Yes, yes - I know you have heard this countless times over the last month or so
BUT - it features the late great Kirsty MacColl
- it is Shane MacGowan's birthday tomorrow
- and it's Christmas
Plain or Pan goes into this in considerably more detail than I ever could and possibly correctly states that this is the best Christmas single of all time (although that has sparked an interesting debate). Phil Spector obviously takes the album honours.
Here are a number of cover versions courtesy of Cover Lay Down
I won't be posting tomorrow so a Merry Christmas to you and yours and I hope Santa is good to you!
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
Forster & Allen -Galway Bay
...Foster and Allen????????????????????????????????
ReplyDeleteyou're not from Galway. Why Foster and Allen???
ReplyDeleteWhy Focus - you're not Dutch??
ReplyDeleteBut I have Orange hair! And I still don't get the reason for the Foster & Allen song
ReplyDeleteit is in the title of the post - the line from Fairy Tale of New York - the band from the NYPD band were playing Galway Bay -which I happened to have in the Foster and Allen section
ReplyDeleteHave you really got a Foster and Allen cd?
ReplyDeleteTwo!
DeleteMy favourite Xmas song too. Buon Natale!
ReplyDeleteAnd to you and your family Luca
ReplyDeletehappy christmas CC. The only Christmas song that really matters.
ReplyDeleteFoster and fucking Allen, jesus! Have a great Christmas CC.
ReplyDeleteA very merry, Chic ... all the best to you!
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