Comments on: “…but they never leave my heart.” http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/2005/12/16/but-they-never-leave-my-heart/ Pop culture and nothing but. Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:39:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The Pop View » Blog Archive » A Quiet Christmas http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/2005/12/16/but-they-never-leave-my-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-126075 The Pop View » Blog Archive » A Quiet Christmas Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:47:58 +0000 http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/?p=181#comment-126075 [...] When I posted “Things Fall Apart,” I wrote: This is the Christmas I love, one of bittersweet pain and crushed dreams. Go watch It’s A Wonderful Life again, one of the best Christmas movies ever made. You think it’s about holly and mistletoe and how lovely things are at the holidays? It’s a dark, bitter vision of life, a portrait of missed opportunities and unachieved ambitions. So, you hug your kids and decide not to cut your throat after all. Merry Christmas. [...] [...] When I posted “Things Fall Apart,” I wrote: This is the Christmas I love, one of bittersweet pain and crushed dreams. Go watch It’s A Wonderful Life again, one of the best Christmas movies ever made. You think it’s about holly and mistletoe and how lovely things are at the holidays? It’s a dark, bitter vision of life, a portrait of missed opportunities and unachieved ambitions. So, you hug your kids and decide not to cut your throat after all. Merry Christmas. [...]

]]> By: The Pop View http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/2005/12/16/but-they-never-leave-my-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-163 The Pop View Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:10:47 +0000 http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/?p=181#comment-163 For more info on "This Holiday Season," see my more recent post <a href="http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/?p=184">here</a>. For more info on “This Holiday Season,” see my more recent post here.

]]> By: girish http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/2005/12/16/but-they-never-leave-my-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-161 girish Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:29:07 +0000 http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/?p=181#comment-161 Awesome news. Awesome news.

]]> By: Brendon http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/2005/12/16/but-they-never-leave-my-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-160 Brendon Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:30:38 +0000 http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/?p=181#comment-160 Here's a kind of video Xmas card I made that uses THE WAITRESSES. Hope you have a laugh and want to pass it on... http://www.anthologise.com/johnvslaura/ Here’s a kind of video Xmas card I made that uses THE WAITRESSES. Hope you have a laugh and want to pass it on…

http://www.anthologise.com/johnvslaura/

]]> By: The Pop View http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/2005/12/16/but-they-never-leave-my-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-159 The Pop View Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:41:18 +0000 http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/?p=181#comment-159 What I miss is the old gritty New Wave-ish Was (Not Was). Yeah, too bad they're not making records any more. They also have a cut on the ZE Record’s <em>A Christmas Record</em> compilation, called "Christmas Time in the Motor City." Hey, checking <a href="http://www.worldwidewas.com/">this site</a>, they're back together and getting ready to release a new album! As for that "Christmas Sucks" song, it's actually "This Holiday Season," by Athens, GA band Porn Orchard. It's just a very, very good simulation of Waits and Murphy, in the spirit of the infamous David Bowie-Bing Crosby duet on "Little Drummer Boy." What I miss is the old gritty New Wave-ish Was (Not Was). Yeah, too bad they’re not making records any more. They also have a cut on the ZE Record’s A Christmas Record compilation, called “Christmas Time in the Motor City.”

Hey, checking this site, they’re back together and getting ready to release a new album!

As for that “Christmas Sucks” song, it’s actually “This Holiday Season,” by Athens, GA band Porn Orchard. It’s just a very, very good simulation of Waits and Murphy, in the spirit of the infamous David Bowie-Bing Crosby duet on “Little Drummer Boy.”

]]> By: girish http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/2005/12/16/but-they-never-leave-my-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-158 girish Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:42:04 +0000 http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/?p=181#comment-158 I first heard Cristina on the Ze records comp, <i>Zetrospective</i>. And God I miss Was (Not Was). Their records, especially <i>What Up, Dog?</i>, are some of of my favorite unheralded pop music of that period. I first heard Cristina on the Ze records comp, Zetrospective.
And God I miss Was (Not Was). Their records, especially What Up, Dog?, are some of of my favorite unheralded pop music of that period.

]]> By: Daz http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/2005/12/16/but-they-never-leave-my-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Daz Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:34:30 +0000 http://www.thepopview.com/wordpress/?p=181#comment-157 Ah God bless you. "Things Fall Apart " is my very favourite Christmas offering, and I wheel it out every year as an antidote to all the unsufferable crap peddled in the name of the awful time known as Christmas. She also does a fabulous version of my all time favourite song "Is That All There Is", but Peggy Lee`s version is still the definitive article. I also recommend "Christmas Sucks" by Tom Waits and Peter Murphy (yes, THAT Pete Murphy of Bauhaus); wonderfully grumpy.!! Ah God bless you.

“Things Fall Apart ” is my very favourite Christmas offering, and I wheel it out every year as an antidote to all the unsufferable crap peddled in the name of the awful time known as Christmas.

She also does a fabulous version of my all time favourite song “Is That All There Is”, but Peggy Lee`s version is still the definitive article.

I also recommend “Christmas Sucks” by Tom Waits and Peter Murphy (yes, THAT Pete Murphy of Bauhaus); wonderfully grumpy.!!

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