"Any day soon, I will go to the supermarket, and it will be playing...every F-----g Christmas"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Most of us have mixed feelings toward deathless charity anthem 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' -- on one hand, it has raised millions for good causes and become something of a yuletide institution, on the other, it features groan-worthy lyrics like "There won't be snow in Africa" and Bono's anguished yelp of "Tonight, thank God it's them, instead of you." But spare a thought for Bob Geldof. He, after all, has to live with having written it.

"I am responsible for two of the worst songs in history," the one-time Boomtown Rats singer told the Daily Mail recently. "One is 'Do They Know it's Christmas?' and the other one is 'We Are the World.'" The latter tune came out a few months after Band Aid's 1984 No. 1 and was directly inspired by the Geldof and Midge Ure-penned hit, using the same multi-artist charity singalong format but led by American stars like Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.

"Any day soon, I will go to the supermarket, head to the meat counter and it will be playing," says Geldof. "Every F-----g Christmas."

http://www.popeater.com/2010/11/30/do-they-know-its-christmas/

[suninvited]

1. try working in retail

with piped in Christmas music that has it on regular rotation.

Arggggggggggggg!

[Skittles]

5. I don't know how you can stand it

I mean, really :o

[Iggo]

2. It's...christmastime. And...everyyear. You...hearthissong. Ten...jilliontimes

Ding.....

Dong.....

Ding.....

Dong.....

[orleans]

3. !

"billy take a walk
take a walk
take a walk
billy take a walk
take a walk
take a walk
billy take a walk
take a walk
take a walk
BILLY!
take a walk with me."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=024UcB1m7Do

[MiddleFingerMom]

I used to tend bar in a joint with a pretty decent jukebox as far as variety and genres...

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...but the regulars would play the same old cliched songs over and over and over and fucking over and over.
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I'd come out from behind the bar with a buck or two and play some of the B-sides and unusual stuff, but the
moment my coins were used up, it was RIGHT back to "Turn the Page" and "Take This Job and Shove It".
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[MiddleFingerMom]

4. Dupe n/t

[struggle4progress]

6. Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow." I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it. But I can tell you anyhow

I'll kill you if you quote it!

Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue
Frank Gelett Burgess, 1897