2 posts tagged “music”
Audio: What's your favorite carol or holiday song?
I love old school Christmas songs mainly, Louis Armstrong is brilliant, as is Jona Lewie, but a real favourite has to be the Pogues with Kirsty McColl.
I love this song, I know some people find it a bit melancholy, but it's just such a classic. I also have a major problem with anyone covering it, especially Ronan Keating and Moire Brennan who seem to try to make it into some nice friendly Christmas thing. It just doesn't sound right, "cheap lousy faggot" gets changed to "cheap and you're haggard." A small change, but it kinda sums up the wishy-woshy feel to it when they do it. Ronan is too much of a bland, boring wet pop star to pull off what Shane McGowan does with so much aplomb. When something works this well, you shouldn't touch it.
Music-wise, what was the first 45, single or download you bought?
Submitted by Paddy Melt Wagon.
I own two 45's, which is, I suppose, a little odd as I don't have a deck. However, I like vinyl, and as I play music via computer or iPod it seems to make no difference what medium I buy singles in, and eventually when I do get a wee deck, I shall have something to put on it. The first I actually bought, however, was not one of the above but Funny Little Frog by Belle and Sebastian, which I bought for a friend. These are the first I have bought and kept, I love the way vinyl comes and is packaged, it's so much nicer than jewel cases...
