How many of you are as sick to death of hearing the same 40 Christmas songs every year? If I have to listen to "Santa Baby", "Winter Wonderland" or Bono screaming "WELL TONIGHT THANK GOD IT'S THEM INSTEAD OF YOUUUU!!!!" one more time I'm going to shoot myself. Fortunately, there's an antidote. I'm a big fan of the podcast Sound Opinions, which is basically a talk show about music. Every year they have a Christmas music guru come on who digs up the weirdest, most obscure Christmas crap and puts the best stuff on a CD that he makes freely available. It's a mix of rock, funk, soul, jazz and some stuff that is so strange I can't even describe it. For example, check out "Snowflakes and Frozen Lakes" from the Baby Pacman album: http://www.frequency.com/video/pac-man-christmas-album-snowflakes/26556851 There's way more where this came from, and if you're into Christmas music at all, you should check it out. You can hear old Christmas shows on the Sound Opinions site, and the 2012 show is coming out this weekend. http://www.soundopinions.org/
My modern rock christmas playlist includes: The Ataris - Christmas Card from a Hooker Blink 182 - I won't be home for christmas Brand New - O Holy NIght Coldplay - 2000 Miles Coldplay - Have yourself a merry little christmas Eve 6 - FIrst Noel Everclear - Hating You For Christmas Fuel - We THree Kings Good Charlotte - Christmas by the phone Jack's Mannequin - Lights and Buzz Jack Johnson - Rudolph Jimmy Eat World - last xmas Jimmy Eat WOrld - if you were born today Linkin Park - My December MxPx - Christmas Day My Chemical ROmance - All I want for christmas is you Nick Hexum (311) - Mele Kalikimaka Pete York - Do they know its christmas Save Ferris - Christmas Wrapping Smashing Pupkins - Christmas Time Something Corporate - forget december Switchfoot - old borego Trust Company - season's change The Used - ALone this holiday Weezer - Christmas w/ Weezer EP There's more...but that's the best of it. Fuck Bing Crosby.
I wish Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics could air on the radio. [yt=Merry Fucking Christmas]8zGgkP2liRw[/yt] [yt=Christmas Time in Hell]mmaMfXwlq90[/yt]
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I HATE "Santa Baby." Also "Jingle Bell Rock." And the one that goes "Crissssmuss is my favorite holiday / come on it's time to celebrate / exchanging presents, friends and fam-uh-lee / dong ding, the works is happy." I repeat: DONG DING, THE WORLD IS HAPPY. A 5-year-old could write better lyrics.
I love Christmas songs. All of them - including Santa Baby. But, I don't start listening to them until about two weeks till Christmas. Then, stop the day after.
You need Blink's I won't be home for christmas it seems: Outside the carolers start to sing I can't describe the joy they bring Cause joy is something they don't bring me My girlfriend is by my side From the roof are hanging sickles of ice Their whiny voices get irritating It's Christmas time again So I stand with a dead smile on my face Wondering how much of my time they'll waste Oh god I hate these Satan's helpers And then I guess I must've snaped Because I grabbed a baseball bat And made them all run for shelter It's Christmas time again It's time to be nice to the people you can't stand all year I'm growing tired of all this Christmas cheer .....
If only to invoke the ghost of Uncle Albert impotent rage... [YT="Someday At Christmas"]DmhXAyI2e8U[/YT] [YT="Let Me Sleep"]CzjgMXseMvg[/YT] Can't say I'm a fan of either, or much Christmas music at all. Although I will make an exception for one Okie tradition and all the crass commercialism it implies... [YT="BC Clark"]5LJBB65r-9o[/YT]
I'm not big on Christmas songs. The only traditional song I really like is "The Christmas Song", preferably the one sung by Nat King Cole. This is my favorite one, though. I think anyone who's had a Christmas gathering with their extended family can relate to some extent. Minus the booze references, it certainly describes mine. [wYT=""Merry Christmas from the Family""]P37xPiRz1sg[/wYT] The song was pretty obscure for many, many years. It was recorded long before they made the music video for it (kinda like "You Shook Me All Night Long").
The WORST Christmas song ever written (and I'm a Tom Petty fan): [YT=""It's Christmas All Over Again""]1GoDpQw[/YT] But then there's my personal favorite Christmas song, by AC/DC no less: [YT=""Mistress For Christmas""]utj7MgslLOs[/YT]
I just like to avoid it altogether. Many years ago my immediate superior (well, the lead draftsman) tried to play Yanni's Chirstmas Album in the office. I was pretty close to bludgeoning him to death with a beam compass. He stopped after a while. Then sweet little Karen (THAT Karen) comes out of the typing pool room and says she though she heard music, and why did it stop? So I beg her not to encourage the guy. But she insists he put the music back on. And he does. Yanni. She listens for all of three bars and says, "Oh my GOD, that SUCKS!!"
This. There must be a level of Hell where folks are subject to listen to it ad nauseum in an infinite loop over & over & over & over again. Had Dante known about JBR back when he wrote his story, he'd probably have had one of Hell's levels be a place where you're subjected to JBR for ALL eternity!
