The Complaint Thread

[Goldbug]

THE PEANUTS THEME SONG IS NOT A CHRISTMAS SONG!!!!
and now back to your regular complaints

 

[joshsquash729]

Goddamnit. I cannot stand Eli Roth but now I kinda wanna see what happens.

I don't much care for him either, but I actually had a good time with Thanksgiving. It doesn't take itself too terribly seriously. Certainly skews more "Scream" than "Halloween", at least in terms of tone. There's certainly some gratuitous gross-out moments, but it's not too bad.

Alright, everyone should do their top five Christmas songs now. I'll start:

1. Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
2. Happy Xmas - John Lennon
3. Christmas Is All Around - Billy Mack (which is actually Bill Nighy)
4. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
5. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love

For my money, the voice of Christmas isn't Mariah, it's firmly Darlene Love.

My #1 is "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"- no specific version; it encapsulates everything that Christmas is to me- joyous, nostalgic, with a touch of bittersweet melancholy. After that, I feel like it varies year-to-year. Christmastime for the Jews has been getting a lot of airplay the last couple years since I started dating a Jew. Brownie points for the Bill Nighy shoutout, though; he's definitely the best part of that movie, and a vastly underrated actor.

 

[Ru1977]

Bill Nighy... definitely the best part of that movie,

Definitely! And the song, with everything that goes with it and his character, is just fun. A lot of that movie just doesn't do anything for me though.

 

[docsilence]

THE PEANUTS THEME SONG IS NOT A CHRISTMAS SONG!!!!
and now back to your regular complaints

That Vince Guaraldi Christmas song in the Peanuts special is an eldritch tune created specifically to break your heart in a profound way that no words can explain. It's a musical equivalent of someone stepping on your grave.

 

[AceofKnaves]

The best Christmas song is Spinal Tap’s “Christmas with the Devil.”

I will not be taking questions at this time.

 

[TheSameIdiot]

These are the Christmas songs that immediately sprang to mind. This year, I'll try to figure out if any of the classics—like those by Bing Crosby and his ilk—are worth a damn. I lean toward no.

 

[Felonious Monk]

That Vince Guaraldi Christmas song in the Peanuts special is an eldritch tune created specifically to break your heart in a profound way that no words can explain. It's a musical equivalent of someone stepping on your grave.

Didn't Arrested Development have that music (or a sound-alike) whenever George Michael was moping and once when an adult was?

 

[vicious]

I hate how Amazon will just send you someone else's return, with a packing sticker partially torn-off, the box beaten to hell and back, retaped shut, and then they have the nerve to tell you that you need to return it to get a replacement. I'm going to spend the time to make a stink about it and get a free replacement, fuck taking 30 minutes out of my day to drive to the UPS store because you sent me a used item.