#merry xmas everybody

[guerrilla-operator]

[thenadnerb02]

Slade says: “Merry Xmas Everybody!”

[moonage-gaydream]

[ryanmoody]

Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody

[weaversweek]

"Merry Xmas everybody" - Slade

1973 Written by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea

IIIIITTTS CHRIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSS! in Let's Do It, my personal favourite singles from 1954-76.

The biggest band of the early 1970s, Slade had six massive number one singles in three years. Their manager Chas Chandler said that the group might try and capture the festive market, he'd seen how much success Mud had had with "Lonely this Christmas".

The band were unconvinced, until Jim Lea took a shower and had some good ideas. He merged this with a very different tune the band had come up with many years earlier. Explains why "Merry Xmas everybody" sounds like two songs bolted together - it literally is, Jim's smooth verses and Noddy's raucous chorus. The original words: "Buy me a rocking chair to watch the world go by, buy me a looking glass, I'll look you in the eye". Er, quite.

Although recorded in June 1973, it would prove prophetic: by the time of release, an economic depression had set on, the three-day week loomed, and everyone moped about. "Look to the future now, it's only just begun."

An instant classic, and it's remained a hit in the years since - every year it would get re-pressed, sell a few thousand copies, and get lots of airplay in the week before Christmas. Since the singles charts moved to downloads and fabricated streaming, there's been no stopping this song. Noddy's pension scheme now earns him over £500,000 (€550.000) a year in royalties.

[lunaserpent]

Family gathering tomorrow, time to get tipsy and scare grandma with antinatalist opinions

[rolandrockover]

Crazy, Crazy Xmas Everybody!

Christmas time is coming. Here in Germany you can already buy Christmas cookies from the middle of August. People still walk around in T-shirts and shorts, but that doesn't detract from this paradox, because the stuff is actually bought. I'm not kidding you. If nobody wanted that, they would finally refrain from putting it on the supermarket shelves. I don't know why either, but it's been like this for over 20 years, at least I noticed it for the first time 25 years, or even 30 years ago or so, but maybe they've always done it that way. Who can remember something like this anyway?

Whatever one may think of it, I think that should be reason enough to put on our Christmas sweaters no matter what the temperature outside, unpack the Lebkuchen, the Gingerbread Men and the Plum Puddings and all snuggle up together on the family couch and listen to Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade together and Crazy Crazy Nights by Kiss (1).

And no, people in Germany don't put on sunscreen at Christmas or lie down in the snow in the cold with it.

Side Note:

(1) Didn't Paul once say Crazy Crazy Nights was a little love letter to Slade?

Please feel free to press the Play button and enjoy. I've only highlighted the demo:

Crazy, Crazy Nights (1987)

Merry Xmas Everybody (1973)

And because we're all in the Christmas spirit and we all love each other, here's the demo of Crazy Crazy Nights. In addition to the song as a whole, the part that is particularly close to my heart can be heard more clearly here. In the studio version, it takes a back seat to the guitar solo. Evil Bruce, with his awesome solo.

Crazy Crazy Nights (Demo, 1986)

[fabulousdowneybrothers]

365 Days of Sprix Records #261 Merry Xmas Everybody YouTube: https://youtu.be/eyGVnWzAvn4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3WRZgj8prGRnzcn8I29F53?si=31bb8fa4c1b74a42

[wheelybard]

It’s that time of year again when I greatly misjudge the timing of yelling “IT’S CHRISTMAS!!!” in Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody.

[guerrilla-operator]

Slade // Merry Xmas Everybody

So here it is, Merry Christmas Everybody's having fun Look to the future now It's only just begun

[flipflopflying]

Slade

[planetmosh]

Slade announces ltd edition coloured vinyl 12” ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’ 

Slade has announced the release of a  limited edition 12” coloured vinyl ’Merry Xmas Everybody’ on 25th November, plus the continuation of official the deluxe vinyl album reissues series  with ‘Crackers – The Christmas Party Album’ It’s CHRISTMAS! On 25th November BMG and Slade release Merry Xmas Everybody on limited edition 12” marble vinyl. Originally released in 1973 Merry Xmas…

[dr-mcfell]

my favorite thing about doctor who from 2005-2010 is how they bought the rights to exactly ONE christmas song and used the hell out of it every single special

[heartbellamy]

a christmas wish (a bellarke christmas au)

When they were first tentatively becoming friends, Bellamy let it slip that he’d never had a big Christmas growing up. There may have been a little alcohol involved (It wouldn’t be a proper Jordan & Green Holiday Party without some spiked punch.) but she could see the way his eyes glimmered with something nostalgic, something yearning, as he talked about the Christmases Octavia and him had.

How their tree was a little one that sat on a table, how the closest they got to snow on Christmas was watching movies, how some years he even wrapped his own small gifts when his mom was too busy working three jobs to have time to do it before Christmas. He was grateful that they even had them, but having to pretend he didn’t know what he got took away from the magic a little bit.

Clarke may have also been tipsy at the time, but she never forgot about how gentle his voice was or how soft his eyes looked when he told her about it. It was the first time she ever saw him like that.

Six years later, Clarke has a plan.

It took three years of friendship, one year of being friends with benefits, another half a year dating, and one year of being engaged, so this is their first Christmas as a married couple. Bellamy’s been working abroad for a couple months, which has been harder than Clarke had even anticipated, but when Bellamy confirms he’ll be home on Christmas Eve, Clarke immediately sets her plan into action.

Plan Give Bellamy The Biggest And Best Christmas Ever.

She spends all of December planning and decorating. Clarke makes sure every inch of their house is covered in lights and garland and holiday cheer, even their two-year-old puppy Picasso gets in on the action. She works for weeks making their little home look like the set of all of his favorite Christmas movies all wrapped up into one big present.

And when the day comes, she gets to watch the way his eyes light up as he takes it all in, she gets to see that yearning turn into pure joy as he picks her up and spins her around, whispering sweetly in her ear as he buries his face in her hair, the lights twinkling around them and Picasso’s happy barks in their ears.

She didn’t know back then that she was planning it all from the start, that she wanted to be the one that he shared his Christmases with. But getting to put that smile on his lips, and getting to kiss them too, she thinks she has probably wanted that ever since that night they shared in Monty and Jasper’s old apartment.

Best Christmas Ever.

(Well, until next year, when Clarke gets him a onesie with a spaceship on it that says Best Dad In The Universe across the front. But they have plenty of years to have a new Best Christmas Ever, as long as they spend them together. And they will.)