I find it to be perhaps the lowest form of the novelty song. (and coming from someone who is a big fan of novelty songs, is saying kind of a lot) Nevertheless, there are a great many people who quite enjoy it and for some reason aren't covering their collective ears from the day after Thanksgiving until New Year's just waiting for the tide of shitty music to blow over for another year.
This post is for them.
Because the truth of the matter is that part of being an obsessive collector type is that when one does spend the countless hours searching out complete discographies many of them are littered with crap that you need to have anyway to cross one more thing off the list for better or worse.
What happens when the less interesting half of the Sex Pistols hook up with Thin Lizzy to cash in on a fast One-off Christmas medley? This stuff. It's one for the completists. These lazy fucks couldn't even be bothered to come up with a b-side. It's just some kind of backwards remix of the front. Pure bullocks!
I love Morphine. This is one of those rarities that sputtered out in all kinds of odd places during their way too brief existence. The Christmas side is certainly not one of Mr. Sandman's better efforts, but I can't really argue with having the song "Cure for Pain" on a vinyl format at least somewhere in my world.
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