So I'm going through some of the stuff I've downloaded this year, trying to figure out how to pare it down for our Stubby's collection (if the computer lives long enough) and I come to this one--"Christmas Is Awful" from Phil Awful & The Experiments. Three of the six songs from this California band I'd say are Ramones style Punk. There's an "Experimental" cover of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas" (which, personally, I think is a long overdue mocking) and the record closes with a Folk Punk tune that offers up the possibility that this might be your "Last Christmas" (nobody really knows). But it's the opening track that I love. "Merry Christmas?" is Rock N Roll with attitude and a point of view and just the sort of thing I'd love to have on the Stubby's House collection--a perfect Rock anthem to close 2018. I don't mind the politics (Phil really doesn't care for our current President but, to be fair, he doesn't have a very high opinion of any politician), but I do try to avoid profanity. My attempts to clean it up were unsuccessful. So "Merry Christmas?" won't make the Stubby's House collection, which is sad. But there's no reason you shouldn't download it for your own head and/or mixtape. It's on Bandcamp.
The other highlight, for me, of "Christmas Is Awful" is "Cuz It's Christmas". It's a Punk raver where Phil laments that we're locked into a certain pattern of holiday behavior whether we give a crap about Christmas and convention or not. "Cuz It's Christmas" could still make the Stubby's House cut--it's short, that helps--though I'm swimming in worthy music of the season (maybe I should pull a Sufjan and put together a 5-disc set).
The other highlight, for me, of "Christmas Is Awful" is "Cuz It's Christmas". It's a Punk raver where Phil laments that we're locked into a certain pattern of holiday behavior whether we give a crap about Christmas and convention or not. "Cuz It's Christmas" could still make the Stubby's House cut--it's short, that helps--though I'm swimming in worthy music of the season (maybe I should pull a Sufjan and put together a 5-disc set).
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