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For instance, Bob Seger's renditon of 'Little Drummer Boy' is strained and I hate hearing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S50cf3xIb50 However, Simon and Garfunkel's version of 'Silent Night/Seven O'clock News' is absolutely brilliant, particularly with the addition of tragic news headlines in juxtaposition to the calm, peaceful carol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcGBcJKalrQ Of course, there are an equal number of dreadful Christmas songs mucked up by Country and Western performers and by any number of Pop performers. Aside from performers trying their hand at traditional Christmas Classics, I would have to say there are a number of Rock performers who wrote some of the greatest modern Christmas songs, ones that will certainly stand up with anything Bing Crosby crooned or Nat King Cole embraced in velvety intonation: Jethro Tull -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdalBvgNAxI Emerson, Lake and Palmer -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRkOw...eature=related And of course, John Lennon -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBfEGETyGjs P.S. Oh, and how can I forget the wonderfully drunken 'Fairytale of New York' by the Pogues (warning: some yuletide obscenity) -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjEIP...eature=related |
Hmmm, rock stars and traditional Christmas songs and carols (there is a difference between a Christmas song and a carol ;)). Some to make you change your mind:
Steeleye Span - Gaudete - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lN9AJj...eature=related Mike Oldfield - In Dulce Jubilo - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=atD18otb95o However, maybe controversially, i send to Mordor the sort of Christmas song that's designed to make you feel guilty, things like Do They Know It's Christmas. Aside from the fact it's a ruddy awful dirge of a 'song', the lyrics are dumb and I resent Bob Geldof ruining my Christmas by telling me to give him my you-know-what-ing money. And on the subject of people who kick cats, I'd more than send to Mordor anyone who kicked my cats...they'd end up in the Void! |
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Every other jeepney (our main transport service, and one I have to ride every single day of my life) has a loud bass system blasting some rap or other form of music I or the other passengers can't appreciate. Now riding in that for an hour or so is surely like going on a field trip to Mordor. Skippy: Hmm, I'll just say, we'll slaughter that lovely little pig we spent three months feeding to get its meat so that it can be served for Christmas dinner (as a lechon baboy, one of my all-time favorites!!). It isn't cruel or evil or some such word, because that's the whole point of feeding that pig and bathing it and buying meds for it for months. But I was a member of an animal whatnot society, and one of our main points, don't do needless cruel things to anything. Your pet, your neighbor, your seatmate in bio, your neighbor's pet, your dead formaldehyde-filled frog at bio, your suckling pig which you will slaughter for Christmas. Groin: In this country you'd have to search really hard and long to find decent carolers. Well, maybe not that hard, if you live on campus, then you might just want to go to the Conservatory. But if you watch TV or listen to the radio you'd get to hear Christmas carols both local and international, sung very horridly by those who pose as "rock bands." |
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I assign nassty projects that never seem to get done, so that I have to sneak my Downs time! |
On a similar tangent, I would like to assign simple carols that get big-banded, Vegas-ized, jauntified or have their delivery otherwise...changed. The only one allowed to do that type of thing is Richard Cheese, thank you very much.
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And then I happily hummed what follows, "You're a bum, you're a punk-" |
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Good thing you stopped with that line, Feanor. ;) |
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I assign Rap music. Personally, I see no redeeming quality in the genre. |
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To be fair, I have an equal dislike for some other forms, notably country and R & B. |
*hides her many rap CDs* ;)
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*Prepares the crucifixes, chrisms, holy water and wooden stakes* Now, my dear Lal, this will only hurt for a moment... 'The harmony of the Beatles compels you! The power of Zeppelin compels you! The lyricism of Dylan compels you!' |
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Oh on the note of the rap, this morning I had to ride a jeep blasting some rap music at an earsplitting level. If I wasn't the poor girl I am I would have gotten down and ridden another jeep to school. I had to endure it for roughly an hour. :( |
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I like Oasis quite a bit, but they rely so heavily on older influences that they probably don't qualify as contemporary. Most of the stuff I like is older: Beatles, Kirsty MacColl, The Housemartins, and my all time favorite, Blur. |
I think I know only one Beatles song, the Elanor something. Discussed it on a poetry class, together with Simon and whatnot's Sound of Silence and their version of Silent Night/7 o'clock news. :D Yeah, music lovers are likely to burn me now in Mordor with Inquisition tools. But I've always been fond of instrumentals. Only genre I've liked consistently.
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That is all. Dylan, on the other hand...he is my Marmite. As in, lots of people seem to like it but I just don't get it. |
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Brilliant. Sorry, I don't mean to be rude. I guess the message sounds better with a droning drum machine and three notes on a keyboard repeated over and over. Quote:
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Very very very very audacious shoplifters. You've gone too far this time.
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I assign trying to give directions to people over the phone when they do not know the difference between uphill and downhill. :mad: |
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Women that just takes and takes, what more is they manipulate you to think it is you who actually want to give it away. . . I am of course talking about my hairdresser who cut of my wonderful hair.
I just wanted to look my best for The Julefrokost-season and instead I end up feeling slightly insecure because of this short short hair. |
Don't worry, Rune, it's just this year. Hair grows back, remember? :D
I assign to Mordor that I can't figure out The Might's quote in the Palantir of Fortune game, despite having almost all the words figured out. It's driving me nuts. |
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Very untimely storms and rains. Uggh! Still raining even in the cold dry season! Imagine celebrating Christmas or going Christmas shopping or partying while it's raining like it's the height of June in tropical Philippines. :(
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I assign hurting your back with absolutely no idea how you've done it. Not only are you in pain, you're constantly running over everything you did recently to try and work out what caused it! |
I assign second-guessing myself...it's very frustrating when I realize I'm doing it, and then my mind will go into overdrive third and fourth-guessing myself, until I realize I was right the first time. :(
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I assign losing another of my cats. At least this one had a long life. I'm still going to miss him, though.
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Aww, Nerwen, that's just sad. |
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In fact, I assign it raining absolutely all day yesterday and most of all the other other days this week. I haven't seen the sky for almost a month! |
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EDIT I've just seen what won X Factor this year and I send Simon Cowell not only to Mordor but to The Void. The cover version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah they've done is so awful, I can't even speak about it on here without cursing.... |
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We could probably start a separate thread dedicated to the worst cover songs ever recorded. I'd assign Devo's 'Satisfaction' (Keith Richards would be rolling in his grave if he were dead -- or is he?) to Mordor for starters. |
Check out his track record of artists he signed on Wikipedia, it doesn't bode well for him having anything approaching 'taste'. I hate the whole thing of these 'talent' shows - it's just like karaoke. Yuk.
I'd also send to Mordor this thing where people like a singer "because they have a good voice". Well, Jeffrey Archer might have a nice typewriter but it doesn't mean his novels are worth reading, does it? ;) |
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Guest like fish stink after three days..
I assign my sister whose contribution to the festivities was one bottle of wine and a few cupcakes and is steadily working her way through the fridge and drinks cabinet. She does nothing (or seems to think that we have house elves who will wash up if crockery is dumped in the kitchen). So she doesn't shop, cook, pay for anything, do the driving, or even help clear the table but just expects me to do all the work and my dad to foot the bill.
So when she asked if there were plans for today there wasn't much response. Lying on the sofa, watching old films and eating chocolate was plan enough for me. :D Sorry I had to rant there or risk causing WW3 on the home front. |
I assign vacuous, gossipping office heifers to Mordor. Some horrid woman just came round to gossip with a new colleague and started to talk about something offensive so she suddenly started to whisper - like I am DEAF?! :mad:
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