"The year 1980 brought us the greatest holiday song of all time..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtkZ7oTv1o

lol...

guess he won't be showing his neighbors this article...

"Holiday music is sonic propaganda, crackling down at us from ancient mall sound systems and pouring point-blank from the mouths of horrible neighbors."

"this is a deep meditation on eternity and mortality, the cosmic joke of human love in the face of stony time."

i don't get the shabby part. grocery stores are inherently shabby?

"We are in shabby, late-20th-century America."

wait until someone plays this guy "glory days". it's gonna blow his mind.

!!!

"something like a Raymond Carver story crossed with “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” crossed with T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets.”..."

wait until he hears country music for the first time! it might send him to the hospital.

Another Auld Lang Syne

it's also way better with stock photos and pictures of dan fogelberg:

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

a total of three posts on that old thread means i don't have to feel guilty about starting another one.

I thought might be a different song, a sequel! Needless to say I had never heard of this song until tonight.

never liked the end where the snow turns into rain like that's a good thing. who wants slushy snow/freezing rain?

if you freeze the beginning of that second youtube clip there is a letter from a young fogelberg fan who asks him about the snow into rain line. all your questions are answered!

Still remember seeing Kiki and Jeff do this at a holiday show in Seattle and there was a woman in the audience whose laughter was so shrill for this song in particular I couldn't tell if she was delighted or horrified. (Which probably made the duo perfectly happy.)