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    Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over

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    Image of gooneruk gooneruk
    12/14/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    It's no What's Going On, is it? Although Bono popped up on that one too, annoyingly.

    Whatever happened to all of the people in that video...?!
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    Image of no I said no I won't no no I said no I won't no
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    This new version is just limp, distortion notwithstanding. I mean, I like some of those bands, but it's just not the same when you don't get the thrill of saying, "Hey, that's Simon!" "Hey, Paul Young has the most awesome voice!" "OMG, it's Boy George!" and "It's so cool that Sting got to sing "sting"!" Other than T&S, none of them is terribly unique-sounding, and them only because they're girls.

    DTKIC was awesome*, and as someone said below, just having all those britpop stars in the age of story videos doing such a low-key un-egotistic singalong at a time when people actually believed buying the thing would do some good (I have the 45, somewhere in my parents' house) was a nice moment.

    *for my 13-year-old self, and way cooler than WATW, which started the whole "what about the children crap we're still overusing today.

    ...okay. Now I've watched the old video. God, I'm both warmed and a little pukey with how freaking old it is and thus, I must be. I mean, they look like babies, and Sting's now "well preserved," the Georges Boy and Michael have gone plonking nuts, and Bono would now never stand between Sting and Simon LeBon (even then he was pushing in front). But come on - they're all smiling and being dorks...and the Bananarama chicks wore sweats. For pop stars, there's not a pair of hot pants or abs, bling or corsets in sight, and for that this Christmas season, we can be grateful.
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    Image of elinorwhyme elinorwhyme
    12/14/09

    @no I said no I won't no: I too have the 45 somewhere in my parents' attic. We Are the World did not move me at all, but I would come home from school, stick the little doohickey in the center, and put DTKIC on the record player. Was that like the last nanosecond before we all started buying cassette tapes?
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    Image of yourfriendandneighbor yourfriendandneighbor
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    First of all, go to your room, Foster, for suggesting that this cover is any way a) better than the original and b) not a piece of shit. Secondly, Live Aid? Sheesh. Kids today.
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    Image of Tammany_Fall Tammany_Fall
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    OK, so, I feel like Linus at the end of the Charlie Brown special but ... come on, guys. Bob Geldof pulled a bunch of really famous people, many of whom had not yet become dicks or boring or self important, together into a studio to raise money to feed people. No more, no less. And they crammed next to each other on risers like a junior high school glee club and belted out a silly song because it seemed like a nice thing to do. Besides, I was a freshman in Catholic school when this came out, and watching Gary Kemp from Spandau Ballet and John Taylor for Duran Duran bopping up and down with their geetars for Ethiopia was like fucking Christmas porn.

    P.S. Can't believe no one's commented on what must be baby Fifi Trixibelle Geldof in the arms of her mother, Paula Yates ...
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    Image of ShagCarpet ShagCarpet
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    Though a handful of African babies were indeed saved in 1984, sadly, the world's reserves of Dippity-Doo were pumped dry in a single afternoon by a pack of caroling pop stars.
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    raincoaster promoted this comment Foster Kamer approved this comment ShagCarpet was starred ShagCarpet was unstarred
    Image of Senor_Macho_Solo Senor_Macho_Solo
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    "Tonight thank God it's them, instead of Jews". Is it possible that David Cross just ruined something that was already terrible?
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    Image of rednrowdy rednrowdy
    12/13/09

    @Senor_Macho_Solo: YEP! yes, he did.
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    Image of The Sneak The Sneak
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    Wow. That track is just terrible enough completely invalidate everything your generation has created, Foster. Old people, FTW.
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    Image of tailpipebananna tailpipebananna
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    Dude, they know it's Christmastime but where's Celine Dion's Northern Lights?
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    12/14/09

    @tailpipebananna: That song actually got her an American agent and effectively made her career outside of Canada. He said, "I never heard of Celine Dion and the fucking broad sang her fucking ass off." Quite the culture shock for a little girl from Quebec.
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    12/14/09

    @raincoaster: sorry, eh.
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    Image of Mean_Ol_Liberal Mean_Ol_Liberal
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    When I got to a certain age (one that Foster doesn't ever plan on reaching), I came to a realization about global poverty that was both depressing as hell and liberating at the same time. It was this: If the members of the developed world's middle class donated a mere average of 25 dollars per person per year, they would blow away the amount donated if Bono gave away everything he owned. Hell, they'd by-pass Warren Buffett's whole fortune in two years.

    When I was a 20 year old college student first hitting the painful realization of class limitation in the US's white collar world, however, Bono's shrieking guilt at me in that song really, really pissed me off.

    Actually it still does even if, by now, I know what he means.
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    Image of otakugirl otakugirl
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    Dude, you cannot use a track that includes both Mould and Cross to make an "old people suck" point. It's like backing the statement "Jews can't rap" by playing a Beastie Boys track.
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    Image of Peter Feld Peter Feld
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    Cranking up YouTube audio LOUD is fun at any age!

    Look, you may be too young to realize this, but the original was widely recognized at the time as annoying. It never caught on here (soon after, we had the much better, and better cast "We Are The World"), though Brits got predictably gooey for its tone-deaf (aw, poor starving Africans are missing out on Christmas!), you-are-the-Third-World messaging and the thrilling sight of the era's most self-important mainstream rock stars taking to the microphones like soldiers marching off to war. In no way is this lame-ass song redeemed by an unnecessary 25-years-later remake from a melange of Canadian-friendly (natch), n+1-loving indie bands needing captions to be recognizable.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    12/13/09

    @Peter Feld: Indeed. We Are The World FTW: [www.youtube.com]
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    12/13/09

    @Xylo: Coz it has Bruce.
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    Image of Tammany_Fall Tammany_Fall
    12/13/09

    @Peter Feld: "We Are the World" is the most boring song EVER. Also, you must be forgetting the incredible ego-negotiating that went into making it happen, the fracas over who would sing what and stand next to whom, which spawned an entire Doonesbury book ... not to mention that the Americans only got together because they were embarassed the Brits thought of it first. Bunch of famous Brits summoned to a shabby studio at the last minute, where they actually seem to be having fun for a good cause, FTW.
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    Image of Peter Feld Peter Feld
    12/13/09

    @Tammany_Fall: That's great to have sparked an argument over which mid-80s ego fest was better. I take your point. "We Are The World" is a bit insipid, you're right, but it has an inspirational rather than condescending message, plus the only-ever collaboration between Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan (along with Bruce, Quincy Jones, Cyndi Lauper and everyone else I'm forgetting).
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    Image of Tammany_Fall Tammany_Fall
    12/13/09

    @Peter Feld: Thanks for being civil. I admit I have a soft spot for "DTKIC," which got ingrained long before I was old enough to think about the politics implied by the song. Thing is, I don't think Geldof was thinking about that either ... I think he was trying to remind people how fortunate they are, and it came out backwards.

    Then again, I still laugh at Sam Kinison's routine about how there wouldn't be a famine if people would move where the food is, so I'm probably long overdue for sensitivity training.
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    12/13/09

    @Peter Feld: I don't know what planet you were living on then, because this is exactly backwards. Americans were humiliated by the lugubrious "We Are the World." The Band Aid song was and is far superior.

    This cover, however, is atrocious.
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    Image of WhiteMan'sBourbon WhiteMan'sBourbon
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    It really upset me when I was young to learn that all those Muslims and animists in Africa were unaware that it was Christmas.
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    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    on the OLDES clip at 1:33, think Bobcat Goldwaithe and have a hearty lulz.
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    Image of Maulleigh Maulleigh
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    OMG they were so hot. I've never been sexually attracted to Phil Collins before!
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    Image of Mean_Ol_Liberal Mean_Ol_Liberal
    12/13/09

    In reply to Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
    I love the huffiness of youth towards those of a certain age.

    What's your alternative plan, Binkykins? NOT aging? Have fun with that.
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