in disliking the "John Lewis-ing' of otherwise good songs

[BrendaandEddie]

I am not interested in Xmas adverts AT ALL, but I hate the breathy slow boring rendition of songs ( also in the x factor) which IMO generally ruins the original

An actual human being went to the effort of learning that on the piano. Learning the words. And then recording it in sepia.

First against the wall when the revolution comes Mr Mulholland.

Who allowed this?

I know Scone...and how did he sing it without laughing. How can you earnestly sing 'a doggy is nothing if he don't have a bone'

I went into John Lewis today and that song was on loop...I didnt stay long

Didn't you buy all the Man on the Moon merchandise Oldraver?

It makes Dh apoplectic (well slightly cross, he is English. ) Bit him on the bum when we were watching Fargo and he started ranting about a Bobby Gentry song being "ruined". I pointed out it was the original.

YANBU x 10000000

Yanbu. Breathy shite. Thank God for Netflix- no adverts.

Sparkling no it was all by the door with several assistants hovering over it.

We actually went in there first for the loo. huffed as they didn't have the butter dish I wanted then buggered off for socks and to the outlet

I confess I did buy a reindeer gingerbread effort

It was actually very empty

YADNBU...Utterly ruined John Lennon's 'Real Love' last Xmas.

That breathy bollocks turns my liver.

it is a bit hackneyed, the whole advert dreary song shit as a marketing tool, now

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh yes thatsnotmyrabbit

that one really honed my rattlesnake radio-off strike

Mike Flowers Pops on the other hand, is a wholly uplifting improvement on the original.

YADNBU. Hate hate hate all the breathy shite - and the 'whewevver you may go' business. Like Dido with a cold on Mogadon.

What worries me is what's next. The Damned? Red Hot Chili Peppers?
"A Wuv Wike Bwood?"

Surely that Matt Mulholland is taking the piss? Surely...

As an aside - how can an actual person be called Chelsea Bridge?

Status Quo ruined themselves.

It's not breathy shite, but it's horrendous nonetheless.

YANBU

Sets me on edge. Why the goo goo ikkle girl voices?

Not against cover versions at all, just terrible ones.

on a similar vein, i cant stand these 'unplugged' albums they drag out every christmas.....

I can just imagine some snivelling snot nosed weasel faced BBC 'think tank' yuppie banging the desk in a brain storming session for how we can screw money out of the British public this christmas......

9.01 am

weasel faced yuppie "I know, lets get a fabulous singer in their own right to cover another persons amazing song...but I know...lets slow it RIGHT down, take away the background track...and...wait for it....add in an accompaniment of spoons and a 2 stringed zither!

9.03 am
rest of the board "love your blue sky thinking", (mimes a hands outspread, rainbow across the sky gesture)
"out of the park my son" (does the mime of hitting a baseball),
" thats the big guns right there my friend" (mimes cocking and firing a finger pistol)
" thats a goer" (does fist bumps)

9.05
boss right, thats sorted then, BBC music's big christmas seller decided, whos for a liquid brekkie in the wine bar?

Grrr it's so over done now.

It's also amazing how many celebs seem to discover a love of Big Band around Christmas.

JL advert, if they have the know how get a telescope up there they should put some effort in to working out how to get the poor man down.

Last years was plain creepy, a young boy trying to secure his penguin a sexual partner.