• hemmes@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Okay this is awesome.

        I’m going to mix this into our family background music during the holidays.

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          1 year ago

          Do people not know about Fairytale of New York? I’ve always thought of it as being as standard as Do They Know It’s Christmas or All I Want For Christmas Is You!

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            1 year ago

            I can only speak to my experience on the west coast of the US, but it seems the Pogues in general aren’t well known, let alone this gem.

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              1 year ago

              You’ve been missing out on a banger!

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                I don’t know how I first heard them, but the Pogues have been a favorite of mine for a while. ‘The repeal of the licensing laws’ is the only piece of music I can play. On the tin whistle at that.

                Shane with teeth is an odd thing to behold.

                I was searching for a video clip of him walking into a mirror and not spilling a drop of gin- instead I see he just died yesterday. Damn. I though the posted meme was just thanking him for the best Christmas song. :,(

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            Over here in Norway it seems like Fairytale of New York is played on the radio almost every day of December and surprisingly often otherwise.

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              1 year ago

              Truly Norway is the utopia people claim!

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          1 year ago

          Meanwhile I’ve recently discovered Zombie Claus by Psychostick, a Christmas carol about Santa to the tune of a Rob Zombie song, and I’m gonna mix that into our Christmas day music.

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            1 year ago

            Amazing, that’s going straight on my Christmas metal playlist!

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          It’s the ONLY Christmas song I can tolerate because it’s so wonderfully bleak.