It’s hard to be depressed by Les Gray singing like Elvis for a ventriloquist’s dummy. I admit, Mud’s original version of this song is pretty depressing, especially if you pay attention to the lyrics, but at least Mud manage to hide the lyrics and the song’s meaning behind their silly costumes. What’s more cheerful than suicide? Being alone at Christmas. Remember that next time you listen to Girls Aloud’s vomit-inducing version. Tony’s brother is dying in front of him, and all he wants is one more day to spend with his brother. “I touch your face while you are sleeping”, he’s not sleeping, he’s dead.
“Don’t say it’s the final kiss”, he’s not kissing his girlfriend for the last time, he’s kissing his brother goodbye. The lyrics change completely too, “Baby if you’ve got to go away” doesn’t refer to someone leaving, it refers to someone dying, in fact it’s literally about Tony Mortimer’s brother Ollie committing suicide. A lot of people think it’s a love song, about someone being left by a loved one, but only the latter is true. Knowing this fact completely alters the song’s meaning too. Singer and lead songwriter for East 17 Tony Mortimer wrote the song about his brother, Ollie, who killed himself. Yes it was a Christmas number one for pop group East 17, and to this day remains their biggest selling single and their only number one, and is probably the reason most people have heard of the band, but the story that is behind the song is something very depressing indeed. What’s this you ask? Stay Another Day not Christmassy? Well let me explain. The song was released as a single with the proceeds going to The Smith Family (the charity, not the family from American Dad), but judging by the fact that the single did not chart I don’t think they got much, and why not? I mean, what’s more Christmassy than lyrics like “In the heat the treetop shimmer through the haze”? That’s because Christmas in Australia IS in the Summertime, so Christmas in the Sun is possibly the only Christmas song that is also a Summer song. Rolf sings about lying on the sand, swimming in the sea, and drinking beer at a barbeque, all Summertime activities. Sung by one of the blokes from Status Quo and a convicted sex offender, Christmas in the Sun deals with what Christmas was like for someone growing up in Australia, which might sound Christmassy if you grew up in Australia, but since everyone else in the world didn’t grow up in Australia, it doesn’t really work. I tell you what no one thinks of, though: sunshine and sand. For me, it’s freezing cold snow and warm open fires. What do you think of when you think of Christmas? For some it might be presents, for others it might be trees and tinsel and lights along with ungodly queues.
Rolf Harris and Rick Parfitt – Christmas in the Sun Anyway, I digress.ĭespite the fact that we’re all sick of hearing these songs that are often sickeningly over-sentimental and poppy and cheesy, we should be thankful that these songs are actually Christmassy, because there are plenty out there that aren’t, and since I have nothing better to do, I’ve decided to compile a bunch of them here for your (dis)pleasure.ġ.
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There are hundreds more like it out there, all full of the same old songs as well as terrible obscure songs you skip, and people who have lost the CD they bought last year will buy these CDs and hear the songs they can easily hear for free just by turning on the TV or a radio because these songs are fucking everywhere. You know the ones I mean: Last Christmas by Wham, Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, bands like Wizzard and Slade and their Christmas songs, the list is endless.Īnd Now That’s What I Call Christmas isn’t the only Christmas album available. As you read this, stores are stocking up with copies of the latest Now That’s What I Call Christmas CDs, boasting all the Christmas favourites you’ve heard over and over again and are sick of despite the fact you only hear them one time of the year. It’s Christmas time, and there’s plenty of reason to be afraid.
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