I heard it the other day and nearly called you...except that it was the last haunting, I mean gut-wrenching, I really mean I'd rather have a drill bit through my ear drums, chorus and I knew by the time you picked up, it would be over.

The movie was on the other night. It is a trilogy now.

You must be kidding.

What? The Christmas Shoes, The Christmas Gloves, The Christmas Parka?

Lots of well dressed dead people meeting Jesus, I guess.

It was something like Love...(something)....Hope.

The shoes story was Love...
Then the sequel was what I can't remember
Then there was Hope.

I wasn't home for the first 2, but caught glimpses of the last one...of all people hubby and son watched them.

I can't deal with that song, let alone the movie, and its sequels. Barf.

I have a coworker who has never heard it, and has never heard *about* it or the movies. She also doesn't want to.

We could spread the Christmas cheer by sending her an MP3...

Here at EA is the only place I've ever heard of this phenomenon. I don't listen to the radio much anyway, and I really don't listen much this time of year. I'm proud to say I've managed to avoid all incarnations of this thing.

(12-17-2009 09:23 AM)emeleel Wrote:  Here at EA is the only place I've ever heard of this phenomenon. I don't listen to the radio much anyway, and I really don't listen much this time of year. I'm proud to say I've managed to avoid all incarnations of this thing.

Same here. I'm enjoying my innocence.

Oh really, everyone needs to experience Christmas Shoes just once, if for no other reason than to understand the cultural reference:



You're welcome

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Heh, now that I think of it, this would be a terrific seasonal version of Rickrolling.

Too funny....I was playing this on my lunch hour...lunch hour was over and one of the girls came in the room and said, "OMG! This song is so sad I can't listen to it", and ran out of the room. I guess the young also have heard it before lol

I kind of like it.

I am so not clicking on that video link. Don't need that earworm, TYVM!!!

It made no impression on me. Not even the sad dying mother images. I'm hard-hearted.

I just can't get past "Mom is dying so instead of spending time with her I'm at a shoe store to buy shoes for her that she's not really going to wear" and the thought that Jesus is going to greet the woman in heaven, look down at her feet, and say, "Hey, nice shoes!"

a new night gown might be more appropriate! (not for Jesus, for the until Jesus time)

But still - "Mom's dying so instead of spending time with her, I'm going to go to the mall."

and then I'll put these ungapatchka shoes on her cold dead feet.

I really like "ungapatchka." I need to learn and use more Yiddish terms in my daily speech.

I've never heard of the movie until you guys this year.

Still not heard the song.

oh just click play already

please, sir!

Eh, why would we want to make ourselves even sadder at Christmas?

OMG, I'm just howling reading through MJ and Delia's posts!!!!

Margaret, listen to the stupid song. Then you can hear why we all hate it so much.

(12-17-2009 10:00 PM)magenta321 Wrote:  Eh, why would we want to make ourselves even sadder at Christmas?

We could all listen to "Cat's In The Cradle" instead.

Oh, I hate that song.

And the Dan Fogelburg one where the guy meets his ex-lover in a taxi. Just as bad.

"Taxi Driver," by Harry Chapin, or "Same Old Lang Syne," by Dan Fogelburg? (they're equally dismal, but the Fogelburg one has them meeting in a grocery store)

I'm mixing the two. Both are horrible...as is Cat's in the Cradle. Maybe we could put them all together and have just one awful song (sung to the tune of "Same Old Lang Syne"):

Met my old lover at a Payless store
While shopping for the Christmas Shoes....
She asked me about my dear son and wife
Haven't seen them to get the news.

And then we went out in a taxi cab
I hoped we would hook up real soon,
But then she dissed me and she walked right off.....
Nothing like jolly Christmas doom.....

(strains of Auld Lang Syne float in....and one feels like jumping off a bridge.....)

Lynn, you slay me!

I can't stand the guy's voice that does the Christmas shoes song. And he must be butt ugly or something because the camera is always really far away from his face or at some weird angle and he wears that horrid skull cap. And what's with the knitted cap the mom is wearing?

"Christmas Shoes" came on as I was driving to the train, and because of what I was doing I couldn't turn the station fast enough so it ALMOST got stuck. Now "Same Old Lang Syne" is on the Internet radio station, but it doesn't bother me nearly as much. Joni Mitchell's "River" hasn't been on yet today, but if I hear it, I'll hit the Sad Xmas Song trifecta.