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It’s that time of year again. The weather is starting to cool off and if you’re lucky, you’l see a little bit of snow on the ground. (If you’re really lucky, there will be enough to go sledding, make snow angels and maybe even a fort.) Typically, I’d start with the Christmas music as soon as December rolls around but I was off on vacation last week and didn’t get a chance to put together an episode before leaving. Anyways, I’m back and working on re-assembling my rather motley collection of Christmas music that was lost in the great hard drive crash of a couple months ago. Thankfully, there’s still a ton of Christmas music that’s being put out (and a lot of it free), so I was able to stock this episode with a couple classic tracks (I love that Low song) and a few new ones as well. Now I may need to explain the first track. If you haven’t heard of Austrian Death Machine, essentially, it’s a metal guy that builds songs off quotes from Arnold Schwarzenegger films and does a fairly poor impression of him while putting it together. Classics from him include Get To The Choppa, Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers and It’s Not A Tumour. Anyways, I came across his version of Jingle Bells and thought it would start things off with a bit of a comical mood. Anyways, here’s what you’re hearing this week:
Austrian Death Machine – Jingle Bells from “A Very Brutal Christmas”
Sufjan Stevens – Come On! Let’s Boogie To The Elf Dance from “Songs For Christmas”
Dustin Kensrue – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen from “This Good Night Is Still Everywhere”
Low – Just Like Christmas from “Christmas”
We Were Fiction – O Come O Come Emmanuel (Download it here.)
Ivy Mairi – In The Bleak Midwinter from “If Jesus Had Been Born In Canada, He Would Have Needed More Swaddling Clothes” (Download it here.)
Dan Zimmerman – Bethlehem from “A Familyre Christmas 4″ (Download it here.)
Rosie Thomas – Christmas Don’t Be Late from “A Very Rosie Christmas”
Sleeping At Last – Umbrellas from “Keep No Score”
Thanks for listening and I’ll see you next week.
Jared (@mtroads1)
Rob says:
Probably too late for this week, but I’d like to request the 12 days of Christmas by Reliant K. Do you know of any other modern renditions of this song (aside from spoof versions).
Dec 08, 2011, 10:44 pmJared says:
If you had waited another 10 hours, you would’ve gotten half of the request. It’s not Relient K’s version, but there will be a modern rendition of the song in episode #151
Dec 08, 2011, 8:43 am