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  • It turns out that if you weren't brought up listening to The Pogues' Fairytale of New York, like my German girlfriend, the first minute sounds like nothing more than a drunk guy singing very badly out of tune. Which, of course, it is.
    I like it. It sounds real. We don't get many real Christmas songs.
  • edited December 2011
    It turns out that if you weren't brought up listening to The Pogues' Fairytale of New York, like my German girlfriend, the first minute sounds like nothing more than a drunk guy singing very badly out of tune. Which, of course, it is.
    I like it. It sounds real. We don't get many real Christmas songs.
    What do you mean by "real?"
    Sorry, comments like that just make me cringe.

    Post edited by Kate Monster on
  • It sounds human. It sounds relatable. It sounds like they dropped all the marketing and all the test groups and all the commercialism and all the "Silver and Gold" and wrote something they thought sounded good, and hoped people would agree.
  • It sounds human. It sounds relatable. It sounds like they dropped all the marketing and all the test groups and all the commercialism and all the "Silver and Gold" and wrote something they thought sounded good, and hoped people would agree.
    I understand what you meant, I just fundamentally disagree with the attitude that just because something is produced, popular, or marketed that it may be any less real to the songwriters, musicians, and producers that make it or to those that consume it.
  • Baby it's Cold Outside is kinda about rape.
  • MC Chris just posted this.

    http://www.mcchris.com/mp3/christmasvacation.mp3

    Also has this been posted yet?

  • Baby it's Cold Outside is kinda about rape.
  • Whelp, we're back in that one-month long regression to Nordic Paganism, might as well have some decent music to go with it. This is my jam right now:
    http://forfolkssake.bandcamp.com/album/for-folks-sake-its-christmas-2012
  • edited December 2012


    Post edited by Sail on
  • All of my holiday mp3s are 8-bit covers, with the one exception of this Electric Six cover of You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.

  • Damn. It takes balls to cover a Thurl Ravenscroft song.
  • Surprised no one has posted anything from the Colbert Christmas album.



    Also, have a couple of nice anime Christmas/winter songs:






    Lastly: uh, wouldn't call it "listenable" per se, but. Welp. This exists.


    THERE IS A WHOLE ALBUM OF THIS. I don't know if I am glad I never came across it before or not.

    Album may be slightly more listenable in German:

  • Oh man, Love Hina. Love Hina is my "You're allowed one" of the harem show category.
  • Oh man, Love Hina. Love Hina is my "You're allowed one" of the harem show category.
    Same, but only the manga. The anime is kinda terrible, IMO.
  • edited December 2012
    Mine is Saber Marionette J. Terrible show that it is, I still have a soft spot for it since it was one of the first subtitled anime I ever rented from the local video store. Plus, anything with Megumi Hayashibara in it gets at least a tiny bump from me.

    Speaking of her:

    Post edited by Eryn on
  • Oh man, Love Hina. Love Hina is my "You're allowed one" of the harem show category.
    Same, but only the manga. The anime is kinda terrible, IMO.
    Yeah, I'm with you on that. I first saw the show when I was a young teenager, but when I went to watch it as an adult, it was kinda painful to watch.
  • Oh man, Love Hina. Love Hina is my "You're allowed one" of the harem show category.
    Harem is one of the "you're allowed one" genres that I never watched. In retrospect, I guess Negima! was a harem show, but I never saw more than the first disc or so.
  • I have determined that Santastic III: In 3-D is the best of the Santastics, with Santastic Six in a close second. As a Bostonian going to a school of %70 generic white girls, the track A Wicked Hardcore Christmas seems rather apt for me this year.
  • Oh man, Love Hina. Love Hina is my "You're allowed one" of the harem show category.
    Same, but only the manga. The anime is kinda terrible, IMO.
    Yeah, I'm with you on that. I first saw the show when I was a young teenager, but when I went to watch it as an adult, it was kinda painful to watch.
    Mine was DNA2. I have heard that it is not like other harem shows, but I cannot confirm that because I just can't bring myself to wander the horrifying Harem Hellscape.

  • edited December 2012
    Oh man, Love Hina. Love Hina is my "You're allowed one" of the harem show category.
    Same, but only the manga. The anime is kinda terrible, IMO.
    Yeah, I'm with you on that. I first saw the show when I was a young teenager, but when I went to watch it as an adult, it was kinda painful to watch.
    Mine was DNA2. I have heard that it is not like other harem shows, but I cannot confirm that because I just can't bring myself to wander the horrifying Harem Hellscape.
    That was the first anime I rented from Blockbuster. It was in the children's section (holy fuck what were they thinking?). I went back to watch it but it was kinda bad. I do feel bad for Junta, though. What the hell could have happened to him to give that phobia with that reaction? I don't remember if it explained it at all but, fuck, that sucks.

    Post edited by Victor Frost on
  • You're all weak. I haven't just walked the harem hellscape, I built a summer home there.

    Back to the topic at hand -

  • That was great.
  • This is better:
  • I second this.
  • edited December 2012
    Mr B. is a shitty version of Prof. Elemental.


    In that vein:
    Post edited by Walker on
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