Now that’s a reinterpretation.
Mungo Jerry and Anita Harris – Fairytale of New York.
Bob Fox writes:
This is indescribable…
*sound of Shane MacGowan cackling*
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Now that’s a reinterpretation.
Mungo Jerry and Anita Harris – Fairytale of New York.
Bob Fox writes:
This is indescribable…
*sound of Shane MacGowan cackling*
Jaysus that’s brutal
love the way he sings,”you’re an old slut on junk lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed”. so jaunty.
Are you sure that’s not Hozier singing?
Really captures the forlorn bleakness of addiction.
There has to be tongue-in-cheek element to this.
It is better than this…at least they didn’t change the words..ya scumbag, ya maggot, you’re cheap and your haggerd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daAG5JfNNFQ
It’s still not as bad as Ronan Keating’s version…
Make it stop…Make it stop….pleeaasssseee
It’s funny cos that’s how I feel about the original every year. I believe it was somewhere around 2.00 am one december saturday night around 2006 when I realised I never wanted to hear it ever again.
Feels like temporary insanity.
macgowan’s best xmas tune is still ‘dark streets of london’.
i used to love ‘fairytale of new york’ but i’m making a concerted effort not to listen to it this year – i’m sick to the back teeth of it.
He gets around €460k a year in royalties for that song.
jaysus! enough to buy a dirty big wall and p1ss the rest of it up against it, no doubt.
Sounds like heaven.