Your Favorite Holiday Song A comedy conversation
by Dianerda 57,835 109 12/09/2010 01:08 AM 260 views
What is your favorite holiday song? The one you listen to every year, that always gets you into the holiday spirit - the one you can't go a season without revisiting?
My sister gave me pretty much the best Christmas present the year I was 10. It was a cassette tape of the Jingle Cats, meowing all of the classics. Oh man, we played the crap out of that tape. Every single Christmastime from then on (until I got kicked out of the house) one of us would manage to save the tape from whatever hiding place my dad thought was good enough and we'd gather 'round, pop it in the player, and laugh and laugh and laugh.
I used to play it to my cat. (...when she was alive.*) I would play it and she would get distraught, pacing back and forth, frantically trying to find and help the cats who were obviously being tortured in the next room.
* It was less effective to get this response after she died.
Off the top of my head, because I couldn't possibly do it justice if I had to think about it:
Favorite traditional song: Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Favorite silly song: Dominick the Donkey
Favorite Hanukkah song: that one by Adam Sandler
Favorite brand new song: Phineas and Ferb 12 Days of Christmas
People think they're being witty and original when they sing "Holly Jolly Christmas" to me. Unfortunately, I get it YEAR ROUND, so my Christmas "cheer" lasts 12 months. Seriously, knock it the Frost off. You're not funny and I've heard it 20 million times. I've recently decided that I'm not even going to pretend to laugh anymore - I'm just going to kick the singer in the crotch.
This means you too, Grandma.*+
*I can say this because both my Grandmas are dead.
I like the version of Holly Jolly Christmas by Coffin Frost. There's something about blast beat drumming and guttural vocals that really brings out the holiday spirit in me.
Every Christmastime my dad would play his different Mannheim Steamroller tapes. Now whenever I hear a song by them it immediately brings back memories of being a little kid, all excited for Christmas and cookie making and presents.
I am saddened and surprised, though I should not be either saddened or surprised that no one, NO ONE, has yet mentioned the sublime "Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses.
I challenge anyone to watch this all the way through without vomiting. I can only assume they talked Carrie Fisher into doing this by showing up at her house with a truckload of cocaine and pictures of her blowing a horse.
This is the one song that I look forward to most of all for this time of year. For me, it just makes everything seem right, bright and romantic; and although, technically, it isn't even about Christmas, it IS seasonal...
In Zug terms, maybe think of it as existential Bing Crosby:
And along the same lines, this one isn't bad, either:
I didn't click anyone else's links or videos because I have been reading this entire thread while listening to JINGLECATS!!! In fact, I just opened a new tab so I could listen to a whole Jinglecats Youtube playlist. Thank you, Dianerda for reminding of the awesome Jinglecats!
The thing about the Star Wars Holiday Special is it's so bad you can't even watch it ironically the way you can watch Plan 9 From Outer Space or Santa Clause Conquers The Martians. It's SO bad that it's just unwatchable.
I mean it. Try it. The whole thing is out there to be found.
My favorite traditional Christmas song, even though I'm not terribly religious, is O Holy Night. I just think that the melody is beautiful and it moves me to hear it done well.
Since that in itself isn't very funny, I'll tell a poop story later to make up for it.
Those cats sound like they are getting their poopie holes fisted. Damn I didn't cattewall that much whenever my daddie first fisted mine, but this is my favourite Fistmas song:
We wish you a Merry Fistmas;
We wish you a Merry Fistmas;
We wish you a Merry Fistmas and a Poopy New Rear.
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin;
Good tidings for Fistmas and a Poopyy New Rear.
Oh, bring us a poopy pudding;
Oh, bring us a poopy pudding;
Oh, bring us a poopy pudding and a cup of good pee
We won't go until we get some;
We won't go until we get some;
We won't go until we get some, so bring some out here
We wish you a Merry Fistmas;
We wish you a Merry Fistmas;
We wish you a Merry Fistmas and a Poopy New Rear!
The thing about the Star Wars Holiday Special is it's so bad you can't even watch it ironically the way you can watch Plan 9 From Outer Space or Santa Clause Conquers The Martians. It's SO bad that it's just unwatchable.
I mean it. Try it. The whole thing is out there to be found.
The really sad thing is that I own a copy on tape.
"It's the holliday season (holiday season)
and whoopteedoo, hickory dock, and don't forget to suck on my Coleridge
'cause "Santa" cums the length of a block, it's the happening thing right now
(it's the happening thing right now)"
The Ferrell one was just a bad imitation until 5:00 when it got suddenly good.
Bad imitation, yes. But considering that half the people out who are "singers" actually sound like a cat getting Frosted by a donkey, credit is due to the two of them that don't.
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