Band: Bad Religion
Song: O Come O Come Emmanuel
Album: Christmas Songs (2013)
Genre: Punk Rock, Christmas
For Christmas itself I feel it's only appropriate that I share the best Christmas music I've found to date.
It's not often that a band manages to throw together a Christmas album without actually sacrificing their natural sound, but Bad Religion managed to do it well. All less that 30 minutes of the album is a wonderful mess of classic Punk sounds that just make me happy, ya know?
They hit like 5 or 6 different classics, but this was one of my favorites.
Artist: Sia
Song: Candy Cane Lane
Album: Everyday Is Christmas (2017)
Genre: Pop, Christmas
I didn't expect to be wowed by Sia's Christmas album. As a rule I can't stand Christmas music as it's horrendously repetitive and tacky.
Sia's album was a rather nice change of pace though. It followed the traditional "Christmas music" path in the actual music, but the tunes were all nice and original. Like, I'm not a huge fan of Sia. This isn't cause she's not talented, she's just not my flavor of female pop.
Good music though, and a rather nifty addition to Christmas tunes.
Artist: Andrew Huang feat. Dusty Lima
Song: You Make Winter Warm
Album: You Make Winter Warm (single, 2017)
Genre: Christmas
Remember that guy I posted a couple weeks ago that took apart Closer by The Chainsmokers? Well he makes music too btw, not just analize what other people have going on.
I guess he did this last year too, but he partnered with Klick to make this wonderful little Christmas ditty. It's a fun kickoff to Christmas stuff though, ya know? I figure it's a good plan to kick off the holiday music earlier than I had intended. DMX yesterday, and my favorite Christmas song that was released this year tomorrow.
Artist: DMX
Song: Rudolph The Rednose Reindeer
Album: Rudolph The Rednose Reindeer (2017)
Genre: Rap, Christmas
So I know this isn't actually a new song. I remember when this video originally surfaced and it was my favorite thing. This seems like they took the audio from that and slapped it on a new beat. I love it cause I'm a pretty big fan of DMX, but it bums me out that his label, manager, producers, or whatever combination there, is doing this to him. Maybe he's selling out to get bail money, I don't know.
Song's fun though, decent addition to whatever "weird Christmas music" playlist you might run.
Artist: Chris Tomlin
Song: Joy To The World (Unspeakable Joy)
Album: Glory In The Highest
Genre: Christmas
I generally am not a huge fan of Chris Tomlin. Outside of the fact that he's a Christian artist he's also the king of 8th notes. All his songs kinda ride the 8th note groove on the bassline. Not a bad thing for here and there, but all the time just bugs me.
But this song is kinda fun, and it's one of the only Christmas songs I plan on posting this year, so enjoy!
I feel like I really need to listen to more of this dude's music seeing as I've posted two of his Christmas songs and none of his regular music.
I hear it's quite good, and judging by the fact that I really enjoy the novelty and quality of these Christmas songs I would suppose that I'd like it.
I dunno, I just never listened to Mercyful Fate or his self titled solo stuff I guess. Except one, and it was about a haunted house, or a house haunted by his dead grandma. Something like that. I dunno, it was interesting.
Artist: Gucci Mane
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop
Language: Strong
Here's the Christmas song everybody's clearly after, Gucci has gifted us all with a true classic.
Honestly I wish more new Christmas music like this existed. Here's the problem though (which is something I've noticed in church music as well, but that's a totally different argument), all the good Christmas songs were, for the most part, written back in the big band era of the 20s and 40s. Sure there were new ones written up into the 60s, but for the most part there haven't been any good songs put out since then. You get your remakes of the old classics, you get your single tunes here and there, but nothing on the whole albums of christmas tunes of the old days.
I want more groups to put out original Christmas tunes like this, but a lot of the times it just sounds weird. There's something about the old tunes that are just cemented into place. It's probably because there's only a few months to play them so they didn't get as old to people in the same way that playing the same 60 songs would get for literally anything else.
Eh, got a couple good albums I can dredge up though, and Gucci is releasing The Return Of East Atlanta Santa on the 16th, so that's cool, eh? As long as it's a full blown Christmas album at least. Apparently this is his 3rd one, so I'll have to look at the other two.
Band: Kurt Schneider feat. Chase Holfelder
Genre: Christmas? I don't know, minor key something or other. Rock Opera?
Dude. Minor key versions of major key songs (and vise versa) are the bomb, and this is no exception.
I went to see Krampus last night and I feel like you should go see it. It's not really a horror movie so much as a... Family horror movie. If that makes sense. It was better than I thought it would be, but it made me think of this song. A friend of mine shared it on Facebook the other day and it seemed like a good way to follow up the movie.
I totally forgot that this song existed until I tried to make a decent Christmas playlist for work today. Turns out Spotify can access the music that's on my computer and when I searched for Christmas this song came right up to the top.
It's a wonderful mis-match of the season, so I thought it might be a good way to start it out, eh?
So these guys known as Local Business Comedy made a Christmas themed parody of Kanye West's album Yeezus and it is one of the best things ever. Not only does it sound an awful lot like Kanye, but it also is hilarious.
If you're familiar with any of the tracks on Yeezus then make sure to listen to their Kreezy equivalent first. It's the best effect.
Let's think for just a second about how messed up this song is. This poor reindeer with a deformed mutant nose is ostracized from his peers because of a situation beyond his control. While this is actually something that would happen in real life, we're gonna be horrified, ok?
After a while, they find his deformity is useful, so they act like he's a hero and welcome him with open arms. Wow, bipolar hypocrites much?
You know what though, it's Christmas day and now is not the time to be talking about a facially handicapped mammal. This is a time to spend with your friends and family, so get off of this blog and go enjoy each other's company!
Happy Christmas Eve everybody! I hope you all have had a great day so far and a great week.
This is a song being performed by a friend of mine, Zach. Also the other guy in the video is my Friend Caleb, and the place they're filming is my church. It's pretty cool, don't you agree?
Zach is a Pop Acoustic artist and has some pretty catchy tunes. It's not stuff that I like usually, but for the style I feel like it's pretty good. Unfortunately I only just met Zach this summer so I can't tell you too much about him other than this. Still, check out his Facebook page!
I don't know what about this version of the song is my favorite, but it really is. Mister Bubbles doesn't quite do it as well as te original, but it's still good, so here it is.
This is one of my favorite versions of this song I've heard, and there are a lot of good versions of this song.
The person singing this song is Ronnie James Dio, who is dead now. It's kinda funny he'd be singing this song since he was very into demons and such. He died in May of 2010 though, so it's a bit of a moot point.
Hey now, 2 days of YouTubers in a row! Dang, I feel like I'm falling back to my old vlogging days with all the YT plugs I'm putting in right now.
I just found this the other day via Carach Angren's Facebook page and it made me laugh enough that I thought I'd show you guys. Hope you enjoy it, cause it's only like 1 minute long.
You know what? We need another comedy Christmas song after these mildly serious ones. Let's go with Busta Rhymes!
This was for the soundtrack to the Grinch movie released in 2000, hence the name.
This came up on a Pandora station one of my superiors at work made. He was looking for Christmas Rap and found "The Christmas Rap" as a station. Playing such classics as "Be'Claus' I Got High" and "The Real Slim Santa" you can be sure that this was an interesting station. It did get banned after the manager complained that it was "dark music". He was referring to it as a pollution to good "Christian Christmas values", but we decided to take it as a racist statement.
I feel like this is one of the Christmas songs that almost everybody has one their "special Christmas music" list, but I still like it a lot cause it's a bit of classical and a bit of metal tone all wrapped up in Christmas.
Hey, still though, if you haven't heard this song before you really should listen to it. It's a bit of a classic I suppose. It was released in like 1996 after all.
Enjoy, and keep listening your way through Christmas music with me!
I don't listen to Ludacris (with the exception of one song), but this song is hilarious.
Like I've said before I really like songs that don't take themselves too seriously. Christmas Rap may be the easiest music to not take seriously that I've heard yet though. Mostly because I'm sure that they don't actually mean to be this dumb but they really are.
I hope you all are enjoying the 10 days of Christmas, I feel like it's a lot of fun.
You know those songs that you listen to all the time and you have no clue who they are? Well this is my example of that.
Christmas music is stuff that just blends together for me. It's just kinda there, and the radio plays it. A little while ago I tried to track down all of the songs I was familiar with for a playlist, but as it turns out I was majorly unable to actually find them since searching song titles on YouTube turns up about a billion results that may or may not actually be useful to me.
Turns out I never even thought of asking my parents who grew up much closer to this era of music. Yeah, they were able to direct me right to what I needed.
You know, yesterday talking about songs that killed my fingers reminded my of this song. Because of this we will be starting Christmas week 3 days early! Yay!
We played this at church last week and it's probably the most involved thing we've done yet. The song is really easy, don't get me wrong. Remembering all the cuts, half time moments, and accent hits on the other hand are not as much.
To make maters worse I had a blister on one of my main playing fingers from practicing this song and it made it bloody difficult to play. Not a normal blister either, but one that was underneath my calluses. It really sucks cause now I'm gonna have to rebuild an entire finger's worth of callus to keep playing at the same level. That is hard and it hurts.
The song on the other hand is still really fun and worth a listen. I enjoyed it enough to put it on my Christmas Spotify playlist, so that may or may not tell you something.
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