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Fairytale of New York is 25

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  • #32
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    25 and still depressingly rubbish.


  • #33
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Hate the song, I haven't heard it this year yet, thank God


  • #34
    KingMonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭KingMonkey


    i would also like to acknowledge my hatred of this song


  • #35
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,234 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Great piece of music with incredibly depressing lyrics


  • #36
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    One of the greatest songs ever written.

    Plain and simple.

    The fact that it is without question overplayed takes nothing was from it's brilliance.


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  • #37
    bigron2109
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,751 ✭✭✭bigron2109


    When i hear this song, I know its Christmas. It also doesn't get on my tits like some of the other Christmas songs out there.


  • #38
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    the middle bit with the NYPD, bells, yadda yadda chorus is ok, the beginning annoys the fcuk out of me because I cant stand McGowan's voice. nor every drunken twat who tries to sing it like him.


  • #39
    HondaSami
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭HondaSami


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    For some reason that song is always voted the "Best Christmas Song Ever".

    It's not the worst song ever, but certainly not the best... and after 25 years, I find it grating.

    I like it, I love it, its the start of Christmas when I hear it on the radio.


  • #40
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    I think it's a fantastic song. It captures so many emotions, love, optimism, joy, self-pity, anger, regret.

    'I could have been someone. Well so could anyone' is a brilliant line. It's a shame it's looked down upon (or overplayed) just because it's a 'christmas' song. It's a fantastic song in it's own right, and the fragility of MacGowan's voice constrasting with MacColl's strong, powerful voice add another great layer to it. He's a hugely underrated songwriter, whose songs are so gutwrenchingly bittersweet, and I don't think it could (or should) be sang by any other pair.



    Um.. I like it.


  • #41
    sunbeam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭sunbeam


    I hate Fairytale with a passion. Shame A Rainy Night in Soho, doesn't mention anything seasonal-could listen to that forever.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Yp8vecWXM


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  • #42
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    The co-writer, Jem Finer, has also written a piece of music designed to last a 1000 years. "Longplayer" is based on an existing piece of music, 20 minutes and 20 seconds in length, which is processed by computer using a simple algorithm. This gives a large number of variations, which, when played consecutively, gives a total runtime of 1000 years.

    More here - http://longplayer.org/what/overview.php


  • #43
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day.


  • #44
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    nm wrote: »
    The weight of the average male walrus is just under 1 ton

    The human head weighs 8 pounds


  • #45
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Dont understand all the hate for this song. In terms of Christmas songs its a breath of fresh air compared to the corny crap that gets churned out by other singers.


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 460 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    brummytom wrote: »
    the fragility of MacGowan's voice constrasting with MacColl's strong, powerful voice add another great layer to it. He's a hugely underrated songwriter, whose songs are so gutwrenchingly bittersweet, and I don't think it could (or should) be sang by any other pair.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daAG5JfNNFQ


  • #47
    deandean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,459 ✭✭✭deandean


    Happy christmas me arse!


  • #48
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Can I add that I don't hate this song.


  • #49
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    I can smell the alcoholism coming from his breath every time its played on the radio.


  • #50
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    the most over-rated xmas song of all time.......in all honesty can anyone make out what shane mcgowan is singing??


  • #51
    Mary28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭Mary28


    This is a fantastic song. I am a big fan of Shane's songwriting. But I agree it's overplayed for over 2 decades now and that can take from it. I'm shocked its 25 yrs old & Kirsty's dead 12 yrs already.


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  • #52
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    +1, beats the cloying stuff hands down but, overplayed each and every year.

    Strangely, it's rather unknown outside the ex pat and disapora community.


  • #53
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    fryup wrote: »
    the most over-rated xmas song of all time.......in all honesty can anyone make out what shane mcgowan is singing??
    Yes.

    He is quite clear in this one.


  • #54
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    +1, beats the cloying stuff hands down but, overplayed each and every year.

    Strangely, it's rather unknown outside the ex pat and disapora community.

    Forget Fairytale... When Ronan Collins plays your song on Christmas Eve, Gobnait, I know the festive season is finally upon us.


  • #55
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    fryup wrote: »
    the most over-rated xmas song of all time.......in all honesty can anyone make out what shane mcgowan is singing??
    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Yes.

    He is quite clear in this one.

    how about at 2.18 in.....can't make head nor tail of it:confused:


  • #56
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    It's not so much the song, rather the annoying drunk gimps murdering it whenever it comes on the jukebox.

    Which would be, ooooooh, 5 or 6 times every hour?


  • #57
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    fryup wrote: »
    how about at 2.18 in.....can't make head nor tail of it:confused:
    You're an old slut on junk, lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed.


    You are an elderly lady of questionable sexual morals with a heroin habit, lying in a bed in a critical condition being fed via a drip.



    Happy Christmas:cool:


  • #58
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    2005 Documentary on BBC - The Story of the Fairytale of New York

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


  • #59
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    you know whats worse, Springsteen's version of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, hate it.


  • #60
    Madam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    I love this song at the minute but come New Years day I'm sick of it......... untill next year:)


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  • #61
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    krudler wrote: »
    you know whats worse, Springsteen's version of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, hate it.
    The way he's constantly flat throughout the chorus just absolutely wrecks my head. Why would you listen to that and think, "Yeah, that's a good version, release that". You'd listen and think, "Oh dear jaysus that sounds awful, burn every copy of it you can find.


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