White Album: Best for staving-off blues on this white-less snow-free Christmas?

[GammaGlobulin]

Dear Folks,

 

I am not sure I have many great memories of Christmas.

 

Still, whatever blessed memories of Christamas I might have retained, by age 70-plus, most involve snow.

 

Here in Thailand, snow is unlikely, unless one takes it up the nose, which is not legal, of course, and also not advised, and completely unhealthy, too.

 

Therefore, if one cannot have a White Christmas, then what might be the next best thing?

 

I would say, it must be listening to the White Album on the day-after the big depressing blowout of Christmas, when most might be either hungover, or feeling the blues, having not received what they thought that they deserved.

 

This is why I am sharing this YT link with you.

 

 

When I was very young, listening to the White Album provided me with needed cheer, after our Christmas get-togethers, around the family hearth.

 

I listen to this, religiously, once a year, just as others might read Dickens.

 

Dickens, of course, is peerless.

Havisham is eternal.

 

So, I would say, the White Album is just about the best anodyne for post-Christmas blues. There is no better, unless it is the hair of the dog.
 

By the way, what did Santa bring you this year?

 

Hope it was not the clap…..555

Just joking, of course.

 

If you really want to know…

The problem with Christmas is the SUPER-HIGH expectations of the Christmas Holiday which….

Almost never come true.

 

How could any mere mortal expect to reach these heights, on any given day, during any given lifetime?

 

Impossible.

 

It would be like…..

 

Trying to go from Stockholm to Uppsala in under 15 minutes....

 

Just not possible.....unless......

 

 

Best regards,

And, unfortunately, it has not yet begun to snow here…..

Not yet.

 

Gamma

[GammaGlobulin]

Whatever happened to John Lennon, anyway?

 

Haven't heard much from him, lately.....

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

 

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

6 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

 

I am not sure I have many great memories of Christmas.

 

Still, whatever blessed memories of Christamas I might have retained, by age 70-plus, most involve snow.

 

Here in Thailand, snow is unlikely, unless one takes it up the nose, which is not legal, of course, and also not advised, and completely unhealthy, too.

 

Therefore, if one cannot have a White Christmas, then what might be the next best thing?

 

I would say, it must be listening to the White Album on the day-after the big depressing blowout of Christmas, when most might be either hungover, or feeling the blues, having not received what they thought that they deserved.

 

This is why I am sharing this YT link with you.

 

 

When I was very young, listening to the White Album provided me with needed cheer, after our Christmas get-togethers, around the family hearth.

 

I listen to this, religiously, once a year, just as others might read Dickens.

 

Dickens, of course, is peerless.

Havisham is eternal.

 

So, I would say, the White Album is just about the best anodyne for post-Christmas blues. There is no better, unless it is the hair of the dog.
 

By the way, what did Santa bring you this year?

 

Hope it was not the clap…..555

Just joking, of course.

 

If you really want to know…

The problem with Christmas is the SUPER-HIGH expectations of the Christmas Holiday which….

Almost never come true.

 

How could any mere mortal expect to reach these heights, on any given day, during any given lifetime?

 

Impossible.

 

It would be like…..

 

Trying to go from Stockholm to Uppsala in under 15 minutes....

 

Just not possible.....unless......

 

 

Best regards,

And, unfortunately, it has not yet begun to snow here…..

Not yet.

 

Gamma

Isn't the White Album from after drugs rotted their brains? I hated Sgt Pepper and everything that came after.

[nikmar]

 

 

 

Or a "White Room" of course.

 

The White Album had some great compositions on it - While my Guitar.." etc. It also had more than a little garbage on it - "Ob La DI".

 

"Happy ever after in the market-place...." ........Dear (Prudence) God!!

[daveAustin]

Well done, for a change. Havisham a btch, but Estella one of the best story arcs of all time.

 

Although a brit, was never much into the Beatles; they were more a brooding boomer thing afaic but each to their own. For upbeat, the sound of the '80s is more where it's at. Get some AHA, New Order, and Collins up in ya!

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, daveAustin said:

Well done, for a change. Havisham a btch, but Estella one of the best story arcs of all time.

 

Although a brit, was never much into the Beatles; they were more a brooding boomer thing afaic but each to their own. For upbeat, the sound of the '80s is more where it's at. Get some AHA, New Order, and Collins up in ya!

 

 

[Bday Prang]

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Isn't the White Album from after drugs rotted their brains? I hated Sgt Pepper and everything that came after.

"rotted their brains"     seriously?

[giddyup]

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Isn't the White Album from after drugs rotted their brains? I hated Sgt Pepper and everything that came after.

Paul McCartney still performing and releasing new albums at 82, don't talk rubbish.

[daveAustin]

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Enjoy some Beatles, but prefer PM by himself, Pipes of Peace etc.

 

However, have you ever considered a bit of Kajagoogoo?