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I agree with rsl12 on "Christmastime is here". I like it very much, as well as the rest of the Peanuts soundtrack.
I also agree with Redlemon on "Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time". I know why I hate it.
1. It is essentially a pop song. It has been around for a long time. Yet rock stations, pop stations, and definitely soft rock stations play the ever loving ef out of it because it kinda sorta fit their format when it came out in the 70's.
2. That bouncy sustain effect that happens nearly every measure. "(boink-oink-oink) the mood is right..."
3. The words, "simply having a wonderful Christmas time." Who the ef says "simply" besides Holden Caulfield's perverted english teacher? The word simply was obviously thrown in to measure out the lyric. Given the period when Paul McCartney wrote it, he should have written, "high as hell, having a wonderful Christmas time."
My other two dislikes are "Silent Night" because it seems like everybody who sings it is in a contest to make go slower, and softer, and atonal. It's the only song written for the ugly ducklings of the chorus, the altos and 2nd tenors. And Feliz Navidad. Same reason as McCartney's song. A pop song that is re-played ad nauseum year after year.
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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet
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