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Lemniscate Blue posted:The best take on "Baby It's Cold Outside" was from Key & Peele: Nice. I'm quite partial to this one:  Woolie Wool posted:Ministerium für Santasicherheit  Vandar posted:If you think Cosby's Spanish Fly bit is bad, things get worse: From the YouTube comments: 
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America's problem is that it doesn't have enough Christmas songs about slaughtering pigs for dinner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzmWMc8qEr8
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Dec 5, 2023 06:13
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It's just a shame that coolpunk didn't just kill off Christmas music during its height https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGJmx-kxvqw
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Dec 5, 2023 07:07
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Kit Walker posted:That's what makes the discourse so tedious. What the song is about feels really obvious, but people are so adamant about their takes that I can't tell if they're deliberately lying for clout or just really dumb. Then again people are apparently notoriously bad at picking up on when someone is flirting with them so maybe they really are failing to pick up on the dynamic of the song It's absolutely clout chasing. People are building careers off of being able to say that they were the first one to get angry about something or doing their own smug and insufferable takedown videos on a given topic.
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Dec 5, 2023 07:36
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I never liked Baby It's Cold Outside because of the lines about the dude's pride being wounded if she doesn't stay/gently caress him, and even without the date rape drug, the idea of getting her tipsy/drunk enough to stay over still felt super weird. But there is a funny version where Idina Menzel, ie Elsa from Frozen, sings the lady part, and that makes it so unbelievable that loving Elsa would be worried about the cold.
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Dec 5, 2023 14:57
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Right? It's never bothered her, anyway.
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Dec 5, 2023 15:04
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Cowslips Warren posted:the idea of getting her tipsy/drunk enough to stay over still felt super weird. Yeah it's real obvious some of the people ITT have never dealt with getting uncomfortably pressured for sex while being drunk by someone who doesn't want you to leave
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Dec 5, 2023 15:33
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You can always go the Weird Al route when he was forced to write a Christmas song for his label. Maybe I am the freak but I appreciate that Christmas time is pretty much the only time of year where we listen to all the different styles of the music from the almost 100 years of music in American culture. Also, I will never give up the Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan's version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
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Dec 5, 2023 15:44
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While we're on the Christmas music tangent, am I the only one who finds the music for Carol of the Bells sounds... I dunno... kinda sinister for a Christmas song?
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Dec 5, 2023 16:04
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Randalor posted:While we're on the Christmas music tangent, am I the only one who finds the music for Carol of the Bells sounds... I dunno... kinda sinister for a Christmas song? I used to get scared when I was a kid and that song came on.
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Dec 5, 2023 16:06
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My favorite Christmas songs are the sad, scary-sounding ones. Come Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, O Come O Come Emmanuel, that sort of sound. Brawnfire has a new favorite as of 16:09 on Dec 5, 2023 |
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Dec 5, 2023 16:06
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Little Drummer Boy is absolutely the worst one though, like can we all agree on that? It's basically the theme song to Luanne's Manger Babies puppet show from King of the Hill.
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Dec 5, 2023 16:10
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Randalor posted:While we're on the Christmas music tangent, am I the only one who finds the music for Carol of the Bells sounds... I dunno... kinda sinister for a Christmas song? Christmas is scary and should be. It's not just that, and it shouldn't just be that, but it's not truly Christmas-y if there's none of it.
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Dec 5, 2023 16:13
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Baron von Eevl posted:Little Drummer Boy is absolutely the worst one though, like can we all agree on that? It's basically the theme song to Luanne's Manger Babies puppet show from King of the Hill. That poo poo and "Do You Hear What I Hear?" are like a diptych of suck in my book. Oh maybe I don't like Bing Crosby
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Dec 5, 2023 16:13
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Baron von Eevl posted:Little Drummer Boy is absolutely the worst one though, like can we all agree on that? It's basically the theme song to Luanne's Manger Babies puppet show from King of the Hill. Worst Christmas songs would probably be a tie between that horrible Christmas shoes song and Dominic the donkey.
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Dec 5, 2023 16:22
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Randalor posted:While we're on the Christmas music tangent, am I the only one who finds the music for Carol of the Bells sounds... I dunno... kinda sinister for a Christmas song? Yeah it is a bit unnerving for a Christmas song, especially towards the end when the lyrics aren't even words anymore, it just devolves into ecstatic screaming, kinda always gave off Lovecraftian blood-orgy vibe E: wait I mixed that up with "Ring Christmas Bells," which has basically the exact same melody but is more explicitly Jesus-y Asterite34 has a new favorite as of 16:26 on Dec 5, 2023 |
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Dec 5, 2023 16:22
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Kantesu posted:Christmas is scary and should be. It's not just that, and it shouldn't just be that, but it's not truly Christmas-y if there's none of it. Halloween’s counter-invasion is going well, it seems 
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Dec 5, 2023 16:32
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Don't Shoot Me Santa by the Killers is the best Christmas song of the modern era. Greensleeves is the best of the olden times.
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Dec 5, 2023 16:37
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Mooseontheloose posted:You can always go the Weird Al route when he was forced to write a Christmas song for his label. Christmas at Geound Zero is my favorite Yule song, its such a totally 80s Cold War song too.
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Dec 5, 2023 16:42
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Crabs for Christmas is perfect in every way and I will not hear otherwise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74INc6WwqYg
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Dec 5, 2023 16:46
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Asterite34 posted:Yeah it is a bit unnerving for a Christmas song, especially towards the end when the lyrics aren't even words anymore, it just devolves into ecstatic screaming, kinda always gave off Lovecraftian blood-orgy vibe Not American so had to check up "Ring Christmas Bells" and skipped to the later parts of the song and yeah, I can definitely agree on it sounding like a horror movie cult summoning scene 
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Dec 5, 2023 16:58
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"he knows when you've been bad or good so be good for goodness's sake" kinda misses the point of being good for goodness's sake
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Dec 5, 2023 17:02
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Sia pulled off the most impressive feat in modern Christmas music, making an album of nearly 100% originals that don't suck. There is one cover, on the deluxe edition or something, but it's of a song I'd never even heard before ("Round and Round")Randalor posted:While we're on the Christmas music tangent, am I the only one who finds the music for Carol of the Bells sounds... I dunno... kinda sinister for a Christmas song? It's Ukrainian, so it's positively jolly by their standards. I definitely prefer the non-lyrical versions of it. That stuff never sounded natural, although some skilled singers make it work anyway. It has the opposite problem of "The First Noel" which is like one relatively brief sentence of English stretched out to 4 verses of music.
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Dec 5, 2023 17:03
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Brawnfire posted:That poo poo and "Do You Hear What I Hear?" are like a diptych of suck in my book. I had a brain fart and thought you were talking about the Hunters and Collectors song for a hot second but that's actually called Do You See What I See That was pretty confusing, lol
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Dec 5, 2023 17:09
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:Don't Shoot Me Santa by the Killers is the best Christmas song of the modern era. I prefer Coventry Carol https://youtu.be/o6492UYw_hs?si=iMc_I9GQoSyLE3yN Predates Greensleeves by 50 years and was a Christmas song from the get go. It's a beautiful song, just ignore that it's played over Herod's Purge.
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Dec 5, 2023 17:15
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I had a brain fart and thought you were talking about the Hunters and Collectors song for a hot second but that's actually called Do You See What I See All the more confusing because that's the phrase used in the first verse of Do You Hear What I Hear
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Dec 5, 2023 17:17
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I prefer Coventry Carol also a really beautiful song, yeah.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I had a brain fart and thought you were talking about the Hunters and Collectors song for a hot second but that's actually called Do You See What I See I literally wrote "do you see" first because of the first verse and then thought "is that Bing Crosby?", googled it, and was confronted with Hunters and Collectors as well, so I did a quick edit. It's nice to know I'm not alone.
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Dec 5, 2023 17:38
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Cowslips Warren posted:Worst Christmas songs would probably be a tie between that horrible Christmas shoes song and Dominic the donkey. gently caress you for reminding me of that shoes song, gods that song is terrible.
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Dec 5, 2023 18:03
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Dance of the Sugerplum Fairy is also somewhat sinister, but that's understandable because YOU DO NOT gently caress WITH THE FAE FOLK. Fairies are not your friend and they will gleefully steal your babies, eat your eye jelly and take your teeth.
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Dec 5, 2023 18:03
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Randalor posted:Dance of the Sugerplum Fairy is also somewhat sinister, but that's understandable because YOU DO NOT gently caress WITH THE FAE FOLK. Fairies are not your friend and they will gleefully steal your babies, eat your eye jelly and take your teeth. Pffft, you act like they’re going to take all of your skin  They’ll leave you a little bit, what else do you want!
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:Don't Shoot Me Santa by the Killers is the best Christmas song of the modern era. All of The Killers' Christmas songs are pretty great, if you like The Killers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C24KIIh_OzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymN_kjYeFk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9d9qd9o_lU
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I never really stopped to listen closely to their song “Jenny Was a Friend of Mine”, but drat if that song isn’t creepy upon the barest bit of a closer look 
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Dec 5, 2023 18:41
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My family found this extremely beautiful collection of (mostly) very old Christmas music years ago: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7961594--make-we-joy-christmas-music-by-holst-and-walton The link has samples from the start of each track. My own favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7vFoEhUars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQcCKNyYnNU edit: these are samples of media that have aged remarkably well 
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Icon Of Sin posted:I never really stopped to listen closely to their song “Jenny Was a Friend of Mine”, but drat if that song isn’t creepy upon the barest bit of a closer look Hot Fuss (their first album) is full of creepy bangers imo. Midnight Show and Andy You're A Star also come to mind Edit: oh that's why lmao Wikipedia posted:The songs "Midnight Show" and "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" are two parts of the so-called "Murder Trilogy", detailing the fictional story of a woman who is murdered by her jealous boyfriend. The first part, "Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf", appears on the band's B-sides and rarities compilation, Sawdust. Blood Nightmaster has a new favorite as of 19:01 on Dec 5, 2023 |
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the_steve posted:gently caress you for reminding me of that shoes song, gods that song is terrible. https://youtu.be/iq10bz3PxyY (Patton Oswalt bad but Christmas shoes worse)
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In sort of the opposite vein of Christmas music (in that we're mostly sick of the old "classics") old-timey Christmas Postcards and other art is awesome and aged wonderfully, though maybe not in the way the artists envisioned. To modern eyes, it's some bizarre, absurdist humor, but to them, it was just throwing whatever sticks at the wall because it was before everyone settled on "Fat man in a red suit, snowmen, and angels" so it was just fuckin' bonkers: https://www.boredpanda.com/creepy-victorian-vintage-christmas-cards/    one company must have REALLY loved frogs...there's a LOT of frog cards. 
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Comedians made jokes about hating their wives for decades and Oswalt takes that joke to its most obvious punchline, yet he gets nothing but poo poo for it.
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hawowanlawow posted:"he knows when you've been bad or good so be good for goodness's sake" kinda misses the point of being good for goodness's sake it's telling them to "be good, for goodness' sake" (i.e. be good, with a folksy term at the end that is commonly used to add emphasis) right?
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Randalor posted:While we're on the Christmas music tangent, am I the only one who finds the music for Carol of the Bells sounds... I dunno... kinda sinister for a Christmas song? The first time I heard it was at the start of the 1991 Addams Family movie. So yeah, I definitely associate "creepy" with it. (Also kooky, mysterious, and possibly even spooky) Next time I heard it was John Williams' version from the Home Alone soundtrack, which is no less sinister. Enemabag Jones posted:Comedians made jokes about hating their wives for decades and Oswalt takes that joke to its most obvious punchline, yet he gets nothing but poo poo for it. I wonder how well "Patton Oswalt killed his wife" jokes like this one will age.
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