Comments on: Christmas Song Time (Revised) http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/2006/11/28/christmas-song-time-revised/ Movies, TV and Popular Culture with Rich Heldenfels Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:06:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Viv http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/2006/11/28/christmas-song-time-revised/#comment-732 Viv Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:46:47 +0000 http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/?p=873#comment-732 Sufjan Stevens has released a Christmas EP for the past five years, culminating in a really big box set this year. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has a song called "Cold White Christmas," which is just as depressing as the band and song names suggest. "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)" is the Ramones track mentioned above; it's been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. The Raveonettes' "The Christmas Song" has been in just about every holiday movie or tv special of the past couple years, but it's still great fun. Sufjan Stevens has released a Christmas EP for the past five years, culminating in a really big box set this year.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has a song called "Cold White Christmas," which is just as depressing as the band and song names suggest.

"Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)" is the Ramones track mentioned above; it's been a favorite of mine since I was a kid.

The Raveonettes' "The Christmas Song" has been in just about every holiday movie or tv special of the past couple years, but it's still great fun.

]]> By: Gus http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/2006/11/28/christmas-song-time-revised/#comment-731 Gus Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:03:35 +0000 http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/?p=873#comment-731 How about The Little Drummer Boy, as performed by Bing Crosby and David Bowie? Yes, it has the overall "weird" value, simply because it's Bing Crosby performing a duet with David Bowie, and Bing died not long thereafter (and even before Christmas that year). To me, it's somewhat akin to if Bob Hope had performed alongside Dave Chappelle. Yet, the song ended up sounding pretty good . . . Have you ever checked out VH-1's "The Big 80's Christmas" cd? I picked it up at Target in 2001 or so, and I'm not sure if it's still in print or not. In addition to the afore-mentioned "Little Drummer Boy" (never mind that it's from 1977), the McKenzie Brothers' Twelve Days of Christmas, and the obligatory "Christmas Wrapping," there's a good song on it by Squeeze about there not being any room at the inn and a cut by The Ramones. How about The Little Drummer Boy, as performed by Bing Crosby and David Bowie? Yes, it has the overall "weird" value, simply because it's Bing Crosby performing a duet with David Bowie, and Bing died not long thereafter (and even before Christmas that year). To me, it's somewhat akin to if Bob Hope had performed alongside Dave Chappelle.

Yet, the song ended up sounding pretty good . . .

Have you ever checked out VH-1's "The Big 80's Christmas" cd? I picked it up at Target in 2001 or so, and I'm not sure if it's still in print or not. In addition to the afore-mentioned "Little Drummer Boy" (never mind that it's from 1977), the McKenzie Brothers' Twelve Days of Christmas, and the obligatory "Christmas Wrapping," there's a good song on it by Squeeze about there not being any room at the inn and a cut by The Ramones.

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