With all the holiday happenings I forgot to post this when I wrote it. I’ll actually have a new Five Cool Things here in a couple of days. I hope everyone had a good holiday and that we are all refreshed and ready to conquer a new year.
For this post I’m talking about the new Knives Out movie, the new Running Man movie, a new to me song from a band I’ve never heard of before, a newish song from Hayes Carll and a Christmas song from The Pogues. You can read all about it over at Cinema Sentries.
The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York” is one of my favorite songs. It is the perfect Christmas song. I love that it is slightly irreverent, and funny. And sad. It makes me cry every time I listen to it (and I listen to it a lot this time of year.) I love that it is a song for everyone, not just the churchgoing folk. I love its structure and its lyrics. Like I said, it is one of my favorite Christmas songs.
I just discovered this a cappella version of it from an Irish group called The Ramparts. It is quite lovely, and now I’m sharing it with you.
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