I really like Springsteen's version of Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.
That Waitresses song.
Wham!'s Last Christmas.
What's the name of that song that U2 covered. Shit, I can't remember. The one that's got the "Baby, please come home!" part to it. It depresses me currently, but I really like it.
StarBelliedBoy said:
I really like Springsteen's version of Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.
That Waitresses song.
Wham!'s Last Christmas.
What's the name of that song that U2 covered. Shit, I can't remember. The one that's got the "Baby, please come home!" part to it. It depresses me currently, but I really like it.
phallen said:
Lonely this christmas by Mud and Fairy tale of New York are probably my all time christmas songs.
Actually, Fairy Tale of New York has a convuluted and tragic history:
Kirsty MacColl's melodious singing contrasts with the harsh sound of Shane MacGowan's voice and the lyrics which are sometimes bittersweet, sometimes plain bitter: "Happy Christmas your arse/ I pray God it's our last".
MacColl was not originally to have appeared on the song. The Pogues were at the time being produced by Steve Lillywhite, MacColl's husband, who asked his wife to provide a guide vocal of the female part for a demo version of the song. The Pogues, however, liked MacColl's contribution so much that they asked her to sing the part on the actual recording.
The song was released in the United Kingdom in early December 1987, and swiftly became a hit. On December 17, 1987, the Pogues and MacColl performed the song on the BBC's popular television show Top of the Pops, and it was propelled to #2 on the UK charts. For the Top of the Pops appearance, the BBC insisted that MacColl's singing of "arse" be replaced with the less offensive "ass", although as she mimed the word MacColl slapped the relevant part of her body to make it clear what was meant.
The song was re-released by The Pogues in the UK in 1991 and again in the UK and Ireland for Christmas 2005. All proceeds from the latter release were donated towards "Justice for Kirsty", a campaign to find out the truth behind MacColl's death in 2000.
(In 2000, MacColl decided to take a much needed holiday, and she, her partner, musician James Knight, and her sons traveled to Cozumel, Mexico. She intended to introduce her sons during the trip to an activity she loved %u2013 scuba diving. On December 18, she and her sons went diving in a specific diving area that watercraft were restricted from entering. With the group was a local veteran divemaster. As the group was surfacing from a dive, a speeding powerboat entered the restricted area. MacColl saw the boat coming for her sons. Louis was not in the boat's path, but Jamie was. She was able to push him out of the way [he sustained minor head and rib injuries] but in doing so, she was hit by the boat and killed instantly.)
Kirsty died saving her children.
MacColl's family launched the "Justice For Kirsty" campaign in response to the events surrounding her death.
Lawyers for MacColl's family and the group have campaigned for a judicial review into the events surrounding her death. They have been in repeated contact with the Mexican government, and have made an application to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. MacColl's friends and family have been critical of what they have perceived as a lack of cooperation from the Mexican authorities; in May 2006, Emilio Cortez Ramirez, a federal prosecutor in Cozumel, was found liable for breach of authority in conjunction with his handling of the MacColl case.
The BBC has featured a documentary by Olivia Lichtenstein, entitled "Who Killed Kirsty MacColl?"
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ArtDebris
Los Angeles, CA
February 2006
DEC 14, 2006 12:15 PM