- MUD LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS CHORDS AND LYRICS FULL
- MUD LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS CHORDS AND LYRICS LICENSE
A tumbleweed moment followed after which I hastily retreated to the comfort of the school bar. It wasn’t until the song was pretty much through that I realised I wasn’t getting the favoured response I had hoped for and my singing kind of trailed off – leaving, as the record ended, an uneasy silence. Now I’m not saying I can’t sing – that wasn’t the problem – I just wasn’t aware that you didn’t do that cos it’s extremely naff & uncool. Enter the cruel & mocking tones of Les Gray whereupon I decided, in my wisdom, to sing-a-long with the record. It was the annual school Xmas disco 1974 & having spent most of the evening standing with my mates trying to look cool and eyeing up the talent I had taken the plunge and managed to grab a particularly foxy chick (using the parlance of the time), somewhat suprisingly, for the last dance. This song resonates with me primarily because it soundtracked one of my first ’embarrassing moments with members of the opposite sex’ type incidents. It seems mightily odd to be commenting on (& listening to) a Christmas song out of the season of goodwill but I will try my best & suffer for the cause. « BARRY WHITE – “You’re The First, The Last, My Everything” Popular ’74 » Comments « 1 2 All If you’re reading this on Christmas Eve, then all I can say is, Merry Christmas Readers … *choke* … wherever you are. If you’re coming back to Popular after Christmas and reading this, I hope you’ll forgive my indulgence of its festive sentiment – and I hope you had a very good time. The payoff line is but the star on top of the tree. To be honest the chorus isn’t all that, but the verses ramp things up nicely ( “an UNLIT CHRISTMAS TREE!”) and then the spoken word section is a triumph of the very ripest corn, shovelling on the heartbreak – “this is the time of year when you really…you really NEED love” – in defiance of firstly shame and secondly the very terrible acting skills on display. The template for “Lonely This Christmas” is transparently Elvis, specifically “Are You Lonesome Tonight”, but the sentiment in that song is but a light dusting of snowflakes compared to the full-on blizzard of passive-aggressive mopery Mud unleash. It’s all there in the video – the members of Mud, looking like they’re fighting to choke back sobs as their pitiful tale unfolds their leader’s face a mask of wounded dignity, only his colossal spectacles hiding his utmost grief.
MUD LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS CHORDS AND LYRICS LICENSE
Not just the basic cynicism of releasing a Christmas song, rushing in to fill the gap Slade had punched the year before (anyway, releasing Christmas songs is such a basic part of pop it barely qualifies as cynical: if you refuse a grab at this particular brass ring you should probably have your pop license revoked) – “Lonely This Christmas” is one of pop’s most brazenly manipulative guilt trips. Or perhaps froze it still further, as what the video did was make me appreciate what a marvellously cynical record this is. A “merry little Christmas” - emphasis on the “little” - is probably the only Christmas you should have yourself in 2020.I was all ready to give this a pasting before seeing the video on TMF’s Ultimate 40 Christmas Songs melted my Scroogeian heart. Many still try for that picture-perfect Christmas year after year - but not this year, if you follow public health guidelines and/or common sense.
MUD LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS CHORDS AND LYRICS FULL
Sinatra’s “jolly” version channels crowded living rooms full of laughter, platters of cookies, candles in the window, and lights on the tree: an idealized vision of Christmas so many work their tails off to create, even if the holidays cause just as much stress as good cheer. The 1944 lyrics didn’t totally disappear ( Ella Fitzgerald and Phoebe Bridgers are among those who recorded them) but the cheerful revision is more commonly performed. There’s nothing left to “muddle through somehow.” Martin needed a rhyme, so “highest bough” it is. There’s no need to look forward to better days the better days are already here. No longer did the singer have to wait for “next year” for their troubles to be out of sight with the change to “from now on,” those troubles were a thing of the past. So he asked Martin: Could he “jolly up” those words a bit? Sinatra had recorded the song in the past, but as he saw it, the lyrics were too gloomy for the mood he wanted on “A Jolly Christmas” (released in 1957). But then along came the “highest bough” lyric just over a decade later, as Frank Sinatra prepared to record a Christmas LP.