Comments on: Bah Humbug: The Holiday Songs I Hate

By: Jenny Rushing

Jenny Rushing — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:08:00 +0000

I hate that Elvis Presley Blue Christmas!! My husband will even walk around singing the annoying “ooooooooohs” just to tick me off.

You are Scrooge for not liking the Grinch song though.

By: Darren Zieger

Darren Zieger — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:48:49 +0000

Normally, I’d go postal on you for dissing my man Dan; but what the hell, it’s Christmas, so here’s a present.

It turns out that “Same Old Lange Syne” started out as a joke, Fogelberg playing around with the idea of basing a song on the melody of the 1812 Overture (the fanfare section, you know, with the cannons). But the results were too promising to let go.

Maybe you’ll find the song more entertaining if you imagine the cannons going off after each line.

PS, the URL I entered won’t go live for a few more days…it’s going to be an e-zine devoted to indie music; bookmark it and check it out early next week.

By: Tony Humbug

Tony Humbug — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:09:51 +0000

You left out that damn Christmas Shoe song. Sooooo melodramatic. It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard when that song comes on.

By: Skip Montross

Skip Montross — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:50:52 +0000

Wow… You hit the effin’ nail on the head. What a perfect list with great insight. My wife still calls me to tell me that the Dan Folgerberg song is on cause’ she knows it’ll piss me off. The only glaring omission is the ‘Christmas Shoes’ song in all it faux empathy. Do people realize that the lyrics suggest that Gid and Jesus decided to kill some poor kids Mom to teach a retail shopper the meaning of Christmas?!?

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By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:31:41 +0000

Regarding “Do They Know It’s Christmas” and Morrissey’s involvement, it’s widely known the Mozzer has a longstanding hatred of Bob Geldof.

“I think Band Aid was diabolical. I think Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Many people find that very unsettling, but I’ll say it as loud as anyone wants me to. In the first instance the record itself was absolutely tuneless. One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it’s another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England. It was an awful record considering the mass of talent involved. And it wasn’t done shyly – it was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.”

It’s not that Morrissey was unavailable, it was that he was smart enough to pass.

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