Washington Post names "Fairytale" best Xmas song ever

[mcguck]

A wonderful description, I think, of our favorite holiday song:

1. "Fairytale of New York," the Pogues. Not only the greatest Christmas song, but also perhaps one of the 10 greatest songs ever written. How can you not love a song that begins: "It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank"?

"Fairytale" encapsulates the entire American Immigrant epic (hope, heartbreak, the quest for assimilation and/or redemption) in a single five-minute song. The jubilant-turned-hateful interplay of the late Kirsty MacColl and Shane MacGowan is like holiday honey poured into a broken whiskey glass.

"And the boys in the NYPD Choir were singing 'Galway Bay,' and the bells were ringing out for Christmas day." Indeed they are . . . and we're all the better for it.

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[old barney greyheron]

MMMMM....big smileyfacething...