IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR. WONDERFULLY ODD IN THAT, NO MATTER WHAT THE SONG OR WHO’S SINGING IT, IF IT’S RELEASED AT YEAR’S END IT AUTOMATICALLY BECOMES ‘A CHRISTMAS SONG’. IN LATE 1989, THE THE WERE AT THE HEIGHT OF THEIR MIND BOMB ERA AND RELEASED ARMAGEDDON DAYS ARE HERE (AGAIN) AS A DARK PREMONITION OF THE ARAB SPRING. BUT, FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN THE RELEASE DATE, MATT JOHNSON WOULD ALWAYS REFER TO IT ON STAGE, WITH A KNOWING WINK, AS “OUR CHRISTMAS SINGLE…”
There’s also nothing Christmassy about Lay Your Hands On Me by the Thompson Twins when you listen back, 30 years later. Yet when it was released on 26 November 1984 it was a surefire festive hit, complete with a video that was a cross between a messy office party and Peter Blake’s front cover collage for Sgt. Pepper’s.
You can contrive the Christmas spirit, of course, and when it works well, it’s amazing. Coming off the back of a No. 1 and a No. 2 with 3AM Eternal and Last Train To Trancentral – and the full scale assault of Stadium House – The KLF knew their December 1991 single Justified And Ancient was going to be huge. They even had Tammy Wynette. And they threw some sleighbells into the mix.
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