Advent Calendar ~ Day 17!
Dec. 17th, 2008 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoy17. Favourite Christmas song?
Ahem.
Just to add substance to this post, though, I’ll add two:
• James Taylor and Natalie Cole’s version of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” the only version that doesn’t sound tremendously sleazy and instead sounds like the singers are playing an elaborate courtship game in which they are co-conspirators against the rest of the world.*
• Dean Martin’s “Marshmallow World,” mostly because I have decided that this song has background singers purely to translate what drunk-ass Dino’s actually singing.
Also, about 85% of Mannheim Steamroller’s first four Christmas CDs (not including the live one and the weird angel one) are brilliant. Unfortunately, they seem to have come down with a bad case of lame recently. They need an Olivia Newton-John-ectomy.
And now! My traditional Christmas present for everyone who wasn’t reading my journal last year: a link to Super Mario’s Sleigh Ride! Enjoy, you nerds.
*Regardless of his personality, James Taylor has this remarkable ability to de-sleaze songs—as also evidenced by his version of “Walking My Baby Back Home,” which omits the verse that contains the lines “She says if I try to kiss her she’ll cry—I dry her tears all through the night!” Way to be classy, James.
Ahem.
Just to add substance to this post, though, I’ll add two:
• James Taylor and Natalie Cole’s version of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” the only version that doesn’t sound tremendously sleazy and instead sounds like the singers are playing an elaborate courtship game in which they are co-conspirators against the rest of the world.*
• Dean Martin’s “Marshmallow World,” mostly because I have decided that this song has background singers purely to translate what drunk-ass Dino’s actually singing.
Also, about 85% of Mannheim Steamroller’s first four Christmas CDs (not including the live one and the weird angel one) are brilliant. Unfortunately, they seem to have come down with a bad case of lame recently. They need an Olivia Newton-John-ectomy.
And now! My traditional Christmas present for everyone who wasn’t reading my journal last year: a link to Super Mario’s Sleigh Ride! Enjoy, you nerds.
*Regardless of his personality, James Taylor has this remarkable ability to de-sleaze songs—as also evidenced by his version of “Walking My Baby Back Home,” which omits the verse that contains the lines “She says if I try to kiss her she’ll cry—I dry her tears all through the night!” Way to be classy, James.
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Date: 2008-12-29 09:14 pm (UTC)And I think the James Taylor version of "Cold Outside" probably is the one I like. I thought it was by Barry White at first; it's so romantic!