Is this an undiscovered gem, an alt Xmas classic not yet acknowledged as an alt Xmas gem? Thanks to Lars/Hunter Complex ( xmas!), I found out about about Christmas Girl by Boston Spaceships. 'Il est né, le divin Enfant' (He is born, the divine Child) is a traditional French Christmas carol and was posted earlier on the blog here. The Cure - Merry Xmas Everybody (streaming) orĪlthough he has had no official Christmas releases in his role as lead singer of The Cure, Robert Smith did record a Christmas track during his membership of Siouxsie & The Banshees in 1982. So, for old times sake: see y'all tonight, you bunch of bats! Tonight, 35 years later, they play in front of 18,000 fans in Amsterdam and guess which former eighties goth is among them? 9, 1987, for once they couldn't resist the Christmas call and played a cover of Slade's Christmas classic 'Merry Xmas Everybody' at Wembley Arena as their very last song on that tour. Okay, there's one song that could pass for a Christmas track, but the typical Christmas spirit is pretty far away in ' Last Dance'.Īnd yet, on Dec. The supreme goths of The Cure have therefore never ventured into a real Christmas song. You might not immediately expect goths underneath the Christmas tree.
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