Bon Jovi – Fairytale Of New York
Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse…
The New Jersey rockers have only gone and recorded their take on the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl classic. Pandemonium in the comments section under the YouTube video ensued, such as…
“The last person to assault the Irish like this was Oliver Cromwell.”
Some things really should be left well alone.
Nick says: Pogue mahone.
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Nope, will not be clicking on that. My ears will remain unassailed by that particular horror.
Okay. I will admit I’ve just listened to approximately 15 seconds of that but I’d prefer to be kicked in my festive chestnuts than listen to any more.
snap…
I heard it on the Radio this morning and was, like, aghhhhhhh; then ugggg, mMmmm… finally ugh.
But then I though – it’s musically different to the original, and that’s acceptable with me¹..If you’re going to do a cover – make it your own.
¹unlike, say, Ronan Keating’s version with was a bowdlerised carbon-copy of the original. Zero musical merit.
‘think I’d prefer if Daniel and Majelly did a version
normally i enjoy covers. gives songs a new perspective.
But this is one song that should be left alone. maybe another irishperson singing might be okay. but jon bon jovi cant relate to getting wasted in a new york bar in the same imagery as aul Shane.
In light of Bon Jovi’s contributions to Rock, nobody should listen to it, but if he asks, we did, and it was grand.
I doubt if he’d understand “grand”.
He can ask Bono.
Bono might be too busy getting chased by Orangemen on Dublin’s mean streets, according to auld Jonny boy….
Erm, are we allowed to say that both versions, new and old, are simply awful? I never understood the original- nothing to do with the obvious, I just always thought it a dreadful song and never understood its appeal. Yet Christmas after Christmas it is lauded on loop or now of late scorned in certain parts. I never liked it- with or without that word.
Lack of intelligence – that’s the reason you never understood it. Is, and always will be your downfall. ROFL! There there there.
ROFL. My Shinnerbot-stalker! Now, now, you’re just upset that I pointed out that your Shinnerbotting has been below par of late. And it will take more than your anti-vaxx tricolour-tattooed derrière to become one of the top Shinnerbots. You’ll need more than the Pogues here Giggidy! ;-p
+1 Agreed. Not popular I know but I’ve always detested that song.
There are a few songs that make me change the radio station, such as the one about Churchill and the nuclear bombs, and the one about a reindeer humping a grandma, and Fairytale of New York doesn’t come close to that level of awful. Still, I don’t understand its appeal. It leaves me, at best, indifferent, and I tend to zone out when they play it.
Between this and Wild Mountain Thyme (I mean honestly…) and a certain global pandemic, it’s not been a great year.
so can he just pile in and make a record or did Shane/Jem grant him the rights to create this monster?
I heard Victoria Clarke being asked this and she said Yes JBJ had asked and Shane was fine with it!
ching ching!
Yep, Shane gets the royalties
Probably constitutes a significant percentage of our GDP this year.
John Ryan has let himself go a bit …
He wishes!
;-)
JBJ seems an affable sort. Why is he trying to get himself milkshaked?
FOREVER.
It’s ok.
It’s Bon Jovi’s version….not an attempt at a Pogues sound alike.
Everybody relax.
Shot dooooooooooown…..in a blaaaaaze of corny…..
Shane gets nearly half a million quid a year in royalties for this song, it’s not like he needed the money, maybe the divil in him wanted to hear how bad it would be.
He’s a sexy little shagmuffin, that Jon Bongiovi.
He really is.
I would
Probably