My all time 23.12. Tradition: Searching this song on RU-vid and listen to all these beautiful versions! Will never get tired doing this! Merry Christmas to all of you! 🎄❤️
This song and why it moves me and others. I am in NYC, Christmas Eve, I am ten years old and have walked outside from a hotel apartment block thimgie, I am wearing a (unbetween known to me,) a tweed coat, cause its really cold. At 42nd and 3rd., theres a cop directing traffic. He blows a whistle and stops all, in every direction. He walks over to me and says "where did ya get that jacket ?" I shrug, cause I dont no. ". He says thats a "Donnegal Tweed." and your an Aussie, am I right?. cause I am kinda lost and so he gives me direction back to the hotel, blows a whistle and all the cars and others are moving again. Big thanks here from me to the NYPD albeit it some 60 years late and thankfull for him being Irish.
Was dull compared to the original ..but thats how our music in Britain seems to have gone , no real hunger , watered down musical aperthy....like our television and the way most of our radio stations have gone...no real guts or creativity...boring..
@@keithwigley1256 and shuddup I heard the original first in a cheesey movie and I didn't live in a monastery. I lived in a Catholic boarding school from age four and it was a giant rip off they taught us every Christmas song except this one.
I will be forever in debt to the Staves for giving this Christmas gift to Mr. Thille & us. Ya, ya, ya, PBS shows have certain rules the artistes, (including Chris{tmas} Thile), may have some issues with, and yet, ..., and yet, the show must go on. --- they have fun, --- --- sharing a true gem, --- --- --- with a huge audience If you love live {from here} music & song you know they are never the same twice. There are dozens 'n dozens of critics, (not artists), going on & on about; censorship, changed meanings, soul lacking pointless version, etc, etc, ad nauseam, ... Well, y'all may be confusing 'your' critics opinion - with - universal artistic reality. try loving this radio song, like life, on life's terms ... ❤& 🦆's
Agreed. This is song is a masterpiece. Beautifully done by this amazing band. My favorite Christmas song by far. It never fails to amaze me how just a few common chords we have all played a million times, can be forged once again into something new and emotionally powerful.
@@keithwigley1256 Oh well. can't please everyone! Only pleased one of the worlds greatest mandolin players...Thile. And got a standing ovation from the huge crowd....
This was a heartless rendition, if you want to see and hear a heartfelt rendition check out the Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan funeral service version.
@@JensErikWeber The Federal Communications Commission - it's a Government watchdog office that makes sure American radio and television are sterile and free of bad words that might offend puritanical listeners. I get that they don't want really bad stuff getting out there, but sometimes they're a bit over-reactive about songs and music. It was not an editorial decision to leave out that verse, but a necessary one to avoid fines, unfortunately.
re: 2nd verse when kirsty and shane performed it live on tv in the 90s they said 'you're cheap and you're haggard' - the whole politically correct argument is stupid all round
Agreed! You either do the song as written or you are ignoring the human condition of imperfection. People are beautiful, and ugly. They love, they laugh and they hate. Skipping the lyrics because they might offend is dishonest.
@@thumpdrum I think changing the lyric, which others have done, is dishonest and self serving. Skipping it is perfectly fine. People have been skipping verses of songs that don't suit their audience for centuries, and it does no harm to the original. Unless you're going to give a short lecture on the cultural context of using that word before you sing the song, it makes no sense as a decent human being to sing it as written in public anymore.
@@audibletapehiss3764 I disagree. It is merely a form of censorship. You're being dishonest to yourself and the audience. It's song not meant to depict a perfect scenario or a perfect life. You are only telling half the story not to mention publicly judging the authors choice of words. There is a choice here. One is to simply not do the song which is fine. The other is to do it correctly.
@@thumpdrum I would be with you if they ever tried to pull the original song down. But to skip the verse that will violently offend your audience is neither censorship nor dishonest. This is a song, not a history book. (see also: Star Spangled Banner). In fact, they rarely play entire songs on this show. The choice I'd have made as a singer is to sing the verse, but mime the offending word. Anyone paying attention will know exactly what goes there, but you will have shown respect to your audience, which sorry to say, is a lot more important than respecting the lyric. And I'm saying this about what I consider to be one of the greatest songs of all time.
Musically it's very good however the songs soul is that of two substance abusers. If you felt uncomfortable with the F word that could be changed but the fighting and the back and fourth is really what the song is about its not the typical Holly jolly Christmas song
Re past comment, if you like the real deal, Tom Waits live is gut wrenching as is Nick Cave with his mate Shane McGowan, you would not be listening to this most poingant song. Check out waits cover of waltizing Matilada
Artist should be able to identify a literary trope used to express redemption for the unredeemable, that fact that the difference between a comment made externally to an audience and a comment made internally to another character in the song as a literary device cannot be distinguished is a disgrace. Hasn't anyone ever read Joyce? Shame. You shouldn't be playing this song if you don't understand it.
re: 2nd verse when kirsty and shane performed it live on tv in the 90s they said 'you're cheap and you're haggard' - the whole politically correct argument is stupid all round
I initially thought the same thing but then realised it wouldn't be very convincing either... to hear this group of people call each other names. It fits the punk scene but not this scene. It wouldn't sound "raw" but "nasty"...in a bad way.
"this day and age"? there's been a trend toward less censorship on the airwaves, not the other way around. half of George Carlin's 1972 list of "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" are actually allowed now. this is a case of nice people not wanting to ruin a wholesome christmas show. Take your anti-PC b.s. somewhere else and try to enjoy something as it is for once.
