Wheelistically @ Claire.NU

After being brain­washed by vari­ous Chan­nel 4 “count-down” and “Top Ump­teen” shows about the art of Christ­mas Songs and Christ­mas Num­ber Ones, I found myself trawl­ing Amazon in a quest to find the ulti­mate fest­ive listen­ing mater­ial to boost my spir­its and pre­vent me from com­mit­ing Hara-Kiri whilst endur­ing my TT382 exam. The playl­ist of choice included the likes of Wizzard’s “Wish it could be Christ­mas Every­day”, Slade’s “Happy Christ­mas Ever­body”, Mud’s “Lonely This Christ­mas”, Wham’s “Last Christ­mas” and Eartha Kit’s “Santa Baby”…and maybe a bit of Queen in there some­where too. Now, you might think this was easy, you might think that because these songs have be churned out every year for the last Christ-knows-how-many-decades that to find all these songs on one com­pil­a­tion would be a “no-brainer”. You’d be wrong.

Yes, I can find each of these songs…If I want to pay top-price for 3 dif­fer­ent com­pil­a­tion CDs where all the other tracks are the likes of Destiny’s frig­gin’ Child and Shit­ney Spears howl­ing along to Jingle flam­ing Bells! But find them alto­gether? No chance! I wish I could com­bine these two and add a couple of extras like Wham!:

Not ideal as though as there’s a lot of duplic­a­tion and the dreary likes of Cliff Richard but he’s a Christ­mas insti­tu­tion, so I thinks it’s law that he’s included on things like this (like he doesn’t have a size­able enough pen­sion as it is).

I guess I want some­thing that reminds me of Christ­mas’ when I was a child as ofcourse, Christ­mas’ from child­hood are always the best.

I remem­ber one year on Box­ing Day, my whole fam­ily had a christ­mas party — all my aunts, uncles and cous­ins were there. The memory is very vague now but I remem­ber there being a lot “party food” on paper plates, a lot of run­ning around the vil­lage hall and my uncle’s copy of Queen’s Greatest Hits being played full-blast on a loop. There was also more present giv­ing and a very spe­cial visit from a very spe­cial Father Christmas…Or, should that be (my) “Grandad Christmas”…