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24th Nov 2006, 4:08 PM #1
We Wish You A Miserable Christmas
I'm looking to put together a compilation of the dreariest, most heartbreaking and downright miserable Christmas tunes, including carols and classical music. What do you think should be included? So far I've got Mad World, I'm not sure about the Nizlopi song (it's jolly, but it's also quite melancholy) and No Surprises by Radiohead, which is Christmassy enough to qualify.
Clearly, that's a pathetic list, so what else should be going on the CD of Seasonal Sorrow?Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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24th Nov 2006, 4:16 PM #2
Lonely this Christmas, by Mud!
Ant x
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24th Nov 2006, 4:25 PM #3
I'll have to let you have a look at some of the songs I found for my xmas compilation cd last year. It was more alternative xmas songs than miserable though.
I'm looking at doing another one this year so maybe we could collaborate?
Check out Father Christmas by The Kinks. Thats sort of miserable. Also Souxsie and the Banshees did a christmas song callec Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant which is very Gothic as you'd expect. I would also recommend The Cocteau Twins version of Frosty the Snowman which you'd expect to be miserable but is actually quite jolly.
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24th Nov 2006, 10:16 PM #4Trudi G Guest
The Cocteau Twins version of Frosty the Snowman
Is Ms Frazer singing in English, or her own made-up language on this one?
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24th Nov 2006, 10:19 PM #5
Wham / Last Christmas
The sort of song you want to listen to when you're single at Chistmas
East 17 / Stay another day
Another 'happy' song from the pop world
Cliff Richard / Mistletoe and wine
Another bad song
From Phil L, Michael, and Ashley C (down the pub posting on my Blackberry!)
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24th Nov 2006, 10:21 PM #6Pip Madeley Guest
Why do you want to make a miserable Christmas compilation?
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24th Nov 2006, 10:27 PM #7Teresa Guest
I find I can't be miserable from Dec 1st to Jan 6th!!
so none of these songs would make me miserable!
having said that... "Stop the Calvary" wasn't the happiest of Christmas songs!
Teresa
xxLast edited by Teresa; 24th Nov 2006 at 10:39 PM.
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24th Nov 2006, 10:34 PM #8
I don't think the miserable songs of Christmas are celebrated enough.
And it looks like Si and me won't be spending Christmas day together! :'(Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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25th Nov 2006, 2:47 PM #9
Stop the Cavalry isn't really a christmas song but it is quite good. I forgot earlier about prog rock miserablist Greg Lake and his sarky I Believe in Father Christmas.
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25th Nov 2006, 3:02 PM #10Teresa Guest
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25th Nov 2006, 4:42 PM #11
just about any thing from Cliff Ricard - Saviours Day, i think is one.
Paul Mccartney - Simply Having a Wonderfull Christmas Day.
Band Aid - do they Know its Christmas" - the most recent version.
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28th Nov 2006, 3:08 PM #12
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Mistletoe and Wine, simply for the following unused verse-
Christmas time
Filth, muck and grime
The cleaners are drinking vodka and lime
There's gifts on the fire
And logs on the trees
And five foot of dust, so try not to sneeze
A Spaceman Came Travelling does slightly detract from the true message of the time of year with its aliens and stuff. I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek, cos it's so bad it's awful. And I don't care whether this is heresy, has anyone actually bothered to listen to the lyrics of Fairytale of New York. Let's discuss the festive appropriateness, shall we?
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28th Nov 2006, 3:28 PM #13
"Stop the Cavalry" features the lyric "wish I was at home... for Christmas" and is all about a soldier at war over Christmas wishing he could come back home for the season. So it IS a Christmas song!
Si.
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28th Nov 2006, 9:51 PM #14Teresa Guest
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28th Nov 2006, 10:27 PM #15
First off, I can't believe no one has mentioned the ultra obvious 'Blue Christmas' recorded by Elvis Presley.
Now that that's out of the way, the MOST DEPRESSING Christmas song of all time has to be 'The Christmas Shoes' by NewSong (also recorded by Alabama). A depressing, manipulative tearjerker about a boy trying to buy shoes for his dying mother. I absolutely hate the song btw, and turn the station if it comes on.Last edited by Jeff; 28th Nov 2006 at 10:32 PM.
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29th Nov 2006, 9:13 AM #16
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29th Nov 2006, 11:09 AM #17
but it WAS a Christmas number one!
and mentions snow!
so nar again!
Ant x
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29th Nov 2006, 11:43 AM #18
Don't care! You're all wrong and I'm right.
***Sticks fingers in ears***
La la la la LA LA LA
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29th Nov 2006, 8:08 PM #19
one more for the miserable Xmas song list is Tony (Show me the way to Amorillo) Christie's remake of Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" boy he absoloutly murdered it..'
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15th Dec 2006, 12:24 PM #20
Attention Ant! I got this from Wikipedia!
Although now one of Britain's (and, incidentally, Germany's) most familiar Christmas singles, "Stop The Cavalry" was not originally intended as a Christmas song – it was released in late November after the record company spotted the line referring to the festival: 'I wish I was at home, for Christmas' . Not only this but the specific style of the brass instruments and bells in the chorus are very noticable as a "Christmas" style theme.
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15th Dec 2006, 12:41 PM #21Pip Madeley Guest
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15th Dec 2006, 1:11 PM #22
IT IS! Its the font of all knowledge.
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15th Dec 2006, 2:23 PM #23
A Wombleing Merry Christmas. A criminal record if ever I heard one.
I’m being extremely clever up here and there’s no one to stand around looking impressed! What’s the point in having you all?
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20th Dec 2006, 9:50 AM #24
I rather like that one, but the mix of that with I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everday to produce I Wish It Could Be A Wombling Merry Christmas Everyday is one of those things you just can't fathom why they did it.
So is Mr McCow ready to reveal the exclusive track listing of the long awaited Miserable Christmas CD?
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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20th Dec 2006, 10:09 AM #25
Yeah come on. Surely "Do they know its Christmas" is the most miserable christmas song of all time? As well as they stupidest lyrically.
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