Thanks to this damned writer’s strike preventing Darlene Love from making her annual appearance on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” it just doesn’t seem like Christmas. So allow ESDMusic to do its part to help things along…
Merry Christmas, everybody!
Let’s keep this one simple, shall we? It’s a holiday, and we work during enough holidays as it is. Merry Christmas, everyone. Here’s to hoping that Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn will grace us with a new record sometime before we die.
The former lead singer of Madness takes a stab at a song from the former lead singer of The Smiths. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it’s still a fun listen.
He may have spent the last several years as a punchline to jokes about the wimpy singer-songwriters of the ’70s, but I always thought this was the sweetest, saddest farewell song, so I can’t imagine any more appropriate manner in which to bid farewell to Dan Fogelberg, who succumbed to cancer after a hard-fought battle of several years. This isn’t the best version of the song, but it’s the only one on YouTube that’s actually by Fogelberg, and, believe me, it wouldn’t be much of a tribute if I put up one of the random amateurs who’ve decided to “pay tribute” by covering the song.
For your yuletide entertainment, may I present…
* Band Aid
* Band Aid II (and sorry it’s of rather crap quality, but since it’s a crap version of the song, it’s actually rather appropriate)
There. If that doesn’t get the song stuck in your head for the rest of the day, nothing will.
Happy Holidays!
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