Poll: Favorite "aid" song
 

Remember Live Aid, Band Aid, USA for Africa, etc?? Well what song did you like most? We are the world or Do they know is Christmas? I like the USA for Africa song but LOVE.. ADORE.. the Band Aid song.. I always listen that song on Christmas (a local radio always plays that song all december long)

Any memories from that era?

Neither. I guess if I had to choose, I'd rather listen to We Are the World.

oh man. sorry, villavic, i can't listen to either of these. if i HAD to choose, i'd go with we are the world, because do they know it's christmas makes my bones melt. :laugh:

I LOVE the Band Aid song :laugh:

Def. Do They Know Its Christmas. We Are The World is a big piece of crap.

i just realized I posted this in the wrong forum.
Well, anyway vote if you like it

"Do They Know It's Christmas" is the best sanctimonious song EVER. I sang that at karaoke a few weeks ago, prefacing it as, "The scariest song of all time." Aside from the obvious "there is snow in Africa" (Mt. Kiliminjaro[sp]) and most of Africa couldn't care about Christmas, we see Bono getting his start at being smug and pointing a very sharp finger with, "Well, tonight thank God it's them instead of you!" (And if you listen to the long one, David Bowie does a mini-speech.)

...and all of this really rather reminds me of the Rumors-era line up of Fleetwood Mac...(topic!)

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Neither. It is Coil's Tainted Love (a cover of a cover).

both are too cheesy to listen to really but do they know its christmas is streets ahead of the other

[QUOTE=JunkFoodGenius] and most of Africa couldn't care about Christmas/QUOTE]

Actually the early Chrisitian church has a strong history in Africa, especially in Ethiopia where the whole Band Aid relief effort was focussed, so they were probably very aware of Christmas - which only goes to support your point about the sanctimonious tone of the song.

(PS - not a Christian myself, by any means)

My own favourite song of this type from this era is "Sun City".

bono didn't write that. Also it was the one line he didn't want to sing but bob geldoff convined him as it was the line he had planned for bono.

What, no Tears Are Not Enough (Northern Lights)? 'Cmon, it had Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Burton Cummings, Anne Murray, AND Gordon Lightfoot!

Bono didn't write it, sure (thanks, man who names their kids after rejected Brian Froud characters) but he brought the smug. So, so smug! :D

Oh, wow...if they released that now, I think it'd be called Xanax.

I don't care for either song but if I had to pick it would be "We Are the World."

Love 'em both equally.

But I'll go with We Are the World, cause you get to laugh at Lindsey in his crazy eraser-head hairdo when you watch the vid. Besides, I also recognize a helluva lot more of the artists in that one than in the Band-Aid vid.

That Band Aid song wins. There is nothing like it. It's the first and it was just so emotionally charged. I just have a feeling people really believe what they are singing on this...even if they don't...I feel they are.

I remember when it first came on and how my dad just left it on and watched it over and over again...it just made you cry it was so good.

To this day, it's my number 1 Christmas song...I love it more than any other.

That OTHER song...even WITH Lindsey...doesn't stand a chance. LOL.