While I was getting up our latest addition to the Free List from VanLadyLove, I spotted this picture on their Facebook page. Had to share.
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I guess Grumpy Cat's 15 minutes are up. This year, its all Doug The Pug.
Trust me. If I didn't absolutely love this, it would not be it's own front page post. I mean, this....this....this is....genius! Remember those dramatic records from when you were a kid? With the spoken word parts? Like "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean and "Ringo" by Lorne Greene? Oh, crap, I keep forgetting I'm the oldest guy in the room. Remember records? Kinda round and you'd.... Ah, forget it. Beard & Glasses took that most tired of tired novelty records, "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer", and breathed new life into it. Every DJ in America hates that Elmo & Patsy song because goof ball kids would call constantly to request it. Not just in December, either. We'd get calls for it in June. July. August. Basically all year. Requesting that song was like the putting a tack on teacher's chair of disc jockey harassment. Hopefully, you're already far enough into the song that you aren't even paying attention to me anymore. So...blah, blah, blah. Buh-blah blah. Moo. Beard & Glasses are a Folk duo from Vermont, I'm told. Matt Scott and Sam Clement. It snows a lot up there. Not much to do expect dream up wicked concepts for otherwise unlistenable novelty records (and I'd rather they do that than torture the local DJs). This is spaghetti western meets mariachi band meets Carlos Santana meets the Kingston Trio. And that's a helluva thing. I've made a point of saying that I don't much care for novelty records. But this Beard & Glasses takeoff on "Grandma" is one of the exceptions that prove the rule. Mixtape worthy? Hell, yeah. You can get "Grandma" at Bandcamp (not a freebie, but for a buck). Beard & Glasses also have an earlier Christmas EP, "Tinsel Babies", if you want to check that out. Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? Well, you'd better get a move on. Otherwise, you'll end up giving out gift cards and you know nobody wants that. And that's why this song is funny.
New Jersey's Snake Oil Willie Band scored one of the hits of summer with "I Don't Look Good Naked Anymore". For Christmas, it's all about that "Gift Card". And, for God's sake, don't send anyone a Gift Card AND a fruitcake or they're gonna wonder why you hate them so much. "Gift Card" is available at iTunes, Amazon and CD Baby. That's the song that's available, not the actual gift card. You're on your own for that. I'm one of those people who think SNL hasn't been funny in a long long time. More often than not, the shows with Justin Timberlake are entertaining throughout, but otherwise... Every now and then, though, they rise to the occasion with something brilliant that almost makes slogging through the boring moronic Beavis & Butthead humor worthwhile.
"Sump'n Claus" was an instant SNL Christmas classic. Kudos to the writers and performers. My Santa hat's off to you. I hate being late to a story about Christmas music. But it happens. Quite a bit, actually. Anyway, for the few who missed the news, Lady Gaga says she'd like to do a Christmas album. Soon. Like this year even. In an interview with Stephen Fry of The Financial Times, published last week, her Royal Gaganess let the proverbial cat out of its proverbial bag, saying "I really want to do it. I've spoken to my manager." In an earlier, more innocent age--2008--Lady Gaga dropped the danceable single-entendre hottie "Christmas Tree", but for the full album she's thinking of taking things in a stunningly different direction. "I thought it would be really sweet to do a Christmas release of Gaga and the jazz standards." Insert your own puns about bad romance here. I love Gaga. I really do. She's an immensely talented singer and songwriter, even if the haute couture persona seems artificial and sometimes grating. Frankly, an album of Gaga doing jazz standards sounds potentially awesome. Maybe just a bit scary, but potentially awesome. Anyway, such news as this naturally gives me the opportunity for a completely gratuitous playing of one of my favorite YouTube videos. A parody of a parody perpetrated by the object of the original parody, who may or may not understand what parody is and that he's the subject of the joke. Welcome to America. By the way, you can get a free download of "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" from The Gregory Brothers (technically "The Stanleys" and sister Sarah) using the widget below. It's just music, though; no auto-tuning. Decent funky night club jazz version, recorded live; but no auto-tuning. |
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