:40 GMT
Or Rolf could read The Daily Mail who - after he had made himself ill eating too much chocolate - called him a "diabetic paedophile". It's a bit depressing!
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Post by jno on Dec 20, 2015 4:40:57 GMT
And with that we started talking about terrible Christmas songs once more.
Even Peter Kaye's attempt to mock terrible Christmas songs was in itself a terrible song. At the time, I suppose he hit the nail on the head with the general dislike for repetitive X-Factor nonsense but here we are years later and sadly both his song and The X-Factor are STILL on!
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Post by daz on Dec 20, 2015 9:38:20 GMT
whilst in Dundee yesterday a piper was playing Xmas songs on his pipes. Nothing sounds as bad as bagpipes, but hearing Xmas songs played on them is adding insult to injury. 5 more days and these songs will be locked away for another year.
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Post by Albert Wendell on Dec 20, 2015 20:55:22 GMT
These are some good Christmas songs that don't get played often enough:
Gloria Estefan - Christmas Through Your Eyes Whitney Houston - Do You Hear What I Hear Freiheit - Keeping The Dream Alive Bon Jovi - Please Come Home For Christmas Madonna - Dear Jessie Cyndi Lauper - Feels Like Christmas Saint Etienne - I was Born On Chritmas Day Dido - Christmas Day
I really like this one not so much a Christmas song more like a winter song
All About Eve - December (1989)
I love this one too a song all about new years eve
Dina Carrol - The Perfect Year (1993)
Not a fan of Queen myself but this one is not bad another winter song (not to be confused with the David Essex song)
Queen - A Winter's Tale (1995)
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Post by daytona355 on Feb 24, 2016 0:35:28 GMT
I absolutely hate that damned mistletoe and whining cr*p from sir cliff, makes my skin crawl hearing that drivel, rather hear the grandma song than that (but only just)
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Post by jno on Nov 5, 2016 4:13:09 GMT
5th November and I still haven't heard an annoying Christmas song in 2016 yet ... please post your first reports of this here folks. I wonder what my first one will be this year...
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Post by plasticpenguin on Nov 5, 2016 6:18:25 GMT
All Xmas songs should be burnt. Hard pushed to think of one that doesn't induce nausea.
Ruddy Slade: Merry Christmas everybodies having fun. No we're not. "It's Christmas!". Yes we know you curley-haired numpty.
Apparently that song was recorded in a block of flats in a heatwave. Hey-ho.
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Post by Zimbo on Nov 5, 2016 13:38:15 GMT
The Queen song seems too simplistic to me and is not really a very good song by their standards - it's almost as if they knocked it out in half an hour. I've always thought this too. It just doesn't have anything about it. Don't know if you'd class it as Christmas but I quite like A Winter's Tale from the posthumous Made In Heaven album.
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Post by jno on Nov 6, 2016 14:09:48 GMT
The Queen song seems too simplistic to me and is not really a very good song by their standards - it's almost as if they knocked it out in half an hour. I've always thought this too. It just doesn't have anything about it. Don't know if you'd class it as Christmas but I quite like A Winter's Tale from the posthumous Made In Heaven album. One to add to the playlist, thanks for tip orf.
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Post by daz on Nov 6, 2016 17:42:47 GMT
5th November and I still haven't heard an annoying Christmas song in 2016 yet ... please post your first reports of this here folks. I wonder what my first one will be this year... I'm lucky in that I usually go to the shops with my headphones in, so don't usually hear the guff they play in store. When in Debenhams yesterday it did appear rather busy, so the mad rush must have started. Ba Humbug!
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Post by jno on Nov 7, 2016 4:38:34 GMT
Three retchworthy wretches clearly finding themselves chundering ever back up festive oesophagi according to our poll here: St Winifred's School Choir - There's No One Quite Like Grandma Cliff Richard - The Millennium Prayer Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas? I am listening out more than ever for these three now and if I hear one I might just ask the shop I'm for a glass of water and a dry biscuit (Arthur Daley style).
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Post by ace5150 on Nov 7, 2016 15:10:30 GMT
I'd substitute Band Aid 20 for Cliffs Mistletoe & Wine. I really would.
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Post by daz on Nov 9, 2016 18:31:39 GMT
SOme music channel, I forget its name, has started calling itself a XMas channel, playing nothing buy Xmas themed songs!
To me that is just taking the P, but I am sure the songwriters will be rubbing their hands in anticipation of another bumper festive pay day.
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Post by jno on Nov 10, 2016 7:01:13 GMT
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Post by jno on Nov 12, 2016 6:50:15 GMT
It's official, first Christmas song of 2016 heard yesterday - Boney M's 'Mary's Boy Child' playing in Marks & Spencer in Bratislava when I was there getting my 6 pack of M&S sausage rolls and Burra Brook Sauvignon blanc at 5 EUR a bottle what costs 8.50 GBP in the UK! £8.50?! www.marksandspencer.com/burra-brook-sauvignon-blanc-case-of-6/p/p21127169?&mcptredirectSoon followed by a dodgy cover version of the Slade track. Christmas nonsense has officially landed for me. I even woke up this morning and it was snowing too..!
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Post by daz on Nov 13, 2016 21:01:44 GMT
Yesterday, St Etienne and Tim Burgess, 'I was Born on Xmas Day' was playing in a shop I was in, but cannot remember which one. I walked straight back out again when I heard it.
You'd better stock up jno, looks like M&S are going to be leaving the European market.
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Post by gustav on Nov 14, 2016 10:39:50 GMT
To be honest any of them played over and over again can drive you round the bend. However, I have gone for the Band Aid trio. Bah humbug I know.
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Post by Portland Road on Nov 15, 2016 9:03:38 GMT
Yesterday, St Etienne and Tim Burgess, 'I was Born on Xmas Day' was playing in a shop I was in, but cannot remember which one. I walked straight back out again when I heard it. I thought it was one of the better ones. Being a fan of both artists, I bought the single at the time. Apart from Band Aid, it is possibly the only Christmas single I ever bought.
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Post by Zimbo on Dec 17, 2016 21:58:27 GMT
Coldplay's Christmas Lights is another dud. Has some decent piano but Another of those that seems like it was knocked up in 5 minutes.
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Post by flyingsquad on Dec 17, 2016 22:08:11 GMT
'There's No One Quite Like Grandma' was a pointless answer on tonight's 'Pointless' which is appropriate as it's a pointless record.
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Post by Zimbo on Dec 17, 2016 22:14:31 GMT
So rare that we get a good Xmas no.1 For me, there's been Don't You Want Me, Another Brick In The Wall, The Beatles ones. Slade (for 1973).
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Post by Portland Road on Dec 19, 2016 8:57:05 GMT
'I Hear You Knocking' by Dave Edmunds (1970) is a good example of a regular song just happening to be number one over the Christmas period.
As was the Human League 'Don't You Want Me' (1981).
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Post by Zimbo on Dec 19, 2016 10:29:04 GMT
Can anybody think of songs they would have preferred as Xmas number 1? In 1972, I think Bowie's Jean Genie was at number 2. 1994, Oasis- Whatever.
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Post by I used to think I was a parrot on Dec 22, 2016 22:57:33 GMT
I like watching some of videos of the songs. Shakin Stevens Merry Christmas is very cosy. Last Christmas is good for Ridgely's ridiculous outfits and hair (and the woman in the video is a complete cow for treating Michael that way... ). A Winters Tale has a great video.
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Post by Portland Road on Dec 26, 2016 9:49:39 GMT
Can anybody think of songs they would have preferred as Xmas number 1? In 1972, I think Bowie's Jean Genie was at number 2. 1994, Oasis- Whatever. I think there have been numerous, including the ones you mention. E.g: Nina Simone - Ain't Got No/I got Life (1968) Kenny Rogers - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (1969) T Rex - Jeepster (1971) Barry White - You're The First The Last My Everything (1974) In 1974, Barry had been knocked off the no. 1 spot by the Mud Christmas song. Had this not existed, Barry would probably have stayed there. In 1977, Wings and the Brighouse & Rastrick Band released seasonal-type songs, and took the no. 1 & no. 2 positions. Funnily enough, I prefer 'The Floral Dance' to the McCartney singalong. Had these records not been there, The Bee Gees 'How Deep Is Your Love' would probably have been no.1. But also Ruby Winters sublime version of 'I will' might have topped the chart as well
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