I'm neither Irish nor a New Yorker, but this is still my favorite Christmas song:

[DFW]

Fairytale of New York by the Pogues

[corksean]

1. Some good background here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/06/fairytale-new-york-pogues-christmas-anthem

"Appropriately for a song that pivots on an argument, there is disagreement as to where the idea originated. Fearnley, who recently published a memoir, Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues, remembers manager Frank Murray suggesting that they cover the Band's 1977 song Christmas Must be Tonight. "It was an awful song. We probably said, fuck that, we can do our own."

Singer Shane MacGowan maintains that Elvis Costello, who produced the Pogues' 1985 masterpiece Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, wagered the singer that he couldn't write a Christmas duet to sing with bass player (and Costello's future wife) Cait O'Riordan."

[DFW]

2. Sounds just about right for Shane McGowan. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Check this out

It's a documentary about the song. Very interesting.

[DFW]

4. Very cool!

Thanks for that!

[Still Blue in PDX]

5. Yet another . . .

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