Wonderful Christmas Time’s celebratory lunar bounces and instrumental warbling confuse and delight me year after year, and the video is nothing less than a nightmare that can only be produced by the 1980s (if you couldn’t already tell by Linda McCartney’s Wayne Gretzky ‘do). As a Jew who encounters every Christmas season as yet another opportunity to be overlooked, it’s nice to find some secular sympathy in Wings’ promotion of, simply enough, having fun.
It’s quite obvious that Paul and the gang were having a grand ol’ time when they penned this tune. At the bridge, the lyric “The choir of children sing their songs” takes an awkwardly long time before being followed by the mirroring notes of the melody, one…weird…tone at a time. And the visual accompaniment begs to be witnessed in the video, in which the keyboard is played…in…space?
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So this Christmas, pour a little ‘nog, curl up by the fireplace, drop some E, and do like Wings: Go batshit crazy. ‘Tis, apparently, the season to be fugged up.
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This song is the tits!! Seriously though, is there another version of this song?? I grooved to this all last winter, after making a killer mix from the EPIC, PT Christmas music thread of 2006.
Last christmas was the best ever, ’cause I always had amazing xmas music on hand.
As far as Bad is Good XMas tunes go, is there a better tune than Wham’s Last Christmas? I doubt it. Even the video is amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJeUAmfr6w
Oh man, I may have to watch this 12 times today.
this christmas im noticing my hatred for its music but since i passed all my finals and jut found out STS9 was added to Langerado i think i can do maybe some blink 182 christmas lol
I love that Paul wrote and recorded the song quickly, never played it in concert; and every holiday season adds a few extra hundred thousand dollars to his vast fortune thanks to all of the xmas radio stations that play this song once an hour.
Paul McCartney drank the biggest cup of lame somewhere in the late 70’s
Give me a little drink
From your lame lame cup