Vox

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El Gringo pointed me to Scalzi's list of Christmas songs which need to be purged from the musical catalog.

Some of the comments are quite amusing, but I think the loathing expressed in this one is priceless

I vote for the unholy trinity of 80s charity singles: Do They Know It's Christmas? (UK), We Are The World (US) and Tears Are Not Enough (Canada). Sure, only the original one explicitly mentions Christmas, but they all meld together in an oozing, cheesy treacly lump of ineffectually collected and administered western sentiment and currency.

Wow, well said. That one deserves an award.

Scalzi's personal choice was Feliz Navidad, which reminded me of something I meant to post a while back. I attended a production of The Nutcracker this year, presented by Ballet Arizona and The Phoenix Symphony. As we walked past the box office, I heard the strains of Feliz Navidad. I looked around to locate the source and found a quartet in full-on Dickensian apparel, happily singing it.

It's the little things.

Posted by Vox at December 23, 2006 11:17 AM | humor