| rdfs:comment | - Fairytale of New York is a christmas song recorded by Irish band The Pogues.
- "Fairytale of New York" is a song by the Celtic punk group The Pogues, released in 1987 and featuring singer Kirsty MacColl. The song is an Irish folk style ballad, written by Jem Finer andShane MacGowan, and featured on The Pogues' album If I Should Fall from Grace with God. The song features string arrangements by Fiachra Trench. It has been cited as the bestChristmas song of all time in various television, radio and magazine related polls in the UK and Ireland.
- "Fairytale of New York" is a Christmas song written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and first released as a single on 23 November 1987[1] by their band The Pogues, featuring singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl on vocals. The song was written as a duet, with the Pogues' singer MacGowan taking the role of the male character and MacColl the female character. It is an Irish folk-style ballad, and featured on The Pogues' 1988 album If I Should Fall from Grace with God.
- Fairytale of New York is a Pogues song from the album If I Should Fall from Grace with God. A Shane MacGowan/Kirsty MacColl duet. The lyrics -- "When the band stopped playing we howled out for more." -- are referenced in the next line of this song. In the song from The Pogues the lyrics cited by THS are sung as follows: "The bells they were ringing, Sinatra was swinging, When the band finished playing, We shouted for more."
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| abstract | - "Fairytale of New York" is a Christmas song written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and first released as a single on 23 November 1987[1] by their band The Pogues, featuring singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl on vocals. The song was written as a duet, with the Pogues' singer MacGowan taking the role of the male character and MacColl the female character. It is an Irish folk-style ballad, and featured on The Pogues' 1988 album If I Should Fall from Grace with God. Originally begun in 1985, the song had a troubled two year development history, undergoing rewrites and aborted attempts at recording, and losing its original female vocalist along the way, before finally being completed in summer 1987. Although the single never reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, being kept at number two on its original release in 1987 by the Pet Shop Boys' cover version of "Always on My Mind", it has since proved enduringly popular with both music critics and the public: to date the song has reached the UK top twenty on eleven separate occasions since its original release in 1987, including every year since 2005, and in 2013 was certified platinum for achieving one million sales in the UK.[2] In the UK it is the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century.[3] "Fairytale of New York" has been cited as the best Christmas song of all time in various television, radio and magazine related polls in the UK and Ireland.[4]
- Fairytale of New York is a christmas song recorded by Irish band The Pogues.
- Fairytale of New York is a Pogues song from the album If I Should Fall from Grace with God. A Shane MacGowan/Kirsty MacColl duet. The lyrics -- "When the band stopped playing we howled out for more." -- are referenced in the next line of this song. According to Wikipedia: "The song takes the form of a drunken man's Christmas Eve reverie about holidays past while sleeping off a binge in a New York City drunk tank. After an inebriated old man also incarcerated in the jail cell sings a passage from the Irish drinking ballad 'The Rare Old Mountain Dew', the drunken man (MacGowan) begins to dream about a failed relationship. The remainder of the song (which may be an internal monologue) takes the form of a call and response between two Irish immigrants, lovers or ex-lovers, their youthful hopes crushed by alcoholism and drug addiction, reminiscing and bickering on Christmas Eve in New York City. MacColl's melodious singing contrasts with the harshness of MacGowan's voice, and the lyrics are sometimes bittersweet -- sometimes plain bitter: 'Happy Christmas your arse/ I pray God it's our last'." The song gets even more viscious and hateful, but nostalgic with lyrics such as: "You scumbag, You maggot, You cheap, lousy faggot. Merry Christmas my arse. I pray God It's our last. You're a whore, You're a drunk, You're an old slut on junk lying there on a drip in your bed. The boys of the NYPD choir were singing 'Galway Bay' and the bells were ringing out on Christmas Day." In the song from The Pogues the lyrics cited by THS are sung as follows: "The bells they were ringing, Sinatra was swinging, When the band finished playing, We shouted for more." Fairytale of New York is frequently voted the Number One Best Christmas song of all time in various television, radio and magazine related polls in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
- "Fairytale of New York" is a song by the Celtic punk group The Pogues, released in 1987 and featuring singer Kirsty MacColl. The song is an Irish folk style ballad, written by Jem Finer andShane MacGowan, and featured on The Pogues' album If I Should Fall from Grace with God. The song features string arrangements by Fiachra Trench. It has been cited as the bestChristmas song of all time in various television, radio and magazine related polls in the UK and Ireland.
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