Merry Christmas Everybody

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DATE : Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:06:00 +0000
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Brother Typewriter – Merry Christmas Everybody

Now, I must let it be said here that I’m no great fan of Christmas-themed songs in general. They’re either lame tracks by artists who are usually good, or super-lame tracks by artists who are usually lame. Even The Wedding Present’s “No Christmas” is weak compared to their other output.

So I decided to do a Slade cover – but not as we know it, Jim. Now I’m not gonna diss Slade as they were probably the best of the early seventies glam rockers (not difficult many of you might say, but have you managed twelve number one singles in a row, or whatever it was?) but ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’ represents probably their worst track – if you had one seventies track that you could delete from the timeline and never be listened to again, it might well be that (god knows though, it’s got serious competition). Just imagine December 1973. Flared trousers, the 3 day week and then “Merry Xmas Everybody” at Number 1 – how did anybody make it through alive?

So this is unpromising material to cover and I’ll admit that with no qualms, but I have attempted to use the ‘record the words backwards and then play it forwards’ technique as pioneered by Michael J Anderson – aka “Little Man From Another Place” in Twin Peaks – and it’s worked OK. I forgot to say “So here it is… ” at the beginning (or in fact “si ti ereh os” at the end) but never mind.

Next year – similar treatment for Wizzard’s “Wish It Could Be Xmas Everyday”. Or, in fact, not.

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