• hemmes@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Okay this is awesome.

        I’m going to mix this into our family background music during the holidays.

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          7 months ago

          Do people not know about Fairytale of New York? I’ve always thought of it as being as standard as Do They Know It’s Christmas or All I Want For Christmas Is You!

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            I can only speak to my experience on the west coast of the US, but it seems the Pogues in general aren’t well known, let alone this gem.

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                I don’t know how I first heard them, but the Pogues have been a favorite of mine for a while. ‘The repeal of the licensing laws’ is the only piece of music I can play. On the tin whistle at that.

                Shane with teeth is an odd thing to behold.

                I was searching for a video clip of him walking into a mirror and not spilling a drop of gin- instead I see he just died yesterday. Damn. I though the posted meme was just thanking him for the best Christmas song. :,(

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            7 months ago

            Over here in Norway it seems like Fairytale of New York is played on the radio almost every day of December and surprisingly often otherwise.

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          7 months ago

          Meanwhile I’ve recently discovered Zombie Claus by Psychostick, a Christmas carol about Santa to the tune of a Rob Zombie song, and I’m gonna mix that into our Christmas day music.

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            7 months ago

            Amazing, that’s going straight on my Christmas metal playlist!

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          7 months ago

          It’s the ONLY Christmas song I can tolerate because it’s so wonderfully bleak.

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    7 months ago

    It’s a beautiful song, and there are some versions with cleaner lyrics for the family or work Christmas party.

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      7 months ago

      Personally I love the original and play it proudly.

      It’s a more honest depiction of human life and relationships. It’s not perfect, it’s not always happy, it’s not always pretty but in the ugliness, there’s something beautiful.

      I love the Irish mind and culture … they can take the most ugly things and make them wonderful.

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        I do, too, but my kids like to sing the songs they like at their elementary school, my office has an HR department, and Great Aunt Linda has flashbacks when she hears the line “You’re an old slut on junk.”

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        Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the beauty