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    • #74098
      Tim
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      Was Cliff’s ‘Millenium Prayer’ a christmas song? or just new year?

      That’s the worst song in the entire history of time, the first thing ever to belly-flop it’s way onto land probably expelled somthing better from it’s newly-evolved butt. IMO.

    • #75765
      Michael
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      I thought you were gonna badmouth Badfinger for a minute. Phew!.

      Mariah also hammed up I’ll Be There.

      As for a good chrissy tune: Waitresses – Christmas Wrapping

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP_WH4heId4

    • #74121
      1bassleft
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      Excellent choice, Mike. Despite her undoubted ability at manipulating vocal cords, Mariah has to be the out-and-out thickest singer I’ve ever seen. She doesn’t understand a single word that she sings off the autocue. That Xmas earache is not the best example, though; consider Without You.

      Full of pathos, both of the song’s writers committed suicide and the original Badfinger version has an honesty, if no decent production:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Ty8R8tlo4

      Harry Nilsson understood the song completely and made it a classic (I vaguely remember the original 1972 promo and it wasn’t this ghastly, “Cadbury’s Flake” video)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKwApaN1k6g&feature=related

      then along comes Mariah (OK, tons of others have duffed the song up). She co-produces this nightmare and, worse still, has a HUGE, Europe-wide, #1 hit with it. Watch the “live” (not) vid and her “I listened to this song as a little girl; it made me cry” intro before she goes all stage-school.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOR_jq9M53c&feature=related

      Count yourself lucky, Mariah. Harry had a fatal heart attack just before your release; I suppose you sent him an advance copy.

      Whoops. Mariah-rant over. Back to Strictly Duff Xmas-songs 😳

    • #74116
      Michael
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      I’d give my right arm for that jumper. It’s like he sewed it using Bill Cosby. Amazing.

      As catchy as Shakin’s Merry Xmas Everyone is, it is cringe worthy.

      NOW

      Mariah’s All I want for xmas. That’s a carol I can get behind.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IcsWLseiuw

    • #74129
      1bassleft
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      Shouldn’t be long before “Mistletoe and Wine” gets nominated. Being a less obvious type, I nominate this pan o’shite singularly devoid of any nugget:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGT1OQfjm-I

      Shakin’ Stevens is a criminally bad mimer (check any of his promo vids if you can stand it), a sub-sub-sub Elvis wannabe and, most of all, reeks of insincerity. Nasty jumper, too.

    • #75761
      Michael
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      Thread now split.

      Oh, thanks for making me look up who Aly and AJ were 1b. Thanks.

      http://youtube.com/watch?v=9PJhZUUKEeI for everyone else.

    • #75762
      1bassleft
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      I wonder if that’s worse than Aly and AJ’s version. At least Billy looks like he knows he’s just dumped a load of plop onto vinyl. But the girls are prettier. Hmmm, hard to decide. Not wanting to hijack Michael’s thread, a new “worst Christmas song” thread would be worth a laugh. Some stinkers over the years…

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