DCist: District Carols

VJ

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:45:18 -0500

Anyone know when that D-Plan gem was recorded? I totally didn't know it existed. I googled it down to this benefit album, released around Christmas '05, but the recording couldn't've been made after '02, and it sounds like something from the Is Terrified days.

boondoggle

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:03:33 -0500

Am I the only one who prefers "Purple Snowflakes" to "I Want to Come Home For Christmas"?

Viking Time

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:06:17 -0500

Little-known ambient musician (and DC-based) Nicholas Szczepanink recorded a winter holiday-inspired song, "It's Been So Cold Since You've Gone" for the Last Winter We Didn't Sing compilation put out by Thor's Rubber Hammer. He's streaming the song from his MySpace page. It's beautiful and depressing... just like Christmas!

monkeyrotica

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:54:39 -0500

Speaking of malls, Reason #574 why I stay the hell out of them: xmas music. Does anyone really like that $h!t? Burl Ives with his warm, cuddly pedophile voice; Bing Crosby with his warm, cuddly childbeater voice; any R&B singer with their goddamned arpeggiated "WOA-AAAAA-AAAOOOO-AAAAH" voice. Then there's that goddamned "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" song. I don't know whose version is more irritating, the Jackson Five or Bruce Springsteen (trick question: I HATE THEM BOTH EQUALLY). Is this supposed to make me buy my crap and get the f**k out, because I've BEEN OUT the past half dozen xmases and have no intention of going back, thank you, Free Amazon Shipping.

IntangibleArts

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:20:58 -0500

Good one, Monkey. I'd follow that shot with a chaser of Mojo & Skid Roper's infinite classic "burn down the malls"... i'm just sayin'...

monkeyrotica

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:53:50 -0500

Christmas ain't Christmas without Mojo Nixon's Horny Holidays. "Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto" is worth the price of admission.