This morning, I felt a disturbance in the force as the opening bars of what could only be Paul McCartney’s great shame, “Wonderful Christmastime.”
You know, “Sim…ply… hav…ing…” and so forth.
Unable to escape for a moment — let’s be honest, it caught me in the men’s room — I heard enough to realize, “That’s not Paul McCartney.”
I had to know who would commit the crime of re-recording the one great musical crime of a beloved pop genius.
SoundHound told me: It was The Shins, whom I had only encountered previously on the soundtrack of “Garden State,” years and years ago.
I don’t know why they did this. I thought we had all agreed that this wretched ditty was at the top of everyone’s Top Five Worst Christmas Songs list. Or at least at the top of mine, which is what counts. No, I tell a lie — it’s second on the list. “The Little Drummer Boy” is first.
So what in the name of Kris Kringle are these Shin people doing committing this copycat crime?
It’s insupportable…
The Shins: Be On the LookOut for these individuals. I think this photo was taken in their shadowy criminal “lair.”
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Maybe they lost a bet.
There’s no accounting for taste but I think the McCartney tune is very pleasant. What is it you find offensive?
As I noted in the 2013 post the 12 days of Christmas is really annoying. And the Granma got run over by a Reindeer song is really awful.
I can’t tell you. Nor can I tell you why “Hey, Jude” is awesome. I can say that the characteristics that make “Hey, Jude” awesome are completely lacking in this track, and that whatever this contains is blessedly missing in “Hey, Jude”…
It’s just that by the third time (and perhaps even the second) he goes, “Sim…ply hav…ing…,” I’m ready to start pounding my head on a wall…
It’s an earworm. I don’t especially like it but it sticks in my head against my will and better judgment.
But here is the really shocking news……LOTS of people have covered it, see:
https://secondhandsongs.com/work/87257/versions
I too have wondered why.
It’s not as bad as Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
Well, they had done a lot of acid by that time…
we were talking about the space between us all
Just a little something to spread your heads on this warm winter’s day: