Christmas has finally come. Fear not though, I have saved the best for last. Initially, I was only going to have one song today, but I found another this morning that couldn’t wait until next year. Lady GaGa’s “Christmas Tree”:
And finally, the undisputed champion for worst Christmas song of all time: “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” produced for Live Aid in the 1980s.
Today I present popular artists’ attempts at Christmas songs.
Queen’s surprisingly popular 1984 song “Thank God It’s Christmas” is perhaps the best attempt:
There are no words for Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful ChristmasTime”:
Even the Beach Boys’ smooth harmony can’t save the terrible lyrics of “Santa’s Beard”:
I’ve got a few for you today but they all follow the same style: parodies of the twelve days of Christmas.
First, a policemen’s twelve days of Christmas:
An emo’s twelve days of Christmas:
The Twin Peaks’ twelve days of Christmas:
Trust Fall Out Boy to turn even the most cheery of holidays into a self-absorbed pity party. I present, for your listening enjoyment, “Yule Shoot Your Eye Out.”
I present you the old Christmas classic, Shana Lynett’s “Mr. Russian, Please Don’t Shoot Down Santa’s Sleigh”. Via Twitter.
To celebrate the holidays, I will be posting bad christmas songs all this week.
New-ish video from 30 Seconds To Mars. Allegedly directed by lead singer/actor Jared Leto under the name Bartholomew Cubbins.
From The League of Ordinary Gentlemen’s cover contest. As a side note, I have really been enjoying The League of Ordinary Gentlemen for the week that I’ve subscribed to them so consider trying it out.
From former norwegian black metal band Ulver and a YouTube user, comes dubbing of David Lynch’s Lost Highway with Ulver’s song Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses. Lost Highway is probably my favorite Lynch movie because its story actually makes sense. The song isn’t metal, but viewers should watch out for shocking images that Lynch might throw at them.
By The Faint.
Crunch time at school in the lead up to thanksgiving break. Sorry for the lack of politics, culture is all I have time for.
Them Crooked Vultures is a new rock supergroup made up of Nirvana’s Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. As my friend DJ put it, “they might just save rock n roll.”
Newsweek’s cover next week is Sarah Palin (Note: PDF embedded in a full screen iframe). The headline is a play on a song from The Sound of Music and RedState has wasted no time accusing Newsweek of supporting Nazis. It is no problem that the song was about Maria being frivolous, there were Nazis in the musical and they area clearly what Newsweek is referring to! As RedState puts it, “Sure, it was the nuns who sang the song, but the Nazis who [sic] were out to destroy her.”
Today is both Armistice Day and Veteran’s Day. I feel that this song by Philadelphia based singer-songwriter Adam Arcuragi is apt for the occasion. It’s about the Christmas Truce of 1914.
By Moby Grape. From Instapundit.
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