Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Xmas

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
2000 Miles - Pretenders	15
Fairy Tale of New York - The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl	7
Thanks For Christmas - The Three Wise Men (aka XTC)	4
Shouldn't Have Given Him a Gun For Christmas - Wall of Voodoo	4
One Christmas Catalogue - Captain Sensible	3
Santa Claus - Throwing Muses	3
Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie/Bing Crosby	2
Careless Santa - Mono Puff	1
Little Drummer Boy - Miracle Legion	1
Rudolph the Manic Reindeer - Los Lobos	1
All I Want For Christmas - Timbuk 3	1
Christmas Day - Squeeze	1
Mary Xmess - Sun 60	0
Christmas Time - Chris Stamey Group	0
Christmas - The Buzz of Delight (featuring Matthew Sweet)	0
Santa's Beard - They Might Be Giants	0
Xmas at K-Mart - Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band with the Rootettes	0

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Friday, 16 December 2022 16:24 (three years ago)

I'm expecting "Fairy Tale of New York" to take this, so I feel no conflict in voting for "2000 Miles."

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Friday, 16 December 2022 16:25 (three years ago)

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― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:45 (three years ago)

"Fairytale" should win this going away, it's a strong contender for greatest Christmas song ever.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:48 (three years ago)

it's a fucking menace and Always On My Mind beating it to 1987 Xmas number 1 is the greatest thing to ever happen in the UK charts

― imago, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:57 (three years ago)

"Fairytale of New York" is a menace? GTFO.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:58 (three years ago)

will i be the only vote for throwing muses?

― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:02 (three years ago)

I love that song but I don't recall it actually having anything to do with xmas other than the title

― sleeve, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:02 (three years ago)

(voted Pretenders)

― sleeve, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:02 (three years ago)

I love that song but I don't recall it actually having anything to do with xmas other than the title
― sleeve, Wednesday, December 21, 2022 9:02 AM

precisely!☺

― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:07 (three years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 23 December 2022 00:01 (three years ago)

“things fall apart” is my new wave xmas

― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Friday, 23 December 2022 00:11 (three years ago)

"Christmas Wrapping" is an obvious omission.

― clemenza, Friday, 23 December 2022 02:01 (three years ago)

I can only assume there was a rights issue in 1996, when this comp came out (weird, ‘cause the regular series had “I Know What Boys Like”).

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Friday, 23 December 2022 03:01 (three years ago)

I think that Ze records xmas lp is pretty good in its own right.
Hadn't been aware of this one a couple of weeks ago when I was being force fed saccharine bleurgh as xmas music.

There's also A Lump Of Coal which has Henry Rolling reading Twas The Night Before Christmas in a way that might scare the kiddies.

― Stevolende, Friday, 23 December 2022 08:37 (three years ago)

Pretenders. Never liked Fairy Tale of NY.

― Kiss Me, Dudley (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2022 08:51 (three years ago)

“things fall apart” is my new wave xmas

Same

― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 23 December 2022 11:52 (three years ago)

Note that I’m hunkered down through Sunday, I can happily say that I avoided “Fairytale of New York” this year!

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 23 December 2022 16:04 (three years ago)

I'm not grokking the hostility toward "Fairytale." Is it down to overexposure?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 December 2022 16:05 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

How’s everybody doing Whamageddon!-wise?

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 16:09 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

I've not met many, if any, people who dislike the Pogues.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:05 (three years ago)

But you live in The States, no?

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:30 (three years ago)

exactly

― sleeve, Friday, 23 December 2022 19:31 (three years ago)

Yes, I do. Are they more disliked in the U.K.?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:32 (three years ago)

The song is more overexposed.

― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:33 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

Boozy misanthropes of a certain stripe.

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:41 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

I love Wham!'s "Last Christmas" and airplay will never smother it.

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:43 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

more like the other way around

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:46 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

Anyway, voted 2000 Miles

― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:50 (three years ago)

I never liked Kirsty McColl either!

― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:50 (three years ago)

JFC lol

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:50 (three years ago)

Well-Known Internet Hardman.

Anyway, voted 2000 Miles

Didn’t even look at the POLL yet until you just posted that. Will be voting that way too.

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:52 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

Of course

― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2022 20:03 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

I love Wham!'s "Last Christmas" and airplay will never smother it.

George’s hair and overall look in the video is 10/10

― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Friday, 23 December 2022 22:21 (three years ago)

yeah where is Things Fall Apart?

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 23 December 2022 22:28 (three years ago)

on the Ze album where it belongs ;)

― sleeve, Friday, 23 December 2022 22:29 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:01 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

or change, whatever

― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:53 (three years ago)

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