Speaking of repurposing songs, I just wanted to mention that fans of heavy music should check out the 2008 album by Harvey Milk, Life... The Only Game In Town. The first track organically incorporates lyrics from "I'm Waiting For My Man" and "A Day In The Life," and the whole thing is an art-rock/avant-metal monster. It's a recent discovery for me.
Any song can be turned into a Christmas song by adding jingle bells, and by renaming the subject of the song to be Santa.
Since it already has jingle bells, the Mats' "Meet Me On The Bus" is hereby "Meet Me On The Sleigh". At least until December 26.
How about Nick Cave?
He said, "Well bartender, it's plain to see
I'm that bad motherfucker called Santa Lee"
Mr. Santa Lee
...
"I'll stay here till Snow Miser comes in, till time comes to pass
And furthermore I'll fuck Snow Miser in his motherfucking ass"
Said Santa Lee
"I'm a bad motherfucker, don't you know
But I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get one fat boy's asshole"
Said Santa Lee
I feel I should apologize for that....
Hey, I'm listening to Metal Machine Christmas Music now!
Christmas madness makes me thank for living in a Jewish country.
But y'all still pretty funny.
Are ALL of the major radio stations in U.S. talking about/playing Christmas stuff these days?
I don't think so, Shir. I'm pretty sure most corporate radio stations here in the States stick with the tried-and-true formulaic rock and country all year 'round.
I love how Nick Cave is wearing a pink Take That (British boyband) t-shirt in the video for Staggerlee.
Syd Straw wittily repurposed Blondie's song into an xmas song: "I'm Always Touched by Your Presents, Dear."
Some rock stations will play the occasional rockin' Christmans song, like Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Clause is Coming to Town" or Lennon and Ono's "Merry Christmas (War is Over)".
Or at least they used to. I rarely listen to the radio these days.
I'm pretty sure most corporate radio stations here in the States stick with the tried-and-true formulaic rock and country all year 'round.
I'm inclined to disagree except that I pretty much only listen to NPR and my ipod anymore. I recall hearing frequent christmas songs on commercial radio way back when... have they stopped programming for Christmas? It used to be that several pop artists would put out new holiday songs each year.
Radio or no you get Christmassed at everywhere you go. Step into any store and it's the soundtrack. Here at work we're currently playing about 30% Christmas or winter themed songs. The town of Beverly Hills has a whole strip wired to play carols. The directory channel on my cable has even color coded every show that is holiday related (blue with snow in the corners) this includes the home shopping network.
It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas...
