Songs about reindeer and rocking around the Christmas tree make me retch. Just because it's Christmas doesn't mean I'll abandon my favourite musical themes, drunkenness and despair. These two songs get a lot of play chez Nag over the Christmas season:
John Prine's Christmas in Prison The John Prine Christmas album is much better than most seasonal compilations which, for the most part, suck. This song tugs at my old brittle heartstrings.
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues - Ditto.
I also love choirs with little boy sopranos and a medieval bent that evoke the coldness and darkness of winter and make you want to huddle round the hearth with a flagon of something.
No comments:
Post a Comment