Patrick 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 [...]
Archive for December 20th, 2006
Santa Claus and His Old Lady–Cheech and Chong
December 20, 2006Joy-George Winston
December 20, 2006It’s a New Age piano version of Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.”
I heard a musician recently interviewed on an NPR show who audibly fell bak in horror at the suggestion that his music was New Age. “New Age music,” the fellow replied, “is all texture.” In the way that white chocolate has the texture [...]
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree–The Partridge Family
December 20, 2006Another George R. contribution: you can see the comments on the other Patridge Familty entry.
I love Randy’s Rodeo’s capsule of the album from which this came: “This isn’t nearly as bad as you might [...]
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas–Jim Nabors
December 20, 2006Shazam, Shazam, Shazam. George R. sent this one. If you grew up in front of a television set during the 1960s, you found yourself confused by Jim Nabors who played Gomer Pyle on the Andy Griffith Show and on Gomer Pyle, USMC. Gomer Pyle, was, well, a gomer, an apparently innocent to the point of [...]
Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth–Bing and Bowie
December 20, 2006I don’t think it takes much explanation why this is a guilty pleasure. David Bowie–Ziggy Stardust, Alladin Sane, the Thin White Duke,–and Der Bingle, the epitome of gender bending rock as spectacle and the icon of square, if cool, mid-20th century upright American Christmas, doggone it.
According to Wikipedia, the track was originally recorded for Crosby’s [...]
Stray Cat Strut/You’re A Mean, One Mr. Grinch – Live! Video
December 20, 2006Stray Cat Strut/You’re A Mean, One Mr. Grinch – Live!
We went to see the BSO Christmas Extravaganza last night. This was sure a highlight, except last night somebody in a Grinch suit came out and traded solos with Setzer. This is a real pleasure, not a guilty one.
