My favorite twisted holiday tunes for your enjoyment

[thatcrazycajun]

We all know the songs that get played on radio stations and retail-store PA systems incessantly this time of year. As an antidote to yet another cheesy version of "Winter Wonderland," here (with a little help from YouTube) are some of the holiday chestnuts I like to listen to, one for each of the 12 days:

• "The 12 Pains of Christmas"—Bob Rivers Comedy Corp. (now Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio)
• "The Night Santa Went Crazy"—Weird Al Yankovic (warning: rather violent and gory)
• "Ding! Fries Are Done"—Billy (no other name given) in a culinary parody of "Carol of the Bells"
• "The Christmas Song"—Billy Crystal, in persona as about 10 of his most famous characters
• "The 12 Canadian Days of Christmas"—Rick Moranis & Dave Thomas, in persona as Bob & Doug McKenzie
• "Santa Claus Is Watching You"—Ray Stevens performing one of his all-time demented classics
• "Santa Got A D.W.I."—Ray's country-music colleague Sherwin Linton
• "The Chanukah Song, Part 3"—Adam Sandler, in a surprise holiday-season appearance on Saturday Night Live a couple years back, following up on his two earlier versions of this funny celebrity-filled song
• "Christmas Is Pain"—Roy Zimmerman, who has a YouTube channel of his very own to which you can subscribe
• "The All-Purpose Carol"—an ecumenical holiday song originated by John Forster, performed by Biddie & Chris Marshall (complete with on-screen lyrics so you can sing along!)
• "Silent Night"—Richard Cheese, from his lounge-themed holiday CD Silent Nightclub
• "Christmas Is Interesting"—by our very own Jonathan Coulton

And if you have any favorite silly songs for any of the holidays occurring this month, please feel free to hip me right here.

Comments

[beki.livejournal.com]

Bob Rivers has several albums out. Don't forget Stan Boreson and Alvin and the Chipmunks either :)

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

"12 Yats of Christmas", "Ain't Dere No More", "Santa and His Reindeer Used to Live Right Here" and "Santa and his Reindeer Got a Modular Home", all by Benny Grunch and the Bunch and viewable on www.wwltv.com. :)

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Good ones!

At Celebration in the Oaks at New Orleans City Park, the laser show played "I Want a Hippopotamus For Chirstmas". That one seems to always make me smile.

I'm a fan of Walt Kelly's alternative Christmas lyrics from the comic strip "Pogo". Deck us all with Boston Charlie!

[ericavdg.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely "Deck Us All With Boston Charlie"! Lydia thought I was making it up till I sang it at a WSFA meeting and half a dozen people chimed in!

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Lydia could have accused you of arranging that with the others beforehand; you got lucky. :-) You shoulda just showed her the original source material; I'm sure the Pogo strip containing it is available online somewhere.

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Where is "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer"?

All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth?

YAHoo Borea.....from How the Grinch Stole Christmas is one of my favorites

And always......We Three Kings....with the rubber cigar!

Thanks Matt! Happy Holidays!!

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Well, "Grandma" and "Two Front Teeth" got left out mainly because (a) I'm tired of them after hearing them too often, and (b) I only had room for 12 on the list.

The Whos' song you mention from the Grinch special isn't, strictly speaking, a silly holiday song; it's actually quite seriously meant and uplifting, which is why it was not included.

And as for the one about the three kings and the rubber cigar, that's a new one on me; I have no Earthly idea which song you mean.

[terriwells.livejournal.com]

Tired of "Grandma"? Sacrilege! Why, I even did a filk of it for Halloween: "Grandpa Got His Neck Bit By a Vampire" ;-)

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

While we're talking Jonathan Coulton, there's always "Chiron Beta Prime"...

[filkferengi]

The "Ding! Fries Are Done" is from the extremely funny album "Elves Gone Wild" by FuMPer Robert Lund.