Another Form of Relief

This is one of the oldest things I’ve ever posted here on Another Form of Relief. Nearly everything I post comes from the 90s or this decade, largely because old music just doesn’t interest me very much. Much as I try to get into the ‘classics’, it never seems to happen. I can appreciate important works, and there are certain artists that I really like (mostly just Dylan though), but I never usually get very far with most of it. ‘Father Christmas’ by The Kinks, dating from 1977, is just such a good song that it just can’t be left off of a list like this.

It actually works well as a companion piece to Fountains of Wayne’s ‘The Man In The Santa Suit’ which I posted on day 7. Like that song, it focuses on a hard done by department store Santa. While that song complained about the mundanity of dealing with the kids, this one actually Santa set upon by a bunch of kids (”A gang of kids came over and mugged me / And knocked my reindeer to the floor”). There’s something a little unsettling about Santa being attacked by a bunch of kids, but hey, I guess it must happen sometimes.

MP3 The Kinks - Father Christmas (expired)