December 22, 2004

• Also, I rather enjoyed The Christmas Story [mp3] Ed Shepp tells the story of the first Christmas as it truly happened, and along the way explains the origins of Christmas iconography such as Christmas trees, candy canes, and flying reindeer. {Warning} mp3 7.68 MB large file {Warning} another odd monkey holiday google-image search
• Heh.
• God, and the Cocteau Twins are usually so good. But ugh..... now I don't know what to do.
• *coughMoFiCDswapcough*
• I hate the song, but Al Green's version of "Silent Night" is pretty good -- as is almost all Al Green stuff.
• I remember when that stupid Cocteau Twins CD came out. It was so bad, I actually called a friend to complain and nearly burst into tears.
• Patti Smith does the only version of White Christmas that I can stand. I really hate that song. I have a copy of the single, which I initially bought in utter disbelief that it could exist, but it's widely available in mp3 format at your friendly neighbourhood download sites. CRASS put out Merry Crassmas in the early eighties, and my nephew played it for me a couple of years ago after bracing me with some other CRASS records. It's a somewhat odd product for the band/collective, but they've been known to succeed in subversion while pretending to be innocents. Horace Andy, who most people know only from his work with Massive Attack, has a song called Christmas Time which I've only heard once, but it made me look for more reggae and ska Christmas music: there's a huge abundance of it.
• Christmas With the Devil -- Spinal Tap (includes the lines: "There's a demon in my belly/And a gremlin in my brain/There's someone up the chimney hole/And Satan is his name" Mr. HeatMiser/Mr. SnowMiser -- Soundtrack to the Year Without a Santa Claus Jingle Bell Rock -- Hall and Oates (Scroll down about 80% of the way down the link -- it will be worth it) Another Lonely Christmas -- Prince Feels Like Christmas -- Cyndi Lauper The Hall and Oates single featured a version sung by each. They had a video for each version, too, and MTV used to actually air them. The Cyndi Lauper song is a pretty good song, and the Prince song is (not surprisingly) bizarre.
• A Cautionary Tale Driving across the Mohave Desert I realized I left all of my tapes at the hotel room in Vegas. I had a long ride home, I was not going back for them. The only tape I had was the one still in the Walkman.. Blue Bell Knoll. You're bored, it's the desert, you listen to what you have. I came up on a rise. The sun was setting with an amazing splash of colors across the sands. Athol Brose was cranking in my ears. I pulled off to the side of the road and sat there watching the sun going down, the Cocteau Twins blasting in my ears. It was one of those once in a lifetime moments. Just then my bliss turned to terror as a semi going more than 80 miles an hour came flying from behind and missed me and the bike by less than two feet. Shaking, I looked down and opened the Walkman, took out the tape and threw it into the desert. I almost learned the hard way what is the pure evil know as The Cocteau Twins. Beware my friends. Beware.
• Argh, that was beautiful *wipes tear* bernocke, this is indeed a fine list. I remember the Hall & Oats videos. Thought I had burned that image from my brain. ugh...Cardigans. Wham!
• Wham!
• I have 2 favorite Christmas albums: -Various Artists - "Bollocks to Christmas" which features the Business, Bad Manners, the Gonads, the 4 Skins, the Yobs... -The Vandals - "Christmas with the Vandals"
• Who else should be on there? Well, this is a start. Most of those songs appeared first on a 1980 Christmas album that was incredibly great, then Ze went out of buisness for about 15 years, and now they're back, and have released it with more tracks (though they swapped around the track order for no good reason). But the Suicide, Was (Not Was), Waitresses and August Darnell tracks are all excellent.
• Calexico - Gift X-Change Coldplay - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Grandaddy - Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland Ella Fitzgerald - Sleigh Ride Low - Little Drummer Boy Ron Sexsmith - Maybe This Christmas Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis Jack Johnson - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Roy Orbison - Pretty Paper U2 - Christmas Baby Please Come Home Ben Folds - Lonely Christmas Eve
• I actually just sent an email to Nickelodeon asking, no begging, them to re-release A Cartoon Christmas. I used to have it on cassette, the cassette has died, and I neeeeeeeeeeed it this time of year. Unfortunately, I only think about it this time of year, when it goes for like $60 a pop on Amazon, which is approximately $50 more than my xmas CD budget. It is the best xmas album EVAH! Although the Roches comes in close. Monkey Xmas CD: will not be complete without the Kinks: Father Christmas
• C.C. Banana speaking with TWISTED SISTER drummer A.J. Pero about their current album "A Twisted Christmas" when it came to doing this Christmas album, we really wanted to take it seriously. There are some things in this world that you just don't screw around with, and Christmas music is one of them. The Axl Rose bashing is an added treat
• I just clicked on this thread because of the above marvelous link to the Twisted Sister Christmas album. Anyway, I didn't remember this thread at all, so I started at the beginning of the thread and scrolled down slowly. I saw one comment that contained songs that I know and happen to like. I was momentarily stunned that someone had tastes so similar to my own. And then I saw (not realized, but SAW) that I had posted the comment. I am an idiot.
• Has happened to me before as well, I must admit. When one has made thousands of comments, it's impossible to remember them all. But wouldn't it be nice, bernockle, that there was another individual out there that also loved Christmas renditions by Cyndi Lauper, Prince, Hall & Oates and Spinal Tap?? I wanna RAWWK! Oooh, yeahhhh!
• I would make love to such a person with the force of a thousand ascending seagulls.
• You are not alone.
• You win a prize if you can guess which three of the four of them are actually making love to themselves at the time that photo was taken.
• That's not "making love." That's rape, you pig. Also, C C Banana is a wonderful name. It's like cheerleading camp all over again: C! Banana! C C Banana! C! Banana! C C Banana! C! Banana! C C Banana! etc usw ad nauseam