Here Comes The Pain Again: Annie Lennox's Christmas Cornucopia 10th Anniversary Edition

i love it! lol

Horrendous. Almost as bad a Aimee Mann's Christmas album.

I'll have a Blue Christmas with you.

The perfect present for someone you really dislike.

What R3 said. Annie Lennox is fabulous, but Jesus this Christmas album was torture. My bf at the time made me stop playing the CD because it was upsetting the dogs.

I didn't know Dido's Lament was a Christmas song.

Her version of The First Noel makes me want to become a Jehovah's witness.

Carrie Underwood's version is divine. Annie's is not.

And to think Annie did a truly lovely Christmassy song that hardly ever gets included on Christmas compilations.

Love love LOVE Annie Lennox. Put A Little Love In Your Heart and Winter Wonderland were amazing. When I first heard she was releasing a Christmas album I was so happy and hoped it would be in the same style. After listening to it, I was curled up in the fetal position with a Prozac IV.

If you have to sum up 2020 with a Christmas album, this is it.

This warranted a 10th anniversary edition?

[quote]The perfect present for someone you really dislike.

I have fifteen ready to be delivered to the White House as I type.

R10, you're not excited about my lament?!?!?

Love the cover, it's so humorous. Can't stand songs about Christmas for the most part, unless it's Vince Guaraldi Trio or the Rat Pack boozin it up. Even then, I skip the songs about baby Jesus, yuk.

[quote]I have fifteen ready to be delivered to the White House as I type.

Did you keep the receipts?

I wonder if they had a listening party for this? Everyone must have left drunk and crying.

Dido's Lament was released yesterday. Jesus H. Christ, what a depressing song. This year's Christmas is already going to be ruined by 'Rona but Miss Lennox decided to make things even worse by re-releasing this awful album.

how bout some fun lively sassy tunes annie......in this time of such grief and strife.....????

When she announced she was recording a Christmas album, I was hoping it was going to be more like this...

Corn u what? When did Annie eat corn?

Cornucopia. Did it have a practical everyday use or was I purely for art and decoration?

Her Dido's Lament is quite an interesting take on the lovely Purcell aria. However, it has as much to do with Christmas as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre does.

Oh god I just listened to it.

I understand what style she was doing but sorry just too old and too yodely for the entire affair.

This album could have been done by some young art rock lassie and with a lighter touch.

LOL R21!

The chick from Roxette must be rolling over in her grave.

The absolute worst Christmas album ever.

British people always vote the worst songs of all time as their favorite Christmas song, so I’m not surprised this collection of horse cuntery has reared its ugly head again

Two more hours and the album will officially turn 10! Unfortunately Christmas Cornucopia is the exact opposite of a fine aging wine - it just seems to sound worse with each passing year. I like that Annie didn't go the down the usual commercial holiday music route (you know, just throwing some sleigh bell sounds onto a song and calling it Christmas music) but something went horribly wrong during the production and they must have totally forgotten that they were making an album with Xmas music along the way.

You can make an album that avoids the usual cheese but still sounds Christmas-y (a good example of such an album would be the Christmas album by Arab goddess Fairuz, which was absolutely terrific) but this humorless Scottish cunt obviously isn't capable of doing that. And as Dido's Lament has just shown us, her idea of Christmas music has gotten even more twisted in the last decade.

Now I have to listen to some Fairuz, to get this gigantic horse cunt out of my head. This is how you do a Xmas song that sounds both haunting and cozy at the same time.

This lovely British Jewish girl managed a perky Christmas song, why couldn't Annie?

My friends and I would put "The Holly and the Ivy" on repeat and laugh our heads off. She was pretty much yelling the entire song.

More joyous threads like this. I need to air out my mind from 4 years of....

^ Oops, the holly BEARS the crown...

Big Ben has just struck 12 (actually it hasn't, because it's currently under repair, but let's pretend it did) so A Christmas Cornucopia is now officially a decade old. Oh boy, time sure flies fast. It seems like only yesterday that Miss Lennox ruined the 2010 Holiday Season for DLers with the release of her holiday album.

Nothing gets me in the mood to deck the halls and bake sugar cookies quite like "Dido's Lament!"

Best thread title ever, OP! So something good came out of that turd of an album.

Thank you, R34!

"I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus"

This is an example of an unusual, somewhat artsy Christmas album done right.

Highly recommended if you're looking to get away from the kitsch, without wanting to slash your wrists.

Do we know WHY Annie thinks “When I Am Laid in Earth” is Christmas music?

Probably for the same reason that EVERYBODY seems to think Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is a Christmas song r38.

R32 Sounds like a riot, sorry I missed it. I only arrived on DL in 2011-12, so I didn’t catch the original reaction to this drop.

R40 The original thread is still up. Some really hilarious comments in there (including the best ever R1):

Sweet Dreams Aren't Made of This

There Must Be an Angel (Of Death)

I love Annie, but it seems after Diva she lost the majority of her creativity.

She has become so joyless and humourless.

I hated her Lord of the Rings song.

Reeeeeeeeeeeear 🐈

Annie turning into a cunt coincides with her having kids. Wasn't her daughter fished out of the Hudson dead drunk a few years ago? I'd be a humorless cunt too if I had problematic spawn like that.

You think her Christmas album is depressing...

You demand the farting synthesizers of “Sweet Dreams” for nearly 40 years and wonder why you get an occasional backhand to the face.

If you grew up in a dysfunctionally close family, this album is the Christmas dinner hosted by your sober cousin Ruth for perhaps-not-sober people. You’re not sure what’s wrong, but you can’t wait to leave.

She put out a very good instrumental piece I won’t look up and she helps women in Africa so throw her some money somehow.

Hi Annie/r49!

I just realized that Miss Lennox was actually born on Christmas day (in 1954)! Maybe that's why she subconsciously hates the holiday and decided to ruin it for the rest of us as well with this album. I mean, being born on Xmas day is every child's greatest nightmare because that usually means only one joint present for both Xmas and b-day. I hope she decides to see a therapist in the future instead of releasing even more new depressing Christmas music.

It’s physically impossible for me to hate her, even knowing how this album sounds.

The lifetime gay pass can’t be revoked, unless for the most heinous of crimes. A morbid Xmas album is not grounds enough.

Only one more day and the 20th anniversary edition is going to be officially released! Don't forget to order it as a Xmas present for all the people in your life you can't stand.

I hate her Lord of the Rings song! The Enya "May it be" song, whilst only interesting for the first 60 seconds, was far superior to Annie's gnashing of the teeth and bleating like sheep headed towards sudden death performance. I saw it live at the Oscars and was scarred for life!

I wish she would've channeled the fierceness she put into this performance when recording the Christmas album.

R54, you’ve shared enough to buy me good shoes.

I grew up with Annie and still love her. But after following her on Twitter for a while now realize she takes herself way, way, WAYYYY too seriously. I have the impression she sees herself as a musical genius. Her daughters are very much the same and they tend to sit around the house a lot, with a boyfriend of one of the daughters, "making art" with songs that Annie or the girls constantly record for Annie to post to the Internet.

She's very preachy, always telling us what's wrong with America and how Americans are so inherently flawed and such, (She's Brit by the way and like all of them, has never obtained United States citizenship but is somehow able to live here for decades and decades and engrain herself into the American conversation. Meanwhile, Mexican people drown and die every day just wanting to come here and work.)

And yes, she's very maudlin and doesn't seem to find any humor in life, especially in herself. Annie's no doubt a high-maintenance mess!

R57 = Shioban Fahey

R6, I didn't either, the video is actually pretty good, but it is a very odd choice nonetheless

I can't get this out of my mind

Annie was on the BBC's main political show this morning performing a live piano version of The Holly And The Ivy from her horribly decorated LA home.

It was very kind of her to offer herself to the nation at this time of great anxiety and take people's minds off ruined Christmasses and tens of thousand of deaths over the last year.

Once a gigantic horse cunt, always a gigantic horse cunt!

Always R62!

"Dido's Lament" is quite something. Stunning.