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Post by whoami on Dec 17, 2015 7:54:45 GMT
No its not Francis 1:50 approx in the clip
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2015 8:42:59 GMT
There's worse Christmas songs out there.
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Post by dennis on Dec 17, 2015 11:52:00 GMT
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Post by granny on Dec 17, 2015 12:35:38 GMT
Perfect for an advertising jingle.
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Post by whoaskedyou on Dec 17, 2015 22:11:50 GMT
I love it..sorry folks..should have been a massive hit...been playing it a lot lately..each to their own.
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Post by Victor on Dec 17, 2015 22:24:16 GMT
I love it..sorry folks..should have been a massive hit...been playing it a lot lately..each to their own. It ain't my song that's for sure... but if you enjoy it, fine, nothing wrong with that, it doesn't matter a jot what others think of it
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2015 11:11:55 GMT
I always think of 'Rock n' Roll' as my Quo Christmas song. It was in the charts I think in December 81. Also that December was cold and snowy, and there was snow on the ground on Christmas Day itself. Wonderful I know the song has nothing at all to do with Christmas, but it just feels seasonal in the way it is constructed as a ballad. One of those songs that stays with you always afterwards and those days have good memories generally anyway. Lots won't like it, but for me its fab
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Post by Victor on Dec 18, 2015 11:20:43 GMT
I always think of 'Rock n' Roll' as my Quo Christmas song. It was in the charts I think in December 81. Also that December was cold and snowy, and there was snow on the ground on Christmas Day itself. Wonderful I know the song has nothing at all to do with Christmas, but it just feels seasonal in the way it is constructed as a ballad. One of those songs that stays with you always afterwards and those days have good memories generally anyway. Lots won't like it, but for me its fab Same here, Catlady
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2015 12:15:54 GMT
I always think of 'Rock n' Roll' as my Quo Christmas song. It was in the charts I think in December 81. Also that December was cold and snowy, and there was snow on the ground on Christmas Day itself. Wonderful I know the song has nothing at all to do with Christmas, but it just feels seasonal in the way it is constructed as a ballad. One of those songs that stays with you always afterwards and those days have good memories generally anyway. Lots won't like it, but for me its fab 'Rock n Roll' is a great song, well written, well structured, and well recorded. Top marks for this one.
'It's Christmas Time' - there is nothing wrong with this song (with the exception of the line 'all the way to Santa', which was clearly the lyrical struggling point), it is what it is and it is what it is supposed to be - a cheesy Christmas song. Christmas songs are by their very nature are very cheesy, they are not meant to be masterpieces of song construction. Slade lucked out, right place, right time, right song, so Noddy got himself a classic. Rick was simply 10 years too late.
There have been no 'good' Christmas songs for years and years, rock bands always struggle to do a decent Christmas song (The Darkness is a good example), modern attempts are instantly forgettable.
The memorable Christmas songs tend to come from the 70's - Slade, Wizzard, John Lennon, Shaky, McCartney, etc. Outside of that you have the Pogues & Kirsty from the 80's, Frankies 'Power Of Love' (though this was not actually a Christmas song), Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas', and East 17's 'Stay Another Day' which again was mainly due to a Christmas influenced video.
Band Aid is an exception - probably the most depressing 'Christmas' song ever!
Memorable Christmas songs from the last 10 years - er..................er.....................er............ can't think of any.....
'It's Christmas Time' - nothing wrong with it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2015 12:51:17 GMT
I agree with most of what you said. Much of this is, as always, subjective.
Its not really to do with any deep analysis about song structure - it has as much to do with like in my example with 'Rock n Roll', simply association of a song with a time and place and what was happening at the time. Good things happening at the time.
RnR has a kind of festive vibe to me in this respect, although, as I say there is no actual festive meaning behind the song itself and many would point to the fact that they wouldn't find it a festive song in the first place. Its just one of those individual things we all have with certain songs that can't always be explained better.
I'm in rather cynical mode with CQ right now I will admit. I suppose that ICT represents to me too much of what CQ are about in general away from Christmas itself. But yes, it is a typical cheesy Christmas song and I suppose it does what it says on the tin.
Maybe I would have preferred them doing a Christmas song that had less of a modern day going through the motions Quo dum-de-dum to it. Or perhaps I'm just being grumpy!?
As far as Slade's 'Merry Christmas' is concerned, its a song that has grown to rather annoy because of its over saturation year in year out. I remember thinking how wonderful it was at the time it was released. Interestingly, so far this season, I have yet to actually hear it. But then I'm having a relatively low key season with pre-Christmas festivities and not going to places where it is likely to be played. I managed to survive an hour of R2 yesterday afternoon while out in the car without hearing it, or any other Christmas song for that matter
My favourite Christmas song is actually Wizzard's 'I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday'. I like the children's backing to it towards the end as well as the typical Roy Wood in it. Another song that has good associations, although probably another song that someone else would find more 'meh' than Quo's 'Its Christmas Time#.
I quite like The Darkness Christmas song..it sounds a bit 'Black Rose' Thin Lizzy-ish with the guitar bit in it.
You know, 'the bit' right?
You see where I have been going with all this?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2015 13:01:08 GMT
I love it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2015 13:09:50 GMT
I love it. Aye...I heard that. What about "It's Christmas Time" though? Its shit.
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Dec 18, 2015 14:33:07 GMT
there hasn't been a new memorable Christmas song (or at least not one I can remember)since the 90's..Had they released that in the 80's/90's it might have done ok, though it was never going to compete with Slade, Cliff, or any of the usual standards that are wheeled out this time of year!! The Darkness one from 2003. Is probably the last great christmas song to me. After that it's been X Factor crap.
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Post by americanquo on Dec 18, 2015 15:35:42 GMT
It is shite actually All the more so after coming off listening to an FF reunion thread song... I rather like it. It's a novelty song, that's all I judge it as being.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2015 9:36:49 GMT
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