While I continue work on my Merry Grinch-mas compilation (it may be a cliché but what about Christmas isn't?) this little three song'er will have to kick off my dis-contiguous series of Christmas posts. This wildly-tacky looking 2003 single is a benefit featuring TV Smith (the Adverts), Captain Sensible (the Damned), Charlie Harper (the UK Subs) and Martin Newell (the Cleaners from Venus) which slags the pop charts in a pop chart-friendly kinda way. The song bears Captain Sensible's theatrical absurdity ("Say Captain, Say Wot") and is pretty fun as his re-make of the old Damned obscurity "There Ain't No Sanity Clause"
The big ticket item under this dead tree, however, is TV Smith's "Christmas, Bloody, Christmas" a broadside aimed squarely at the fat man in the suit's symbolic fat ass. While it attacks all that is ridiculous about the season, it's not terribly mean spirited, it just demands more of the season while being a virulent ear-worm (ask my six-year old and his none-too-pleased mother if you don't believe me!)
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Well, now I know what I want for Christmas!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, your Grinch-mas comp better contain The Yobs "Silent Night", The Pogues "Fairytale Of New York" and Ramones "Merry Christmas Baby (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)" or coal will be stuffed in all avalible Jeffen stockings.
Some Yobs for sure and Fairy Tale is inevitable but I'm hemming about Merry Xmas as it's kinda umGrinchy (wotta word!).
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