To summarise: the Golden Age of cheesy Xmas songs was from the 1940s to the 1960s, bang them out and hope for the best. The period 2007-2012 is skewed on my list because that's when Bob Dylan and Michael Bublé released their Xmas albums (both of them timeless classics). Apart from that, it's more evenly spread than you'd expect.
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I've got Bob Dylan's Christmas album. He's released several timeless classics, Highway 61 Revisited and Blood on the Tracks to name just two. His Christmas album isn't one of them. Was that supposed to be a joke?
Frank, I don't judge it by the standards of 'Blonde on Blonde' or 'Desire'.
I judge it by the standards of Xmas music. Nobody's sure to this day whether his Xmas album was meant sincerely or as a complete piss take. Either way, it works.
I'd pay £100 for a device which automatically switches my radio to another station whenever a Christmas related song starts.
RM, don't bother with radio. Just stick in a CD, cassette, USB or whatever with your own fave non-Xmas music on it.
Every year I play a game: how close an I get to Christmas day before I hear my most hated Christmas song played on the radio or as piped music. Here is my version of it,
"So here it is, bloody Christmas, but nobody's having fun...."
One year I made it all the way. Some years I don't even make it into December.
B you once made it "all the way"? How? Did you hide in a sound-proofed off-grid log cabin with ear-muffs on?
M, no, it was sheer luck. In 1999 I went to Nepal to avoid the Millennium crap (it was already 2056 there, by their calendar) but still heard it before I left. I'd have to stay in the log cabin the whole year, probably.
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