[Music] Following on from the BBC censorship....

Stato said:

I don't know why anyone bothers covering it. It's not a song that lends itself to multiple interpretations. You can do it in a whisky soaked, down at heel, romantic style or you can not do it. If you do the first option then who'd want to listen to your version when we have Kirsty & The Pogues?

For me the only good thing about the latest attempt by the 'we fear change' culture warriors to use the song as a wedge issue was the little bit of attention it provided to the Pogues as a whole. This article from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/comment...s-frank-capra-christmas-fairytale-of-new-york makes the point that we get Fairytale to saturation point every year, but that we seldom get any of their other masterpieces on the radio.

If Bon Jovi wants to cover a Pogues song, there are so many to choose from and quite a few (Misty Morning Albert Bridge, A Rainy Night in Soho, Lullaby of London, Thousands are Sailing) that could withstand his Springsteen-lite approach far better than Fairytale could. If he wants to make a Christmas album then why choose something dark and painful? Sing the happy ones. If you want a song to suggest that you have a complicated artistic side, write your own.

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Stato said:

I don't know why anyone bothers covering it. It's not a song that lends itself to multiple interpretations. You can do it in a whisky soaked, down at heel, romantic style or you can not do it. If you do the first option then who'd want to listen to your version when we have Kirsty & The Pogues?

For me the only good thing about the latest attempt by the 'we fear change' culture warriors to use the song as a wedge issue was the little bit of attention it provided to the Pogues as a whole. This article from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/comment...s-frank-capra-christmas-fairytale-of-new-york makes the point that we get Fairytale to saturation point every year, but that we seldom get any of their other masterpieces on the radio.

If Bon Jovi wants to cover a Pogues song, there are so many to choose from and quite a few (Misty Morning Albert Bridge, A Rainy Night in Soho, Lullaby of London, Thousands are Sailing) that could withstand his Springsteen-lite approach far better than Fairytale could. If he wants to make a Christmas album then why choose something dark and painful? Sing the happy ones. If you want a song to suggest that you have a complicated artistic side, write your own.

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Guinness Boy said:

Yeah but don't forget Woody lives in Australia where they don't censor ANYTHING and where mullet powered rock lite has always been right up there with shit beer and casual racism. I bet it's MASSIVE there.

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Stato said:

I don't know why anyone bothers covering it. It's not a song that lends itself to multiple interpretations. You can do it in a whisky soaked, down at heel, romantic style or you can not do it. If you do the first option then who'd want to listen to your version when we have Kirsty & The Pogues?

For me the only good thing about the latest attempt by the 'we fear change' culture warriors to use the song as a wedge issue was the little bit of attention it provided to the Pogues as a whole. This article from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/comment...s-frank-capra-christmas-fairytale-of-new-york makes the point that we get Fairytale to saturation point every year, but that we seldom get any of their other masterpieces on the radio.

If Bon Jovi wants to cover a Pogues song, there are so many to choose from and quite a few (Misty Morning Albert Bridge, A Rainy Night in Soho, Lullaby of London, Thousands are Sailing) that could withstand his Springsteen-lite approach far better than Fairytale could. If he wants to make a Christmas album then why choose something dark and painful? Sing the happy ones. If you want a song to suggest that you have a complicated artistic side, write your own.

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Stato said:

I don't know why anyone bothers covering it. It's not a song that lends itself to multiple interpretations. You can do it in a whisky soaked, down at heel, romantic style or you can not do it. If you do the first option then who'd want to listen to your version when we have Kirsty & The Pogues?

For me the only good thing about the latest attempt by the 'we fear change' culture warriors to use the song as a wedge issue was the little bit of attention it provided to the Pogues as a whole. This article from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/comment...s-frank-capra-christmas-fairytale-of-new-york makes the point that we get Fairytale to saturation point every year, but that we seldom get any of their other masterpieces on the radio.

If Bon Jovi wants to cover a Pogues song, there are so many to choose from and quite a few (Misty Morning Albert Bridge, A Rainy Night in Soho, Lullaby of London, Thousands are Sailing) that could withstand his Springsteen-lite approach far better than Fairytale could. If he wants to make a Christmas album then why choose something dark and painful? Sing the happy ones. If you want a song to suggest that you have a complicated artistic side, write your own.

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Frutos said:

Awful.

I've seen Bon Jovi in concert a couple of times and very much enjoyed it, but that is embarrassingly shite on multiple levels.

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Greg Bobkin said:

For the nth time, it's not BBC censorship – a different version was approved for ONE radio station. The rest of them are free to play the original.

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Guinness Boy said:

Yeah but don't forget Woody lives in Australia where they don't censor ANYTHING and where mullet powered rock lite has always been right up there with shit beer and casual racism. I bet it's MASSIVE there.

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