Whamageddon 2022 - Wham! Harder

[James Gillen]

I like how eventually the chorus just goes "TWELVE!" to get it over with.

JG

 

[A Fiery Flying Roll]

I will happily listen to any Christmas song as long as I don't have to listen to The Christmas Shoes. Chirstmas is supposed to be happy, why would you make a depressing Christmas song?

I have a fondness for depressing Christmas songs, but I expect the artist to commit properly.

 

[TristramEvans]

whatever happened to Aimee Mann? She was one of my favs in the 90s

 

[The Convenient Skill]

I only saw this thread yesterday - and promptly turned the radio on this morning and it was mid-song. Felt like a false start.

 

[A Fiery Flying Roll]

I love this song so much Rhi is thoroughly sick of it.

 

[Endless Flight]

whatever happened to Aimee Mann? She was one of my favs in the 90s

She married Michael Penn. I last saw them on a Brian Wilson tribute show in 2001.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

I like Baby it's Cold Outside

Are you still allowed to say that in 2020, though?

It's funny. I hear that song and I hear a gal who wod like to stay but she's worried staying with someone perhaps unacceptable to her friends could get her "Cancelled" from her social network. Seems surprisingly relevant.

 

[PolarBlues]

Tod Rundgren's English cover of a Dutch Christmas parody song.

 

[soltakss]

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May the odds be ever in your favor.

I forgot about Whamageddon this year and watched Now 80s! which I had forgotten becomes Now Christmas! so I saw the video for Last Christmas on 1st December.

Clearly, that didn't count, because I said so, but walking through the doors of Poundland on Friday 4th December to hear Last Christmas as I walked in definitely does count.

 

[PolarBlues]

I tempted fate and briefly went into a Marks & SPencers department store. I was pretty sure my number was up in Whamageddon terms, but I managed to get away with just a "Jingle Bell Rock" so I still in the fight!

 

[A Fiery Flying Roll]

It's funny. I hear that song and I hear a gal who wod like to stay but she's worried staying with someone perhaps unacceptable to her friends could get her "Cancelled" from her social network. Seems surprisingly relevant.

I'd agree, with the slight modification that it's not so much her friends, as the fact she's actively asking for help coming up with a cover story for what she wants to do. That would fit with when the song was written. In 1944 staying over with a man wouldn't have been socially acceptable, so it's a way of politely asking if he minds taking the blame for her.

Lines like " Well maybe just a half a drink more" and "At least I'm gonna say that I tried" don't suggest resistance to me.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

Got taken out less than an hour ago, in the grocery store, just as I was picking up some egg nog.

The timing was deliberate on your part, ghost of George Michael. Don't pretend it wasn't.

 

[Ladybird]

It's slightly easier to not fail this when you rarely leave your flat, of course, and wear headphones whenever you do happen to be outside.

 

[PolarBlues]

I'm out. I was on a kiddie TV programme, waiting for Teen Titans Go when, as part of some crap competition, they played a few bars from Last Christmas. It was all over before I could react.

Still totally worth it. It was the Teen Titan Go episode in which they spoof Star Trek.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[Dammit Victor]

Forgot to mention it, but there are some games I play to lose:



A couple nights ago-- Sunday, I think-- I put this on for over four and a half hours, from just after 1800 to when I finally fell over. Probably heard the original... six or seven times in that span,

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[Ladybird]

On Friday I was in town, in the toilets in the shopping centre, and it came on. No time to escape, I am out.

 

[James Gillen]

On Friday I was in town, in the toilets in the shopping centre, and it came on. No time to escape, I am out.

Wake me up before you go-go.

jg

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[3rik]

So, I lost last night. They played it on the radio at my work.

 

[3rik]

I cheated a little bit, though. Earlier on this week they played part of it backwards in some contest and I did recognize it but quickly switched to another station.

 

[Andrew J. Luther]

I’m out as of 5:52 EST.

Thanks to my wife. I even asked her if it was on her Christmas music playlist earlier today and she said she didn’t think so.

I will never trust her again.

 

[Picaroon Jack]

I'm a fan of David Bowie and Bing Crosby's Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

Probably shouldn't play this one around the young ones...

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[Fenris-77]

There's almost no chance I lose this year. I don't listen to radio, and none of the places I go up here play radio or music in the background. It's almost unfair.

 

[soltakss]

There's almost no chance I lose this year. I don't listen to radio, and none of the places I go up here play radio or music in the background. It's almost unfair.

If I post a link would you click on it? Please! Pretty Please! With a cherry on top!

 

[Fenris-77]

If I post a link would you click on it? Please! Pretty Please! With a cherry on top!

For some reason I can't put my finger on your post makes me suspicious.

 

[Giganotosaurus]

I almost lost just now. My mother had a playlist going and it came on.
I didn't even notice until she pointed it out.
Fortunately it was just a cover.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[Gringnr]

Honestly surprised this hasn't been posted yet...



And, for good measure...

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[CRKrueger]

WooHoo! I made it. Now I can cue it up and bask in the glory that is Wham!

 

[Giganotosaurus]

I made it too! Almost didn't a second time last night, my mother watched a movie titled "Last Christmas" which not only had the original, but also several covers. My post food migraine nap saved me!
Happy Christmas everyone!

 

[Voros]

Made it. Being quarantined outside of work is probably the reason.

 

[Nobby-W]

Made it. Now I can carry on not listening to the radio in peace.

 

[Fenris-77]

Woot.