Posted on 11/30/2010 7:40:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If you haven’t heard a rendition of Do They Know It’s Christmas yet this year, it’s only a matter of time.
But should you curse Bob Geldof for writing That Song, you’ll be in good company. He’s fed up with it too.
The single was released 26 years ago today as Geldof set up Band Aid to raise money for famine-hit Ethiopia.
And although it became the biggest selling single in the world at the time, it seems he’s had enough. He said: ‘I am responsible for two of the worst songs in history. One is Do They Know It’s Christmas? and the other one is We Are The World.
'Any day soon, I will go to the supermarket, head to the meat counter and it will be playing. Every ****ing Christmas.’
He said carol singers also include it in their repertoire when they visit his South London home each year, alongside the more traditional Silent Night.
The former Boomtown Rats frontman, 59, added: ‘Sometimes I think that’s wild because I wrote it. Or else I am thinking how much I want them to stop because they are doing it really badly.’ Geldof co-wrote the song with singer Midge Ure.
The campaign, which went on to raise more than £100million, was inspired by Michael Buerk’s BBC news report on Ethiopia’s famine.
Musicians including Sting, Bono, George Michael and Phil Collins sang on the Band Aid track.
Its success led to the release of U.S. charity single We Are the World months later.
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Do They Know it’s X-Mas was not even as bad as that piece of crap—We Are The World...Now that was a dreadful song.
You they are full of sh*t when they use false modesty. Ego is their supreme virtue.
You know they are full of sh*t when they use false modesty. Ego is their supreme virtue.
He’s understandably sick of it, but I think it’s a great song (but with some iffy turns of phrase). I can’t stand “We are the World” though.
"Do They Know It's Christmas" is in 2nd place.
On the other hand, “I Don’t Like Mondays” is a great song.
The worst Christmas Song Ever is “Step Into Christmas” by Elton John.
As terrible as the song was, at least Do They Know its Christmas was an original idea.
Worst song ever is “Drop the Pilot” by Joan Armitrading.
I guess that is what Geldof thinks when the carolers come to sing on his lawn.
AMEN! Worst piece of tripe ever written!
Worst performance ever is “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” played by a Mariachi band of no particular merit. The horns are tuned sharp and it is enough to make your ears bleed.
It plays every year in Houston on the radio stations and it is horrible...and yet I am strangly drawn to it ........
“Imagine” is the worst song ever written. Laughably bad. In a class by itself.
“We are the world” is second.
“It’s small world” is also second. A tie for awfulage.
And yet, it is still the last song played over the loudspeakers before midnight in Times Square on New Year's Eve.
We need not be arguing over which song is the worst... they can ALL be the worst!
“so ya, thought ya, might like to...” make an awesome movie with Pink Floyd. Happy to see you saw your shitty stuff as shit. Rock n roll is real, pop is slop. Bob will always be Pinkerton!!!
Oh, and shave off your other nipple to make amends. :)
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