It’s Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas starts off like the Cocteau Twins and it’s all a bit, well, odd. But rather beautiful too. Kiddies singing? Someone even made a video for it. Thanks to Jon
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It’s Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas starts off like the Cocteau Twins and it’s all a bit, well, odd. But rather beautiful too. Kiddies singing? Someone even made a video for it. Thanks to Jon
See lyrics to It’s Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas
Martin
“…. and your smile has a fee”. I think.
It rhymes and fits in with the sentiment.
29 May 2008
Gordon Burns
Is it not…
“…disdain at the crane”
30 May 2008
RobJ
I’ve always thought it was “All the same, here’s a card”.
3 June 2008
chris
Thanks all!
3 June 2008
Neil G
MERRY CHRISTMAS 2008 AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR IN 2009.
26 December 2008
Treadmore
the perfect video to accompany the song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRDJgn68h1A
6 November 2009
s.g.d. a ShropshireLad
I think that we should campaign to get this to number one this Christmas.
Anyone got any ideas how we can restore a little bit of Christmas and give whatever song X factor releases a run for it’s money?
11 November 2009
chesneywold
Isn’t it ‘the crepe with the bright fairy lights’?
You know a cheap decoration involving lights and crepe. what’s a crane with bright fairy lights?
i can’t believe this song doesnt get more airplay what with ‘cool’ djs always looking for alternative xmas songs and not everyone can play fairytale of new york every day. it’s perfect. bells, children’s choir, mentions of pine and jingle bells, heartwarming and genuinely amusing. it gives people who are annoyed at those who hate xmas for no reason a much-needed acerbic boost.
i am singing it til twelfth night.
15 December 2011
John Burscough
Quite so, quite so, but the cranes at the concrete factory near us have fairy lights on them every year, and so does this one.
(Twelve Days of Christmas by The Joseph & Mary Chain is quite good too.)
15 December 2011
SPENCER THE HALFWIT
I think Gideon Coe had it lined up to play last night, but I wasn’t around to witness it.
15 December 2011
Third Rate Les
I agree it’s odd it doesn’t get more coverage – I was puzzled that it wasn’t in NME’s list of alternative Christmas songs. Much as I like “I’m getting pissed for Christmas” by Peter & The Test Tube Babies and the Stiff Little Fingers version of White Christmas, they’re nowhere close.
I hadn’t heard Poly Styrene’s Black Christmas before – that’s a belter. I also looked up efforts by The Killers, Glasvegas, Low, Sufjan Stevens, Galaxi 500 and Hurts which were good, although as ever left me wondering how the term “alternative” can still be used; the Hurts one (“all I want for Christmas is New Year’s Day”) could just as easily be by Westlife.
16 December 2011
Third Rate Les
Thurd rate Les? Ooof. That’s these modern gadgets’ keyboards for you.
16 December 2011
Paddy
Utter genius from a brilliant album. The greatest Xmas song ever. Wish I was in Manchester tonight. How did it go?
18 December 2011
Paddy
Why does any other Xmas record outsell this one?
26 December 2011
Chris The Siteowner
Lovely acoustic version by Jacqui Wicks here. Thanks hugely for the spot to Andrew O. Happy Christmas.
14 December 2012
mRsPECIALpANTS
I always hear ‘you’d moan at the snow’ rather than ‘you’ which makes sense after ‘How did I guess’.
15 March 2013
bobby svarc
Peace on Earth – Have a good day everyone
25 December 2013
Dr Desperate
And a Merry Christmas to all Biscuiteers from us an’ all.
25 December 2013
BrumbiscUit
Clichéd it may well be, but when your fellow postal workers play that fucking awful East 17 song and the Shakin’ Drink-Drivin’ Stevens one three times each in the space of half an hour, you’d be clichéd too.
Roll on the Solstice!
21 December 2014
Dr Desperate
It’s always the same on Christmas Day in the morning. You can wait twenty minutes and nothing comes along, and then all of a sudden three ships come sailing in.
21 December 2014
dickhead in quicksand
Do you ask the captain what his name is, and how come he doesn’t drive a truck?
21 December 2014
Dr Desperate
No, I just say Good Luck.
21 December 2014
EXXO
You say “plenty more ships.”
I say “you must live down south mate.”
Harwich perhaps.
Mind you they’d probably get dockers to work Chrimbo day down there an’ all.
21 December 2014
EXXO
Anyway, ha yes, I’ve never actually read the lyrics you’ve got here for this one but Mr. Pants was right – it’s “you’d moan”.
Apart from being what he sings, it also makes the syntax of the whole verse make sense, which it doesn’t with current transcription.
I only noticed the anomaly when (reading this thread for what must be the first time) I clicked on the not-particularly-interesting version by Jacqui someone, as mentioned above, and she sings it wrong.
21 December 2014
Bobby SVARC
I saw Rustie Lee with the Baby Squad, the Baby Squad, the Baby Squad
I saw Rustie Lee with the Baby Squad at Bardon Hill in the morning
21 December 2014
Dr Desperate
A Merry Christmas to all Biscuiteers!
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/peel/images/1/15/2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090513030300
24 December 2014
Toastkid
Merry Christmas to all you hmhb fans! Make a noise with your toys and enjoy a glass or six.
25 December 2015
Brumbiscuit
Totnes Bickering? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHi7eJPAk5w
17 December 2017
Transit full of keith
Jingle bells, piney smells:
https://twitter.com/susanpenhaligon/status/1076434363871608832?s=19
22 December 2018
hendrix-tattoo
Happy Xmas and NY to all you fellow Biscuiteers.
God Bless to you all….
24 December 2019
Pirx the purist
Why are you wishing us New York?
Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i Fisgedwyr ym mhedwar ban byd.
24 December 2019
gipton TEENAGER
Happy Christmas Austin Texas, whoever you are.
25 December 2019
hendrix-tattoo
The boys of the New Year PD choir were singing “Galway Bay” and the bells were ringing out for Christmas day.
Why are you just wishing season greetings to Buddhists?
What about us catholics around the world.
Happy Xmas and New Year Pirx the Purist….
25 December 2019
Bobby Svarc
Tantivy from snowy Leicestershire. “we are staying up…..”
25 December 2019
Ferencvaros fan
Trusting my team makes a noise at Leeds tomorrow, although I fear it will be a pointless exercise.
God bless all.
25 December 2019
dr desperate
I’m sure there’ll be plenty of so-called banter. Merry Christmas to all Lilywhites fans (and everybody else).
25 December 2019
Featureless tv producer steve
And Season’s Greetings to all Biscuit fans, from the sunny and humid beaches of Florida’s gulf coast.
How anyone lives in this sauna I will never understand. Some of us quite like a bit of drizzle, you know?
25 December 2019
Pirx the purist
@H-T,
I’m not surprised that New Year has its own Police Department; it usually needs one.
But, as it’s not a stag weekend, the army won’t need to be on standby.
26 December 2019