Are modern pop musicians so up their own backsides that they don’t make Christmas records anymore?
Merry Xmas Everybody, Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day, Wombling Merry Christmas, Another Rock And Roll Christmas, Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me and others from my childhood and just after, seem to be trotted out year after year in lieu of anything new. What does come out doesn’t seem to be a rollicking good sing along.
I’ll have to look out for TOTP 2 Christmas programmes to get my fix.
Maybe everyone’s realised that every Christmas song ever has been not only terrible, but doomed to be repeated ad nauseum for all eternity in every retail environment each year from October to the New Year, and have decided not to inflict such suffering on humanity?
I’m still a fan of “Proper Crimbo” by Bo’ Selecta. By far the best song ever made.
That’s all part of the appeal.
All I have to say is…
On the one hand I’m always in favour of not making any more ‘modern’ christmas songs…because they’re utter dog mess.
On the other, that does mean I have to hear the same old carp everytime I’m in a shop around this time of year.
There really aren’t words enough to describe how much I detest that winging-leftie ‘can you stop the cavalry?..flob-a-dob-a-dob-dob…’ rubbish; or that gravely-voiced idiot and his irritating woman friend telling each other how awful they are. I just couldn’t care less what the boys of the bloody NYPD choir are singing! And dear god, don’t get me started on that staple of poor-pantomimes by Slade…Or the other awful one by Wizard.
Christmas for me is about Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and good christmas movies…Like “Home Alone”, “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, and “Die Hard”. 
Search Youtube for Swearytale of New York, by Amateur Transplants
:woohoo:
You want a Christmas song? Mr B, The Gentleman Rhymer has just released this to the wild. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QvShuDV3is
Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire by Bob Rivers - festive doesn’t begin to cover it!
Surely 12 days of Christmas by Frank Kelly is the definitive Christmas song.