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Popdose: The Sixteenth Day of Mellowmas: Into the Ear of Mellowmas Madness | Popdose

  • terje · 11 months ago
    Hey, I'm tall! Alan O'Day calls me Turje. If you add a 'D' in there, you're probably as close to a good pronunciation of my name as you'll ever get.
  • MatthewBolin · 11 months ago
    If Jeff pronounces it "Curtis Armstrong", does this mean we can just refer to Terje in the future as "Booger"?
  • Beau · 11 months ago
    I saw Aimee Mann's Christmas show. I'm dreaming of the Hanukkah Fairy, Grant Lee Phillips and Paul F. Tompkins breaking into David Foster's studio and spilling wine all over the mixing board.
  • Michael · 11 months ago
    I attended a Chicago concert in 2006 and had quite good seats (3rd row) and could not contain the laughter as James Pankow strutted and thrust his pelvis to the swooning +50 set (I swear I was there to see Huey Lewis). In all seriousness I could not stop laughing at them when I felt a pick barely miss my ear, I look up and see Jason Scheff standing there smirking. I kid you not the bastard tried to hit me twice more before we left...

    That aside, I now need to go wash my ears out with some hydrogen peroxide...
  • JonCummings · 11 months ago
    Boy, that made me wish that I could, just one more time in my life, listen to "Hands Across America."

    I think Morrissey should record a Christmas album in protest against this.
  • JonCummings · 11 months ago
    He could call it "A Council Flats Christmas."

    Track #1: "Your Reprobate Children Squandered Last Year's Presents."
  • enohead · 11 months ago
    You know, I have two sons - one is three, and the other is 1 1/2. I pray that Mellowmas will be around when they are all grown up, with children of their own, and I can tell them all about the Mellow Golden Years. The days of the Dollytoe and Evil Andy Williams.
    Please. Promise me you'll make it happen.
  • DwDunphy · 11 months ago
    Do this - download all the Mellowmas songs, burn them on to a disc and play it every blessed year as they attempt to enjoy the holidays. Then, when you're 80 years old, you'll know for certain why they never visit you at the nursing home.
  • DwDunphy · 11 months ago
    If me and Matthew start talking smack about David Foster, will he retaliate and write a weekly column for Popdose, making Terje's every Christmas dream come true?
  • Curt · 11 months ago
    OK, it's time for counter-insurgency. When these fuckers want to butcher classics like White Christmas, they've got to pay royalties to someone, right? If we all contribute, we can pay the copyright holders DOUBLE the money NOT to let dickweeds like Foster et al. make a steamy Jarreaumas of these songs! Who's with me?

    Please don't tell me White Christmas is Public Domain...
  • EightE1 · 11 months ago
    Holy mother of God, I own this album! How did I come to own this album? It HAD to be the wife – there’s no way in hell I would have bought this. I feel so DIRTY now.

    There’s a great picture of Tom Jones in the accompanying booklet, decked out in a pimptastic red suit, accompanied by a saying in Welsh: “Nadolig llawen a blewyn newedd dda I bawb.” Which probably means, “Where my bitches? Me likey the young ones.”

    Rob
    EightE1
  • EightE1 · 11 months ago
    As a public service, I will now list, in order of appearance, the vocalists on this here track, as written in the album booklet:

    Natalie Cole, Wynonna, Johnny Mathis, Roberta Flack, Peabo Bryson, Celine Dion, Tom Jones, Bebe and Cece Winans, Vanessa Williams, Michael Crawford, and Tammy Wynette.

    Now, this is utter bullshit -- I KNOW I heard Bolton on there; I'd recognize that nut-squeezing howl anywhere. Perhaps because Mullet Lungenstein recorded for Sony back in '93, and this record was released on Interscope/Atlantic ... but then what of Celine Dion's appearance? A Mellowmas mystery ...

    Rob
    EightE1
  • Curt · 11 months ago
    Something else bothers me, perhaps because i saw this sack of shit David Foster for the first time on a PBS fundraiser over the weekend. He appeared onstage, playing his bullshit piano arpeggios like he was the first person to discover them... when out from behind the curtain came... KENNY G!! And they played together, creating a heaving suckass pile of amorphous mundania - their predictable runs and trills like an anvil upside the head...

    And i thought... where is Kenny G this Mellowmas? How can we have a Mellowmas without Kenny G?
  • Old_Davy · 11 months ago
    Whenever any of the singers on this track die, David Foster sends Celine Dion after them to collect their soul.
  • Sharon · 11 months ago
    Let's see if I've got this straight...if "Pop Music" = Popular Music, which IS David Foster (according to The Fozz man), then does "Popdose" = Popular Dose? So, David Foster = Popdose? Awesome. Then Popdose will be outsourced to Norway? And cover all things Fosterfied? Nice. Can't wait for the Foster/Fjelde posts.

    What's that? Over who's dead body?