I just needed to listen to Charlie Brown's Christmas song and can anything beat O Tannenbaum by Vince Guaraldi to set the feeling of Christmas? It has been a few years since I have seen the cartoon but it is a simple presentation and sits as a reminder that it is not the stuff but us that make Christmas special. I don't think it even feeds into any religious tones, it just makes the case that even when things seem bad (the shitty little tree), does it matter, if you are with the people that matter?
There are so many masterful songs to enjoy, Metallica tore into Carol Of The Bells, which y'all may not realize you enjoy, it is the one houses that light up use most often. It starts out calm and like any Metallica song turns into a frenzy of energy but by the end calms down as it takes you on a ride and leaves you feeling glad for it.
Some of you may not have had the luck or the stomach to have listened to South Park's: Mr. Hanky's Christmas Classics where the boys really go to town reinventing some of those Christmas traditional songs into some real pieces of work. It is hosted by a talking turd, so put away that smoking pipe and relax a while. Two songs that just pop to mind is the aforementioned O Tannenbaum, sitting in hell, Hitler is crying for want of a tannenbaum (Christmas tree), Satan sees him sad and decides to make with the merry for one day. The name drops are surprising and shocking, but it moves at a very merry click. The dirtiest song luckily is mumbled by Kenny through his sweater but involves the Virgin Mary and a way for her to have kept her virgin status while still being popular with the boys, or managing to find a way to pay for that manger without any money.
My folks were here a couple weeks ago and my mom mentioned the Hawaiian song, Mele Kalikimaka, was around since her youth, it always sends her back to a dance at her highschool. I love that song in Chevy Chase's Christmas Vacation, when he is looking out the window imagining the pool of his dreams for his family, made a little better by the hottie in the highcut undies in the mall, then a little worse by that scene stealer Eddie. That is such an awesomely perfect Christmas movie, it seems beside the point, but Chevy Chase is obsessed with making his family's life just perfect, as he sees things in his mind's eye. He just carries on like a buffoon, but he means well, ole Sparky. We should all try to be like him on this holiday.
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