Random amusement time...

[matgb]

Right, it's that time of year. Radios, shops etc are all playing a selection of music that's seasonal, and, with honourable exceptions like my former employers, you can't get away from it all.

So, in the spirit of the season, I have selected a selection of lyrics from those Christmas songs I deem to be not awful. Your mission is to choose the best lyric.

Oh, there's also a 'help Mat make a silly decision' question tacked on so I don't have to do another post...
[Poll #892686]
Lyrics from here, which also has a WAV sample. In memoriam of a great singer.

Comments

[eldar.livejournal.com]

How could I resist? It's the *only* Christmas song, as far as I'm concerned. As for the line I chose - well, I've been to NYC enough times to know about the wind, and it is exactly like that.

P.S. I do know what /. is. The point being, I've never deemed it necessary for me to visit.

[matgb]

I have it as a feed, and go when I see something I hadn't heard about. The news is normally good, but if the headline doesn't grab I ignore.

Then there's things like MGM sues owner of Wargames.com because they've got a new movie coming out and own the trademark on the name wargames. FFS.

But yeah, only Xmas song. Actually,I've got a CD of others, blues stuff, mostly released in the '30s and 40s...

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

No, surely the best Christmas lyric is "The boys of the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay"...

Just to be contrary, of course.

I was playing Kirsty MacColl just a couple of days ago. It made me quite sad, really.

(I actually think the best Christmas lyric is one from about 20 years ago, about a woman having a nervous breakdown at Christmas... Happy little song. No idea what it was called!)

[matgb]

It nearly made the cut, but 10 lines was enough I thought.

I had no idea it happened in December, nor that it was still unresolved, until I saw a link to Shane's post on my friends list.

And there are, of course, other xmas songs not awful, but I couldn't think of any off the top of my head.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I hadn't realised she'd died in December (I have only just followed your links), and I really thought she'd died in a boating accident.

OK - I followed links through to the BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1078192.stm - she was killed in a boating accident (at least I am not going mad, and still have some semblence of memory - and way past 35, too) - according to BBC, she was hit by a speedboat; the driver was fined.

I loved her version of New England - indeed, I worked backwards from that to Billy Bragg.

Such a shame.

[thapunkprincess.livejournal.com]

I prefer Jona Lewie meself, likesay