Christmas Song: Help Me!!!

[JohnRogers]

Rock song, almost not about Christmas. Some chick going home looking for a date? Joan Jett sounding but not Joan Jett.
Circa 1978 - 1982???

[JohnRogers]

We had like six people at the restaurant, mostly staff trying to figure it out. 
 

Back at the Clearwater Beach hotel doing more Google work…

 

The Waitresses: Christmas Wrapping

[Principled Man]

Christmas Wrapping, by The Waitresses?

1 minute ago, JohnRogers said:

We had like six people at the restaurant, mostly staff trying to figure it out. 
 

Back at the Clearwater Beach hotel doing more Google work…

 

The Waitresses: Christmas Wrapping

 

 

I was posting this song when your post appeared.  

[JohnRogers]

2 minutes ago, Principled Man said:

Christmas Wrapping, by The Waitresses?

 

 

I was posting this song when your post appeared.  

I told my wife that someone at TRF would figure it out almost immediately. 

[Principled Man]

44 minutes ago, JohnRogers said:

I told my wife that someone at TRF would figure it out almost immediately. 

 

LOL...all I did was to a simple search.  "Christmas rock songs of the 1980's" and then looked for female singers. 

 

I had never heard of the band or song before....

[blueschica]

59 minutes ago, JohnRogers said:

We had like six people at the restaurant, mostly staff trying to figure it out. 
 

Back at the Clearwater Beach hotel doing more Google work…

 

The Waitresses: Christmas Wrapping

Clearwater is really nice! How are things going after the storm this fall? My sister got flooded out and had to move. 

 

Is it Chrissie singing 5000 Miles?

 

 

[blueschica]

Wait, I see TRF figured it out! Well, 5000 miles is fun anyway.

[treeduck]

Never heard of it! 

[zepphead]

 

I remember this song! Annoying then and still so!!

[zepphead]

2 hours ago, treeduck said:

Never heard of it! 

I think you'll recognise it!

[Nova Carmina]

1982, I think (the song references "Most of '81 passed along those lines," so I'm assuming some retrospect). Not so much going home, but persistently missing chances to go out with the guy the singer met in January, until Christmas Eve, that is.

 

This one is in my Christmas music mix; great catchy tune! 

[invisible airwave]

Waitresses is one of the better Christmas songs.  I've heard much worse new wave 80s Christmas songs.

 

I'm looking at you, Band Aid.  Tonight, thank God I'm me instead of Boner and Geldof.  Two pathetic fauxlanthropist wankers.

[zepphead]

6 hours ago, Nova Carmina said:

1982, I think (the song references "Most of '81 passed along those lines," so I'm assuming some retrospect). Not so much going home, but persistently missing chances to go out with the guy the singer met in January, until Christmas Eve, that is.

 

This one is in my Christmas music mix; great catchy tune! 

It's one of those songs that gets played in shops/supermarkets over here from about mid November until early January. After the gazillionth listen the catchiness starts to fade.

Other culprits are Slade, Wizzard, Jona Lewie, Wham, Band Aid and Maria Carey. But there are loads more.

I pity the poor shop staff ....... over and over and over again!!!

[treeduck]

10 hours ago, zepphead said:

I think you'll recognise it!

Nah I must have missed this one, or I just forgot it. It's annoying though yeah, it's like they couldn't think of a vocal melody that properly fits the music so they kept cramming part of it in at the end of each line.

[JohnRogers]

Best version of Little Drummer Boy???

 

Go! 

[edhunter]

Crazy bassline  on that waitresses tune. I think it was actually done by the chick from the Talking Heads. If I remember right, the song was a throwaway for some compilation. They’d forgotten about it and then had to relearn it when it became something of a hit.

 

Best version of the little drummer boy? The Mormons, of course!

 

 

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

18 hours ago, zepphead said:

 

I remember this song! Annoying then and still so!!

 

Most Christmas songs are annoying, but this one is annoying as f***!

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

9 hours ago, JohnRogers said:

Best version of Little Drummer Boy???

 

Go! 

 

 

[zepphead]

 

 

Back in the day I had this pic disc single (I only bought it as a collectable).

I had to head away for work and my first wife lent a bunch of my records to friends for a house party.

Surprise suprise this was one of them and never came back.

She had to go!!!

 

[pjbear05]

On 12/17/2024 at 6:27 PM, JohnRogers said:

Best version of Little Drummer Boy???

 

Go! 

Harry Simeone Chorale, the original.

Reminds me, I gotta break Merry Axemas out.

[HemiBeers]

On 12/17/2024 at 4:42 AM, zepphead said:

 

I remember this song! Annoying then and still so!!

10 seconds into Christmas Wrapping I remembered this chick from this video. Apparently they shot this at the same time (chick has the same outfit). 

 

I have the urge to throw eggs at this chick if they ever played this live.

 

 

[JohnRogers]

1 hour ago, HemiBeers said:

10 seconds into Christmas Wrapping I remembered this chick from this video. Apparently they shot this at the same time (chick has the same outfit). 

 

I have the urge to throw eggs at this chick if they ever played this live.

 

 

She died at age 40, apparently she enjoyed cigarettes more than life. 

[HemiBeers]

3 hours ago, JohnRogers said:

She died at age 40, apparently she enjoyed cigarettes more than life. 

I know when girls smoke,

They die from cancer.

It's hard to mock me, 

When you can't answer. 

 

Nyeah, Nyeah, Nyeah Nyeah Nyeah,

Nyeah, Nyeah, Nyeah Nyeah Nyeah. 

 

 

 

[treeduck]

On 12/18/2024 at 8:49 AM, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

 

 

 

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

1 hour ago, treeduck said:

 

 

Very nice treatment of a fusion classic.

 

Not very Christmas-y, though, is it.