Cruel, cold Christmas songs

[shereads]

"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"



Pretty song, especially when sung by Rosemary Clooney. The lyrics are actually cheerful. It's the plaintive melody that seems to have been composed by someone who thought there weren't enough suicides over the holidays.

For some reason, hearing this song makes me feel like a homeless person whose belongings are all stacked in a shopping cart that I stole from a supermarket parking lot. My cart is called "Buddy," or "Happy" and has three good wheels. I live in dread of losing it.

 

[The_Darkness]

Well. That's uh.....yeah.

I can see where you're comming from though. At least on the cart deal. I guess.

It's almost 2AM my time...it's amazing what my corrupted mind will throw together at this hour.

I like to play first-person-shooter video games....the type where you run around and kill all the computer generated people...occassionally I'll catch myself singing "Here Comes Santa Claus" as I'm loading up with whatever arsenal the game provides with.

I guess I always felt that song was a little twisted. Maybe not cold, but definately off.

 

[Somme]

I don't believe I've met R. Clooney.

 

[shereads]

I don't believe I've met R. Clooney.

She was George's aunt Rosemary. A chanteuse, as you would say, and quite the babe in her day.

 

[Seattle Zack]

I always thought Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas" was one of the saddest songs ever written ....

(words & music by Billy Hayes - Jay Johnson)
I’ll have a blue christmas without you
I’ll be so blue just thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green christmas tree
Won’t be the same dear, if you’re not here with me

And when those blue snowflakes start falling
That’s when those blue memories start calling
You’ll be doin’ all right, with your christmas of white
But I’ll have a blue, blue blue blue christmas

(instrumental break)

You’ll be doin’ all right, with your christmas of white,
But I’ll have a blue, blue christmas

 

[Guest]

frosty the snowman
i mean really
he was brought to life only to die....
terrible!
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-9/822586/deadsoon.jpg

 

[carsonshepherd]

"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"



Pretty song, especially when sung by Rosemary Clooney. The lyrics are actually cheerful. It's the plaintive melody that seems to have been composed by someone who thought there weren't enough suicides over the holidays.

For some reason, hearing this song makes me feel like a homeless person whose belongings are all stacked in a shopping cart that I stole from a supermarket parking lot. My cart is called "Buddy," or "Happy" and has three good wheels. I live in dread of losing it.

Do you know, you are one of the most hilarious people I've ever come into contact with in my life?

Do you work at it, or does this shit just come to you?

 

[AngeloMichael]

"Grandma Got Runover By a Reindeer"

Someone had to meantion it
If that's not cruel and cold I don't know what is.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

The dogs that bark Jingle Bells, it's human and animal cruelty.

 

[Guest]

Go to the christmas audio thread to hear a beautiful christmas song massacred.

It would have been more fitting in this thread.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Rosemary Clooney was great, but "Merry Little Christmas" was originally Judy Garland's song, and whenever I hear it I see her sloshing around some New York apartment, highball in hand, one drink away from total despair. Yeah, it brings tears to my eyes too.

I've got to disagree on Elvis's "Blue Christmas" though. I always want to break into the song and strangle that soprano in the background. (Who the hell's idea was that? Fingernails on a blackboard ain't the half of it. And tell Elvis not to grunt so much.)

"The Holly and the Ivy" always gets me too.

Why is it that Christmas is so happy and yet so sad at the same time?

---dr.M.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Go to the christmas audio thread to hear a beautiful christmas song massacred.

It would have been more fitting in this thread.

Nah, it was much better than the barking dogs.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Why is it that Christmas is so happy and yet so sad at the same time?

---dr.M.

Our expectations, our traditions, our memories, missing people that are gone from us. More people commit suicide at Xmas than any other time, they say. But at the same time each year we get the opportunity to make new traditions and memories - so that's the happy part, maybe.

Or you could be like us and just get really drunk the night before and lie around in bed all day.

 

[carsonshepherd]

The dogs that bark Jingle Bells, it's human and animal cruelty.

My dogs go insane when they hear that. (The one in my av picture goes nuts when she hears any sort of smacking or spanking... )

 

[The_Darkness]

Okay, I was going to say something but first, I gotta ask.....

Carson....you have a dog that gets excited when it hears....spanking. Dude. What the fuck.

Dr. M...I can see where you're at on the Judy Garland thing. What about Christmas songs with Dean Martin singing? I mean, it's not hard to picture him staggering around drunk...but what kind of image do you get with that?

The real version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" I thought always sounded a little frightening to me. When your 4 and you're told there's this all seeing, all hearing being that takes away Christmas if you're bad; there's days that's worse than hearing about hell when you're that age.

 

[doormouse]

Nah, it was much better than the barking dogs.

PMSL

ya nut lol

 

[shereads]

frosty the snowman
i mean really
he was brought to life only to die....
terrible!
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-9/822586/deadsoon.jpg

Poor melted bastard.

And what about Rudolph? All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names.

 

[The_Darkness]

As a former chunky and belittled kid, I'd like to say that that's the official Grade School Social Outcast Christmas Song.

I mean, yeah, it has a happy ending that portrays place and happiness in society is based on utility. What the hell. We can't be hedonists all the time, but goddamnit, I don't want my skills playing Play Station to determine my caste in society, either.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Okay, I was going to say something but first, I gotta ask.....

Carson....you have a dog that gets excited when it hears....spanking. Dude. What the fuck.

My BF and I play fight a lot. Wrestle, smack each other on the ass with wooden cooking utensils, etc. The dog starts barking like mad. We can't decide if she's proctecting one of us (probably me since I feed her) or if she wants to play too.

I love the TV Rudolph - I wanna live on the Island of Misfit Toys. We could all fit in together!

 

[shereads]

Why is it that Christmas is so happy and yet so sad at the same time?

---dr.M. [/B]

I hesitate to offer this answer, having already brought so much sunshine into everyone's day -



-- but here goes. Christmas is sad for adults on a lot of levels, most of which are aggravated by the way it's marketed these days. How many adults, whether single or surrounded by family, can sustain that much glee? And the Santa fable is great fun for kids while they're young enough to accept it at face value, but once they're old enough to wonder why Santa ignores all those thin children in the Christian Children's Fund commercials, the whole season is tarnished with falsity and unfairness.

"Peace on earth, goodwill toward men" is a nice aspiration, but 2000 years after the announcement it doesn't seem to have caught on.

Mostly, I think the sadness has to do with the fact that Christmas celebrates the birth of a human sacrifice. The image of the madonna and child at the nativity is a step away from Michelangelo's Pieta.

On the other hand, Linus' speech to Charlie Brown and the gang always makes me cry in a good way.

 

[LadyJeanne]

I love the TV Rudolph - I wanna live on the Island of Misfit Toys. We could all fit in together!

San Francisco is kinda like that. Pastel sand castles and misfit toys abound.

 

[shereads]

Then there's the classic holiday episode of "The West Wing" where the climactic scene is the burial of a homeless veteran, intercut with scenes of a boys' choir singing "The Little Drummer Boy" at a White House Christmas Party.

Pa-rum-pum-pum-pum.

 

[The_Darkness]

Carson...okay, that makes sense. I guess my parents' dog does the same thing when Dad tickles Mom. 8 pound beagle tearing after my 6'2" 225 pound father. Yup, you go get him, Maggy, you dumb little thing.

Lady Jeanne, that's what I've heard. I've never been there but the brochure looks nice.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I always got teary over the little drummer boy Xmas TV special, till I saw it last week and realized how crappy the animation is.

 

[shereads]

Rosemary Clooney was great, but "Merry Little Christmas" was originally Judy Garland's song, and whenever I hear it I see her sloshing around some New York apartment, highball in hand, one drink away from total despair. Yeah, it brings tears to my eyes too.

True. But I see Judy Garland sloshing around with that highball when I hear The Beach Boys. It's hard to see her any other way.

Judy's daughter, on the other hand, seems to have turned out okay.