Christmas is fast approaching and I am starting to get into the spirit of it; some present buying has taken place but most noteworthy for this post is that Christmas CDs are being played in my car. I was listening to one during a journey over the weekend and thought I’d share some reflections.
When listening to Last Christmas by Wham I thought the title more apt than ever given that the last time I listened to Last Christmas was indeed last Christmas.
I have to be frank, Wham is horrible and my tolerance for Wham’s crappy pop music is very low indeed. Bizarrely though, Last Christmas is George Michael’s and when I heard it performed by Human Nature, I just had to change the tune in disgust – how dare someone else mess around with it. The realisation that the Wham version is sort of sacred was more than a little unsettling for me.
But taking the thought process past Wham; if anyone thinks they can do a rendition of Slade’s “Merry Xmas Everybody”, they can f**k off. Slade at Christmas is almost as sacred as the nativity.
I wrote about my favourite Christmas CD three years ago as one of the earliest posts to this site. In the years since I have acquired a number of Christmas compilations and still there isn’t one to rival “It’s Christmas Time”. Every other compilation I have purchased has some tunes on it that require skipping over and that annoys me.
I must be getting old because I find myself getting a bit bar humbug; here are my grumpy observations:
In trying to get to the bottom of my retrospective outlook, I have come to the conclusion that it is only the tunes that existed when I was a child/young adult that resonate for me or trigger the feelings of Christmas excitement.
Of course I could just be mad.
Keep an eye on the site – the Christmas decorations will be going up on the home page shortly.
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When listening to Last Christmas by Wham I thought the title more apt than ever given that the last time I listened to Last Christmas was indeed last Christmas.
I have to be frank, Wham is horrible and my tolerance for Wham’s crappy pop music is very low indeed. Bizarrely though, Last Christmas is George Michael’s and when I heard it performed by Human Nature, I just had to change the tune in disgust – how dare someone else mess around with it. The realisation that the Wham version is sort of sacred was more than a little unsettling for me.
But taking the thought process past Wham; if anyone thinks they can do a rendition of Slade’s “Merry Xmas Everybody”, they can f**k off. Slade at Christmas is almost as sacred as the nativity.
I wrote about my favourite Christmas CD three years ago as one of the earliest posts to this site. In the years since I have acquired a number of Christmas compilations and still there isn’t one to rival “It’s Christmas Time”. Every other compilation I have purchased has some tunes on it that require skipping over and that annoys me.
I must be getting old because I find myself getting a bit bar humbug; here are my grumpy observations:
- What possesses the compilation makers to put the “Power on Love” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood on – it’s a miserable bloody song and I hate it.
- No Christmas tune recorded after about 1987 is worthy of airtime – East 17, Westlife, N Sync, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Destiny’s Child etc. can all shove it as far as I am concerned.
- If a Christmas tune doesn’t have jingle bells or something equally festively jangly (unless it’s Jona Lewie) then the artist isn’t really trying hard enough.
In trying to get to the bottom of my retrospective outlook, I have come to the conclusion that it is only the tunes that existed when I was a child/young adult that resonate for me or trigger the feelings of Christmas excitement.
Of course I could just be mad.
Keep an eye on the site – the Christmas decorations will be going up on the home page shortly.
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