Hostile cussing? Cheap holiday inversion, replacing one kind of sentimentality with another closely related isotope of sentimentality? I still kind of like it though, although perhaps its coat is wearing thin in the blustery blizzardy breeze on the Bowery these days.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
How’s everybody doing Whamageddon!-wise?
It's a blind spot of mine that I never would have come up with "hostile cussing" (by which I assume you mean Kirsty's use of a derogatory term for a gay man) as a reason to dislike the song--it seems fitting for the character. Cheap sentimentality, I suppose I can see, but that kind of sentimentality was often Shane's jam--I guess either you like it or you don't.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 December 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
Overexposure x100. Though, as I said. I never liked it anyway, I never liked the Pogues full stop.
― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
I've not met many, if any, people who dislike the Pogues.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
But you live in The States, no?
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
exactly
― sleeve, Friday, 23 December 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
Yes, I do. Are they more disliked in the U.K.?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
The song is more overexposed.
― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
You don’t hear often people here complaining about The Beautiful South either.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
That's an odd comparison, at least from my personal point of view. I've known a lot of people who adore the Pogues since the 80s.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
Boozy misanthropes of a certain stripe.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
I don't get how a Xmas song can lack sentimentality. That's the point!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
Dexys would be a good comparison - I don't know if anyone here actively hates Kevin Rowland, but i swear if I hear Come On Eileen one more time,,, Fairytale is worse though as you're guaranteed to hear it here a billion times every December
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
I love Wham!'s "Last Christmas" and airplay will never smother it.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
Feel like that would have been the cue for Morbius to come and make a cutting remark and then for Eric to make nice.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
more like the other way around
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
Can't help but feel a little bit heartbroken every time I hear George's voice tbh. Not that Kirsty MacColl's death wasn't as tragic
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
Anyway, voted 2000 Miles
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
I never liked Kirsty McColl either!
― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
JFC lol
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
Well-Known Internet Hardman.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
Haha, I'm not a fan either tbh. her death was really horrible on a human level though
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
xp
Of course
― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
I don't think of Fairytale as a New Wave song.
― jack of all trades, master of nunchucks (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 December 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Friday, 23 December 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
yeah where is Things Fall Apart?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 23 December 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
on the Ze album where it belongs ;)
― sleeve, Friday, 23 December 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
I just noticed noted New Wave artist Bing Crosby is in it. Fair enough as he was more radical than some of the others.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 23 December 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
Santa Claus - Throwing Muses 3
nice! idk who you other 2 are, but don't chane.
― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link
or change, whatever
― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link