It Doesn't Often Appear At Christmas

[Shopper]

true...but it was not beyond them to release more commercial/uptempo stuff out of insecurity....eg. Where streets have no name, Very album (post Behaviour) etc...

in 1997 Spicemania was at its peak, but it would have made a Top 10 in the charts for sure

[Drico One]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... in-my-hair

[Sage]

I heard It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas today at Woolworths! (In Melbourne Australia)
How wonderful, even the spoken bit at the end.
I feel like I finally "get" the song now. It's not meant to be great, but a cheerful and ironic dabble in the tradition.

[Drico One]

It’s a lovely sweet song that hilariously rejects the artifice of Christmas in favour of what really matters.

It’s actually a very good example of a song that works as a hybrid of two of their greatest characteristics: semi-detached wry observation and romantic sincerity. Throw in a soupçon of playfulness and you’ve got many of the main ingredients of a classic Pet Shop Boys production.

Any song that calls out Bing Crosby for crimes against reality sits well with me.

Drico.

[Undertaker]

Chart wise, its only really ten years old, which is probably not old enough to properly surface yet. Most of the top 20 look like older songs re-charting. Chris Rea wasn't even a top 40 hit when first released. Now its peaked at 11.

The chart is an abomination. A national institution thats been ruined by rigging. The chart companies must have all sorts of download fixing going on. Mariah Carey has 'outsold' Wham by roughly 2 000 for the past 3 weeks. That there has to be proof its rigged. No way can it be coincidence.

For three years on the trot some Youtuber has been number 1 with some stupid record. Wtf is actually going on?

[retrofuturist]

That Boris Johnson song is timely. Got to #5 with no budget, no airplay and no label. Punk lives.

[Patrick Bateman]

Chart wise, its only really ten years old, which is probably not old enough to properly surface yet. Most of the top 20 look like older songs re-charting. Chris Rea wasn't even a top 40 hit when first released. Now its peaked at 11.

The chart is an abomination. A national institution thats been ruined by rigging. The chart companies must have all sorts of download fixing going on. Mariah Carey has 'outsold' Wham by roughly 2 000 for the past 3 weeks. That there has to be proof its rigged. No way can it be coincidence.

For three years on the trot some Youtuber has been number 1 with some stupid record. Wtf is actually going on?

Masterson must be on suicide watch.

For me, once any old song could chart rather than simply singles it became meaningless. There was a week that Ed Sheeran had practically the entire top twenty, didn't he?

[df118junkie]

Chart wise, its only really ten years old, which is probably not old enough to properly surface yet. Most of the top 20 look like older songs re-charting. Chris Rea wasn't even a top 40 hit when first released. Now its peaked at 11.

The chart is an abomination. A national institution thats been ruined by rigging. The chart companies must have all sorts of download fixing going on. Mariah Carey has 'outsold' Wham by roughly 2 000 for the past 3 weeks. That there has to be proof its rigged. No way can it be coincidence.

For three years on the trot some Youtuber has been number 1 with some stupid record. Wtf is actually going on?

Have a sausage roll and calm down.

[stussyboy]

I heard IDOSAC in Macdonalds before Xmas. Most unexpected

[retrofuturist]

Just curious... are people hearing the original 1997 (?) fan club version or the version off the Christmas EP?

[llyn_psb]

Just curious... are people hearing the original 1997 (?) fan club version or the version off the Christmas EP?

I much prefer the original version.

[stussyboy]

Just curious... are people hearing the original 1997 (?) fan club version or the version off the Christmas EP?

The new version for me

[Nickname]

I really believe the song Joseph, Better You Than Me, with The Killers, Elton and Neil could have been a big classic too. It's such a good song.

[tottenhammattspurs]

Whams Last Xmas is this weeks UK number one. So that puts Wham! on five UK number ones now and relegating the boys down to second pace as the British duo with most UK number ones.

[Patrick Bateman]

Whams Last Xmas is this weeks UK number one. So that puts Wham! on five UK number ones now and relegating the boys down to second pace as the British duo with most UK number ones.

https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/feat ... uary-2021/