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Old 10-25-2006, 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by JunkFoodGenius View Post
"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!)
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.
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