Not So Random 10
Holiday music generally gets overplayed, but let's see what comes up:
- Shostakovich - "Suite #2 For Jazz Orchestra - Waltz #2"
- Vince Guaraldi - "Linus and Lucy"
- Bobby Helms - "Jingle Bell Rock"
- Weezer - "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
- John Lennon - "Happy Xmas"
- Tchaikovsky - "The Nutcracker Suite"
- Gary Hoey - "Carol of the Bells"
- Bruce Springsteen - "Merry Christmas Baby"
- Vince Guaraldi - "Christmas Time Is Here"
- Sufjan Stevens - "Come on! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance!"
Holiday Link Dump
- Faux Fire - Do they still put that fireplace thing on TV these days? I don't think they do, which makes this site fun.
- White Christmas: Zack Kim plays the song using two guitars (at once!)
- The Mr Do and Mr Don't Holiday Special - Some good advice in here.
- It's an MST3k Christmas - Compulsory viewing!
- The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time - John Scalzi recounts some less than appealing specials, including The Lost Star Trek Christmas Episode: “A Most Illogical Holiday” and A Canadian Christmas with David Cronenberg. Awesome.
- Nine Inch Noels - Words fail me.
- 13 Days of Christmas - Those Needcofee folks have upstaged me by doing a whole extra day of Christmas (and have been doing it for several years too).
Ben
After reading about The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time, all I can say is:
"My God! Oh, the humanity! My brain! My spleen! Make it stop! Make it stooooop!"
While we were apparently saved from one tragedy by a group of critics with good taste, one has to wonder how ANY of this stuff EVER got the green light.
Mark
Well, to be sure, they're all completely fictional, of course, but yeah, it's a crazy list:p