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faineg.bsky.social • 69 days ago

Fairytale of New York remains the most perfect Christmas song.

https://youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8?si=6oQObQ5yBTuZkGR7

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aromanou.bsky.social•68 days ago

I believe Christmas was made for this song.

ctdawe.bsky.social•69 days ago

I've been enjoying the apparent revision of cultural preference to the Judy Garland version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", because Sinatra deserves hell for what he did to that song.

noculottes.bsky.social•69 days ago

Judy forced the song writers to make changes, too, because the original was even bleaker:

Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
It may be your last.
Next year we may all be living in the past...

Faithful friends who were dear to us.
Will be near to us no more.

queenattolia13.bsky.social•62 days ago

Thank you! "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough" my ass. Only James Taylor had the stones to cover it with the original line ("Until then, we'll have to muddle through somehow").

persian-slipper.bsky.social•69 days ago

"until then we'll have to muddle through somehow" is such a mood

ctdawe.bsky.social•69 days ago

This is exactly it. Let me have a song or two that respects my ambivalence.

chriscoleman.name•69 days ago

I always disliked that song until I heard Ella Fitzgerald’s take on it. I couldn’t believe this upbeat version was hiding in plain sight for decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE9asL7_874

puppyavalanche.bsky.social•69 days ago

This album is perfect, no notes

jennmanleylee.bsky.social•69 days ago

Ella classes up any joint

persian-slipper.bsky.social•69 days ago

I never really had feelings about it and then I heard this version with the real lyrics and immediately started to like it. So much less saccharine than other versions.

queensissy.bsky.social•69 days ago

And that album cover!

queensissy.bsky.social•69 days ago

It was such a Sinatra move, getting that line changed because he thought it was too depressing. Dude afraid of muddling

cjlemire.com•69 days ago

Correct

deathcab4kyubey.kawaii.social•69 days ago

Hozier did an amazing cover

400trix.bsky.social•69 days ago

He did. No one can ever capture the anger and sadness of Shane’s singing, but Hozier done good. And his backup singers? 🧑‍🍳💋

bluestreak.bsky.social•69 days ago

The only thing that bugs me about this song is that the NYPD doesn't have a choir and "Galway Bay" is an instrumental.

400trix.bsky.social•69 days ago

In the alternate universe where the song takes place there most certainly is an NYPD Choir and song called Galway Bay. Which I imagine is an emigrant song filled with sorrow.

blank.org•69 days ago

I’ve always wondered if that was some sort of complicated joke that Shane never properly explained.

jeancoleno.bsky.social•68 days ago

The song's creators managed to pack a great novel's worth of material in one four-minute song.

jezbian.bsky.social•69 days ago

Did you see Hozier’s lovely rendition (obvs NOT as good as the original but a great cover) on SNL this past weekend??

tftb.com•69 days ago

This live version, 1988, brings a lump to my throat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrAwK9juhhY&t=4s

oldpaul.bsky.social•69 days ago

My favorite version.

willowminder.bsky.social•69 days ago

Kirsty! Watch out for that boat!

tftb.com•69 days ago

so sad. no one held to account for that, either.

willowminder.bsky.social•69 days ago

horribly tragic

tftb.com•69 days ago

she saved her son.

willowminder.bsky.social•69 days ago

I think about that a lot. The accident never should have happened, but if you want to know what kind of person Kirsty MacColl was, she literally gave her life to save her child.

malaclypse.bsky.social•69 days ago

You are not wrong, but this, via the amazing Lux Interior’s “Jeezus Fuck, It’s Christmas!!!” playlist, deserves a mention: https://open.spotify.com/track/3UgdvE5e7nmHFY6WccxPwC?si=8hyujoxHSeeHotwY0qf7xg

jwvizzard.bsky.social•69 days ago

Now every time I hear it I just remember they’re both gone and it makes me sad.

stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social•69 days ago

Oooof. I reviewed If I Should Fall from Grace with God (so good!) for my high school newspaper when it came out and have long considered myself jaded and immune to this tune. Now, I feel the same way as you do, totally out of nowhere: I can’t even watch this yet.

jwvizzard.bsky.social•69 days ago

If I Should Fall is hands down my favorite album. Just one genius song after another.

rahaeli.bsky.social•69 days ago

People keep covering this with pretty sounding versions and just. Did you miss the point of the song

eryq.bsky.social•69 days ago

"You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot" Yeah that's practically begging for a cover by Enya

eryq.bsky.social•69 days ago

I bet "You're a bum, you're a punk / You're an old slut on junk" sounds beautiful in Irish Gaelic

flipwriter.bsky.social•69 days ago

This is why the Dr. Girlfriend/The Monarch cover is the best version.

faineg.bsky.social•69 days ago

Omg where

flipwriter.bsky.social•69 days ago

https://youtu.be/UlaTwXdeLuw?si=klL2pvqsPnAHoKYu

faineg.bsky.social•69 days ago

it’s supposed to be grimy!

styer.bsky.social•69 days ago

Srsly. I just went through a playlist full of covers and only one was ramshackle enough to be accepted

radiodeadair.com•69 days ago

edgeoforever.bsky.social•69 days ago

Black Doves on Netflix opens with it!🥹

funranium.bsky.social•69 days ago

[rummages around for my ska version] THERE IT IS!

I'm a firm believer that if you don't sound like Shane MacGowan while singing, you gotta get weird with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJdQYAmPVQY

jwvizzard.bsky.social•69 days ago

Christy Moore pulled it off but few others can.

persian-slipper.bsky.social•69 days ago

"gotta get weird with it" is an excellent standard for covers. I remain amazed by A New Found Glory's punk version of "My Heart Will Go On. "

roisin.bsky.social•69 days ago

Dragonforce doing a cover of that was also a high point

fagankara.bsky.social•69 days ago

I put them with my own

faineg.bsky.social•69 days ago

awww

anneireland.bsky.social•69 days ago

I just had a realisation tonight of how epic it is to have him yelling at her about... being on a drip in hospital almost dead

400trix.bsky.social•69 days ago

The characters in the song are perfect for each other.

ryanroat.bsky.social•69 days ago

I was very happy to snag this 45 last year.

scampmn.bsky.social•68 days ago

That is a marvelous thing to have. Defines a moment in time.

divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social•69 days ago

there are many Christmas songs that are good but this one is the best

jefffeldstein.bsky.social•69 days ago

The dreams verse gets me every time…

spiderandme.bsky.social•69 days ago

True.
Merry Christmas!

persian-slipper.bsky.social•69 days ago

Ironically, I have not listened to this one yet this year, but Christmas Eve is the perfect day for it!

overdroid.bsky.social•69 days ago

Yep.

yappydagger.bsky.social•69 days ago

Performed as a Shane McGowan sendoff also hits right. May even better by dancing.
https://youtu.be/ptayWtW1So8?si=2eZyqQVJ9v-HWNFu

fagankara.bsky.social•69 days ago

This one is engraved on my heart

yappydagger.bsky.social•69 days ago

Same

yappydagger.bsky.social•69 days ago

*made, not may

erinslick.bsky.social•69 days ago

Loved that one soo much

davidho.bsky.social•69 days ago

Kirsty MacColl 😍

sinboy.bsky.social•69 days ago

That, Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis, and the Kink's Father Christmas are on my X-mass playlist

merchantofvice.bsky.social•69 days ago

During Christmas season, this might be my mandatory “Tom holland umbrella”
Where, I will always stop to listen when it pops on the feed.
Especially living in New York