Flex's Ultimate 25 Days of Christmas (Songs) World Cup: PKs - The Beatles vs Tom Waits!

[Flex]

Okay folks, Group B has one more slot for a song to advance and we had a tie (6 votes a piece) between The Beatles' Christmas Time (Is Here Again) and Tom Waits' Silent Night. Vote for the song you want to see advance. That's it. Poll runs until Monday December 12th, 12:58pm mountain time. Here are the songs for people who want to refresh their memories:

The Beatles - Christmas Time (Is Here Again) (nominated by weller259)


"MY all-time favorite Christmas song by the Fab Four. A Must-have."

Tom Waits - Silent Night (nominated by Low Down Low)


I am genuinely fascinated to see what happens here. I really struggled between these two songs last round.

[Silent Majority]

Apologies to Weller259, but it has to be Tom

[Dr. Medulla]

Beatles, as they say, eight days a week.

[Flex]

I'm sticking with my vote for Waits here, as I did last round, but I just want to say that listening to the Beatles track several more times for this competition reveals new pleasures with each iteration. At the end of the day, I still think Waits is just doing something that carries more emotional and artistic heft, but what a fun track the Beatles made here. It's actually really a shame that it hasn't found its way to a proper "canon" release.

[revbob]

Im also kicking myself for not nominating a Sonics or Mojo Nixon track.

[Flex]

Im also kicking myself for not nominating a Sonics or Mojo Nixon track.

Birthday boy already got four!

[Flex]

BTW, if this ends up in a tie both songs will be eliminated and the song it would have matched up with will just get a bye for the next round. So get voting folks!

[Dr. Medulla]

BTW, if this ends up in a tie both songs will be eliminated and the song it would have matched up with will just get a bye for the next round. So get voting folks!

Stop the steal!

[Flex]

About 30 minutes left to vote for anyone interested (although we're no longer tied so feel free to engage in some principled abstentionism too, if you prefer)!

I'll have the next round up this afternoon/evening as childcare duties allow.

[matedog]

Never heard this Beatles song before, it's really not good.

[Flex]

Never heard this Beatles song before, it's really not good.

For most of the year they were a band, the Beatles would do "fan club" records where they would record silly messages and whatnot for members of the Beatles fan club which would be distributed as 7 inches. Very disposable fluff and one year they did this impromptu ditty. I find it very charming in the context of what it is.

Faux Addendum: when you listen to the fan club records sequently it's funny to note that over time they get odder and odder. A fun little parallel with the band's evolution.

[matedog]

Never heard this Beatles song before, it's really not good.

For most of the year they were a band, the Beatles would do "fan club" records where they would record silly messages and whatnot for members of the Beatles fan club which would be distributed as 7 inches. Very disposable fluff and one year they did this impromptu ditty. I find it very charming in the context of what it is.

That's fine and good, but shouldn't we be discussing this in relation to the all time greats? Not nominated by Jackson 5's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" is miles ahead of this quality wise, let alone like fifty other songs I could easily think of. The hook is terrible and they just keep going to it. This seems like an obvious prelude to that horrible McCartney Christmas song.

[Dr. Medulla]

Never heard this Beatles song before, it's really not good.

For most of the year they were a band, the Beatles would do "fan club" records where they would record silly messages and whatnot for members of the Beatles fan club which would be distributed as 7 inches. Very disposable fluff and one year they did this impromptu ditty. I find it very charming in the context of what it is.

That's fine and good, but shouldn't we be discussing this in relation to the all time greats? Not nominated by Jackson 5's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" is miles ahead of this quality wise, let alone like fifty other songs I could easily think of. The hook is terrible and they just keep going to it. This seems like an obvious prelude to that horrible McCartney Christmas song.

This, uh, isn't anything official or world-changing. It's a goofy exercise in community. Tho I suppose half the fun is seeing people get up in arms, so I guess you're fulfilling part of it. But, seriously, it won't make it past the next stage.

[matedog]

Looks like I've saved this board from itself once again by voting for Waits to bring us to a tie.

[Flex]

That's fine and good, but shouldn't we be discussing this in relation to the all time greats? Not nominated by Jackson 5's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" is miles ahead of this quality wise, let alone like fifty other songs I could easily think of. The hook is terrible and they just keep going to it. This seems like an obvious prelude to that horrible McCartney Christmas song.

Well, I voted for the Waits song, I was just providing some background on the song and what makes it fun.