Could be worse, boys - anybody still in therapy after that incubus keating "covered" it ?
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Could be worse, boys - anybody still in therapy after that incubus keating "covered" it ?
eh ........... fair enough.:oQuote:
Originally Posted by DaveyCakes
Christ ya.Quote:
Originally Posted by cheifo
It still managed to get on my Christmas cd here in work.
"You're blind and you're haggard."
:mad:
My burd thought the line 'Singing Galway bay' was 'Singing all the way'
Feckin Swedes :(
Every year, when I first used to hear it I'd think - "ah yes, thats a good song" but within 48 hours I'd hear it 48 times and I was sick of it,still weeks short of Christmas.
I doctored the words on it last year and put it on the Christmas post on foot.ie as The Fairytale of Old Cork.
I'ts nowhere near played enough.
Great song and, like other great Christmas songs like Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade, the fact that it's actually surprisingly difficult to play/perform generally stops every tosspot with a six string or who used be in a boyband from dragging it through a hedge backwards. The odd one slips through but they usually just utterly disgrace themselves. I know Ronan Keating fans who turn away in disgust at the mention of his and Dearbhlas version. Proper order too.
One of my favourite facts about the actual recording of 'Fairytale...' is that the whole intro thing with the piano and Shane on his own was an afterthought. It was recorded in a completely different session, different studio etc... to the "rest" of the song which originally started at the point where the whole band join in. They literally taped two different two-inch reels together (no Adobe Audition, Audacity, Cubase, Pro-tools etc back in them days).
Never tire of hearing it TBH deffo the best crimbo song ever
Couldn't agree more....also hate turnip and parsnips.....devil's food!Quote:
Originally Posted by Torn-Ado
p.s I still like the song!
It's a good song which has been overplayed so it kinda loses a bit of its special appeal , My favourite bit is the extended instrumental at the end for some reason , I think its wonderful
Bah Humbug.
I hate New York, don't much care for the song either
Love this song, it is overplayed but not sick of it at all.
great along with wham - last Christmas and Roy with "lonely this christmas"
and anything by the king- elvis :D
:confused: ... Roy Wood? He sings "I wish it could be Christmas every day". Isn't it Mud sing "Lonely This Christmas".Quote:
Originally Posted by Green Tribe
agree 100%,i do the same,but try playing christy moores version at the start of the night,happy x/mas,Quote:
Originally Posted by max power
apologies, was a bit merry at this stage on saturday night:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
Best Christmas song by far.
Great song. Its up to No. 8 in UK Charts. A Facebook group is getting behind it to make No. 1 this Christmas.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20778141304
I hope it does. If only to stop the X-Factor gimp Leon making his jazzy bluesy sh!te making it.
On a related topic here on the BBC, the song has been edited for BBC radio listeners. Some lyrics have been deemed too risque.
Check out the picture of McGowan. Priceless!