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Archive for December, 2006
Merry Christmas From the Family Video
December 25, 2006Christmas Dragnet–Stan Freberg and Daws Butler
December 25, 2006A very funny parody of Jack Webb’s Dragnet from 1953. Listen to Part 1 here. Remember, people call them green onions, but really they’re scallions.
The Christmas Shoes–New Song
December 25, 2006Barb wanted The Christmas Shoes on the list. This assault on good taste has an interesting history as told on the CBS companion site for the movie based on the book based on the song based on the Internet-circulate urban legend.
THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE
In 1999, the Christmas Shoes story began circulating on the [...]
I Believe in Father Christmas–Greg Lake
December 25, 2006I feel guilty about this because back in the mid-70s when it was released, I really, really liked it. And let’s face it, those of us who were into the whole progressive rock thing should feel guilty. Rock was not meant to take itself so seriously. Do we really need the Prokofiev shoved in [...]
A Pirate’s Twelve Days of Christmas
December 25, 2006Ed wanted this song included. You can listen to this 12 Days of Christmas Parody here. I had never heard of Gastronomical Unit, so I had to google them. Here’s how they describe themselves:
We’re a long-distance collaboration of musicians and singers, a circle of friends and acquaintances, providing a holiday-focused tongue-in-cheek collection of [...]
O Holy Night–*NSYNC
December 25, 2006Sharron suggested this recording for the list. The guilty part is pretty obvious. It’s flipping *NSYNC, for crying out loud. It’s not rock ‘n’ roll. It’s a Disney World version of R&B. This (blessedly short) video will give you a taste.
Feliz Navidad–Jose Feliciano
December 25, 2006This is arguably the first crossover Spanish language record. When it was released I was in my first year of high school Spanish, so I was pretty psyched to be able to understand the Spanish lyrics. Of course, that’s the problem with the song. It’s mind numbingly simple and probably for that reason it is [...]
Feliz Navidad–El Vez Video
December 25, 2006El Vez Xmas!!
This rocks!
Christmas in Hollis–Run-D.M.C.
December 25, 2006Beverly nominated this bad boy. I’m not sure that it belongs on the guilty pleasure list. Neither is Randy’s Rodeo:
These prototypical rappers were at their creative peak when they [...]
Santa Claus and His Old Lady–Cheech and Chong
December 20, 2006Patrick wanted this on the compilation and here it is. Let’s count how many ways this track is wrong: it glorifies drug use, it trades in ethnic stereotypes, it trashes the good names of Motown and Buddha records. I shouldn’t let my children listen to this or watch the video.
Except that, the piece [...]
