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 Post subject: Fairytale of New York
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:36 am 
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There's some cover on the radio now. I heard it coming home from work tonight. It's got male and female vocals but it was clearly not the Pogues. I have no idea who it was.

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I yanked it off a newsgroup the other day out of gruesome curiosity, and it's labeled as Ronan Keating and Maire Brennan. A quick Google search corroborates this information. It's not good. It's not necessary. I don't fucking like it.

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Really. Don't fuck with one of my favorite songs.
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I really hate this sort of shit. It sort of reminds me of that company in the 80s that sold comic book versions of books like Moby Dick and A Tale of Two Cities.

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I yanked it off a newsgroup the other day out of gruesome curiosity, and it's labeled as Ronan Keating and Maire Brennan. A quick Google search corroborates this information. It's not good. It's not necessary. I don't fucking like it.


That's an abomination to all that is holy.

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This is just fucking stupid. There are some songs that are just untouchable. It amazes me that some people are too stupid to realize that.

sidenote: Fairytale of New York contains one of the most moving lyrical passages I have ever heard:

"I could have been someone"
"Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you"
"I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can’t make it all alone
I’ve built my dreams around you"
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Just serves as another reminder that Shane was a brilliant lyricist.
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Really.
You can't mess with perfection.

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"I could have been someone"
"Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you"
"I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can’t make it all alone
I’ve built my dreams around you"


I wholeheartedly agree.

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Kung Fu Reference Wrote:
I yanked it off a newsgroup the other day out of gruesome curiosity, and it's labeled as Ronan Keating and Maire Brennan. A quick Google search corroborates this information. It's not good. It's not necessary. I don't fucking like it.


That's an abomination to all that is holy.


In my lackluster defense, I thought it was Ronan Tynan, and was curious despite little confidence.

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It used to be the only Christmas song I could stand. Now I love many traditional songs, but Fairytale still tops the list.

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i like it where she says "faggot"

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This is just fucking stupid. There are some songs that are just untouchable. It amazes me that some people are too stupid to realize that.

sidenote: Fairytale of New York contains one of the most moving lyrical passages I have ever heard:

"I could have been someone"
"Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you"
"I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can’t make it all alone
I’ve built my dreams around you"



I was just listening to this now. I reiterate my statement from last year.

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i love the way this song is used in Basquiat
gets me all tingly every time.

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Maire Brennan is Enya's relative and a founder of Clannad. Now calls herself Moya Brennan because people pronounced her name wrong for decades. I like her. Keating is godawful and if I have to hear him sing God Bless America one more time at a Red Sox game, I'm switching to cricket.

This version is ill-conceived, to say the very least.


edit: yes I know it's Tynan that sings the anthems


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Time to pull out If I Should Fall...

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Elvis Fu Wrote:
I really hate this sort of shit. It sort of reminds me of that company in the 80s that sold comic book versions of books like Moby Dick and A Tale of Two Cities.


Wow! E-Fu, I asked for those for Christmas when I was 9-10 or so and got them. I think they were called pocket classics or something. I still have 'em at my folks somewhere.

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jewels santana Wrote:
i love the way this song is used in Basquiat
gets me all tingly every time.
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My fav x-mas song
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jewels santana Wrote:
i love the way this song is used in Basquiat
gets me all tingly every time.

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