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(25,816 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Also love the gorgeous unplugged Pretenders record called Isle of View. Gorgeous arrangements. If you haven't heard it, check it out.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,866 posts)at least if you are interested in the lyrics and the emotions behind the song. IMHO.
geardaddy
(24,936 posts)geardaddy
(24,936 posts)Sorry, but The Pogues come first. I do love pretty much everything Chrissie Hynde does though!
Initech
(100,155 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,866 posts)Man, that was painful. My ears have not recovered.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Just the coolest most gorgeous song.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Here's a happy one. Sort of.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)I love the Ronettes, and as long as someone gets whacked, I'm cool with it.
Don't buy anything!!!! Whhhaddaya stupid!
DFW
(54,527 posts)irisblue
(33,067 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)irisblue
(33,067 posts)However.......back door Santa has a LOT of energy....Be blessed my friend
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,866 posts)I must have replayed it 5 times in a row just now.
The implicit sadness in it reminded me of Waltzing Matilda.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Over the past few years it's become more important than ever for me to be home each night.
panader0
(25,816 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,517 posts)Although I've aways been partial to Waterloo Sunset and Dead End Street as well.
panader0
(25,816 posts)I saw them in Tucson many years ago. Ray Davies is a great songwriter and I'm a bit
jealous of his affair with Chrissie Hynde.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)One of the few on my Ipod
The orginal:
And the remake they did to help raise money to fight Ebola over in Africa
Watch these videos and makes you wonder why we fight to be the first in line at Wal-mart on Black Friday
In_The_Wind
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[img][/img]Lars39
(26,120 posts)My current obsession.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,786 posts)Last edited Tue Dec 23, 2014, 10:15 AM - Edit history (7)
I go back to 1981 every time I hear this. I recall the season vividly. There was a hole in my wall that I was going to patch. All I had to do was to remove just a little bit of old plaster.... This was in an old house, and the plaster just kept crumbling and crumbling. I should have stuck in a piece of drywall, but noooooo, I was going to use real plaster. I ended up plastering the old wall. Then I painted it, and the rest of the room. Since I was on a roll, I might as well keep painting. I got the bathroom and then a long bedroom in the front of the house. I would be listening to the late, great WHFS as I worked. Their DJ Weasel played "Christmas Wrapping" and a bunch of other seasonal songs. Among them was Root Boy Slim's "Christmas at Kmart." Okay, let's run that too:
For the traditional ones, I like "The Christmas Song," ("chestnuts roasting on an open fire" , especially by Nat King Cole. It captures the whole slowing down of time that you get at the end of the year.
It wouldn't be right to view "The Christmas Song" in anything other than black and white:
Also, I like Leroy Anderson, so "Sleigh Ride" is right up there. Easily, the best known version is the one by the Boston Pops, but I'll link to some others too. You learn something every day; all this time I thought they had been snapping a real whip.
sakabatou
(42,207 posts)Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)2theleft
(1,136 posts)And I am loving it.