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[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Also available on "A Christmas Record" by ZE records. Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith both love this song.

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[starrystillness]

Very sad to hear of Cristina's death. Annie Nightingale introduced me to Cristina via her request show in the early '90s and I remember it being a total nightmare to track down Cristina’s records in the pre-internet years. I have long considered "You Rented a Space" to be my favourite song of all time. Don't know why, I just like the way it makes me feel. Sleep well, Cristina

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[periodically80s]

#Blitz #1983 #fashion #ferrets #library #Cristina Monet Zilkha #Cristina

[nocicepti0n]

Sad to hear that underrated 1980s pop singer Cristina has passed due to suspected coronavirus complications. The track "Things Fall Apart" from her 1984 LP Sleep It Off, with a cover by Jean-Paul Goude (famed for his work with Grace Jones), is a dark and very 80s take on Christmas, a shiny tree bauble with an exposed jagged edge. In addition to being a brilliant addition to any Christmas playlist, every time I hear it I imagine it being sung by Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman in Tim Burton's Batman Returns.

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[bitter69uk]

Forget bloated, tired and overrated old “Fairytale of New York.” For those in the know, the truly essential Christmas staple is the gloriously downbeat “Things Fall Apart” (1981) by confrontational post-punk No Wave chanteuse Cristina. The music is gloomy, driven New Wave rock complete with stinging guitars. The sentiments are jaundiced and utterly devoid of Christmas cheer. Ice princess Cristina’s “singing” is more like a fatalistic snarl. (The alienated, deadpan way she enunciates, “good morning midnight … it’s Christmas …” is worthy of Nico). And her venomous, spikily funny satirical lyrics are wry poetry. I love how she pithily condenses the end of a relationship into two lines: “And then one day he said, “I can’t stand in your way - it’s wrong.” “Way of what?” I asked, but he was gone.” Sadly, the incomparably stylish Cristina (full name: Cristina Monet Zilkha) died aged 61 on 1 April 2020 of coronavirus complications. Hip Christmas perennial “Things Fall Apart” ensures her enduring cult status.  (Read my obituary for Cristina here).

#cristina #things fall apart #christmas #no wave #xmas #new wave #post punk #ze records #lobotomy room

[opsena]

Sad and shocked to find out about Cristina’s passing, but unfortunately not surprised... She was battling an illness for a very long time and the way the media is reporting on her death is ghastly and disrespectful to say the least.

Farewell, queen 🕊

Cristina Monet Palaci Zilkha

January 2, 1959 – April 1, 2020

#cristina monet

[techdex]

Cristina Monet Zilkha, Singer Who Fused Punk's Sneer To Disco's Bounce, Dead At 61

https://echoingwalls.com/blog/cristina-monet-zilkha-singer-who-fused-punks-sneer-to-discos-bounce-dead-at-61/

Cristina Monet Zilkha, Singer Who Fused Punk's Sneer To Disco's Bounce, Dead At 61

The singer, known for songs like “Things Fall Apart” and “Is That All There Is,” died on Wednesday. …

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

One of my favourite cynical yuletide tunes!

LYRICS:

[Verse 1]

My mother said, "I'm a survivor

I pull together Christmas every year"

"Something has to last," she said

"Once a year let's have the past"

And then one year to reach up high

To hang an angel from the tree

Became a painful thing

"Besides, she's lost her wing," my mother said

[Chorus]

"Things fall apart but they never leave my heart"

Good morning, good night

It's Christmas

"Things fall apart but they never leave my heart"

[Verse 2]

My boyfriend said, "It's really sweet the way you go for Christmas cheer"

I said, "We can't afford the tree"

He said, "Love is free"

So we trimmed the cactus with my earrings that we'd meant to pawn

There wasn't any snow

But there was rain

He licked me like a candy cane

And then one day he said, "I can't stand in your way, it's wrong"

"Way of what?" I asked, but he was gone

[Chorus]

"Things fall apart but they never leave my heart"

Good morning, good night

It's Christmas

"Things fall apart but they never leave my heart"

[Verse 3]

The party was a huge success

"But where should we go next?" they said

They killed a tree of 97 years

And smothered it in lights and silver tears

They all got wrecked

They laughed too loud

I started to feel queasy in the crowd

I caught a cab back to my flat

And wept a bit

And fed the cat

[Chorus]

"Things fall apart but they never leave my heart"

Good morning, good night

It's Christmas

"Things fall apart but they never leave my heart"

It's Christmas

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For those who prefer youtube:

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[scvpubliclib]

New story on NPR: Cristina Monet Zilkha, Singer Who Fused Punk's Sneer To Disco's Bounce, Dead At 61 https://ift.tt/3aFPoiO

#NPR #Arts & Culture

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

One of my favourite hilarious, nihilistic and cynical 1981 Christmas/Xmas/Yuletide tunes (released on the ZE Christmas Album first) by the late, great and underrated Cristina (On March 31, 2020, Cristina died in New York at the age of 64 after testing positive for COVID-19.)

Cristina Monet Zilkha (née Monet-Palaci, January 17, 1956 – March 31, 2020),

Known during her recording career simply as Cristina, was an American singer and writer, best known for her no wave recordings made for ZE Records in the late 1970s and early 1980s in New York City. She "was a pioneer in blending the artsiness and attitude of punk with the joyful energy of disco and pop.... [which] helped pave the way for the massive successes of her contemporaries, like Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, and anticipated the rise of confrontational but danceable alt-pop acts..." in a mode that was at once "campy, self-aware, and infectious."

⬆️ Info above and about her passing from her Wikipedia page.

Various articles below ⬇️ on her life and career:

Images above ⬆️ from:

The 1984 rare music video for "Ticket To The Tropics" from her Sleep It Off album.

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[aquietexplosion]

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