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To think I'm right on this one

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twiney · 21/12/2017 15:04

Love:
Band Aid - the original. Star studded, catchy, love watching Bono diva his way through his "big line" which I bet he fought tooth and nail to get!
For something a little more soulful, Walking in the Air. Beautiful, mystical, just perfect.

Hate:
All i want for Christmas (is you): fuck off Mariah, Christmas isn't about you and what you want and getting your leg over.
Santa Baby: see above. And Santa isn't a "cutie". Also, infantilising women much?

OP posts:
VladmirsPoutine · 21/12/2017 17:43

Thank goodness I’m not the only one with a deeply felt hate for that awful Band Aid song! I can’t believe how bloody patronising it is, how can it still be played today?!?

I agree. I shudder to think they got us all singing along when I was at school. It's the most patronising condescending bollocks out there.

Scribblegirl · 21/12/2017 17:47

From Twitter Grin

To think I'm right on this one
GallicosCats · 21/12/2017 17:50

Yeah, Mistletoe and Wine was bad, but nowhere near as appalling as Cliff's later Christmas offerings. The Lord's Prayer set to Auld Lang Syne has to be the most misbegotten mash-up ever.

Hisnamesblaine · 21/12/2017 17:55

I was a teenager so love the east 17 stay another day I always wondered if they added the church bells bit at the end when they realized they were releasing the song in December? If so it worked!!!

ProfYaffle · 21/12/2017 18:08

Greg Lake I Believe in Father Christmas is my favourite. "I saw him and through his disguise" the loss of childhood innocence and wonder in such a short line. Makes me well up every time I hear it.

CastielIsMyAngel · 21/12/2017 18:10

Cheesy crap but god love them all in their 80's baggy tops and the hair!

Who is in their 80s? 50s...60s tops...

MissionItsPossible · 21/12/2017 18:11

Tinselistacky It seemed a bit suspect that she'd earn 370k each time the song was played as she'd be making easily well over 100 million given the amount of times that song is played just in this country never mind the world! She'd be one of the richest people in the world! So I googled it and it says Mariah Carey is thought to earn royalties of £376,000 every year from her hit All I Want For Christmas Is You, which was announced as the most-streamed Christmas song of all time on Thursday. Your local radio got confused or were telling fibs! Wink

Cleanermaidcook · 21/12/2017 23:23

Haha castiel I meant the 1980's fashion. Grin

stilltheykeepcoming · 22/12/2017 00:02

CurryWorst You get BandAid the same way I do.

I was watching the news when they showed Michael Buerk's 'biblical famine' report for the first time. Impossible to forget.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 22/12/2017 00:09

YANBU. Bono's line "Well tonight thank God Its them instead of you" makes me go ice cold, because. Its only by the the grace of God that it isn't me and mine.

nancy75 · 22/12/2017 00:13

I saw that tweet earlier, the famine was in Ethiopia a country that was never colonised. If we are going to get picky about snow maybe we could get that bit right too.

QuinoaKeen · 22/12/2017 01:23

still struck by the film clip

Am I the only one who thinks Simon Le Bon looks a bit like Diana? Same flicky hair.

73kittycat73 · 22/12/2017 02:38

Can't stand the Band Aid song (Or Fairytale of New York.) but love the Mariah one!

Feliciaxxx · 22/12/2017 02:50

'I want a hippopotamus for Christmas' by Gayla Peevey is my new fave! It's really funny x

WellAlwaysHaveParis · 22/12/2017 03:02

I fucking LOVE that song!!! You would hate me. Love this part: I coulda been someone... Well so could anyone! Me too @twiney! Also love Stop the Cavalry and Last Christmas, that PP have also mentioned ❤️

Candlelight234 · 22/12/2017 06:22

I love the band aid 2 video, with Matt & Luke Goss, kylie & Sonia Blush it's a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, but my favourite era.

StealthPolarBear · 22/12/2017 06:32

Yanbu op but I do agree band aid doesn't stand up to scrutiny :)
" I hope my parents will be ok on Christmas day, they might not be able to hear themselves over the 'clanging chimes of doom' and she wants to name a Christmas cocktail 'bitter sting of tears'."
They need to get some megaphones :o

outofmydepth45 · 22/12/2017 06:40

Hate bandaid dislike Geldof to me it comes across as how fab am I? Why does he donate all his own money?!

CottonEyeNinnyMuggins · 22/12/2017 06:43

morningtoncrescent62

Yes! I always get funny looks when I say Stop The Cavelry is my favourite Christmas song, but I love it!

Also love Greg Lake’s I believe in Father Christmas and McCartney’s Wonderful Christmas Time.

Used to love Band Aid, but it’s not aged well and really gets on my wick now.

The Mariah total of £376000 is an annual royalty income, not per play. (Doubt we’d have any radio stations left if they were paying that sort of money to the PRS):
www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/mariah-carey-earns-how-much-all-i-want-for-christmas-every-year-profits-net-worth-a8084486.html%3famp

Buck3t · 22/12/2017 07:05

Until I hear Fairytale of New York, last Christmas, all i want for christmas and Do they know it's Christmas, throw in wonderful Christmas Time, and war is over, then and only then has christmas arrived for me.

I'm bored of last Christmas for some strange reason. I refuse to have mumsnet analyse do they know it's Christmas to death. I was there I felt the outpouring of love (and guilt). I love every cheesy line of that song and every time it's played it does a little bit if good.

So Africa the continent has over 50 countries, so the western world only swooped in when things were extremely bad when it could have prevented this happenstance since the 1930s. we are where we are and we do what we can now.

I'll love that song till the day I die.
but yeah Fairy Tale of New York is my fave.
*I could have been someone. Well so could an

Buck3t · 22/12/2017 07:07

I could have been someone. Well so could anyone...

best verse, so real.

So yeah I love it swear words and all.

accidentally posted too soon.

Buck3t · 22/12/2017 07:09

Oh and Stay another day.
the conclusion in my office on Wednesday, adding wrinkly bells to a song does not make it a Christmas song

GinIsIn · 22/12/2017 07:21

The Band Aid song always amuses me. It was written in response to the famine in Ethiopia. Christmas in Ethiopia is in March.

ticketytock1 · 22/12/2017 07:23

Those of you criticising Pope Bono's line... I never took it literally, like I'm glad it's them and not you...
I took it as a tongue in cheek comment highlighting the ignorance of many of us in the developing world to the plight of those facing famine and hunger.
And the bitter sting of tears... you always see images of young children and the tears on their wee hungry faces, I always thought it looked like their wee faces were raw with all the tears.
You have to look it in context... 1984 and all that
I absolutely love it because for me it represents a time when music was real, with real musicians and real raw talent in the room. The likes of these organic stars with so much to give, we just don't get that any more.
I hate the music industry now and what it stands for / produces. It makes me sad that we will never see about her George Michael / Paul young... our kids will never have that pleasure!

treaclesoda · 22/12/2017 07:24

Do they know its Christmas is clearly pretty patronising and not a great song. But if you are old enough to remember it being recorded and released it really was a bit of a groundbreaking moment. I remember the report one Sunday night on the nine o'clock news about how all these famous 'pop stars' had got together in a London studio that afternoon and recorded a song within the space of a few hours. There was footage of them all pulling up outside in taxis and going inside to sing, giving a shy wee wave to the press outside and because there was no social media then and we weren't used to people snapping pictures of famous people at the airport and tweeting it, it was really weird to see these popstars turn up in their own clothes, being 'real people' to belt out a few lines.