I'm pretty sure that Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmas Time is...... [Archive]

mickill

12-07-2010, 01:53 PM

...one of the worst things that ever happened. Ever.

1. Bubonic Plague
2. World War II
3. The Great Chinese Famine
4. Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmas Time
5. World War I

mickill

12-07-2010, 01:54 PM

The (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9BZDpni56Y) accompanying visuals only seem to induce further nausea. Seriously, why was this ever allowed?

cosmo105

12-07-2010, 02:07 PM

Agreed. Horrible, horrible crime against humanity.

Guy Incognito

12-07-2010, 02:10 PM

M|X|Y

12-07-2010, 03:02 PM

FUCK YOU, MAN!

that paul mccartney joint is the joint!

mickill

12-07-2010, 04:12 PM

Its not even:

a) Paul McCartney's worst tune This is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0auCDOERZyE&feature=related)
b) The worst Christmas Song This is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBY7xmXfHeg)
c)worth over-reacting this much about

I'll react all I want. See, while you whistle away to your harmless little Norah Jones and Julie Andrews ditties from within the comfy confines of your home, there are literally millions of people all over the world innocently shopping, getting their backs waxed, standing in line at Taco Bell or whatever else, suffering....right now. I mean, have some compassion here.

Guy Incognito

12-07-2010, 04:17 PM

I'll react all I want. See, while you whistle away to your harmless little Norah Jones and Julie Andrews ditties from within the comfy confines of your home, there are literally millions of people all over the world innocently shopping, getting their backs waxed, standing in line at Taco Bell or whatever else, suffering....right now. I mean, have some compassion here.

Dude I have worked in enough shops to know all about christmas tunes and the effect they have and i can see how this song would annoy but its really not the worst one, it really isnt. Its only bad when you remember that the guy made some decent tunes and thats when the tune starts to smell.
Anyway, cant you put your Ipod on when you go shopping?

mickill

12-07-2010, 04:37 PM

That's really just like putting a band aid on a brain hemorrhage, but sure.

Guy Incognito

12-07-2010, 04:42 PM

maybe you have just been unfortunate to get caught in a shopping tape loop whereby whichever shop you go in has that tune on.
Thats why its doing your head in so much. There will be other people in similar loops with other tunes.
Maybe it will work its way out if you forget something and have to go back in a shop you already visited. Or maybe you should shop on t'internet.
You have a wide range in taste of music that you should be able to dismiss this stuff mate.

Kid Presentable

12-07-2010, 06:29 PM

Just in time for Christmas: Guy Incognito and the deep end.

NicRN77

12-07-2010, 07:09 PM

I don't mind this song so much....but I HATE that Feliz Navidad song.

Documad

12-07-2010, 08:32 PM

It's like you're inside my brain. I heard this on the radio when I was at the hairdresser's and I said to him "that is the worst song ever written." Everything is wrong with it, but what moves it to number one is how repetitive it is.

And I told my hairdresser that to truly appreciate it, he needed to go home and look the video up on youtube!

Lex Diamonds

12-08-2010, 01:54 AM

I despise the phrase "it's like you're inside my brain". It's just so brown-nosing, especially when applied to such a generic and popular sentiment as this one.

"I hate paying bills. I sure wouldn't mind finding a million bucks right now"
"OMG IT'S LIKE YOU'RE IN MY BRAIN <3 YOU ROCK DUDE"

Planetary

12-08-2010, 04:20 AM

a) Paul McCartney's worst tune This is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0auCDOERZyE&feature=related)

are you on crack? it's a banger

Guy Incognito

12-08-2010, 05:27 AM

are you on crack? it's a banger

no.

no it isnt, i hate it. Its kind of descended from the paul mccartney one in a way. I dont like the xmas songs that are all nicey nicey. There should be some sort of edge or something to make you think a bit, its a very tory 80's xmas song and thats why i hate it

Guy Incognito

12-08-2010, 05:30 AM

Just in time for Christmas: Guy Incognito and the deep end.

i cant decide between:

a) I'm not in that band anymore.
b) suck my deep end
c) the deep end is for life not just for christmas

Planetary

12-08-2010, 06:00 AM

all stand together isnt a christmas song wat u on about

Guy Incognito

12-08-2010, 07:01 AM

all stand together isnt a christmas song wat u on about

:o

thought you were on about shakin stevens. now it looks like i maybe on crack.

all stand together is donkey piss.

Documad

12-08-2010, 07:11 AM

I despise the phrase "it's like you're inside my brain".

ha, yes, I also hate hyperbole. I don't know what got into me. I'm just excited that other people know the song. my hairdresser didn't know it and since the hairdresser incident I mentioned it to a bunch of people who looked at me blankly. I don't know how all the people in my life missed that song. They must not have had MTV in the early 80s.

paul jones

12-08-2010, 08:51 AM

Every xmas song is a crime to humanity

Guy Incognito

12-08-2010, 10:00 AM

Every xmas song is a crime to humanity

wow

thats very geldof

jabumbo

12-08-2010, 11:34 AM

if people are getting their backs waxed and waiting in line for taco bell, that song is the least of their problems

Echewta

12-08-2010, 12:11 PM

Yea but Keyboard Hand in Space.

nodanaonlyzuul

12-08-2010, 02:28 PM

I don't mind this song so much....but I HATE that Feliz Navidad song.

RACIST.

I love that song. :p

rirv

12-08-2010, 02:58 PM

I kinda dig Wonderful Christmas Time. The raw synth, space age graphics to the video combining with traditional British countryside pub, the good sentiments reminding of a hearty drink around a fire to ward of the encroaching cold. :cool:

yeahwho

12-08-2010, 08:10 PM

Wonderful Christmas Time makes Yoko Ono a walk in the park.

Adam

12-09-2010, 12:42 AM

Excitement Growing Among Beatles Fans For Paul McCartney's Funeral (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxx2meAQME8)

gbsuey

12-09-2010, 08:15 AM

Whilst i agree that that song sucks, and all xmas songs in general were made by satan, the biggest Christmas Motherfucker of them all has GOT to be Cliff Richard who is actual Satan as far as i'm concerned-there's no mystery in why he's stayed so youthful and apparently unfucked all these years...he's been here since the dawn of time and he just has a smooth bump where his genitals should be a bit like Alan Rickman did in that Jay and Silent Bob thing. Fact

Adam

12-09-2010, 11:46 AM

I didn't know Cliff Richard claims to be a virgin. haha.

I might go to The Sun to claim I fucked him.

Guy Incognito

12-09-2010, 12:47 PM

gbsuey

12-09-2010, 01:59 PM

he was rumoured to have dated someone once i think. I quite like how, when Danbert Nobacon tipped water on John Prescott or someone similar, Cliff felt he should say in his best "Cliff voice"..."I'd just like to say i'm really sorry about that". knob

M|X|Y

12-09-2010, 02:09 PM

Christmas music has depressed me for most of my life, I'm not exactly sure why... and for some reason this is the only song that doesn't.

I associate it with a very happy Christmas in particular, my parents had just bought a new house far away from the world I knew and remember painting the house with my dad, with a snowy TV on the floor in the corner playing this song/video on some sort of Casey Kasem countdown. It also reminds me of eating Cup-A-Soups with my dad because our kitchen was fucked up and all we could do was heat water (y)

rirv

12-09-2010, 02:09 PM

Cliff pretty much came out a few years ago when he published his autobiography. He said that he endorses civil partnerships and lives with his "best friend" who is a retired Catholic priest.

dave790

12-09-2010, 02:12 PM

wow

thats very geldof

how is it very geldof? or am i being thick.

and SHAKIN' STEVENS is a bona fide classic! and the video is innocent!

Dorothy Wood

12-09-2010, 02:23 PM

I like all the songs posted in here. I used to hate Paul McCartney's 80's stuff. but now I think it's kinda funny and interesting. It's like I can see where he's coming from and what he's trying to do. It might sound like crap, but he's just messing about I guess, trying out new things. I like it.

I think David Bowie might be the only artist who made the transition into the 80's without turning into a dork.

just for fun, I loved the shit out of this when I was a kid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pExh6KDTuAQ

gbsuey

12-09-2010, 02:28 PM

Cliff pretty much came out a few years ago when he published his autobiography. He said that he endorses civil partnerships and lives with his "best friend" who is a retired Catholic priest.

yeah who he obviously can't get too close to or he'll start smoking and screaming and flying round the place 'coz he's satan
and if you need proof.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjmGbI-Mnys)

rirv

12-09-2010, 02:32 PM

I second what Dorothy Devotchka has said there so I do.

It's easy to hate on music, videos and other assorted culture from a time that has passed, but in the same way much of today's culture is reactionary to what has transpired in the preceding decade, so was late 70s, early 80s music and culture a reaction and evolution of what happened in the 1960s. Everyone grows up and Paul McC. combined his wit for melody with a sense of humour and a happy-go-lucky penchant for embracing the latest fads.

The year is 2040 and we look back on the Black Eyed Peas, marvel at the many millions of records sold, frown at the almost repugnant promotional videos and then turn back to our white noise and static dub-core retro-hop mini discs.

Fin.

Guy Incognito

12-09-2010, 02:57 PM

how is it very geldof? or am i being thick.

and SHAKIN' STEVENS is a bona fide classic! and the video is innocent!

i should use smileys more, the geldof thing was me being sarky

i am not arguing about shaky, each to their own. what dorothy and rirv say is correct about being easy to hate but i still hate it.

gbsuey

12-09-2010, 02:58 PM

allthough i hate them now-when i was a kid they did make me very happy. except mistletoe and wine of course. i'm a particularly grumpy sue atm anyway but i'm almost becoming agrophobic i hate the xmas tunes playing in the shops right now. huzzah for online shopping.

roosta

12-10-2010, 05:12 PM

ah, it's alright.

This is my favourite Christmas song. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOe18JcatZo)

yeahwho

12-10-2010, 06:24 PM

Paul McCartney is/was a brilliant bass player, his contributions to music have been numerous and overblown for decades, he lost it around 1976 when he started writing for the average age of an 8 year old. Perhaps he was writing for his kids. Who knows? I cringe at it!

Paul McCartney has been writing pure crap music since 1978 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney_discography).

Adam

12-10-2010, 06:27 PM

I was out tonight and every song listed here so far was played.

I'm so drunk right now, but just eaten something for the first time in 12 hours.

I am also totally in lust with one of my friends. It's one of the reason I had to leave early while she umm'd and arr'd over her crush. My crush was also asking me why when she fancies someone she doesn't just say, I comment we all do it - fear of rejection etc. meh :o

I searched for the drunk thread but couldn't find it. I'll post in the hangover thread tomorrow tho as that came up in my search.

Documad

12-10-2010, 09:01 PM

Paul McCartney has been writing pure crap music since 1978 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney_discography).

Yep. I can't believe anyone is trying to make a case for 80s McCartney

Guy Incognito

12-11-2010, 06:47 AM

McCartney is never going to beat Merry Xmas (War is Over) by Lennon.

FACT.

ToucanSpam

12-11-2010, 02:44 PM

This is the worst thing I've ever heard. Including the sad day where I came across a wounded cat in the gutter.:(

Jane*

12-15-2010, 12:23 AM

...one of the worst things that ever happened. Ever.

1. Bubonic Plague
2. World War II
3. The Great Chinese Famine
4. Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmas Time
5. World War I

I just laughed so hard that I cried, then watched the video and spit water.

You've articulated everything I've been trying to say about this song my entire life. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

rirv

12-15-2010, 12:11 PM

This morning I almost bought tickets to see Paul McCartney on Saturday at the Hammersmith Apollo. I entered the online queue and got allocated some tickets... but they were far too expensive- £125 each, it seems the cheap seats sold out (£55) Whatver you think of his cheese, I'd kinda like to see a Beatle in concert before they're all six feet under.

M|X|Y

12-15-2010, 01:29 PM

re: post 1978: coupla good songs on flowers in the dirt, flaming pie, off the ground and chaos & creation

$125 isnt too bad for a beatle and not bad seats (y)

mickill

12-15-2010, 01:31 PM

I'd probably pay to see Paul in concert, even in his current geriatric state. I have nothing but love for the Beatles, but this is still a sonic bowel movement of a song as far as I'm concerned.

And thank you Jane*. I'm just glad I could help.

mickill

12-15-2010, 01:34 PM

re: post 1978: coupla good songs on flowers in the dirt, flaming pie, off the ground and chaos & creation

$125 isnt too bad for a beatle and not bad seats (y)

Well £125 is more like $200.

Documad

12-15-2010, 04:38 PM

I'd consider seeing Paul if he played at a small theater and I got tickets in the first 15 rows for $100 or less. I'll see pretty much anyone once under those circumstances.

One big downside of seeing someone like Paul in an arena has to be the other fans. Neil Young is the only old guy I can think of who plays arenas and doesn't have bothersome fans.

rirv

12-15-2010, 05:07 PM

The Apollo isn't an arena, more of a theatre, I think < 5000 capacity. I saw Oasis there in 2005 and that was pretty up close and personal for a big band. I think I would have bought the tickets if I was sure I had the money in my account, but pay is a few days away yet. He's not going to kick the bucket yet, I'm sure. He has some kind of deal with the devil.

Documad

12-15-2010, 05:12 PM

When he was here, my friend really wanted me to go with her and I felt bad saying no. I was glad that tickets were about $300, because that made it easier to stick with the decision.

I'd see Ringo and his all star band if they came.

Jane*

12-16-2010, 12:31 PM

The bf is a huge Beatles fan so when he heard he was coming, he shelled out the dough to see him. He said the stadium was packed full of old and young crazies, which I think is a given when it comes to older artists. Could you imagine what a Roger Waters concert might be like? Well I could, my dad and step-monster would be there!

Anyway the bf said Paul was awesome, not geriatric at all. He said he ran around the stage and kept everyone pumped up, short of doin' backflips. He's probably in better shape at 68 than all of us, when we were 21.